Market TV

The lesson: don't pick the platform with the most competition by default. Pick the platform where your product is the natural fit, then scale outward. For us that's tvOS. For someone else it might be Vision Pro. Or Apple Watch. Or CarPlay. → markettv.app · Free to try. Pro available. Informational app. Not a broker.

Years 1-2: tvOS only. Slow growth. Strong retention. Year 2-3: ported to Android TV + Fire TV. Same niche, broader reach. Year 3+: added iPad + Mac + Vision Pro + Web Smart TV. Notice the order. We didn't go to iOS until we'd validated the TV thesis. iOS came as "iPad" → not "iPhone".

We built Market TV for Apple TV first. People told us we were crazy. They were half right. 9 tweets on what actually made tvOS the right starting point. 🧵

The market wall in your living room. → markettv.app · Free to try. Pro available. If you're building for tvOS Finance, we want to know! Informational app. Not a broker.

Why indie devs don't build it Same reason teams don't: "tvOS is a smaller market" "I already know iOS" "There's no monetization model" "Apple Search Ads doesn't work there" All true. All also irrelevant if you accept the constraint and build for the niche.

There are 4 decent finance apps on tvOS. That's the entire category. For comparison, the iOS Finance category has 14,000+. 🧵

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