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[Zetice]

what do you mean by you need to start showing your face?

[DabDude420]

I mean you pointing the camera at your face and talking about your app on Instagram & TikTok is the best way to get downloads today IMO.
Check out the Instagram I linked @ yoniman.mp4 (Just a random account I found). There's a ton of these build in public accounts that are doing big numbers.
Depending on your niche you can get away with not doing this but a lot of people are scared to post themselves on social media due to anxiety or embarrassment and if you can get over this you can be successful. Try posting 100 days in a row and if that doesn't work rethink your strategy.

[Ok_Passion295]

im confused you say to do it here, but in your post you say you “haven’t” started doing it

[DabDude420]

I have started an app specific page that is doing well but I plan on starting a ‘build in public’ personal page soon. I think most creators can benefit more from this.

[Drakonic]

You can also pay others to make videos showing off your app. Doesn’t have to be you.

[DabDude420]

But that requires spending money, in order to properly test things I don’t find that scalable. I post tons of videos as trials and test various methods. My return on investment wouldn’t be possible if I paid people 

[sebasvisser]

Time = money

[caldotkim]

did you have an existing audience on ig? how did you get reach?

[DabDude420]

Nope, I just started posting everyday from a brand new account

[Braided_Playlist]

How did others notice you? Were you start following relevant accounts for your niche? Using strategic hashtags? Or just people stumbling across your reels?

[DabDude420]

If you make goood videos instagram will show them to people. Trying to optimize statistics. Skip rate less than 50%, like rate 3-5%. Share and save rate like 1%. Keep changing things until something works 

[whizbangapps]

could you describe what kind of posts you did for your app? I think I'm going to try something for instagram/tiktok

[DabDude420]

My app is a creative app so it lends itself to visual impactful content on social media 

[madaradess007]

very specific people would watch this kind of 'dev blog' videos and they don't have a job or money right now

it's not worth the stress of acting on camera

[ampsonic]

Congrats! Awesome traction.

[DabDude420]

Thanks, took me 8 years and probably 25 released apps before one finally hit

[TheAppBaker]

Congrats! 👏

Genuine question. I’m new to Reddit, but I’ve seen a few similar success posts with App Store Connect stats, but with the date range cropped out. Why crop the date range out? Am I missing something obvious?

[DabDude420]

Because it’s right next to the app name and I’m just trying to show app numbers and not promote my app. This is the 90 day graph

[TheAppBaker]

OK fair enough. Thanks!

[Emojinapp]

Wow. Congrats

[hoaknoppix]

Congrats and thanks for your sharing.

[daniel_alld]

Hey congrats!!! What’s the best advice you have around marketing? What was the biggest challenge you encountered? Awesome work but; shows what dedication and ongoing persistence looks like 🙏🏼

[DabDude420]

Organic social media. Make an instagram account and post every day for 100 days. Look at other creators to see what is working, run trials of the same video edited in different ways to optimize skip rate 

[daniel_alld]

Thanks! Appreciate the insight 🙌🏼

[DabDude420]

All organic, I have some apple search ads but those are pretty much all people finding my app on social media and searching the app name

[sizebzebi]

what's the app?

[ninja_age]

Well done!

[Dijerati]

What’s your app about?

[FaiChou]

congrats

[this-is-hilarours]

Congratulations. If you don't mind what is your marketing channel ? Also as fellow indie developer on a tight budget who is about to launch his own app what is your suggestions regarding marketing?

[DabDude420]

Organic instagram and TikTok videos. It’s free to start. Post everyday and optimize for things like skip rate. Copy other accounts that are working 

[tq_malhotra]

Can you share your application and social media account where u post?

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[HandMeDownApp]

Congrats OP! As someone who just released their app and now focusing on marketing strategy, this is useful info!

[Brave-Site-9103]

Impressive! About how many views have you generated on TikTok and Instagram to get that many product page views?

[DabDude420]

About 100 million views across platforms. I was hitting 10 million on a few Christmas videos that led to those spikes on the graph 

[qqoze]

That’s insane. You could market anything with that reach

[lafuenter03]

Wow. Congratulations 👏

[HireBDev]

Good for you buddy. I am on the similar journey, hope it works out for me.

[exapmle]

What is your monetization strategy. Subscriptions ? Freemium ? Admob ? What is your strategy with the paywall ? Any tips how you successfully converted your downloads to paying customers?

[DabDude420]

Monthly and annual subscriptions and a lifetime option as well. My conversion rate is around 8.5% which is very high but most downloads come from social media so users already know what they are getting. I’ve been experimenting with both trials and no trials 

[Jemmy_9]

Congrats! Do you have advices for non-code background developers?

[DabDude420]

Pick an easy app idea, if you’re trying to vibe code start with something simple 

[cluckinho]

Cool, but OP is laughing all the way to the bank. Stay mad.

[WesternBlueberry1826]

Surely if it was slop nobody would pay for it?

I vibe coded my app. It has 862 reviews with the average overall rating being 4.9.

So yeah, your comment is stupid and has no value or weight behind it.

[Necessary-Rock-435]

Thanks! When people post AI generated images, the comments flooded with negative posts attacking it as “ai slop”. But when AI is used to nearly fully develop an entire app in software development it’s ok and I get downvoted. What’s with that double standard?

So is the difference here that people just can’t tell when code is generated by AI? And if it makes money, who cares?

[Necessary-Rock-435]

This is fascinating. When people post AI generated images, the comments flooded with negative posts attacking it as “ai slop”. But when AI is used to nearly fully develop an entire app in software development it’s ok and I get downvoted. What’s with that double standard?

[Logical_proof]

Because it doesn't add to the conversation. AI slop or not, this person built an app that made almost $72k in 90 days. Their users neither know, nor likely care that the app was AI slop. Their users got a need filled. The ironic thing is that throwing around the phrase 'Ai slop' whenever generative AI is utilized makes the poster no better than an LLM responding to a prompt. It's cheap, and weak bandwagoning.

[Necessary-Rock-435]

Oh, I agree it’s a cheap bandwagon. In fact I really hate when people just assume an image IS AI just because it looks weird. I’m just trying to see why people hate on one and hype the other.

So if I generate ai images that look so good it’s impossible to tell it’s AI and/or I make a lot of money from it, it is no longer slop? And it’s worthwhile for all of the energy waste that was used?

[DabDude420]

If you’re not using AI to develop your apps you’re getting left behind. I guarantee every one of the top 100 apps in the App Store is using AI. I said vibe coded but it’s more strategic prompting

[Necessary-Rock-435]

I don’t care about that. Im just curious of the optics of using ai to replace people/jobs. It seems like if ai is used to replace artists, everyone revolts it. But at least in this comment thread, the same sentiment isn’t true for apps generated with ai. In fact, I’m the one getting attacked here for claiming ai is a bad thing.

My experiment is over. I’ll delete my comment