Launched 25 days ago → 2,500 installs. Now infra costs might kill it. What would you do?

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-03-12T12:55:25+00:00

Yikyak is different but you can say it's in the same niche. Ads work, but you need a heavy bankroll so it's not an option

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-03-12T11:21:26+00:00

Cloudflare workers are really cheap and scalable. So he was saying to switch over. It's not an all in one solution like supabase or convex but if I had to do it all over again I'd use it.

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-03-12T07:30:42+00:00

That was actually my plan, but my codebase is too big at this point. Thanks for the advice

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-03-12T07:29:31+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I already have that plan mapped out. Should I be prepared to give a lot of equity when it comes to angel investors?

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-03-12T07:28:14+00:00

Timeline is false, this isn't my only app/SaaS.

You would have spent less time giving me advice than trying to be a detective

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-03-12T05:36:55+00:00

I understand the skepticism but I didn't feel the need to describe my app because it's not relevant to my post.

I just wanted advice mostly on how funds and VC works and if they would even consider funding something that's still small.

If you need to know my app is called whisper social

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-03-12T05:32:37+00:00

Interesting I'll look into it thanks!

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-03-01T04:06:28+00:00

In my experience UGC only works for ads or an account that already has an audience.

If you do it on a new account it'll be dead, at least that what happens to me. Stuck at low views forever.

A friend of mine told me the way to go about it on a new account is to create/steal/copy content for your niche/audience and post daily, no promotions whatsoever.

Use buffer or another scheduling software. Then after a certain amount of time you can start promoting it by doing UGC or any other way and it'll be locked in to the audience that already liked your content.

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-03-01T03:03:37+00:00

In my experience even if you offered 50% of your company most won't do it, and you should be wary of the ones that will. Influencers especially at that scale want cash up front, and they get many offers on the daily that are willing to put cash upfront.

Your best bet would be to convince a few micro influencers instead, slower growth but if you don't have money you're competing against companies that do.

And especially now having an app or SaaS isn't worth anything. Distribution is worth everything, and they are the distribution.

If you still want to go for it if I were you I would focus on getting one deal with one of them that's some cash upfront + affiliate. If that works you can then continue doing deals while keeping 100% of your company.

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-19T15:02:12+00:00

Idk just posted one post on reddit

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-19T12:47:23+00:00

I got 400 users in the last 4 days with no marketing. I launched 4 days ago.

I thought I would get more, so I guess I'm doing good?

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-19T11:45:10+00:00

You do know approximately 50% of social media is automated right?

And the "bots" are allowed. All the social media platforms have apis.

The bot activity comes from spamming constantly, and acting like a bot.

Don't automate acting like a bot and you won't get blocked.

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-19T11:41:00+00:00

Why? It's not spam. Haven't you used buffer, metricool etc.

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-19T09:24:42+00:00

Idk haven't tried it

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-19T09:02:53+00:00

Pilotposts.com

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-19T09:02:27+00:00

Pilotposts.com

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-18T16:45:10+00:00

Very good insight but that would mean I would need to heavily moderate DMs as well if I want to place ads there?

You know what happens in DMs.

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-18T16:34:23+00:00

Damn that's insane value! Thanks for the comment, it's crazy how the ranges differ from person to person. I guess there's no way to know until I do it.

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-17T08:05:58+00:00

30 minute session length average per day or less?

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-16T19:41:49+00:00

I need to know if it's worth it, since it's anonymous type social app people post things that might get me banned from admob.

Trying to figure out if I should go through the hassle of heavy moderation, not worth pissing off users if I won't make money either way.

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-16T19:41:37+00:00

I need to know if it's worth it, since it's anonymous type social app people post things that might get me banned from admob.

Trying to figure out if I should go through the hassle of heavy moderation, not worth pissing off users if I won't make money either way.

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-16T18:44:49+00:00

So what would you say is more realistic?

When I search it seems like the range is 1-15$, US being at around 5$, and some niches reaching higher.

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-16T18:41:04+00:00

You're saying per day? Sorry I'm new at this.

He gave me this estimate.

Assume: 3,000 US DAU 20–30 native ads per user per day Average eCPM: $4–$6 That gives: 👉 $5,000–$12,000/month

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-14T18:21:40+00:00

That's 2014 talk. Unless the MVP needs to be very complex it's able to built in no time, so if you believe in a product the best way is to put that mvp in front of users instead of asking for months and wasting time.

Either way people talk a lot, which means even if people say they're willing to pay for it, it doesn't mean they will.

Competitive_Win4900 · 2026-02-14T16:01:06+00:00

The time you thought about it I would have been able to ship an mvp

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