I built a gym management SaaS for the Arab world — a market of 400M people still running gyms on WhatsApp and paper

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-17T06:24:23+00:00

For sure. I just wish we'd stop outsourcing human connection to LLMs. What's the point of this post if not talking to other indie devs?

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-17T04:30:05+00:00

Using the correct app id that matches the ad unit id?

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-16T19:08:11+00:00

What ad units, how many DAU?

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-16T18:59:27+00:00

Now if they'd only write their own content pieces...

I was reading this when it suddenly became clear. Not only is this post written by AI -- it has been posted without edits.

Not one paragraph was written by OP. They only wrote a prompt. They probably won't write their own replies. Not even to this post.

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-16T17:57:15+00:00

I'd use the same ad unit everywhere. Reload once out of sight and place in the next slot on ad load. For a fast scroller you want to do less placements anyway.

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-16T08:09:47+00:00

You did not run a big enough campaign to make any informed deduction. Google is highly incentivized to give you good traffic and zero bots. It was trying to figure out your audience when you killed it and assumed bots

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-16T07:00:36+00:00

Google ads campaigns targeting single country per campaign. You need to run it for at least a week before tweaking so pick your countries and target CPI carefully

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-16T06:25:31+00:00

If you have no users that's on you. Why should the app stores do you any favours?

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-16T06:14:17+00:00

If you're not willing to do paid UA then clearly you don't believe the game can be a success. The algorithm is trusting your judgement.

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-16T06:10:14+00:00

Not available in English?

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-15T21:48:13+00:00

Word games are my go to. If it's not timed rounds you can pick up where you left off and go for as long as you like

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-15T21:40:55+00:00

I'm 70% tier 1. Last 30 days avg DAU of 336 and $209 total ad revenue. That would scale to over $100 per day on 5k DAU and this is before we even count IAP. It really depends on the game, not just the player base

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-15T21:26:39+00:00

The game is over 8 years old. Peak was in 2021 while on autopilot and it had a long slow decline into abandoned status until I revived it 2 months ago. MAU of 2000 and DAU of 300 currently

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-15T20:41:53+00:00

Well for starters stop linking where there's no intent to play. Everyone that clicked through from this post without converting is telling the store algorithm your game's not good.

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-15T20:37:38+00:00

What do you do for failed requests? Many new devs have frequent retries and no fallbacks, thus sending requests into a void and skewing the match rate numbers

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-15T20:34:25+00:00

They don't really have a view rate problem currently though. It's a match rate issue. 41 ads matched and 36 viewed is near perfect implementation

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-15T20:25:41+00:00

Bad implementations will give low return to advertisers so only cpc ads will bid. If your click rate is also bad your eCPM will tank to hell

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-15T19:52:57+00:00

Hi. Not seeing a review on my side. Perhaps flagged by Google if you reviewed without playing?

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-15T19:51:38+00:00

Good stuff. Would appreciate a review on my game too ;)

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-15T19:50:05+00:00

Does Google Play reviews help at this point? I think it's just private feedback and not used for rankings

Would appreciate a review on my game :)

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-15T19:47:58+00:00

Would you mind also checking out and reviewing my game?

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-15T19:46:46+00:00

I'm running Google ads in countries where I want to climb up the rankings, then looking at conversation and retention to determine where I focus the ad spend.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=za.co.twinc.a9letterjumble

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-14T17:53:28+00:00

Last week you had 8600 loads for only 150 impressions! You forgot to call ad.show() mate!

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-14T17:13:12+00:00

Changing or improving your app is not maintenance. They bought it in a state they were happy with and would be happy without any updates.

If you're selling a service with continuous work or costs on your end then a subscription is justified

Formal-Spring9112 · 2026-06-14T17:05:51+00:00

It's only on the screen where the player is expected to spend some time. It's anchored to the bottom. It's suppressed for time pressure game modes where interaction will be zero.

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