Leopold

Starting the year #1 in Education and Health & Fitness in the US. And these aren’t even our top app. 🥳🚀

First it was 1. Then 2. Now 4 of our apps are in their categories’ top 10! That feeling when something is working doesn’t get old.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. - Mark Twain

@olivia_dimian That means a lot, thanks 🙏

@k20one You’re the goat. Your app keeps me going every day 🤝

1 million ratings in the US AppStore! No investors, just 11 years of shipping, tweaking, and learning.

@designerants Asking for them when the user likes a quote - and making sure the user finds a quote that they like

@k20one Congrats! What was the best way to collect reviews in your case? Curious

@tewy 🙏

@k20one congrats!

A dream come true 🥳

@MarkVillacampa @RevenueCat Somos pocos pero hay algunas. En data.ai se pueden filtrar los ranks

yo: no hay apps moviles con negocio de suscripcion en españa tambien yo: me encuentro clientes de @RevenueCat en cualquier sarao 🤔 igual hay mas apps de las que imaginaba? cuales conoceis?

@andevoo That’s awesome, yes!

@k20one Wow is it your app🔥 I was using it few years ago!!

Motivation is back in the top charts!! 🥳🥳🥳

@JoeFernandez Proudly ex-Joymode over here 🙋‍♂️

while the one that failed is totally downplayed or even missing 😂

I built one (relatively) successful company and had another company fail. It's funny to look at how former employees represent those two companies on their linkedin profiles

@raroque @matttli Sure, the more specific the easier I guess!

@k20one @matttli I have extremely specific follow up questions I would love to ask (happy to DM if you're open to it) but I appreciate the response and am glad to know its possible. The path you mention make sense, it sounds like I'm on a scarily similar trajectory

Does anyone have an example of a successful B2C company that was fully bootstrapped? YNAB is the only one that comes to mind

@raroque @matttli I didn’t have a vision for it to become a unicorn - I thought it wasn’t worth trying to raise money and was very resistant of hiring at first… so I let the revenues grow faster than the team, until it was hard to justify not hiring.

@raroque @matttli It’s definitely doable, but it’s not for everyone or every product. In my case I was an iOS dev and had it as a side hustle for ~4yrs. I learned to do the main roles (design, data, product, marketing…) and I was very conservative to start to work on it full time and to hire.

@raroque @matttli Hi 👋 sure, what do you want to know?

@matttli Wow MonkeyTaps looks interesting, thanks for the heads up! Did some digging, maybe this is @k20one (although looks like he's based in Miami) Leopold, would love to chat if you're open to it :) and hear more about the story of MonkeyTaps

@Thomasbcn @jansenniklas @ncsh @CrowXU That’s exactly right, short term bet is so appealing when paid channels work but they’ve been so fragile lately… I’d love to see more examples to learn from!

@k20one @jansenniklas @ncsh @CrowXU There is a natural tension between monetization pressure (more ARPU, more room to accelerate through paid), and maximizing retention, virality & organics Duolingo does amazing on this tricky balance I've learned the hard way the short term bet on the former harms the latter...

What are the best examples of (mobile) consumer companies with product-led growth? @ncsh @Thomasbcn

@Thomasbcn @jansenniklas @ncsh @CrowXU To be clear I do agree with you that is very rare to be product led and not be social, maybe Duolingo is the best example (I’d exclude strava and such since they’re pretty social). It usually comes with a big handicap for complementing with paid ua.

@k20one @jansenniklas @ncsh @CrowXU Define "organic"! Consoles don't give sucj split, and whatever your MMP says is at best worth sharing in investors reports, but internal conversations show a radically different perspective... Still. I value what you've built and hope you keep that remarkable trajectory 🥰

@Thomasbcn @jansenniklas @ncsh @CrowXU Right… there really is no way besides checking what happens when we turn off paid, and even then there’s a big organic chunk that comes from the paid user’s word of mouth. But even if attribution was missing 50% of conversions we’d still be there

@Thomasbcn @jansenniklas @ncsh @CrowXU 🙋‍♂️ We’re >50% organic on all our apps, for what is worth

@jansenniklas @ncsh @CrowXU Canva? Duolingo? Youtube 😂