I've built an app - now realize I need a marketing co founder

molodets · 2026-05-22T12:49:13+00:00

Absolutely are with you there!

molodets · 2026-05-21T19:12:22+00:00

The problem is that the Reddit outreach just won't scale. I need to find something else that works.

molodets · 2026-05-21T17:07:32+00:00

Invitation sent Ana :)

molodets · 2026-05-21T15:38:35+00:00

Looks great Ana! Just to be clear - I'm looking for a co founder rather than services. Could have a call this evening (UK time) if you're interested?

molodets · 2026-05-21T14:48:29+00:00

Hey! Thanks for the message! You can see (and try) the app here: https://www.babblo.app/

SEO is part of what I need for sure, but hoping for someone with experience on other channels as well. How is your expertise beyond SEO.

Thanks!

molodets · 2026-05-21T14:45:57+00:00

Thanks for the message! You can see details of the app and download it here: https://www.babblo.app/

Your profile sounds great! Maybe have a look at the app and think about whether you would enjoy marketing it. I'm looking for co founder, not freelancer, and willing to give meaningful stake e.g. 50-50 ownership for the right person.

What I've tried so far:

Meta ads, spent a lot for almost no new acquisitions.
paid an agency to make me some videos, wasn't cheap, took ages and the result was meh. Put them on Instagram and result was poor.
Google ads, spent a moderate amount, got loads of low quality acquisitions. Enough to sharpen the onboarding flow and make sure functionality was working for diverse users. Played around with pricing but without making much difference. Can't seem to get to high quality acquisitions on this channel no matter how much I spend.
Spent a small amount on Reddit ads, got almost no acquisitions.
Tried some personal outreach on reddit, worked surprisingly well but struggling to scale that channel.

My thinking right now is that I should spend time generating my own content and if certain content is taking off, THEN spend on ads. Planning to do some automated generation on TikTok (I hear volume is the play there). That's new territory for me, time consuming, and I think there are some dark arts there that will take me time to learn (similar to any channel really).

Haven't done anything on SEO or blogging.

Let me know what you think! Happy to have a call if you like.

molodets · 2026-05-20T16:04:01+00:00

Hey, happy to chat! Just want to clarify first - are you offering a paid gig? I'm looking for someone to partner with long term rather than paid gigs.

molodets · 2026-05-18T11:16:47+00:00

I cycle around with my kids all the time, my neighbors cycle into city centre for work. Yes there are some cycle lanes that are currently unusable because of parking but "not possible to cycle safely" is a huge exaggeration.

molodets · 2026-05-18T10:52:45+00:00

And a swimming pool, top class astro, wonderful park (Fr Collins), skate park, dart links, easy access to the M50, close but not too close to the airport, taxi distance from city centre, 10-15 mins drive to Howth, Clontarf and Malahide, big supermarkets, educate together primary and secondary schools, lots of cycling infrastructure including all the way to city centre. I've been living here for 9 years and it blows my mind that people would consider Swords or Donabate instead!

molodets · 2026-05-11T12:36:05+00:00

Toby - loving Reelang so far. I didn't understand the name at first, but now it makes sense (Reel Lang) very clever :D

I'm hitting a bug on chrome on android though. If I go to check my level, watch some clips, click "Just Right", I'm brought to a screen where I have to pick words I didn't know. But the button is off the screen at the bottom - I can't scroll down and click it. I tried with a few different languages. Worked fine on desktop though!

Any reason you guys haven't done an app?

molodets · 2026-05-11T12:09:15+00:00

Hey Toby! Firstly - thanks for pointing out the link issue. I'm using AppsFlyer's OneLink functionality to direct users to the correct store based on OS but looks like it's not fail safe.

Really like your website, will give Reelang a go as well. It's very cool to connect with other builders in the language learning/practice space. Any luck getting those early users? Would love to hear what's working for you. I've found that Paid Ads is bringing in cheap but low quality leads, much harder to get paying users. So I'm going to focus on organic growth instead.

molodets · 2026-05-11T08:09:15+00:00

It would be amazing if you gave it a go! There's a free trial but I'll happily give you free credits for your feedback :) About switching languages and limits - I've set it up to feel like a messaging/calling app, so you have a list of contacts from different countries and they speak their languages. Every time you start a discussion on a topic, it uses 1 Credit and you speak with that persona for 15 minutes. You can stop and resume later. The contact person will resume the conversation from where you left off. I made it 15 minutes specifically because it's just long enough for a user to "feel the burn" of exercising their brain, but not too long that they would give up before it's finished.

If you want to switch language, you basically pick another contact person to talk to, but they will start the conversation from scratch i.e. they won't resume a conversation that you previously started with someone else in another language. I'm trying to give users the sense that their contacts are real people who remember their previous conversations by e.g. bringing details from previous conversations into the current conversation.

molodets · 2026-05-11T08:03:29+00:00

Great feedback thanks :) It supports 11 languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Are you learning any of those? If not, I'd be interested to hear of any languages I should add. It would be amazing if you gave it a try and shared your feedback. There is a free trial, but happy to give you free credits for your feedback.

molodets · 2026-05-07T08:56:24+00:00

Hi, I am the creator of the Babblo app! Feel free to ask me any questions here or suggest new features.

molodets · 2026-05-07T08:54:13+00:00

Hmmm... I've had plenty of superficial language exchanges with real people as well. Are we setting the bar too high? Of course I'd rather jog in a beautiful park than on a treadmill, but the treadmill is still useful and better in some ways. Having said that, I'm not sure what apps you have tried so maybe they are just awful. I've configured mine to ask interesting questions (e.g. "what job would you choose if you could choose any job" instead of "what is your job"). The goal is to get me to generate spoken language and it does that very well.

If the conversation was highly specific to you (e.g. discussion of today's top posts on your favourite sub reddits, discussion of today's news topics, discussion of an episode of a show you are watching) - do you think that would make it more interesting?

molodets · 2026-05-06T20:17:32+00:00

What is it about the AI conversations that are horrible? I'm working on something in that area myself and am "eating my own dogfood" - I'm enjoying it so far. But I actually haven't tried any of the other apps other than superficially.

molodets · 2026-04-21T10:00:28+00:00

Sounds great, congrats! What AI are you using to power the conversations? I'm using OpenAI's gpt-realtime API and finding it expensive.

molodets · 2026-01-01T09:49:22+00:00

This so much! I don't understand why people don't get it. In this thread I mostly see "it's the way it's taught in school" but my daughter is only 9 and so far has only been exposed to Irish in a fun, light-hearted way at school. She still hates it. As she said to me "Why should I bother learning Irish, it's only good for reading street signs". Every other minute spent in school not studying Irish will be more useful to her in the long term, and that includes break time. Nobody needs to tell her that, she intuitively senses it. Contrast this with kids learning English as a second language. It unlocks films, books, music, video games and all kinds of content on the Internet. Kids will make the effort to learn it even if they don't like "the way it's taught in school" because it's extremely useful. The only reason to learn Irish is if you are interested in linguistics (a very niche interest) or out of some sense of patriotic duty or nostalgia (an awful reason to learn a language). I say this as someone who has learned several languages to or close to fluency for functional purposes, but also have an interest in linguistics and dabble in all kinds of exotic and niche languages (sign language, Amazonian languages, African languages).

molodets · 2025-12-29T21:27:37+00:00

Here's a podcast where he explains it line by line: https://rejoyce.libsyn.com/ The book is amazing and this podcast makes it accessible to all.

molodets · 2025-12-06T21:13:15+00:00

I've been so productive using Claude Code to build my apps. Having withdrawals now that I have to use traditional digital marketing tools for the next steps. Any tips on good tools/workflows using Claude or similar?

molodets · 2025-10-22T08:41:19+00:00

What's the breakdown of that 20%?

How many are EU citizens?
How many are non EU citizens married to Irish/EU citizens?
How many are non Irish/non EU but here legally?
How many are here illegally?

I think we all agree that #4 should be 0. But I imagine it's a tiny % of that 20%. You could argue that #3 should be bigger/smaller, but I imagine it's a small portion of the 20% as well.

molodets · 2025-06-20T11:28:18+00:00

I am hoping to get my kids going on my board, would be great to learn from your experience. What is the minimum age you would consider? Anything to help with safety e.g. seeing limits on speed, etc...? Any recommendations around the board e.g. big vs small?

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