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i've shipped 5+ ios apps. here's everything i learned about actually making money from them:
1. distribution beats product. every time.
a mediocre app with a distribution channel beats a great app nobody finds. your best feature is worthless if nobody installs it.
2. the app store doesn't pay you.
downloads are free attention. the paywall is where the business is. most devs obsess over the icon and the onboarding. the paywall converts or it doesn't. that's the whole game.
3. sell the outcome, not the features.
nobody cares that your app has ai tracking, smart reminders and cloud sync. they care what changes in their life. i stopped listing features on my paywalls and started selling the result. conversion went up immediately.
4. on tiktok, format beats followers.
a fresh account with the right format gets pushed. a big account with the wrong format dies. the algorithm tests the content, not your follower count. that's why 0-follower accounts print views.
5. research the format before you build.
before i write one line of code, i look at what's already winning in the niche. which formats get millions of views, which hooks repeat, which apps show up again and again. building blind is gambling.
6. one post a day beats ten posts once.
consistency compounds. warmed-up accounts, one solid post daily, and the niche learns you. most people quit in week two, right before it starts working.
7. kill fast.
if the format doesn't move after honest testing, the idea is dead. sunk cost is what actually kills indie devs, not bad ideas.
distribution is a learnable skill. product taste is a learnable skill. most devs only train one of them.
the BEST way to warm up a tiktok account (i run one per app, this never fails):
every account gets 2 sessions a day at random times. each session starts tiktok fresh, straight to for you. watch times are random: mostly fast skips, sometimes a long watch, a short pause before swiping. look human.
DAYS 1-2: just exist. scroll for you 15-20 min per session. no search, no likes, no follows, no posts. you are a normal new user discovering the app.
DAYS 3-4: teach it your niche. warm up on for you for a few minutes, then type a niche term into search letter by letter and open the first result. i rotate ~10 niche terms. watch way longer than on for you: 12s to 1.5min per video. still no likes.
DAYS 5-6: become a fan. same flow, but now like ~8% of videos after long watches. your for you fills up with niche content.
DAY 7: post. 10 min of normal scrolling first, then upload 1 slideshow with caption and hashtags. max 1 post a day. and keep the niche sessions running every day, even on days you dont post.
your account never posts cold. the algorithm already knows your niche before your first video exists.
(check comments for VIRAL content automation)
last hours at 55€. tomorrow it's 119€. one payment, not a subscription.
scrollmine.com
7 tiktok slideshows. 3.19m views. $762 in 4 days.
no followers when i started. no ads. no posting 5x a day.
i built a tool that does the research for me: it finds winning slideshow formats, writes the full post, and sends it to my phone.
(check comments)
price goes 55€ -> 119€ tomorrow. today is the last day.
the BEST way to warm up a tiktok account (i run one per app, this never fails):
every account gets 2 sessions a day at random times. each session starts tiktok fresh, straight to for you. watch times are random: mostly fast skips, sometimes a long watch, a short pause before swiping. look human.
DAYS 1-2: just exist. scroll for you 15-20 min per session. no search, no likes, no follows, no posts. you are a normal new user discovering the app.
DAYS 3-4: teach it your niche. warm up on for you for a few minutes, then type a niche term into search letter by letter and open the first result. i rotate ~10 niche terms. watch way longer than on for you: 12s to 1.5min per video. still no likes.
DAYS 5-6: become a fan. same flow, but now like ~8% of videos after long watches. your for you fills up with niche content.
DAY 7: post. 10 min of normal scrolling first, then upload 1 slideshow with caption and hashtags. max 1 post a day. and keep the niche sessions running every day, even on days you dont post.
your account never posts cold. the algorithm already knows your niche before your first video exists.
(check comments for VIRAL content automation)
7 tiktok slideshows. 3.19m views. $762 in 4 days.
no followers when i started. no ads. no posting 5x a day.
i built a tool that does the research for me: it finds winning slideshow formats, writes the full post, and sends it to my phone.
scrollmine.com
price goes 55€ -> 119€ tomorrow. today is the last day.
stopped listing features on my paywall. started selling the outcome.
"unlimited calculations" -> "never second-guess your dose again"
"ai meal tracking" -> "log your food in 10 seconds"
conversion went up. features don't sell, outcomes do.
I dont do anything, works via computer use. Thats why its automated, and every once in a while i check in
my exact tiktok research system (the one scrollmine automates):
1. search your niche, open the top 20 slideshow accounts
2. measure each: slideshow share, avg views, views per follower, cadence
3. delete anyone with 1 viral hit and a dead feed (luck, not a system)
4. the survivors share 2-3 formats. save the 5 best posts per format
5. rebuild the format around your product. same skeleton, your words, your screenshots
6. post 1/day for 7 days. double down on the format with the best views per follower
i ran this by hand for weeks. then i automated it.
the BEST way to warm up a tiktok account (i run one per app, this never fails):
every account gets 2 sessions a day at random times. each session starts tiktok fresh, straight to for you. watch times are random: mostly fast skips, sometimes a long watch, a short pause before swiping. look human.
DAYS 1-2: just exist. scroll for you 15-20 min per session. no search, no likes, no follows, no posts. you are a normal new user discovering the app.
DAYS 3-4: teach it your niche. warm up on for you for a few minutes, then type a niche term into search letter by letter and open the first result. i rotate ~10 niche terms. watch way longer than on for you: 12s to 1.5min per video. still no likes.
DAYS 5-6: become a fan. same flow, but now like ~8% of videos after long watches. your for you fills up with niche content.
DAY 7: post. 10 min of normal scrolling first, then upload 1 slideshow with caption and hashtags. max 1 post a day. and keep the niche sessions running every day, even on days you dont post.
your account never posts cold. the algorithm already knows your niche before your first video exists.
(check comments for VIRAL content automation)
my bad I was super sleepy and misread your comment.
the ASO experiments use PPO as well for A/B testing rankings by different keywords in my screenshots, but the main part is long experiments by tweaking different things on my Appstore pages and autonomously checking rankings/from which keywords most of my traffic come and comparing those to keywords in my postings