Idan Refaeli
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Idan Refaeli
@Idanref
Founder: https://t.co/Q7LXf3Wi5N Building mobile apps and AI marketing tools at scale I study apps and give it all away here
Katılım Ekim 2011
165 Takip Edilen90 Takipçiler
@Idanref Then I'll keep going and hopefully I'll start getting good results again
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Something weird is going on with my main TikTok account
I used to pull thousands of views
Now I can barely break 1k
Same original content, all made by me, same formula that worked
Still posting 1 video a day
Has anyone hit this too?
Adrià Martinez@adriamatz
Organic for my new app is finally under control Now I want to try paid, from zero, with real budget If organic worked, where would you start? - Sideshift - Apple Search Ads - TikTok ads - Meta ads Would love some advice I think it's time to level up my adsmaxxing
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@adriamatz Yeah, it happened to me hundreds of times, TikTok works in cycles, nothing is wrong with the account
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@LearnDomaining @adamlyttleapps Programmatic? Of course not
That’s ML work, kinda similar to fraud detection algorithms
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@Idanref @adamlyttleapps I can’t think of a reliable, programmatic way to tell that a webpage has been ai-generated?
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I don't want to spam the App Store with vibe coded iPhone apps…
But I *can* spam Google search results with my vibe coded macOS apps
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@adriamatz the only problem with IG that either on US VPN or without, over 50% of viewers are from India 🥲
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Yep, agree 100%!
And the most important thing is that you can automate 100% of your IG posting with Claude, running everything from your Mac mini or mini PC without paying a cent to anyone.
Also, the account limit per device seems to be much more generous.
Adrià Martinez@adriamatz
Don't sleep on Instagram Reels In my opinion way simpler than TikTok, and far fewer bans This account was warmed for 30 minutes First video, and it's already pulling this. Still climbing No VPN either
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Don't sleep on Instagram Reels
In my opinion way simpler than TikTok, and far fewer bans
This account was warmed for 30 minutes
First video, and it's already pulling this. Still climbing
No VPN either
Adrià Martinez@adriamatz
Made $100 my first day Zero viral videos Just 2 videos, none of them blew up, the app still sold Just started posting on instagram too Best part? My fiancée is as obsessed with this project as i am We're going all in ❤️
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@adriamatz @aleksanderwco I agree with that claim, even though it seems to work after a single day warmup, it may be shadowbanned after a few days or weeks, while accounts that were warmed up properly are less likely
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@aleksanderwco In my experience, once you've had a lot of TikTok accounts, if you don't warm them up properly, they tend to get banned or shadowbanned
That's been the biggest issue for me
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I don’t know what else to build though
I built everything…..
Claude@claudeai
We're extending access to Claude Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12.
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@jakecastilloooo Taste is the real moat, AI is another tool to express that
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I got asked point blank if I could argue AGAINST building an app right now
Here’s what I would say if I wasn’t afraid to hurt your feelings:
>>>> If you’re not willing to put in the work to learn and do your own marketing (at least in the beginning), don’t waste your time on building an app, seriously
So many people just want to build, because the barrier to entry now is literally a $20/mo Codex subscription
And if you outsource all your thinking to a robot, you’re really NGMI
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web apps > mobile apps
I can’t fathom having to deal with apple everyday
having to go through app review for every little update
waiting 45 days to get paid
just to get ripped off 30% on revenue
the day you do start selling on the web is the day you become free
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TikTok cheat code: The 3-Day Warmup
Make a brand new account and post 10 times in your first hour, and you look like a bot.
No real person does that.
For the first 3 days:
· Watch content in your niche
· Like posts, save some content
· Comment like an actual human
Then start posting.
You're teaching the algorithm you're a real person before you ever ask it for a single view.
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Yeah
In the end of 2025 I got 50-80 signups per day for a brand new app
Then, in 2026 the signups from the stores dropped to 1-2 a day
Apple tightened things app because the App Store was filled with junk due to all the low quality vibe coded apps, they even started rejecting apps for being low quality
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@Idanref "ASO is dead in 2026"
I'm hearing this more people everyday. We need marketing more than ever
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How many apps:
> you built,
> not marketed
> killed?
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@GeorgeLampro20 100%
Sometimes it feels like it’s a marketing class of people who just finished high school
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I see so many retards making black and white statements on X who are making less than $5k a month.
“Abandon free trials they don’t work”
“You’re subscription prices are too low you need to charging minimum $80 a year”
“Anything below 20 screens for an onboarding is bad”
NUANCE EXISTS!!!!
Question everything and test everything. Stop telling people to stop thinking. I try and maybe I’m guilty of this as well but every app has different circumstances, retention, Ideal customer, product quality, audience quality. Stop applying one size fits all rules.
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@jakecastilloooo I would probably prefer an app that a customer uses for 5 minutes a day and pays $20 a month for, rather than a gaming app where the player deletes the game because there are too many ads.
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people fail to understand how daily usage time will directly impact whether or not this strategy will work for their app
mobile game apps like this are naturally retentive
average usage time for game apps is 1-2 hours a day, while someone using Cal AI is maybe using it for 5 mins a day
daily active users aren’t that different from total active user for game apps, so they can get away with in-app ads/purchases
but the math doesn’t make sense for single use utility apps like a calorie tracker or breathwork app
do with that info what you will
Ernesto Lopez@ErnestoSOFTWARE
Everyone is doing hard paywall while Mobile games print $500k/mo+😭 With literally no paywall Just in game ads and in app purchases Nobody is paying attention to this $100B industry And it's literally just as easy to vibe code as an app now. I just recreated flappy bird in 3D with just 1 prompt:
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It can happen because of it but that’s not the only reason why you get 3 views
The specific case you described (duplicated content) can be viewed from Analytics button on the post menu and is only relevant for that single post.
The reasons for shadow bans (where you get 0 views for a few posts in a row) are not visible to the user.
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@Idanref @ErnestoSOFTWARE if you don’t believe me make the same exact post twice in a row and just see what happens
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✅ $70,000/mrr app done
🫶🏻 $100,000/mrr app next
My biggest advice,
Don’t listen to 99% of the
Slop you hear on X
It’s mostly all misleading
Just to name a few:
> shadow bans don’t exist,
your content just sucks
> 100 views average is not
shadow banned
> Ads do work
> UGC does work
> Account warm up only takes 5 minutes, not 3 days
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@StevenCravotta Nah it doesn’t
For too long ig doesn’t work for me, still posting there though
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Every founder I see posting only on TikTok is leaving installs on the table.
Stop treating one platform like it's the whole internet.
You already did the hard part. You made the video.
Reposting it costs you nothing.
· Instagram Reels
· YouTube Shorts
· Facebook Reels
· Twitter
I had hundreds of videos for PuffCount and I reposted every single one across all of them.
Same content, four more shots at going viral.
The video you think is dead on TikTok might be the one that prints on Reels.
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