Idan Refaeli

@danielhangan_ Bro the developer of this app is Saif Ali

organic word of month is the best kind of marketing

@alexcooldev How do you define big budget? A few grands a month?

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.

@TTrimoreau The ones with nerves of steel

If anyone can start, who actually finishes?

@doganuraldesign @elonmusk Grok is getting the upper hand QUICKLY!!!

Just built this in 5 min with Grok 4.3 (beta) Not bad, huh?

@codewithsamzain @sarkasticsharma @grok LOL 😹

@sarkasticsharma @grok

Hey @grok wrap this in reality

@athcanft Xcode

one has to go, which is it?

@kumarlastapp @muratworks Or people who fake their numbers I already found two large viral accounts here that fake their numbers constantly

@muratworks 90% of advice regarding app development is terrible on twitter. Its really people with 20 life time downloads advising :)

I always say this. don’t trust every tactic you see on this platform We still don’t know if their app is fully terminated we’ll see how it plays out

@KaspaTeacher @_masterinvestor They try to change that

@_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.

6 million views on youtube is $35,000?? Yikes

@buildwithparas @alexwtlf Yeah but that’s another scenario, he asks why would a user pay for the product instead of building it itself

@alexwtlf buildability was never the moat. distribution and actually wanting the thing are.

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

@RodrigoIbarrasa @musatasci__ @starter_story Isn’t 40k too low for 2,000 MRR? I’d expect at least 70k

@musatasci__ @starter_story Near to $2,000 MRR

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...

@alessandravgs @alexcooldev Instagram is tough

@alexcooldev @Idanref I kind of gave up on instagram, algorithm’s policy there is favoring accounts with more followers and not content per se

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.

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.

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.

@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

That’s true but if you already know how to nail the CTA in organic content, then…

@asaio87 Same here, getting the same results as opus 4.6

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

@techwithoutnois @Amank1412 100%

@Amank1412 Teams are quietly ending up with both: Claude for thinking loops Codex for throughput

Why is everyone making a shift from Claude to Codex?

@Jahjiren @ErnestoSOFTWARE but you can break the 4th one into 1,000 steps. it's not that easy

@ErnestoSOFTWARE literally 4 steps

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

4 is the hardest and the most important one

@TTrimoreau Perfecting the product instead of shopping an MVP

Name a mistake every entrepreneur makes once

@sflorimm So what’s the alternative? API key? The costs are insane

Bro to bro, don't subscribe to annual AI plans.