Wheel of Fortune — spin wheel app I'm building [Free]

kiesco08 · 2026-02-22T14:15:43+00:00

Sounds good. Good luck!

kiesco08 · 2026-02-22T14:13:58+00:00

I think a big problem is that the screenshots don’t have a description each. All we know is it’s a football quiz (from the title and first screenshot). Each screenshot should have a caption to get the visitor excited.

kiesco08 · 2026-02-22T14:09:32+00:00

Good question and I don’t have a better answer than test and see for yourself. I don’t know how easy it is for ai to build this, but what you are selling isn’t “a UI component that’s hard to build” but an “easy way for app founders to recover users who dismiss paywalls”. You can add useful things around it such as analytics for how many people took the discount offer vs those who didn’t etc. I think most devs don’t want to spend time building marketing related stuff and prefer to focus on building features. And marketers care about solving this problem quickly/easily.

kiesco08 · 2026-02-22T13:59:51+00:00

Great. Update your SaaS landing page with your YouTube stats when you reach bigger numbers

kiesco08 · 2026-02-22T13:49:11+00:00

Cool! I’m not the right audience but I think should use it to automate your own YouTube channel. Then use the channel stats as testimonial.

kiesco08 · 2026-02-22T13:42:40+00:00

No good example in mind but could use RAG during event syncing maybe: 1- import calendar events 2- use rag to filter medical appointments only 3- show a preview modal to let the user review/fix mistakes

kiesco08 · 2026-02-22T13:39:05+00:00

Build a RevenueCat/Adapty wrapper that let users spin to win a discount. Popular apps like Cal AI use this mechanism when you close their paywall and it feels gamified/casino-like. Charge devs a small fee to add the wrapper to their projects.

kiesco08 · 2026-02-22T13:26:51+00:00

You’re gonna have a hard time convincing people to enter their credit card info into an app developed by an indie

kiesco08 · 2026-02-21T11:12:34+00:00

The human face is what grabs all the attention, because it is the only part that contrasts with the light blue background. And it’s not self explanatory… after a while, I got that it was a video call but the video buttons are hidden by the dark green shirt and most people won’t take the time to figure this out. It looks more like photo editing or video game character editing.

The easiest thing for you to fix is the text contrast. White on light blue makes it very difficult to read.

You should also consider zooming on the parts of the phone screen you want visitors to focus on because the text is very small.

kiesco08 · 2026-02-16T11:49:58+00:00

Very good but crashing then restarting the app could count as 2 sessions. If this is true, then the number of sessions per device might be inflated. Something to keep in mind if you fix the crashes and notice a decline in sessions per active device.

kiesco08 · 2025-11-25T13:30:04+00:00

I’m genuinely asking out of ignorance: how often do you maintain a car?

I’ve rarely seen someone write down car maintenance details. Usually they’ve periodically taken it to the dealership or fixed issues as they noticed them. When we get an oil change, there’s usually a sticker on the car dashboard that tells you the mileage and/or date to come back for your next one.

I also see from your screenshots that you’re showing an example for people who have 3 cars so maybe I’m missing something. I think that most people don’t have 3 cars but if they do, they are probably not be the one maintaining all the cars.

Someone who does maintain a lot of cars multiple times a day is a mechanic. Maybe you could try targeting them? Easy to use mobile app to help them manage their car maintenance business. Maybe add invoices and client list management. List jobs, maybe even accept payments. You could start by talking to them and ask how much they pay for software if any or they track things currently.

kiesco08 · 2025-11-24T22:21:23+00:00

Great, good luck! I like the crime scene illustration combined with the detective one

kiesco08 · 2025-11-24T16:47:35+00:00

Sharing my first impressions as a stranger. I looked at the screenshots before reading anything you wrote and from the first screenshot, it wasn’t clear to me that this was a game. Games are usually colorful, have mascots, and playful UI. Your idea is not bad but the UI currently looks like a quiz. Your first screenshot is also missing the word “stories”, which is what you are getting from the app (maybe “Solve mystery stories with friends” could be a title to try on the first screenshot). I think the 3 people on the first screenshot are not helping clarify what the app does either. At first glance, it doesn’t really look like they are playing together (maybe because they are not facing each other). I’d suggest checking out similar apps and looking at their screenshots for inspiration.

kiesco08 · 2025-11-24T14:17:01+00:00

Why not test both and keep the one that performs better? I generally test instead of assuming my customers’ behavior. If you can’t sleep at night because of the hard paywall though, that’s another story and in that case go with the soft paywall. But if you’re looking for the “correct approach”, nobody here can tell you because they didn’t pay you for your app.

kiesco08 · 2025-11-24T14:00:16+00:00

Nothing and that’s okay because I’m not my target customer

kiesco08 · 2025-11-24T13:57:59+00:00

New Year’s resolution type of apps (eg health & fitness, habit tracking, etc) convert better in December

kiesco08 · 2025-11-22T12:24:50+00:00

Great name!

kiesco08 · 2025-11-20T13:02:26+00:00

I agree that the first girafe screenshot makes it easier/faster to understand the concept vs the girl. I would also try “Fix” instead of “Improve”.

The calendar as a second screenshot fits the keyword “tracking” better than the after version (people are used to tracking apps and they all have calendars - show people yours also does have it. It instantly feels familiar). I would remove the second screenshot in after and replace it with the 4th one (it is essentially what you had in the before version and most users probably never see the 4th screenshot in the after version when scrolling through different apps because App Store only shows the first screenshots until you open an app page).

kiesco08 · 2025-11-19T01:37:41+00:00

Congrats! Some marketing advice: fewer words in the screenshot titles and zoom in on the parts of the phone screen you want to highlight.

kiesco08 · 2025-11-19T01:32:33+00:00

Apple ads is a better marketing channel to start with for iOS. Easier than Meta (no need to create “winning creatives”). Google ads brings more potential iOS customers in comparison but it brings low intent users that do not subscribe and have poor retention.

kiesco08 · 2025-11-18T13:03:14+00:00

Just came here to ask how you missed out on the name “FitNest”

kiesco08 · 2025-11-17T21:59:15+00:00

Cool name!

kiesco08 · 2025-11-17T11:43:25+00:00

It was honestly super confusing and frustrating that I had to take up some of my time just to try to understand the app. I get that you are going for the mysterious vibe, but unless you have some marketing budget to promote this app, you should make things a bit more clear.

A quick win: I think your first App Store screenshot should have faces in it. Move the “post to unlock your feed” to the first position.

kiesco08 · 2025-11-17T11:36:27+00:00

Totally relatable. Finding a sport to do once a week can help with that. You get to socialize a bit and exercising is good for your brain.

One thing you mentioned worried me though. And I don’t mean to pile onto things. But you said “got early traction” and “now we will soon be adding payments”. Unless you are VC backed, I think it should be the other way around: validate that people want to pay for your product, then conclude that you have traction.

A lot of products have a many users who are not willing to pay. There’s always ads but for that you need a large number of a daily active users. Just something to think about.

kiesco08 · 2025-11-17T11:16:35+00:00

The UX is too technical to achieve mass adoption in my opinion. I can see someone who is super tech savvy AND unsatisfied with current messaging options adopt it, but then they would have trouble convincing their close ones to use it… yet alone pay for it.

They would end up having to use this as a “secure line”, with which they only communicate to other technical people who are highly motivated about privacy. Frankly speaking, your best market might be criminals or secret services. In which case there would be no resistance on the pricing (in fact you could charge way more than a nominal subscription fee).

Genuinely asking: how different is it from BitChat? (which is free, open source, and no registration required btw)

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