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💎 6:30 PM — Growth Gems & Screw-Ups @sylvainww Your best growth win? Useful. Your most expensive mistake? Maybe even more useful. Hosted by Growth Gems + @RevenueCat. Tacos included. 🌮 Waitlist: luma.com/gzu9pr1d
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Very excited for tonight's "Growth Gems & Screw-ups" events as part of @NewYorkAppWeek! Tacos, drinks, growth insights and conversations (in no particular order). See you there! luma.com/gzu9pr1d #NewYorkAppWeek
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
There's a reason Apple's cracking down on exploitative apps. That same reason has you finding a small army of testers to use your app for 14 days before you can ship to the Google Play store And it might not be what you think it is
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
Guys from screensdesigns really cooked with their new AI/MCP I've been playing with it and it's very easy to pull some useful data about the competitors since they gather it all in one spot I needed a little nudge from @Siron93 on how to use it since it wasn't so obvious at first, & I needed to learn but love it so far Maybe that's a direction for the next SaaS. Gather data and expose it as CLI/MCP/API 🤔
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
a private app founders retreat is happening this october in new york after the revenuecat conference no sponsors, just the best talent and great people total space for 14 people. 5 spaces left if you want to join reply to this post (the photos are real)
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
ScreensDesign MCP is live. Your agent can now search data from 2,600+ top iOS apps: onboarding, paywalls, pricing, post-paywall and more. Ask things like: “Give me five app ideas based on recently launched subscription apps that make 50k+” “Compare the paywalls of the top meditation apps” “Show me streak mechanics that aren’t Duolingo clones.” It works with any agent. We also launched "Ask" directly on ScreensDesign, so you can try all of this without connecting anything.
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
We’re hiring at @Flighty, and @rjonesy, @ifrins and I are looking for a few exceptional people to join our tiny team ✈️ I’m personally hiring a Senior Product Designer to work closely with me. If you love travel, obsess over details, and care deeply about craft, I’d love to hear from you. We’re also hiring: • A Senior Full Stack Engineer to work with @ifrins, one of the most talented engineers I know • An Aviation Correspondent to cover major disruptions and help make Flighty the go-to source during IRROPS • A Head of Operations & Finance to help us scale the business side of Flighty without losing what makes the company special If this sounds like your kind of thing: flighty.com/careers
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
2996 customers later, it’s time to release ScreensDesign V2 ! 3 months of work. A more complete library. A truly agentic /create. → Research what works in real iOS apps → generate onboarding, paywalls, and full app flows → hand it to AI coding agents → Make the printer go brrrr First 200 retweets+replies/DMs get free credits dm'ed ;) screensdesign.com
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
I'm helping hire a MarTech senior IC to work at the intersection of marketing (UA), data science & engineering, ideally web+app. The role subtitle and core requirement is to be an AI automation locomotive. AI wizzards & talibans welcome. Full time, full remote, EU only
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
Here’s the headlines about paywalls and offers in subscription apps in 2026 🗞️ 📈 Hard paywalls convert faster: hard paywalls convert 5x better than freemium at download-to-paid (10.7% vs. 2.1%) 📱 Paywall design is standardized: across UI elements, 74.5% of paywalls use highlighted pricing, and hardly any user countdown timers 🛍️ Offers are rare: over 90% of apps never discount, with only 9.3% using promotional offers 💰 Heavy discounts are a scale issue: top-performing apps rarely convert through offers, while 65%+ hobby-tier apps rely on offers to convert What did @vahebagdasar, @parezem, @philgcarter, and @sylvainww have to say about the state of subscription app paywalls? Read more → revenuecat.com/report
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
This might be the biggest two weeks in @SubClubHQ history. 11 minisodes. One every day. Insights from top subscription app operators at @duolingo, @joinladder, @elevenlabs, @Tinder, @loseit, and more. All leading up to @RevenueCat's 2026 State of Subscription Apps report.
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
Why would I pay $17.99/month for your SaaS when I could spend 6 weeks vibe-coding a shittier version that doesn't work?
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
We just launched the fastest way to design high-converting mobile apps. Idea to Figma in <60s. Feed the results to Cursor/Claude with perfect clarity. Powered by UX patterns from 2,200+ top subscription apps. Retweet and comment, I will send you 10 free credits in your DM 👇
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
2026 app monetization guide by @context_sdk ft. @sylvainww @matejlancaric @eric_seufert @HannahParvaz contextsdk.com/monetization-… (light signup gate) hot topics: -hybrid monetization: subs+IAP+ads+X -off store payment: app2web, web2app, web stores -AI personalization
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
💎 Growth Gems #134 - Insights from RAGA '25 growthgems.substack.com/p/gr… by @sylvainww
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
Feels like a good day to announce the world’s biggest mobile hackathon ever
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
MAU Vegas 2025 takeaway: Speed to insight > speed to install. Web2App isn’t a hack anymore. It’s the baseline. Appreciate the shoutout in Growth Gems #126 by @sylvainww → growthgems.substack.com/p/gr… #web2app #mauvegas #growthgems #ua #funnels #funnelfox
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
Excited to launch WillBot, the first AI performance marketing agent that can actually WATCH your ads. Most AI marketing tools suck. They lock you into generic workflows, lack context, and rely on "industry" data. Built on Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 3.7, WillBot changes everything: 1. Syncs instantly with your ad platforms (Meta, TikTok, Google, etc.) 2. Watches your ads, analyzes performance, and generates actionable insights 3. Operates through natural language—just ask it anything, right from Slack It’s like having a media buyer, creative strategist, and data analyst available 24/7 in your pocket. With a single prompt, WillBot can: 🔎Analyze 1,000s of hooks, bodies, creators 📈 Generate detailed charts & performance reports 📝Craft unlimited high-converting scripts in any language 👀 Monitor ad accounts and notify you instantly about performance shifts We’ve already analyzed >$100M+ in ad spend with WillBot. To celebrate the launch, we’re sharing a FREE creative report including: - 50 proven hooks across industries - Optimal Meta & TikTok account structures - Access to our database of 1,000+ vetted creators Reply "WillBot" below and I'll send you the report!
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Sylvain Gauchet ⛏️💎 retweeted
The "viral tiktok" trend is refreshing to give indie distribution. ASO, SEO, AIO & referrals don't What those repurposing this tactic don't tell you: -effort is higher than it looks -gazillion views leads to limited revenue -it looks like shit -not scalable -not sustainable
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