Max
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@mxxfun I hope you make 100K MRR next year bro ✊🏼 be proud for you.
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one week between "I should just get a job" and "I cant stop now."
2 weeks ago I was at 0€ revenue and close to giving up. months of building an app that went nowhere. 20 active users who seemed to love it, zero paying. years of side projects before that, all fun but broke.
then I built something new in a week and it made money almost the same day. little under 200€ before spending anything on ads. no big exciting idea, just a concept thats already proven and trending, built my own way with taste and polish. its way simpler than I made it for years.
the hard part is scaling this profitably now.
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@jackfriks deinfitely best ux! the problem for you could be that that the user wont have any connection to your brand anymore. you are basically making a commodity at that point i think.
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while this mobile app is building i realized..
do i even need a mobile app? (not really)
cause the best UX is just to give people a copy paste prompt to use post bridge with their chatgpt/claude sub and then they schedule everything through there easily VS figuring out UI
jack friks@jackfriks
trying codex now as a test to see if it can make @postbridge_ into mobile app and submit by end of today 5 minutes in:
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🚢 We sent @RhysKentish down the Thames on a speedboat to prove you can chat to Rico from anywhere. In the latest iOS update 📲
TLDR:
🤖 Rico, our AI assistant, is in the app!!
💸 Edit your paywalls on the go with our AI paywall editor
🍎 We've integrated with Siri
📱 Custom app milestone icons
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@macomoroni I would kill monthly and keep weekly + yearly. glowly for example (looksmaxxing, similar niche) charged 9,99wk/49,99 year and converted really really good.
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@macomoroni haha good timing.
I have actually not installed your app but if your onboarding is good (e.g. built around a reveal of their skin score) you could go up to 9,99 a wk to push an annual plan thats around 39,99-49,99. I think I would test 7,99 & 9,99 if I was you!
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@mxxfun Hahaha funnily I am just discussing with Claude my pricing 😁
I have it more expensive in the us and rest of the world..
What would you suggest?
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I almost forgot:
You can now browse TrustMRR's marketplace on iPhone.
apps.apple.com/us/app/trustmr…
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"I'm useless"
That's how I feel right now.
Codex built me a new iOS app and submitted it.
One prompt.
I never even opened the App Store. It used my browser to write the app listing and uploaded screenshots that it took on my local simulator.
I got pinged when the app was accepted.
Back in the pre-AI days, I'd throw my fist in the air and tell my wife.
Today, I felt nothing but admiration for how far AI has come.
The skills I acquired in the last 10 years have become useless.
But strangely, I feel good about it. It means the only thing I’m valuable at is being me: thinking and deciding what to work on.
The next 10 years are going to be interesting as our value shifts from execution to judgment.
Marc Lou@marclou
1 afternoon to build an app 1 week to be reviewed
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@_frederickjames crazy to hear it framed like that. makes 7k/mo suddenly feel like a distance instead of a different universe
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@mxxfun you're where i was 2 months ago
app is validated, don't change it too much
you just need more downloads
excellent place to be broas
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New RevenueCat icon, but why is 50k active subscribers the next icon? If your app is $5/month, 50k active subscribers is already $250k MRR. 😭
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To my surprise I am on the third place for "company chat" request on German. CRAZY
(besides sponsored results)
But I actually doubt that Germans would search it this way :D
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couldnt agree more. built a lot of shit before and overcomplicated it.
my current b2c mobile app the first time someone ever paid for a product i built. simply because i was "copying" a proven and trending concept and added a layer of taste on it. the only hard pard is scaling this profitably now.
Frederick James@_frederickjames
I failed for years: ~14 projects. And then I tried B2C iOS apps. I'll hit $10k/m in a few weeks. I think it's the easiest way to win. Because the "moat" is the easiest to build. These are the moats I see: 1. The moat of complexity. Think Postiz or Revolut. APIs that take weeks to get approved. Or complex industries, like banking need capital or regulatory approval. You simply can't vibe code these in a weekend. Complex B2B products will survive, because there's too much effort involved in making it. Can be very hard difficulty I think. You have to put in the grind on the product. And there's still an element of luck involved: for example, there's a lot of PostBridge clones that went nowhere. I tried this and failed! 2. The moat of personality. Big developers will always be able to sell by virtue of their following. This is true in any domain. Verified MRR existed before Marc, but no one trusted an anon dev with their stripe. It's a really good idea, but it succeeded in part because Marc is so trusted. This is a very tricky moat to build, as it relies on growing a following. I believe there are clear patterns for social medi growth, but that's a post for another day. 3. The moat of a network. Think NomadTable or IG. People use these apps because of their network. Anyone can vibe code them in a day. But people still use the app because of their huge network. This is potentially the hardest moat. Involving either a lot of luck, massive amount of work or a big network from previous experience. 4. The moat of mass distribution (B2C). Most mobile apps are very technically incredibly simple. The effort instead is 90% marketing. If you have a tiny bit of taste it's easy to stand out massively. Here, we're not selling to businesses. We're selling to the masses, the normies who doesn't even use ChatGPT! In my view this is the easiest moat, because it's the one with the least amount of luck involved. Marketing is not yet a science, but there are a lot of proven patterns for success: AI UGC, paid tikslop/apple ads. This is just my anecdotal experience! n=1. I may have gotten lucky: I'm building a new app to do it all again, so we will see if it's a science.
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