@levelsio @brian_lovin What about Ddos attacks or other downtime risk?
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Brandon Yuen
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Brandon Yuen
@BrandonYuen97
Building apps. Cooking something special... 🥑 Import recipes from Tiktok, Instagram, Youtube in seconds: https://t.co/xp4nOc2HK6
The Netherlands Katılım Aralık 2012
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I get 4,150,000,000 (4 billion) requests and 300,000,000 (300 million) visitors per year
That'd cost me $338,913 if I wasn't on a VPS like @brian_lovin below
Instead I pay $2,932/year or 115x less because I host my sites on my own VPS
My VPS servers are way too big and usually only use 10% of their resources so I could even go with $300/year probably if I optimized more (but I don't care)
Especially with AI these days it's easier than ever to host your sites yourself, and way cheaper! 100-1000x cheaper!
@levelsio@levelsio
The fact that 100,000s requests cost you $20 is more worrrying than Tencent scraping
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@adamlyttleapps You need to train it on trial start / subscription events tbh. Installs != ROI , or is it a paid app?
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@erickreutz @swmansion Haven’t tried this package yet but OTA might break it if the PostScript font name is not changed due to caching
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@swmansion Do existing icons keep their old codepoints in the font when new icons are added so we can send new icons over OTA?
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@swmansion Nice, will def try this out. Been using a similar custom workflow with fantasticon to build fonts from svgs
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@adamlyttleapps Why run App Install campaigns and not on Purchase or Trial events? I’ve also gone through this whole painful journey and can highly recommend to try @Appstack__ . It’s easy to setup and just works. Via them run web campaigns (redirect to stores) , targeting trial start events
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I haven't added the Meta SDK to my app. Which prevents me from running an App Install campaign.
The only other option seems to be a website traffic campaign to my landing page. But even when you try to narrow the audience down as much as possible you get a bunch of Android users landing on your site.
So now I've switched to a custom event conversion tracking campaign. And I fire a campaign event when an iPhone user clicks the "Download" button.
Oh: also you can't just link to the App Store. Meta won't let you do that. You gotta link to a landing page for conversion/trafffic campaigns.
I'll explore adding the Meta SDK to my app in future. Might be the only way to do this.
Adam Lyttle@adamlyttleapps
It defaulted to target an older iOS version (not supported by my app) So I had to cancel the campaign. With automatic campaigns you can't edit such settings 🤷🏻♂️ Adding the app is proving tricky
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@levelsio Maybe don’t vibe code on production and start using git & CI/CD? ;D
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@brianshinsh Thanks for sharing. Just went through this same thing exactly. Now trying to figure out why my ads stop spending but I think the minimum 50 conversions in 7 days is probably true
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In the process of reaching $20k/mo in 83 days, i honestly had the highest hopes for Meta Ads
tl;dr we spent ~$1k for a month but it didn't work out
if you're an app founder planning to run ads, here are the things I learned:
1. Basic stuff but to run app install or in-app event campaigns, you need to verify your business on Meta but this took us 2~3 weeks. just keep this in mind as a buffer
2. So during those 2 weeks, we landed the users to our landing page instead and were optimizing for clicks to the app store page. big tip here is to use "custom pages" provided in app store connect. this way you can track the metrics (i.e. downloads, purchases, conversion, etc.) for everyone who comes through that that link.
3. Once our business was verified, we switched the campaign event to in-app purchase. Installing Facebook SDK can be tricky with lots of new learnings and jargon (i.e. ATT consent, SKAN vs Conversion API, etc.) so while your business is getting verified, I recommend you to learn about them.
4. Here is biggest mistake we made: I didn't know in app events were only tracked for users who accepted the ATT request. Our acceptance rate was 1% so basically none of the events were tracked. For over a week our dashboard showed 0 conversions and I was literally panicking. Stupid mistake
5. Solution to #4 is turning on SKAdNetwork 4.0 which basically tracks your events while maintaining user privacy. but it takes more than 24 hours for the data to be reflected (Apple enforced SKAN from iOS 14.5)
6. Another important thing to keep in mind is that based on your ad budget, it's important to set the right in-app event that happens frequently enough for Meta to learn. For example if your ad budget is $10/day and you set the event to "purchase", assuming average conversion rate Meta will not be able to learn enough.
7. Regarding #6, the recommended event count was "50 event within 7 days" but I honestly don't know where this data came from so just keep it in mind with a grain of salt.
8. Last but not least, all of the above really depends on your LTV. LTV literally determines how much you can spend on ads. Make sure you know 100% about your ARPU, LTV, churn rate, k-factor (if you're more of a social app), and the core metrics of your product before running ads. If you don't, you're donating money to zucc.
I stopped running ads 2 days ago because I felt we needed some reflection on everything we learned, but I'll definitely resume soon and will share more insights along the way.
Keep trying until you win!
Brian Shin@brianshinsh
we crossed $20k/mo in 83 days instead of everything that went right, here are the mistakes we made (so you don't make them!) : 1. During the early days, we tried too many marketing channels due to fomo. - we literally tried SEO, pSEO, meta ads, google keyword ads, tiktok video, and cold email all within 4 weeks lol - even if the channel turns out to not work, we think it's worth committing and testing for at least a month to get a good understanding of it - this is especially true because there are things you start to see the more you try and bear through it. trying is different from reading about it. 2. Don't spend more than a few days on a new feature or experiment - this pertains to both product decisions and marketing decisions - honestly i get easily excited about a new idea, and as a founder you probably do too - but it's always the same pattern again and again: i get super excited about the "next big thing", spend 2 weeks on it, and totally flunk - no matter how promising the idea seems, spend max 5 days on it to release and test. if it takes more than that, it's probably too big for experimenting. 3. Stop copying and listen - with 100% accuracy, all of the features that failed were 1) ideas that just magically came from imagination and 2) ideas that were inspired from other products - ofc inspiration is good, but you HAVE TO verify it with your users. do your users really need that feature? - keep in mind the product is for your user, not for you. if you're trying to build a serious product for a real business and not a play project, this is important - on the surface, every idea seems like a good idea. but adding a new feature = more complexity. be very strict about why that feature needs to be in your product - i think this is especially true for consumer products. simplicity is key. 4. Once you start making revenue, spend more where it's needed - 2 weeks ago, our app just flat out stopped working because our servers maxed out. CPU usage went over 100%. - it was literally 1am, users emailing us nonstop, requesting refunds. i panicked. - this was a stupid mistake. a small buffer would have saved us from a bunch of users having a bad experience these are the 4 mistakes on the top of my head but as I remember more, I'll add it to the thread
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@one_mtb Do you make & manage the ad campaigns yourself? Code I can do fine, but I have a hard time running campaigns with good roi that last more than 2 weeks
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This is wild…
Superwall’s new AppStack integration has let us run a test showing a hard paywall to users that come from meta ads, while keeping our app freemium for organic downloads.
Now time to spend my life savings on Meta 🥰
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I asked Claude Code to chart my AI reply detection
As I thought it's going exponential now
There was a small slowdown from July to November last year, then it went back up and with everyone running OpenClaw (I think) it's now going exponentially up again
I think @X will have to either 1) detect AI replies and block them with some new tech like key detection as @nikitabier mentioned, and/or 2) default lockdown the reply section to people you follow and to people who subscribe to you or something like that
Or the reply section will just become unusable
@levelsio@levelsio
80% of my replies are now AI, it's getting out of hand guys
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@alexcooldev After warm-up, do you only open tiktok to post or do you also “keep it warm” by scrolling videos?
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How I target US users for my B2C apps:
> Buy a used iPhone (~$120)
> VPN to the US
> Warm up the account 3–7 days like a normal user
> Pick a TikTok niche that’s already viral + fits your product
(If your app isn’t Gen Z / 16–30 friendly, TikTok may not work)
> Build an AI content factory / AI influencers
> Post daily
> If a video stays under 0->1k views → change content fast
Instead of burning $200–$2,000/week hiring UGC creators.
I build an AI influencer army at almost $0 cost.
Virality doesn’t always happen immediately after posting.
For example, the video below was posted at the end of last December and only got ~2k views at first. Today, it just started going viral, reaching 214k+ views in a few days (and it’s still growing).
Consistency > luck.
Distribution > everything.
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@alexcooldev How do you keep the account warm? Manually? Or everything automated?
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Or you can buy a cheap used iPhone, set up a VPN, warm up the account, and run an AI content factory posting daily for $0/week. (like me)
Instead of hiring UGC creators at $200–$1,000/week.
If your app is already doing $50k–$100k/month, you can combine both to scale faster.
Jibran@Jibran_05
how much to pay your UGC creators: $25 week: Kid in Brazil making sped up looksmaxing edits 100% view bonuses: Usually doesn't work. Not worth pursuing imo $100 week + view bonuses: Sorority girl who hasn't made UGC content before, has 500-10,000 followers on TikTok, making simple "reaction" videos $150 week + view bonuses: Might have done UGC for one or two other brands, videos can be more complex $200 week + view bonuses: Think complex videos with multiple people, long talking scripts, working for other brands (Turbo AI videos, etc) $300 week + view bonuses: Complex editing. Extremely time consuming videos. Effectively hiring an in house editor at this point.
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@TynanSylvester Damn this comment section is ANGRY what have you done Tynan 😂
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Why do people say AI "just" predicts the next token as though this is somehow simpler than thinking?
If you can predict what someone will say, you must be tracing the same processes they used to generate those words. You must recreate their thought process. You must think.
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@RevenueCat @codykerns So this makes it possible to do Referral rewards? 🤯
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Not only can you now extend an iOS or Play subscription via the RevenueCat dashboard now, you can also extend them via the API to do things like automatically grant new customers an extra month (or two) on their annual subscription
@codykerns didn't just ship this, he also wrote out exactly how you use it here:
#implementation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">revenuecat.com/docs/guides/pr…
Shot Pattern@ShotPattern
@jeiting @RevenueCat 😮 is this available in the API?
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@matteo_spada @TryAstroApp How often are you going to repost this same tweet? 😩 Nothing new in Astro?
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@levelsio @NirWeingarten Then how did our ancestors get this naturally? Feels like taking 10g creatine a day is a form of eating processed foods
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@NirWeingarten No you didn't
1kg of meat is only 5g creatine
Average portion is 250g of meat so about 1g creatine
Not enough
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Me 5 minutes after meeting somebody new: it's of utmost importance for you to
- open a broker account and buy Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (USD) Accumulating (VUAA), and
- take 10g creatine per day yes 5g was the previous recommendation but after 5g the benefits are cognitive and in studies it delays Alzheimer
- start lifting weights 3-4 times per week, strength training avoids guaranteed age-related muscle atrophy and bone density loss, no running is not enough, you need both strength training and cardio, get a personal trainer to check your form
- build a business or SaaS so you can escape the system of employee servitude which is generally built to exploit you, the only way to get really rich is own your own business and the earlier you start the sooner you'll succeed because it takes years to understand how to do a business so better start now
- as a guy you probably have low testosterone, it's an epidemic due to our processed food and soil depletion due to intense farming, you don't realize this is completely affecting your identity and behavior as a man, and in turn your relationships with women, and as a woman similarly your hormones are imbalanced too
- fix your hormones to how they should be (like they were 100 years ago) by working out, lifting weights (both for men and women), cardio and a clean diet of whole foods (meat, veg, fruit, eggs, water) and no processed food (whatever is made in a factory, eg 90% what's sold in stores)
- get therapy if you need, it's good if it solves things (like cognitive behavioral therapy) but it should always be combined with heavy workouts and a clean diet
- live near your friends because especially for men of middle age (your future) there is a loneliness epidemic, so to avoid this hang out with your friends every week (even if your gf/bf blocks this, override it, it's of utmost important for your mental health)
That's it for now 😊
@levelsio@levelsio
Me 5 minutes after meeting somebody new: it's of utmost importance for you to open a broker account and buy Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (USD) Accumulating (VUAA)
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nano banana pro + n8n = 500+ production-ready ads per week
most brands test 5-10 ad concepts per week and pray one hits
meanwhile brands like @ridgewallet are testing 200+ daily, feeding the algo more data, and winning.
this automation closes that gap
here's how it works:
- watches your competitors' facebook ads (@adrian_horning_) and scores them by performance (days running × variations = money printers)
- feeds winners to @GeminiApp to decode the psychology (emotional hooks, visual strategy, social proof angles)
- rebuilds that psychology for your brand with @NanoBanana
- generates variations with your exact colors, fonts, and voice
delivers 200+ options for your team to curate
your creative team stops producing from scratch. they curate and elevate the best
perfect for dtc brands, agencies, and growth teams who need creative volume without sacrificing quality
want the complete 3-part automation with workflow files?
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@desmondhth Super interesting but the Recime video is not availaible anymore. Any way you can share the findings / Notebook LM with me? 😭
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i just found out the ultimate growth hack for any startup
> go to youtube and search solutions to your growth problems (e.g. how to scale ad spend to $1000 a day/how to do influencer sponsorship like Cal AI)
> then you'll find some podcasts of expert sharing what they did
> filter out the random videos, and choose the most legit one and feed it to NotebookLM
> ask NotebookLM how to implement this to your product with the prompt ("Can you summarize [what they did] into a growth playbook that can be implemented to my app?)
> list action items, start working (hire VA and freelancers to delegate some tasks so you can scale the ops with labour)
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@Baconbrix When SSR with (cached) Static Output for Expo Router / EAS Hosting? 😬
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You can now launch Flutter apps and websites right from the browser with Expo Launch 🚀
Which framework should we add next? 👀
cedric@cedric_dev
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@BrandonYuen97 yes I did and the results are only applicable for stoppr
even if I tell you the results.. very likely you'll replicate for yours and it might not work for your app
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your gurus told you "hard paywall" because they know most apps are utter shit their first months
and that's normal for most new apps
once most of users see the app behind the hard paywall... they cancel or ask for a refund within minutes
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