Qing Su

This applies to many niche skills. I didn’t learn astrophotography from school, I learned it by getting my hands dirty & spent every night learning how NOT to do it. If you want to do something, just start doing it. Waiting for someone to teach you might leave you with nothing.

if i had to start from ZERO, here’s how i’d get to $10k mrr with a mobile app 👇 1. choosing the app niche looksmaxxing, fitness, wealth - anything that appeals to core human desires is a MUST 2. designing the app for ads a viral screenshot-able feature like cal ai’s “ai calorie logging” - this will allow me to make ads really easily without making the user feel sold to (as i can just show the screenshot of the feature briefly) 3. getting ad-ready SUPER IMPORTANT: add an MMP to my app, for conversion tracking later when i run ads - either appsflyer, singular… 4. making the ads study competitors on instagram / tiktok - see what hooks their using and translate their formats to my own app - i’ll make 12-30 variants of 1-2 formats ive found 5. running the ads i prefer tiktok ads for mobile apps but meta does fine too - one campaign, one ad set, all my ads in the ad set - $50 a day budget to find a winner; then scale up spend once i’ve got a profitable ad that’s literally it. i wish id known this earlier because i spent thousands of $ on ugc and influencers that didnt work for me the most important part: DESIGN YOUR APP FOR ADS FROM THE START

Massive output uptick due to agentic AI. Complete flat adoption.

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