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Day 1 of things I wish I knew earlier, scaling an IOS app (6K MRR rn) not asking for an app store review early enough. 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻: - i had the review prompt buried after like 5 screens barely anyone ever saw it - our rating was stuck at 4.2 with like 12 reviews - moved it to right after the user's first "win" moment - reviews went from 2 a week to 10+ - rating jumped to 4.6 (WIP) your app store rating is the most underrated growth lever nobody talks about.

I spent 6 months figuring out AI UGC so you don't have to. and thats how we went from 0 → 4M views/week → $20K MRR with $0 ad spend. The tech stack. The prompts. The automation pipeline. The account structure. Here's what I wish someone told me on day 1: Your first 20 AI videos will flop. That's normal. The magic happens when you find the hook-persona-angle combo that clicks. We tested 47 variations before our first viral hit. Then we just ran that formula on repeat. 3 AI personas. 3 posts/day. ElevenLabs for voice. Claude Code for the automation. Total cost: 50 cents a video Building the full playbook as a guide. Drop a follow if you want it when it's ready.

Big Quote: if you can overthink the worse, why can’t you overthink the best

YouTube is criminally underrated for app distribution. started a youtube channel for my app about a month ago. posted 10 long form AI videos back to back then completely went dark for 2 weeks. no new posts, nothing. came back to $2,200 in added revenue. no ads, no promotion, just 4 hours of work. the numbers: • 10K views • 1,500 link clicks (15% CTR) • ~400 app downloads (measured via custom App Store pages) • close to 30% view to download conversion • 74 new subscriptions at ~$29.99 avg • $0.22 revenue per view these weren't even Shorts. full long-form videos, made entirely with AI. one thing most founders sleep on: set up a custom App Store page for every distribution channel. only way to actually know what's working in a world full of noise. without it you're flying blind. now i just gotta find a VA to scale this daily bc if 10 videos did $2,200... idk man.

What's the difference between? 1/ "someone stealing your app idea 1:1 and making 10K MRR first month." and 2/ "someone stealing your girl" answer: no difference, it's a skill issue

@Bfaviero i can say with certainty that 90% of my MBA cohort has never tried Claude Code NGMI

MBAs should be crushing it in the vibe coding era. What are they all up to? They can finally have a technical cofounder they give no equity to

@david_attisaas howmuchdidyoumake.com

how much did you make so far?

at one point our app had a 3.7 on the App Store now it's 4.7 with 214 reviews and honestly the fix was kind of embarrassing once we figured it out we were treating the review prompt like a one time thing ask everyone once and move on. that's lazy and it shows in your rating. what we rebuilt it into is a full scoring system 1) 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲: - finished a session = +2 - 3 day streak = +3 - came back after going dark for 3 days = +2 - opened the app after midnight = +2 (bro that person is DEEP in it) - skipped a session = -1 we only re prompt when the score is high enough. if you're not winning in the app we're not asking you anything 𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲: we also ended up showing this score to users as an aura score and retention went absolutely crazy. more on that later 2) 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 yearly subscribers talk about transformation. free users complain about the paywall. never mix those two groups 3) 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗼 𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗼𝗻 9 to 11pm converts almost 2x better than any other window. morning people are rushing, they dismiss everything. night time people are in their feelings and actually want to express something 4) "𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽?" 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 we switched to "has anything shifted for you?" and the difference was immediately obvious. one sounds like a metric, the other sounds like you actually give a shit. huge difference in conversion 5) 4.7 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 200 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 5.0 𝗯𝘁𝘄 perfect scores look gamed. the random 1 stars make the 5 stars more believable. stopped losing sleep over them ratings compound exactly like MRR and people completely sleep on it better rating means higher search ranking means more organic downloads means more reviews. TLDR: ratings are not an afterthought. they're a system. build it like one

claude is actually unusable today and then had the nerve to say "please don't leave me for chatgpt"

Honestly its because the people actually making "normal" or even substantial amount money are putting their time and effort on channels that actually generate ROI. The 780K per day screenshot dude is def tryna sell a course or discord. The $63/ month revenue dude thinks he can grow a following while also growing revenue. You gotta pick a lane and focus on it

i rarely see someone making *normal* amounts on money twitter it's either some $780k per day screenshot or some dweeb selling some shitty app for $63/month revenue literally no one making $5k, $7.5k, etc

ngl could be a skill issue. The key with slideshows is to incite an emotional response coupled with a sense of urgency that speaks to the target audience and a lil bit of vagueness to naturally direct the user to go to your profile and see your other posts. THEN you can build credibility and authenticity that would lead to link clicks and downloads. I had the same issue you described until I started looking at slideshows as an emotional and credibility building exercise. Also gotta make sure that the tone, content, and the images used in the slideshow work together to build that connection. People can relate to other creators, but it's hard to relate to brands. That's why all our slideshows have a persona that's passed for hook image generation and script generation.

for the tiktok slideshows automatoooooors slideshows get views. they get lots of views. you can put together some trending audio with some pictures, add some text overlays, and you might get 100K, 500K, even a million views. you even do it automatically with larry or whatever. but here's the problem: those views don't convert to downloads. almost nobody clicks through to your link. almost nobody goes to your profile. almost nobody searches for your app. the views are hollow. they're empty calories. the pretty girl sitting in front of the camera, actually speaking to the lens, showing her face, showing emotion, that's what drives downloads. I've tested this extensively. the difference is dramatic. a slideshow might get 10x the views, but a real person video gets 10x the conversion rate. net net, the person video wins every time. the views that matter are the ones that turn into users. do slideshows because they can be automated just know that you need a crazy amount of views to get a few sales

ah ya time to cook

@StubbyLittleMK @grok @grok do not reply to him please

@reezus @grok is this true

Polymarket derivatives of GoFundMe or kickstarter, surprised that doesn’t exist yet

best problem to have: 1,200 people waiting for your app on a platform you haven't built for yet guess Claude Code is building it this week (pray for my token limits)

biggest anthropic fumble of the decade ngl

@Vamzzz93 fr bro openclaw is the biggest slop of this year so far. its cool for the first 30 minutes and then it becomes a constant headache. nothing new that claude code with mcp cant do

Still have not seen a single example of something useful that actually required OpenClaw 😂

@jvheaney youtube.com/watch?v=8gJYpk… typa shit you gotta be on bro

I am scoping out and debugging a nasty infra bug listening to just the sound of a drum beating to one rhythm, no melody or vocals Is this pmf?

I'm not gonna tell you what my app does. I'm not gonna tell you who it's for. I'm not gonna tell you how I market it. But here's what I will tell you: 27 years old. Full time student doing a double degree. Building a startup on the side with my girlfriend. Locked in probably 16-17 hours a day. No VC money. No advisors. No safety net. About to cross $8K MRR and the curve isn't slowing down.

AI UGC doesn't have a content problem... it has a distribution problem, and we have solved it. This is how we post across 7 different accounts, 4 different regions for a fraction of the cost of UGC creators (Each video literally costs me 80 cents) All warmup, scrolling, and interactions are being done by Claude while I make more UGC videos. Back in the days, I used to automate the same exact thing for IG to post 100s of slop on an account and now doing it again, but on a different scale.

.@supabase fixed it for you