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@adriamatz has it made a difference? I found no impact for IG/Facebook reels but TikTok slideshows pretty much never get me more than 1k view using schedulers

Spent the morning replacing my TikTok middleman tool with a direct API integration. Drafts now land in my inbox, ready to publish If you want to do the same: 1. Create a TikTok dev app (sandbox, free, no audit) 2. Set up OAuth for your accounts 3. Host images on a verified domain (Vercel Blob works) 4. Hit Content Posting API → send drafts Thanks @maks6361 for the nudge.

Can/should I run ads? I get over 50 purchase events a week from organic social but my conversion rate Download to Paid is around 2.3%

Surely now

@wickedguro I think you have a good product otherwise and I continue to use the open source version. I was using the paid version for TikTok

@wickedguro I paid for postiz and would have continued using it if the customer support had been better. I switched to a competitor because I had an issue but no one ever responds.

I cracked marketing and the target audience. The only thing I can't crack, no matter how much I try, is churn. Currently at 19% churn, and I feel that is not real. Is Stripe lying to me? At the moment, with $93k MRR, I am supposed to lose $17k a month. But revenue is still growing every month; I haven't seen any drop since Postiz exploded. That means I bring a lot more than $17k every month. Does anybody else have this weird experience? 🤔

@heyozi @RevenueCat Thank you and appreciate the offer. I just put time in for Monday

@jorgegreg99 @RevenueCat Yes please

Hoping this is the month I finally get to pay @RevenueCat

@heyozi @RevenueCat Absolutely. Would really appreciate that. I see you have a calendar invite link on your bio. Should I use that?

@jorgegreg99 @RevenueCat Let me know if you need any help (for free)

@heyozi @RevenueCat Yeah, you’re correct. I’m trying to fix it. It’s the first app I built so I’m still learning

@jorgegreg99 @RevenueCat Yeap

@heyozi @RevenueCat Because the conversion sucks?

@jorgegreg99 @RevenueCat You are killing your app’s potential

@wickedguro If you had better customer support you’d be making even more 🥲

I make $92k MRR with one SaaS. I will absolutely never understand people who keep building new products nonstop. Like, their whole profile is filled with domains. Maybe it would have worked a few years ago, but today? Brand is everything. I spend any little time I have working on marketing for Postiz: SEO / Articles on X / YouTube videos / Collaborations, etc. People think SaaS is a slot machine. With the number of new products shipping every day, creating many of them is just pure slop. > It decreases trust with existing customers > Destroy your reputation > Prevents you from learning how to really grow a company If I see a person who ships non-stop products, I will never buy. Why do I need to invest so much time in something that's going to be abandoned the next day?

Maybe if I could convert some of my free users 😭

@adamlyttleapps Probably also better creatives.

I have been defeated by meta ads USD$3.63 is the lowest I could get this campaign The economics just don’t work The brutal postmortem: 1. I tried running different ad sets thinking I would be testing different creatives (more ad sets = quicker testing) But turns out that meant I was bidding against myself. Driving up costs and burning cash. It took days until I realised this. 2. The reason someone would want to download the app. It wasn’t as strong as I thought it was. Pivoted many times, rebuild many parts of the app, but the economics got worse. I got stuck in the trap of building more features. Thinking that was the problem. But it wasn’t. The issue is a value proposition that is too generic and vague. A hard to communicate feature (turn your photos into a video) and seemingly not as much demand for this as I anticipated. I actually found an interesting demographic: 65+ year olds. Grandparents are downloading the app more than my original target market. Theres something here! But is this the right product? 3. I thought offering lifetime would inject cash into the app sooner. Turns out a broken paywall with no lifetime working beat the paywall with lifetime. The issue: less people signed up for a free trial. 4. The biggest problem: only 5% of people actually see my paywall. It’s behind the product demo. In this case the demo fires off late in the onboarding process, and if the demo fails (they didn’t accept photo permissions or their library is too thin) no demo shows = no paywall. 5. And the biggest mistake of all: I wasn’t optimising for trial signups. Instead I was optimising for installs. Asking Claude what my issues were it pointed out: meta is training the audience on people who download free apps. Not training on people who pay for apps. So that means all that ad spend, all that experimentation, maybe wasted. Arg. Plan moving forward: I’m going to be less bipolar about marketing. I was looking for quick results and making changes daily. A data lead approach says: 1. Show the paywall earlier in the onboarding process 2. Run a new campaigned geared to trial startups with the creatives that were performing best 3. Let the ads run their course. Stop pausing playing changing experimenting. Meta needs time to find the audience. 4. Back to free trial with annual as the default option. Not convinced that lifetime is dead. It’s just about positioning 5. Get some sleep.

@jeiting doesn't work

Our AI editor for Paywalls is now available to everyone! It's pretty cool.

Can’t seem to make it past 2k mrr. Probably time to show paywall after onboarding? For number of users this is really terrible 😞

@adamlyttleapps These are my results from when I first tried ads. I went full organic for the last 3 months but I want to try paid again. Does it make sense to runs ads with a lookalike audience based off of existing subscribers or go broad? I have had ~550 paying subscribers (mostly weekly).

Now down to usd$7.03 I haven’t made any changes Maybe the meta algorithm is matching with better quality audience?

@simonecanciello @grok is this a sneaky rork promotion?