Simon Steilgaard

@_aaronpaul25 @madebycol aren't you both still working on Sprout?

Second time I’ve seen @madebycol tell the Glam Up / Sprout story in a way that materially misrepresents who built what. She contributed. But this was not a solo founder story, and I’m not going to keep letting my work, nor my team's work get erased. It's frustrating, sad & disappointing.

@kr0der sweat and grit in figma

IOS/mobile app builders - what’s the best AI skill or SaaS to generate good app store screenshots?

@arthursbuilds difference from AppStack and SignalSeal?

app marketing is weird everyone says “optimize your ads” then feeds Meta/TikTok the weakest possible signal: install not trial not paid subscriber not revenue not “this user is actually worth money” just install then founders wonder why campaigns bring cheap users who never pay i’m building AppSprint because i’m tired of this AppSprint tracks the full path: ad click → install → trial → subscription → revenue then sends the useful events back to the ad platforms so the algorithm learns from people who buy, not people who just tap download building this in public here expect: - app growth experiments - attribution rabbit holes - podcast lessons from app builders - client feedback - messy product decisions if you run paid ads for a subscription app, i want your feedback

@levelsio invest

I found €10 on the street, nobody is around What should I do with it???

@martin_valchev_ Start with Supabase, then move to PlanetScale as soon as you get scale and lot of traffic.

Where are you hosting your database? - Supabase - Neon - Firebase

@upbeat_dev It’s using the same underlying data set. As long as you are currently also sending purchase events it’s fine.

Still experimenting google ads 😅 Should I change conversion event to purchase? These numbers are from today so far. They are very good for Google Ads, and my conversion event is a critical event that shows user intent. I read somewhere that after some time, the conversion event can be changed to purchase, but it makes me think it will break the current data. Any idea?

@xburak still think @maubaron have the best angle on competing with them

Bible chat apps are one of the biggest innovative app verticals in 2025–2026 and are still growing like crazy. Here is how 👇

@GergelyOrosz AI

Oh, since when is Google valued more ($4.6T) than Amazon ($2.8T) and Meta ($1.5T), combined? Especially curious, given Meta is on track to generate more ads revenue than Google later this year.

@zzwitz apple hide my emails always bounces.

the average app has 5x more churned users than active users by month 6 and almost none of them have a re-engagement email campaign easiest 10% retention lift you'll ever ship and literally takes 1 day to build

@athcanft delayed payments, customers, disputes, faking mrr, tweeting about other peoples mrr, app reviews, refunds, chargebacks, apple review, taxes, churn, support emails

what’s the most annoying thing about being an app founder?

@faionur @AbstractVC @generalcatalyst @usv good luck tho

@faionur @AbstractVC @generalcatalyst @usv thats very black mirror like, we should be more social not get parasocial relationships with AI version of real people

Status has raised $17M in seed and Series A funding led by @AbstractVC, @generalcatalyst and @usv to let anyone step inside their favorite stories, become famous, and live a million different lives. We quietly launched Status last year and grew to over 1 million users in 19 days - making us the fastest growing AI app since ChatGPT. But we hit a (predictable) snag - the app was incredibly expensive to run. How do you serve millions of users without degrading the product with a cheap LLM? So the team locked in: we rebuilt the whole experience, and our technical bets paid off. Our users now spend 35 minutes on average to (90 minutes each day for power users!), and millions of characters and worlds have been created. All by our users. The next frontier of entertainment is mobile-first and deeply personal. Traditional mobile games take years to build and rarely stick. TV shows are fleeting in the age of streaming. Status is different. It is not a game you finish, it is a world you can live in. Status is a new category entirely: Immersive Social Entertainment, and we believe strongly that it is the next great entertainment paradigm. We’ve 10x’d to millions in annual revenue in Q1 2026, we're just getting started. On Status, you can be anyone.

@Alexintosh don't you like money?

It's no secret I don't like subscriptions (I guess nobody does) and I personally avoid all apps with that business model and never implemented in own apps. Reading this post made me realise that what I really hate is the hidden costs of subscriptions, not paying monthly per se. Most apps business model is you forgetting about the payment. They build a fortune on parasitic behaviour, sucking money from you while providing zero value. I want to experiment with auto-unsubscribe on my own apps. Simple concept, if you have not open the apps for X days your subscriptions gets cancelled instead of renewed.

@BusDownBonnor "f"

One thing vibecoders will never get to experience is pouring your pain into the commit message at the end of the night.

not trying to build a bomb or anything, just decompile some shit :(

@rsalimx a man of class i see

@steilgaard a 911

I've spent months studying how businesses actually get customers from TikTok slideshows. most people are doing it wrong copying the surface and missing the format. Here's everything I've learned 🧵 Follow and save it

@rsalimx lambo soon then

@steilgaard organic only

@rsalimx are you not running paid ads?

@steilgaard huh???

@stevefroussis @seraleev don't know the norm but we got 7% install to review ratio

@steilgaard @seraleev I got 25 reviews and 3000 users.. and i ask a review in the onboarding

The biggest downside of a hard paywall: > NEGATIVE REVIEWS ☆ 1 star