Idan Refaeli

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Idan Refaeli

Idan Refaeli

@Idanref

I own 6 profitable AI apps including CalcEat & Emperia. Building AI organic marketing tools at scale. I study how apps grow and give it all away here.

Sumali Ekim 2011
92 Sinusundan58 Mga Tagasunod
Argon
Argon@argoncore·
@ugcmaxxr gonna make a claude skill with this method
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Nate O'Neill
Nate O'Neill@ugcmaxxr·
we just made a client's reel go VIRAL with pure AI UGC... 436,000+ views 11,700+ shares 41,300+ likes and the reel was produced entirely with Seedance 2.0 in less than 10 minutes so here's exactly what we did: 1/ we started with a specific hook that made the viewer curious for example, instead of saying "i lost a lot of weight this month" we went with "i lost 20lbs this month by making my family's secret recipe that only took 3 ingredients" this would stop the scroll because anyone trying to lose weight got curious and wanted to know more 2/ we delayed the product introduction until the 9 second mark the first 8 seconds stayed entirely in the viewer's world, we would: > describe the feeling of trying everything > the frustration of failing a lot > the wasted time and by the time the product entered the reel, the viewer was already emotionally invested in the problem 3/ the avatar demographics were matched precisely to the target buyer picture a woman in her late 20s, natural lighting, sporty and outdoorsy setting, handheld phone camera feel, etc 4/ the share prompt was specific we didn't say "share this with someone," that wouldn't get a picture of someone in their head we said "send this to your friend struggling with her weight loss journey" that specificity is what drove 11,7k+ shares because it gave people a specific person to think of and a specific reason to send it and that's exactly how we made it go viral we're even running that same framework across 6 other verticals right now the results are looking identical - nate
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daniel
daniel@danielhangan_·
organic word of month is the best kind of marketing
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Alex Nguyen
Alex Nguyen@alexcooldev·
I really like people who show the truth like Adam. The reason I don’t run ads something people often ask is because my app is for students and follows a freemium model, so there’s a high chance of losing money if I run ads. I actually tested Meta Ads with around $1k, and my cost per install was about $7 (probably because my skills aren’t great lol). The revenue I got back was only around $50 bruh, I’d go bankrupt if I kept testing and failing like that. And even if you are profitable, you still have to subtract another 15%–30% fee from Apple. You need to burn a lot of cash for the algorithm to learn before you can become profitable. Plus, your app has to convert extremely well like those looksmaxing or height-growth apps with hard paywall. Ads are actually great if you’re VC-backed or have a big budget.
Adam Lyttle@adamlyttleapps

This creative is doing usd$11.03 per install

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Thomas Trimoreau
Thomas Trimoreau@TTrimoreau·
If anyone can start, who actually finishes?
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Will
Will@athcanft·
one has to go, which is it?
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Kumar Mettu
Kumar Mettu@kumarlastapp·
@muratworks 90% of advice regarding app development is terrible on twitter. Its really people with 20 life time downloads advising :)
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Yusuf Hayal
Yusuf Hayal@KaspaTeacher·
@_masterinvestor 𝕏 attempts to make that go viral by paying more for video content. The tricky part is that I go to YouTube when I want to watch a video. I go to 𝕏 when I want to read.
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Ian Jakovan Dunlap
Ian Jakovan Dunlap@_masterinvestor·
6 million views on youtube is $35,000?? Yikes
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Paras
Paras@buildwithparas·
@alexwtlf buildability was never the moat. distribution and actually wanting the thing are.
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Alex Ibragimov
Alex Ibragimov@alexwtlf·
Why would I use your app if Claude can build the same thing in a day… and I still wouldn’t use it? read it again
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Starter Story
Starter Story@starter_story·
Just talked to 3 guys today: – Cat app – Guitar app – Cards app All making between $10K - $30K/mo What a crazy time to be building in iOS man...
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Alex Nguyen
Alex Nguyen@alexcooldev·
From my experience, I’m currently managing over 40 accounts targeting markets like the US, EU, and Canada, and I’ve found that slideshows consistently get higher engagement than videos. This can be explained by the fact that slideshows are easier to write strong hooks for, and users tend to save them more often so the algorithm pushes them harder. With videos, you have to compete with local creators, which is actually very difficult if you don’t understand the local culture or aren’t a native.
Já acordei cansada 🆘@alessandravgs

@alexcooldev May I ask you where did you find this info about tiktok boosting slideshows? Because you’re the first person to mention it on my timeline and this is true. I used slideshow this week and it skyrocketed my account

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Idan Refaeli
Idan Refaeli@Idanref·
Agree, but there’s also a caveat In my opinion the established IG accounts should have a follower base in the niche you’re posting I have 2 accounts, one with 4500 followers and the other with 2500, but not in the same niche I’m posting, I get 97%~ views from my followers and it stops there consistently. So I concluded that I should start new accounts for this matter.
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Alex Nguyen
Alex Nguyen@alexcooldev·
100% harder. From what I’ve researched, Instagram slideshows only work when your account already has a large follower base. If it’s a new account, 99% of the time you’ll get little to no engagement. Instagram is a long-term game you need to slowly build followers first, then you can go viral.
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Idan Refaeli
Idan Refaeli@Idanref·
@alexcooldev True, but I see a lot that if you had one format that worked well organically, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will also work well as an ad
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andrei saioc
andrei saioc@asaio87·
Alright, I tried Claude with opus 4.7 Here are my first impressions: - i did some coding and to be honest I dont see anything changed, it does exactly the same as it did with 4.6 - i wrote some seo articles, same as before, there is nothing groundbreaking - i tried to oneshot something, it did a good job, but its similar to what i got with 4.6 Its more hype than reality with these updates they are incremental I got to admit that Claude is the one app that gets you very fast off the ground. full disclosure, I havent been able to test Codex properly, because I have everything saved in Claude
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𝓃𝑜𝒾𝓈
𝓃𝑜𝒾𝓈@techwithoutnois·
@Amank1412 Teams are quietly ending up with both: Claude for thinking loops Codex for throughput
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Aman
Aman@Amank1412·
Why is everyone making a shift from Claude to Codex?
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Ernesto Lopez
Ernesto Lopez@ErnestoSOFTWARE·
How to scale your app to $25k/mo: 1. Double your prices until it stops working 2. 50 step onboarding 3. Hard paywall w free trial 4. 5M organic views/mo with high quality CTA That’s it
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