Louis-David Paul-Hus

I sold GlowUp/GlamAI to rounds .com for $150,000 The app generated $828k in sales in 14 months The first exit of my life, not the last one I’m sure Here’s the Story of the app, with all the highs and lows Thread 🧵👇

Finally back from Japan after 1 month First couple weeks was beautiful, then got a pneumothorax which meant I couldn't take my flight back and had to stay for longer. Japan hospital is quite cheap but difficult to understand as no one speaks English. Happy I'm back in Montreal! God is Great!

@mikesclarity if its good why not lol

@LouisDavidPH if i build one rn, will you buy?

Anyone selling their mobile apps? Drop them in the comments. Curious what you're building and what's working :)

@Ox0wen name?

@LouisDavidPH Id sell one of mine. 100k downloads, 20K rev last 3 months, have a few other projects id rather work on

@rogiergg same for apps

finding a winning product isn't the hard part i've onboarded users who'd tested 50+ products and still weren't profitable their research circled around the same trending products everyone else was testing at the same time same FB ad library,- keywords,- results i'm tellin you- research markets, NOT products let me put it this way: what are the biggest stores in this market actually selling right now? not what's trending on TikTok not what some guru posted about last week but what's moving volume in yr specific market, right now we've seen users go from 40 failed tests to their first $10K/day product in 2 weeks not cause they found a better product but simply because they finally!!! understood the market before they touched ad spend the FB ad library isn't the problem how you're using it is if your research process looks the same as every other dropshitter's yr results will too lesson.

@TakoTreba thanks, now i gotta go grab some oranges

maybe this will sound a bit gen Z, but KPIs are the instant death of any idea. i’m just here juicing my oranges and having deep thoughts.

@david_attisaas crazy chest strings

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@rogiergg i'm guilty lmao altho i learned that lesson too early on

most founders spend 6 months building before they talk to a single customer i closed $1,250/month before WinningHunter was even close to being finished joined dropshipping Discords w/ 10K+ members, DMed people until 5 said yes at $250/month THEN i built the product no landing page, no pitch deck, no finished product just "here's the problem i'm solving, $250/month, you in?" 5 clients = $1,250/month = proof the market existed most founders build for 6 months then launch to waitlist they’ve been building for 1 week… and you’re seriously asking yourself how you’re still stuck below $20K/mo… hmm i wonder why 🤦🏻‍♂️ distribution is harder than building a product find customers first, build second everything else is just a veryyy expensive way to waste yr time

@ItsFinlayW first thought i had was ketchup and mustard looking at the graph

€121K spend → €311K revenue in the last 120 days. 2.56 ROAS. New brand that came to me wanting lean, efficient scale. Started at €800/day in Oct. Now running €3K/day consistently. ggez

1.5 years of uni 12 failed apps 0 job offers All while my classmates were getting promotions at companies I couldn't even get interviews for. Dropped out at 21. Spent 3 years reselling sneakers, doing Upwork gigs, and building apps from my childhood bedroom that nobody used. Watched people with less drive get funded, hired, and celebrated because they fit the mold. But I was shipping one failed app after another. Until one finally hit. 2M users. $800K revenue. $150K exit at 24. The system isn't built for people who don't follow the path. Use that as fuel.

@ItsFinlayW wishing you a speedy recovery!

Went to a client call yesterday wearing the same hoodie I've worn for 3 days straight. Realized halfway through the call there's a coffee stain on the sleeve. Client's doing $180K/month on Google. Pretty sure he doesn't care what I'm wearing lol. My girl: "You can't meet clients looking like that." Bae, I haven't left my flat in 4 days and he's in Australia. We're fine. (ps. i got sick folks, sorry for all the people waiting for my reply in DMs, i'll get back to you soon)

@rogiergg well just use winninghunter ig :)

eCom bros. testing 300 products isn't a grind lmao the dropshitter on product #247 is the same dude sending "quick question" to 500 strangers and wondering why you’re still below $50K/mo both of those dudes found a way to stay broke w/o fixing anything blind volume keeps you feeling like you’re “finding your winning product” but thats just some bs, you learned from those YT gurus the ones scaling past $10K/day are the ones who research the market NOT the product running on gut feel will have you stuck at 30 failed products (a number most WinningHunter users come in with) research first or keep burning yr budget

@elonmusk You can expedite it Mr Musk

iOS App Review delays are getting ridiculous

@humangallardo that cool? havent watched 1 or 2

DUNE 3!!!!!!

@oliverbrocato ever had the situation where healthy competition turned into unhealthy (within a/your company)?

Biggest CEO hack: healthy competition. Put ur ppl on a leaderboard. Gamify everything. Got someone slacking? Pair em with a high performer. Make it a race. Bonuses help. Incentives help. But nothing hits like the raw urge to not lose. U can throw $50K at motivation. Or make ppl want to beat each other for free. Better results. Zero cost. Am I wrong?

@jackmoses0 where is the AI on this chart?

A higher level of consciousness is the key to mastering the power law: Calibrating at 300 uplifts 90,000 people below 200. Calibrating at 500 uplifts 750,000 people below 200. Calibrating at 600 uplifts 10,000,000 people below 200. If you want every move to have more leverage and impact, move from a higher level of consciousness. You will move much further, much faster, than anything coming from below 500.

@jordymaui its 2026 and we're already this far...

see what i'm building with OpenClaw here: x.com/jordymaui/stat…

jensen huang just called openclaw "the most popular open source project in the history of humanity." the CEO of a trillion dollar company just put openclaw above linux. then nvidia dropped nemoclaw - their own secure runtime that installs openclaw in one command with sandboxed execution. a few weeks ago i was explaining to people what an AI agent even was. now the biggest chip company on earth is building infrastructure around the exact tool i use every single day. if you're building on openclaw right now you are absurdly early to something very big. nvidia doesn't build infrastructure for toys. we are so back.

@kschlenker this is pretty cool ngl

I built a “CEO Brain” to replace myself. It has access to everything I do (securely) - metrics, documents, PRs, support, competitors. It answers in seconds to any question (on Slack) and it learns from every interaction. The whole team trains it just by talking to it. It knows our strategic goals - $100M ARR, product velocity, 80% agentic ops and it filters everything through that lens. It's pretty good to analyse the company and I think increasingly it will help run parts of it. That being said, in anything we do at Opal, we're looking for balance, 80% agentic 20% full manual/human. I still make the decisions.

@david_attisaas thats what i call a good hook

🚨GIGA CHAD SAUCE ALERT🚨 if your day-1 retention is under 25%, you are probably burning money on paid growth before you have a product people want to keep using. day-1 retention is the percentage of users who return to your app the day after install, and the 2026 average sits around 25-30% across most consumer app categories. fitness apps hit about 20% d1, ecommerce runs 24-33%, gaming sits at 28-32%, and education apps struggle at 14-15%. let me tell you why 25% matters for unit economics. if you acquire 1,000 users at $2 cpi and only 200 return on day 1, your effective cpi for engaged users just jumped to $10, and most of those drop-offs never even saw your paywall or core value loop. low day-1 retention kills cac payback before you can recover acquisition cost. if customers churn before you hit payback, your ltv:cac ratio drops under 1:1, which means you lose money on every user and scaling paid traffic just accelerates the bleed broski... from what i see, most app makers with sub-20% d1 retention convince themselves the problem is creative fatigue or targeting when the real issue is that onboarding does not move users to the first real outcome fast enough. the diagnostic to be done is: 1/ pull your d1 retention by install cohort and overlay it with trial start rate or first core action completion. if d1 retention is 18% but only 12% of day-0 installs complete onboarding, your activation gate is the constraint, not your ads. 2/ category-level reality check. if you are in health & fitness and sitting at 15% d1, you are 9 percentage points below benchmark, which translates to roughly 40% more wasted spend per retained user. if you are in ecommerce at 18% d1, you are losing half your cohort before they browse a second time. what to do if you are under 25%? stop scaling paid until you fix activation. map time-to-first-value for your top 10% d1 retained users and compare it to your bottom 50%. the gap is usually 3-5 minutes of onboarding friction, unclear next steps, or permission walls that kill momentum. - test cutting onboarding length in half for one week and measure whether d1 retention moves. - test showing outcome preview before account setup and check if more users return. - test push notification timing on day 1 evening vs day 2 morning and see which cohort re-opens faster. if you cannot move d1 retention above 25% after 30 days of focused activation work, your product probably does not have strong enough demand yet, and paid growth will just fund expensive validation instead of real traction. the 25% line is not arbitrary!! it is the threshold where cac payback math starts working and ltv assumptions stop requiring heroic retention curves to break even.