Emiliano

@athcanft Sent you a DM

6 months ago i had $0 now my apps are doing $10k mrr for months i was doing organic + ugc marketing losing money every month then i tried tiktok ads, put $50/day in, and saw 200% return i didnt have more cash to spend on ads so i raised money from family & friends made a pitch deck, showed them the app is profitable with ads they jumped in instantly (because the app was profitable) now i teach people how to do it, exactly the way i did it ive been broke many times but i never stopped trying neither should you

@jonathanzliu Rizz

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@vanshyadav1408 Hey bro, can I grab one of those referral links? 🙏

Btw, I have a 4 month referral of Google AI Pro for 10 people. If anyone want, please lemme know.

@vahebagdasar @RevenueCat @drbarnard $6.99 weekly / $39.99 yearly

It's that time of the month again. Going live tomorrow with @RevenueCat and @drbarnard to roast your paywalls. Drop your paywall in the comments and we’ll give you brutally honest feedback on how to improve it and drive more revenue.

@adamlyttleapps sent a dm!

If anybody would like to take over this app. Let me know Not yet monetized

@c__basso Did you change anything in your strategy?

From $1K MRR to $2K MRR in 12 months. From $2K MRR to $3K MRR in 2 months 🥳#buildinpublic

@david_attisaas What are your top paywall picks from the Adapty library?

🚨SAUCE ALERT🚨. I got a lot of questions in the discord about how to design a high-converting paywall. most new app makers don't know what a high-converting paywall looks like. and that's normal. we need a lot of downloads/data to see whether the paywall converts or not. as a start, generating a paywall should be a 5-10 minutes job. adapty has 80+ paywall templates based on what is converting well right now across real subscription apps, not random inspiration from dribbble or behance. these templates are built from live conversion data and proven patterns that work across different app categories and price points. on top of that, adapty's ai paywall generator uses knowledge from over 16,000 supported apps to create custom variants instantly based on your app's actual context and audience. but here is where most new app makers get it wrong from day one. if you have zero monetization experience and no prior conversion data, i would start with a hard paywall first, not a free trial and definitely not a premium unlock gate. the logic is simple: you want to see if your paywall actually converts before you add trial complexity on top, and you also want to make a bit of money to validate that demand exists at your price point. free trials add two failure modes at once, and when both can break, your data becomes messy fast. first you need to convert on the paywall itself, and then you need to retain users through the trial window and convert them again at renewal after they have experienced your product for days. if you fail on either step, you end up with zero revenue and unclear signals about which part broke the funnel. hard paywalls give you one clean measurement: do people pay when they see your value promise and your price together? if the answer is no and your conversion rate is sitting below 2%, your positioning or your offer or your audience targeting is the real problem, not the paywall button color or the font weight. fix the core message and the core audience match before you layer trial mechanics and renewal windows on top of a broken foundation. now let's talk about hard paywall versus soft paywall logic, because this trips up a lot of new founders. a hard paywall means the user hits a gate early, usually right after onboarding or after one small teaser interaction, and they cannot proceed without paying. in other words, there is no (X) icon at the top left/right to dismiss the paywall and then access to the paid part of your app stoppr has an hard paywall initially and with a < 2% conv rate made $5K revenue the first month (mostly because the onboarding was not too bad) a soft paywall lets users explore a meaningful part of your product first, and then shows the gate at a high-intent moment when they try to access premium features or hit usage limits. soft paywalls can work really well, but only if you already know which exact moment has the highest purchase intent for your specific app and audience. new app makers usually do not know that yet because they have not shipped enough volume or run enough behavioral cohorts to see the intent patterns clearly. they guess at the soft gate timing, and the guess is often wrong, which means they burn distribution budget on users who never hit the paywall or who hit it at the wrong psychological moment. hard paywalls remove that guessing game entirely. you show the value promise, you show the price, you measure conversion, and you get instant feedback on whether your offer resonates. if it does not, you can iterate the copy, the pricing structure, or the target audience without worrying about whether your gate placement was too early or too late. once you have clean conversion data from a hard paywall and some revenue to prove demand, then you can start testing free trials and soft gates with real confidence. by that point you understand your user psychology, you know your price ceiling, and you can make smarter trade-offs between volume and revenue quality without flying blind. the other thing most new founders miss is that soft paywalls require much better instrumentation and behavioral tracking to work well. you need to log every major user action, track session depth, measure feature engagement, and identify high-intent triggers with precision. if your analytics stack is weak or your event definitions are vague, soft paywall experiments will just create more confusion instead of more revenue. hard paywalls are simpler to instrument and simpler to interpret. one event: paywall shown. one outcome: payment success or payment failure. one metric: conversion rate. you can run that test in 48 hours with 500 paywall views and know whether your core offer works or not. so here is the actual workflow i would follow if i was launching a new subscription app today with zero prior monetization data. week 1: ship a hard paywall with 2 offers, probably a monthly plan/annual plan and drive 1,000 paywall views from your best traffic source. measure conversion rate and collect qualitative feedback from users who drop off. if conversion is under 2%, rewrite your value promise or test a different audience segment before you touch the price or add a trial. week 2: once hard paywall conversion is above 3%, test one soft paywall variant where the gate appears after the user completes one core action that proves value. compare conversion rate and revenue per install between hard and soft, and keep the winner as your new control. week 3: if soft paywall wins, test different gate placements by user intent signals. if hard paywall still wins, test adding a short free trial offer as a second option on the paywall itself, not as a replacement for the paid-upfront path. for stoppr to reach > 5 figures MRR, I used to show the hard paywall to meta ads users and the hard paywall + trial to organic downloads users. little trick I'm giving you to show a different paywall based on how "likely" your prospect is to buy from you this cadence keeps you moving fast without stacking too many unknowns in one test. each week you learn one thing clearly, and each decision is based on real behavior instead of best practices borrowed from apps in different categories with different audiences. one more thing: do not let anyone tell you that hard paywalls are outdated or that users expect free trials in every app now. that is category-dependent and audience-dependent, and plenty of high-converting apps still use hard paywalls because they work for their specific offer and their specific user psychology. test your own data and trust your own results over generic advice.

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@c__basso Did you use adapty paywall builder? nice design!

About to release update with this new paywall in one of my apps. What do you think about paid trials? #buildinpublic

@seraleev what's your typical trial cancellation rate?

3-day or 7-day trial? I choose 3 In my tests, there was no difference in conversion. So I’d rather get paid sooner than later

@maks6361 Curious, roughly how many hours a day do you spend on this? Must be a lot balancing family too 😅

Weekly update: MRR change: +5.0% Despite the quiet holiday week, my MRR got a surprising boost. I couldn’t fully switch off from work, so I did a bit of work on one app: added a discounted paywall after the main one to catch more users. Will share the results next week. Busy week entertaining kids, new activities every day: waterparks, kids’ playrooms, watching Netflix. One more week of holidays to go, but I’m already a bit tired of it and want to get back to building and shipping stuff 😄

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I automated "stealing" viral TikToks. nano banana pro + kling + n8n analyzes any viral video, extracts exactly why it works, then generates your version with your look here's the stack: - @adrian_horning_ gets the tiktok video + transcript - @GeminiApp (@openrouter) watches the video and breaks down the psychology (hooks, pacing, motion, emotional arc) creates a "character bible" for visual consistency - @NanoBanana generates the starting frames - @Kling_ai animates each 10-second segment (or veo) @FFmpeg stitches it into one vertical video - uploads to Google Drive, logs everything input: 1 viral TikTok URL output: branded alternative in 10 min for ~$2 the viral formula stays. the content becomes yours. this is how you test 10x more concepts without 10x more creators want the complete 5-workflow automation? comment VIRAL + follow (following required for DM)

@StavZilber @rungoogleads Please send it

@rungoogleads Our clients show us AI UGC ads that print millions in yearly revenue. Happy to send any doubter a link to the recording

I’m sorry but AI UGC is still shit

@seraleev Are you using these Google Ads campaigns to promote only your iOS apps, or your Android apps as well?

Short november results: first time over $50K/month $51.2K after Apple fees (+13%)

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@maks6361 Nice ending, are you still creating new identifier apps? What’s your current strat

How my very first app failed. Part 4 (Final) The problem wasn’t in the app itself. It was in the product distribution. I went back to ASO and decided to revisit everything again. I started with analysing competitors and the keywords they use. I changed the app description, the title, and just submitted a new version. To let the keywords get “picked up,” you need to wait long enough. Nothing changed instantly. Then I moved on to paid advertising. I went with ASA. And I just spent my money. I burned around €1000, but there were no visible results. I got only a few downloads and trial conversions, but compared to what I spent - it was nothing. On Twitter I saw that TikTok was gaining a lot of popularity. I found several TikTok videos with an interesting format that, as it seemed to me, was very easy to repeat. I posted daily, and after a couple of weeks a few videos got around 200k views each. It was a big success. I started expecting hundreds of users, but the conversion was 0. My posts didn’t have a call to action, so all of it ended up being just a waste of time. I tried so many different marketing tools, but they didn’t work the way I expected. By pure chance, while browsing YouTube, I noticed a video by @adamlyttleapps in the recommendations column. I thought it was yet another course seller and didn’t want to waste time, but curiosity won. I watched it in one go. I watched every one of his videos, I just couldn’t stop. They flipped my understanding of how to build apps. I dropped everything I was doing at that moment and started building my first AI identifier. After the release, I immediately switched to the next one, and as a result I had about 5 AI identifiers ready in two weeks. One of them got an unusual initial boost, and my MRR jumped from 200 euros to 700 in just a couple of days! I was simply stunned. My first thought was: the app is gaining traction, I need to keep adding features, and… I got that same déjà vu feel, that I was about to repeat the same mistake I had been going through for many years. Instead of touching that app, I simply shifted my attention to the next one so I wouldn’t be emotionally attached anymore. I kept building apps, and a month after I started, I reached my first milestone of €1k MRR. I have been following this strategy ever since. It led me to success. After that, my life changed. Before I knew it, I was one step away from leaving my 9–5 and having complete financial freedom.

@johnappscaler @SofiaMarin5555 Hey, I’m interested but I can’t dm you

@SofiaMarin5555 use antigravity, trust me btw I launch a $9/month TikTok slideshow automation later today, my beta users made 50M views with it I onboard the first customers personally and help them get their tiktok acc set up, if ur interested lmk if not also fine, it's just 10 dollars ahha

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@enzosegatto12 I’m using a hard paywall but conversions are low. Thinking of switching to weekly + yearly with a free trial on the yearly plan. Worth trying?

@emilianoapps yessss

The paywall tests were very good; we increased conversion from 5/4% to 8% with more traffic to the app, a good gain, but we have more room for improvement.

@muratworks Sent you a dm hope you can check it 🙏

try selling $4.99 annual plan