David Vargas

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I just wrote the longest article ever 🤠 and i am so glad i did this to help solopreneurs

The one thing that many people don't keep in mind👇 Every time that you decide to create an additional ad group in Meta or TikTok for whatever reason (separate angles, age targeting, placements, WHATEVER), you are directly putting more pressure on your creative team

@CapitalCasper if organic means paying creators to upload organic content, that’s still paid traffic. I seriously doubt you can hit $1M with only pure organic traffic

i cofounded an app that hit $1 million ARR in 9 months 80% organic 20% paid Ask me anything ⤵️

is Wispr flow really worth it? do you actually save time with slacks and emails too?

@elwatto la pena es que Málaga ya no es de los malagueños! el modelo de turismo ha destrozado el centro y duele mucho verlo siendo boquerón igualmente disfruta del paraíso!! yo pago impuestos aquí porque estoy enamorado de este pedacito de Andalucía

First time actually spending time in Malaga. If it had 20% more days with waves, I’d seriously consider paying my taxes in Spain

@affprinter the advice based on experience is good 👍 saying you “cracked” an algorithm is a bit… ambitious. let’s call it like that

@davidvargasm_ Source: 3 years of TikTok organic experience, multiple 6 figures generated organically, and 10s of thousands of videos posted

I cracked the TikTok account warmup algorithm heres exactly what tiktok is measuring in ur first 72 hours and how to pass every check: tiktok doesnt trust new accounts. theyve been burned by bots too many times. so they run every new account through a trust scoring system. most ppl fail it without knowing it exists. heres what triggers a failed trust score: posting within 24 hours of account creation adding links to bio on day 1 following/unfollowing in rapid bursts only engaging w content in one narrow category posting multiple times before getting any engagement using images that match their duplicate database heres the warmup protocol that gets me 10k+ views on first posts consistently: DAY 1: scroll FYP for 30+ min like 15-20 videos in ur niche leave 5-7 genuine comments follow 8-10 accounts that post content like urs DO NOT post anything DO NOT add any links DAY 2: same engagement pattern search for keywords related to ur niche watch 10+ videos to completion in that category let the algorithm learn what ur about still no posting still no links DAY 3: post ONE warmup slideshow not promotional. just engaging content in ur niche. use a trending sound from last 7 days images must be unique (ill explain how later) watch for 24 hrs if that warmup post hits 1k+ views ur cleared. trust score passed. now u can post promotional content. if it gets under 200 views ur account is cooked. the algorithm flagged u. start over. this process takes 3 days. most ppl wont do it bc theyre impatient. thats exactly why most ppls accounts get shadowbanned permanently. the warmup isnt optional. its the foundation everything else is built on. skip it and nothing else in ur strategy matters.

@xburak we are pretty sick as society 💀

there’s literally a car translator app making $ 300k/mo and you’re still stuck “validating” your idea?

@pcshipp if you believe that you can make it with only ASO in today's market, you are cooked. you want to grow fast? make it work with UA you want to grow healthier but slower? make it with content both demand money tho

App Store ranking is brutally hard This app spends $50K/day on ads, has 16K ratings with 4.9⭐, and still sits at #43 So how can you expect to rank Top 10 with $0 spend and only organic growth? Feels impossible I’m slowly losing hope in organic ranking

@Thomasbcn @RevenueCat i just hope i dont make them lose more money than Claude 😂

@davidvargasm_ @RevenueCat It's great you write this up, I cant even fathom how much money indies lost asking LLMs for UA advice 😬

I truly admire all these solopreneurs trying to make a living from their apps. But most of the UA content out there explains strategies that require too much time and effort for a one-person team. This one is for you 🫡 Soon on the @RevenueCat blog.

@salvin_joseph i’m helping folks here freely (i managed +$30M of ad spend and run ands for +120 apps): feel free to ask anything you want 🙂 growthsociety.co

We’re about to run Meta Ads, after interviewing several agency’s with fees of $2k - 3k my idea is to just learn meta on my own. If I can’t get a 10x on my own in 3 months I’ll hire an agency. Is this crazy?

🚨🚨NEW PLACEMENT IN META???🚨🚨 I just tried to create a new ad group for one of my web-to-app campaigns and I got a popup offering WhatsApp as an additional placement to add to my existing campaign 🫣 Obviously, you have to collect the user consent for sending them messages

DSPs are experts stealing organic conversions. You better be careful with CTA & VTA windows setup. linkedin.com/posts/davidvar…

moloco potentially stealing organic conversions even with a 6h VTA window (i will confirm in couple of days) that is the first advice i give everyone who wants to run programmatic: Be CAREFUL with view attributions if you use static banners. These can be your kryptonite

I don't work with retainers because I really hate forcing people to stay working with me. Today someone decided to stop the partnership 40 days after starting giving me a bunch of bad excuses. I gave them too much and I feel I've been used to milk my know-how. Is it my fault?

@juanjovn you can calculate how much spend you got in the 2nd placement in the new "insights" section. You just have to make all the math manually 🤣 here you have some context on my LI: linkedin.com/posts/davidvar…

Are Apple Ads getting cheaper because of the new available Search Results spots? I've never had this CPAs in my life

the new GPT 2.0 is hallucinating as much as before hahaha I gave it one image to create a banner and it changed the face of the model 4 times

I post a thing it's working. Meta the following day: let's remove it The option is gone from the interface 😂

@adamtaylorl this is the definition of ego omg hahahah

realizing that this guy posted this for free insane