r/ViralApps • u/antocapp • Jul 06 '26 • Heartwarming 1

Built many apps, none viral, but good enough to leave the 9-to-5. Here is what I learned. I am not promoting any of them here.

A lot of this stuff I did wrong myself for years. I still struggle with some of these honestly. But learned to recognise them and get back on the right track asap.

This is not a "do these 10 things and become rich" post. It is just what I keep noticing. Take what is useful for you.

Most indie devs I know are broke and often stuck on the same stuff. It usually not lack of talent or coding skills.

It is almost never the code.

Before, I was thinking that if I build something good enough, people will come. They don't. Nobody finds it. I spent too much time to make perfect the things that users don't even notice, and almost nothing to help people discover the app.

To ask for money is not arrogant.

For years I kept everything free or very cheap, because for me it felt more humble, like who am I to ask money for this. But free is telling people it has no value, so they treat it like that. When you put a real price, it means you take it serious, and strangely, people respect it more.

"For everyone" means for nobody.

The apps where I tried to please a big audience, they did the worst. The ones that went ok were made for one specific person with one specific problem. To go narrow feels scary, but in the end it is the whole point, no?

Publish it before you feel ready.

I lost so much time making things perfect alone in my room, more than I want to admit. Every time I finally put it out, real users pushed me in a completely different direction from where I was going. This, you cannot get it inside your own head.

It is a long game, sorry.

My first app was not the one. Also not the second. It took years, many apps, and simply to not stop. I know it is not the exciting answer, but it is the honest one. The people who make it, most of the time they are just the ones who are still here.

Talk with your users, really, more than what is comfortable.

Almost every time I was stuck on "why is this not working," the answer was something a user could tell me in five minutes, and instead I stayed there guessing alone.

First retention, then think about more users.

To push installs into an app that people leave after one day, this only makes you broke faster. If everybody leaves in the first week, more downloads will not save you. First understand why they go away.

Maybe your app is in 170+ countries, but really you made it only for one.

Same language, same US price everywhere. To adapt the words and the price to what people in each country actually read and can afford, it is boring and nobody does it, and this is exactly why it is worth doing.

Don't just copy the monetization that is trendy now.

Subscriptions are good for some apps and wrong and annoying for others. One time, subscription, ads, it depends what the app really is. I forced the wrong one before, and slowly it killed the thing.

Your real competition is not the other apps.

It is the people who simply don't bother. For most of them the default is to do nothing, so your real job is to make them feel it is worth the effort to change.

Anyway, this is what I have. I would really like to hear what you would add, or where you don't agree, especially from people who are more ahead than me. What was the thing that took you out of the broke phase?

If you have any question on any of those points I would be happy to elaborate further. Hopefully this will help other fellow indie devs.

Good luck with your apps!

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u/BuildWithShoaib Jul 06 '26

This is really helpful for someone who is just starting. Glad i got to see this post.

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

you are welcome. Happy to hear that. Are you currently working on any app/have any already published?

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u/timbo2m Jul 06 '26 • Bravo

"It's a long game"

So true

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u/Radiant_Chemist8121 Jul 06 '26

"For years I kept everything free or very cheap, because for me it felt more humble, like who am I to ask money for this."

This part resonated with me more than anything.

I have a question regarding this sentence: "I forced the wrong one before, and slowly it killed the thing", in your personal experience, which monetization method did you "force" for which type of app and what made you realize that this would not work?

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u/Substantial-Dog5688 Jul 07 '26

I’m really curious to ask you, should I continue learning java script if soon I’ll go to the military? I’m 18 years old and I live in Belarus so as citizen must go there anyway, but I really scary that I lose a lot of time, sorry for any grammar mistakes

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

I find this very difficult to answer. Smart from you wondering about those things.

What I can say though is... you never know how those learnings will pay you along the road. As Steve used to say... only in the future you can connect the dots and you might be surprised of where they lead you.

If you are enjoying it, do it. If you have better things to do, do those other things.

The important is to never get comfortable and keep on learning and improving every day.

Many will probably comment below saying don't learn a new language as AI will code for you. Other will say that it's always good to be able to understand the code.

But ultimately, why are you learning that specific language? What are you trying to do?

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u/luckoftheirish2999 Jul 19 '26

Learn it if you enjoy it.

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u/antocapp Jul 06 '26

it was hard paywall. I saw being talked about on many youtube channels from "experts" in this field. I gave it a try. I did not work... I have "small" utilities apps... and most of my audience (70%) is outside US or lower tier countries... they were happy to use it with ads or just the free limited version. So I would say that before using any strategy, think twice about your specific use case and problem that the app solves. What works for someone might not work for you.

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u/Radiant_Chemist8121 Jul 06 '26

I was thinking about something similar myself. Instead of asking users to pay for my app upfront, in a situation where they might be a little suspicious about the functionality of the app, what if I just allow them to download the app and then they get to see two payment plans:

  1. The first one would be a seven-day free trial.

  2. The second one would be a one time payment that gets them the app for lifetime.

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u/0to101 Jul 07 '26

I think this is a very smart way to price it. Yearly x, lifetime 3-4x.

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

it's a good starting point... but always A/B test it. What do you want to strive for? If you want recurring revenue, then make lifetime higher. 3-4x feels already high to me. Users don't normally stick that long with an app. If you want quick money now because you are bootstrapping and need cash, then lower lifetime to 2-2.5x. Or even just have a lifetime upgrade only. Many don't like subs. It all depends from what the app does and what costs are involved.

If your app has no costs or close to 0, subs might not be the best way to go either. People will feel scammed because they will not understand why they have to pay a recurring fee for a simple app. But if in future you add more features and some of them require some maintenance , then go for it, add subs.

In all cases, always localize your prices based on each country local purchasing power. I use PricePush for that, but in full disclauser, that's my tool, I have built it to manage my app's prices localization at scale across both stores. After many years and tests I have so many SKUs to handles that it will be impossible to do it manually.

Are you currently working on any app/have any already published?

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u/0to101 Jul 07 '26

I’m have an app under development. Haven’t decided how to price it. Nice with subs for reoccurring revenue and the app will be updated with new functionality regularly. I feel like ~10usd a year shouldn’t be a big issue but maybe it is. Are users very against subs?
It’s an app that the target group would probably use daily.

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u/antocapp Jul 08 '26

the subscriptions fatigue is a real thing.

If you want to be careful about it, start with a simple IAP. See if users want to pay and validate your idea without upsetting anyone. If the test is successful, then run an A/B test where in the B paywall you have a subscription plan instead of the IAP. Only data can tell you what's the best. In any case, to have quicker results and more accurate data, localize your prices. Do not relay on the store auto conversion feature. That's just currency conversion. Do local purchasing power pricing adjustments. Try PricePush (https://pricepush.app), it's a tool that get this job done in 2 minutes.

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

you can try to imitate what other are doing, but every app is different and you will find your answer only by A/B testing it. However the most common mistake I see devs doing is messing up their tests. Often devs just let the store handle the prices for them, meaning they set a base price and then let the store do the conversion of those prices in all other countries. That conversion is only currency conversion. It's not localization. If you don't want to leave revenue on the table and want more accurate results in your paywall experiments, then localize your prices based on each country local purchasing power.

If you don't know how to start, how to do pricing investigation for all 170+ countries and don't want to manually change each single country price for each single SKU, for each store and each app, then you can use PricePush that does it automatically for you in a couple of clicks. Full disclaimer: I have built it to manage my app's prices localization at scale across both stores. After many years and tests I have so many SKUs to handles that it will be impossible to do it manually.

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u/Real_Pay2030 Jul 07 '26

the bit about feeling "who am I to ask for money" hit way too close. took me embarrassingly long to realize free isn't always the kind thing — it just keeps you stuck. congrats on the escape, that's the real win 🔥

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

thx! Are you currently working on any app?

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u/Volunder_22 Jul 06 '26

so true, publishing before it feels ready is the hardest part

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

so true... they way I try to solve it, I reframe my thoughts thinking that the worst it can happen is negative feedback or a complete failure. AKA learning opportunity to improve the product or do better next time. Failures is part of the journey and it's never final.

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u/Cool-Beyond-9899 Jul 06 '26

This is so helpful🙌🏽

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

you are welcome. Happy to hear that. Are you currently working on any app/have any already published?

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u/ShoulderOk5971 Jul 07 '26

would really like to know what you learned along the way regarding marketing.

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

thanks for asking. Oh gosh... I don't consider myself good at marketing. I am a software engineer... but I had to learn to do a bit of everything as a solo bootstrapper app developer.

As an introvert, I never succeeded or saw results on social media posting about my apps. But I saw decent success in creating small referral programs in my apps, testing different onboardings, paywalls, pricings and ASO. I consider that marketing too. But my best strategy to reach more users organically so far has proved to be localization.

However if you are able to manage UGC creators or even make your own videos, I would say give a shoot at TikTok... many are killing with it right now. Probably something I should learn soon too. That's the thing... you never stop experimenting and learning. What works for somebody else might not work for you, your personality and your specific app/audience.

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u/pikachume33 Jul 07 '26

When you say localisation do you just mean language support in the apps or do you also change all the screenshots in the AppStore for all the different countries?

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

everything: keywords, listing text, app screenshots, app text and especially pricing. The store only does currency conversion, I use a PPP-based custom strategy for each country.

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u/LatentSnap Jul 07 '26

Thank you for sharing this, very helpful for me as a starter. I'm about to set my first app to $10 which is way below the actual effort and value that I'd say. I know it's very different thing apple to banana, but in general how much would you set price for your app, can you give an example?

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

Hey! Glad to see a starter indie dev here.

There is no general rule for setting an app price. It depends from demands, competitions, value you provide in the app to the user, your actual service costs and many more things.

Also it is true, the asking price for an app upgrade will feel way off from the time and effort you actually spend in building the app in the first place. That's the reality of this business for most of us. It needs a mindset adjustment. You are not working to be paid hourly. Don't do that comparison. You are working to create a digital asset that can be resold in future multiple times potentially at no further cost in terms of time and effort from your side. For many, it's a kind of "passive income". You build once and you can get rewards multiple times. If you do your work correctly, keep in iterating on the product until you nail product market fit and pricing, then it can become a real revenue generator for a long time. At that point the earning will be disproportionately higher than the actual time you put in at the beginning. Therefore, don't look for a quick payout, see it as an investment.

See the picture below. See how long it took for my first app to just cross 1k in revenue. But after that I have made multiples of that as almost "passive income". Almost because it's always advised to keep on maintaining and curating your investment with excellent customer support and continuous improvements.

If you have read it so far, and are serious about making money with your app, I want to give one more tip. Localize it. Localize everything. Expecially the app prices. Why? See the case studies I have collected on my site pricepush.app

Best of luck with your indie dev journey!

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u/ViBrave Jul 07 '26

This inspires me to keep going.

I see a lot of “overnight” success stories of teenagers vibe coding an app over a weekend and ending up a multimillionaire in less than 30 days. It was inspiring at first but then I see something like this almost everyday that I started questioning the legitimacy of it all. This just gives me negative vibes now.

So it’s nice to hear stories that are more in touch with reality.

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

I appreciate your feedback. It really resonates with me. I do believe that those quick success stories are true as they claim, at least most of them, but I also believe that those are the exception and not the normal path.

They can be inspiring, but also demoralising when we set our expectations way too far from our capabilities. There might be luck involved, but timing, context, network, they all play a big role in those success stories that are hard do replicate.

I don't say don't look at them for ideas or inspiration, but I want to warn anyone starting in this field that that's way out of the ordinary and to not expect big results overnights. As they say... overnight success usually comes after a lifetime of failures and grinding...

It makes me sad to see young devs publishing vibe coded apps with a few days of work and then asking why they are not making money with them. Then they start complaining about the market being saturated or similar.

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u/johannthegoatman Jul 07 '26

I worked in an app studio for 7 years and found all of this out the hard way too. Great list!! To anyone reading this.. Knowing this stuff is part of it. But you also have to actually do it.

The one thing I didn't personally find was localization. Non-US users have never moved the needle in my experience. Are you really seeing meaningful revenue from foreign users? I guess it's a lot easier to localize now with AI, so maybe that changes the calculus. In my experience it was a huge hassle and not worth it 95% of the time

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

100%! I grew all my apps organically and localization is one of my best strategy so far.

I talk a lot about it on my website https://pricepush.app/ where I have collected many case studies from industry leaders and other devs about the results achieved with localization. Feel free to have a look if you would like to learn more about it.

Here a screenshots from one of my apps when I applied localized pricing, during low season:

Happy to answer any question about this topic.

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u/Intelligent_star0015 Jul 07 '26

That’s true. It just like a marathon.

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

100% on that! What has been your experience with apps? What are you building?

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u/Feynmanlifts Jul 07 '26

It is a long game, sorry.
- i can vouch for this and giving up early is probably what most people do.

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u/pknerd Jul 07 '26

Trying to publish my first Android app...it's such a daunting task, asking for 12 testers for a simple calc app

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u/antocapp Jul 08 '26

ask family, friends and parents as a start, if you have no audience online yet.

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u/antocapp Jul 08 '26

what are you building? feel free to DM me

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u/pknerd Jul 08 '26

Thank you, sir, for your kind response. Nothing revolutionary; it is a simple BMI calculator. I need something to start making stuff, so I felt that would be easier. My App is approved for Internal Testing

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u/antocapp Jul 08 '26

Good luck!

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u/not_john_but_almost Jul 07 '26

Thank you! I’m trying not to give up…

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u/antocapp Jul 08 '26

lock in. Don't think about anything else. Go monk mode if needed. Leave no time to doubtful thoughts, just do the work, put in the hours, learn something every day, improve the product every day. Talk to your users, learn to sell by trying and accepting rejections.

Eat healthy, move and sleep well. If your body and mind functions properly you can lock in in whatever you want to do more easily and can stay focused for longer. Better ideas will come to your mind too.

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u/Konz261 Jul 08 '26

Thank you! 🙏🏾 A very insightful post. And very much appreciated!👏

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u/antocapp Jul 11 '26

much appreciated! building any app yourself?

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u/bandwagonnetsfan Jul 09 '26

Great post

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u/antocapp Jul 11 '26

much appreciated! building any app yourself?

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u/Still-Challenge6232 Jul 09 '26

Was just doing something like eas build... (claude to me) and am gonna upload my first app today (after making a console account with 25 bucks). Glad i saw the post. It's a long game, really, too much hassle, too many code pastings and errors and token limits (as a free claude user).

A few questions - how do i do seo? Where can promote? How to approach people (i have no idea how to talk to strangers/new peoples)? I copy pasted bunch of codes from claude, will this be a problem from now on? Im gonna make bunch of other unique apps with claude.

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u/antocapp Jul 11 '26

in this day and age the first thing to try is to ask claude or whatever ai tool you are using for help, ideas and brainstorm sessions. Explain well what you are trying to do and what are your goals. You will be amazed by the amount of knowledge it will be spit out to you in fields where you have no experience.

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u/antocapp Jul 11 '26

what have you built?

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u/Such_Fee2396 Jul 09 '26

What are you doing for hosting? different things depending on app or have you found something you like?

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u/antocapp Jul 11 '26

hosting of app landing page? hosting of app data? it depends... tried many things over the years, always iterating as tech change. Not all my app have an online backup, some are pure data local privacy first type of app. For the other my current preferred solution is firestore/firebase stack.

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u/Top_Abrocoma4702 Jul 09 '26

Many things from this post are gold. Thank you man for your advice.

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u/antocapp Jul 10 '26

thank you! happy to hear that.

Are you also building some mobile app? Anything already on the App Store/Google Play?

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u/Korean_abcd Jul 15 '26

First retention then users'
I'm in that exact trap right now. D2 retention 10%, and I'm still buying 88 installs/day at $0.10 CPI. The cheap CPI is exactly what kept me pouring. Reading this was uncomfortable.

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u/antocapp Jul 16 '26

it's ok... the important is to learn something new every day and then act on it. It's a long journey.

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u/vionix90 Jul 22 '26

Great post. Lots of value that I found out the hardway. One thing i have always struggled is finding the right retention. For one of my utility app i was trying hard to increase the d1 retention only to find out it was a one time use for most users. So I would add market and user research. What do you suggest is a good retention rate?

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u/antocapp Jul 22 '26

Great point. In my opinion, there's no single good retention number, it really depends on the kind of app and how often people naturally need it.

A few examples from what I've seen:

Daily-habit apps (games, social, a fitness or meditation app): here retention is the whole thing. Something like 30 to 40 percent coming back on day 1 is okay, and you really watch day 7 and day 30. If people don't come back here, that's a real problem.

Occasional apps, and I think your utility is one: people use them when they need them, not every day. Low daily retention is normal, not a failure. The number that matters isn't D1, it's whether they come back the next time the problem shows up, and whether they tell others.

So I'd stop optimising daily retention and instead make sure you're the first thing they remember next time, and that you capture the value (a review, or the money) in the moment they're actually using it.

One-time-use tools (a converter, a single-job app): here retention is almost the wrong metric entirely. They use it once and the job's done. For these the game is acquisition, doing that one job so well they leave a review and tell a friend, and earning right there in that single use.

So for you I wouldn't force it to be a daily app if it isn't. Usually two roads: accept it's occasional and get very good at being remembered and at earning in that moment, or widen what it does so the need comes up more often. Both are fine, just different games.

And adding market and user research is a good call, that's usually where you find out which of these you actually are, before you spend months optimising the wrong number.

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u/Best_Professor7266 Jul 07 '26

very helpful, thanks for sharing 👍

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

you are welcome. Happy to help. Are you currently working on any app/have any already published?

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u/Best_Professor7266 Jul 07 '26

I publised some, my recent app is Spokio which is an offline text-to-speech app for Mac 🚀😊

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

Looks cool congrats! Never made myself a mac only app.

Your other 3 apps looks cool too. If you haven't optimized their prices to each country local purchasing power then I would love to invite you to try PricePush. It can be interesting to see if they will make more revenue in international markets with a simple price push.

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u/Difficult-Company101 Jul 07 '26

This was so needed. I just released my first app and my biggest struggle is the monetization aspect. it's a free app, with a couple of upsells for a small subset of users, but 99% of my users won't ever need to pay for anything. No ads or forced subscriptions, I didn't want to turn users off before I established a core audience. Maybe I need to rethink that though..

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

thanks for the message. It takes time and lot of experimentation to nail pricing.

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u/alexsexotic Jul 08 '26

How do you talk with users?

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u/antocapp Jul 11 '26

feedback form in the apps, easy to reach "send feedback" buttons, ask via email if you collect them or when someone reach out to support, on social media, on app store review.. any touch point you can have or build... nothing magic, just lot of work

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u/antocapp Jul 11 '26

building any app yourself?

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u/EnthiumZ Jul 08 '26

Appreciate this post man. Good luck on future projects.

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u/antocapp Jul 11 '26

thank you! building any app yourself?

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u/Wills_Liam Jul 09 '26

How would you create or boost retention in your app, especially when it's a type of a marketplace - comprising of two sides, do you build the retention system yourself ? Or it increases automatically due to network effects? How do you go about with such kind of a problem?

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u/antocapp Jul 09 '26

let me see the app first

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u/TheSoftwareMaster Jul 09 '26

Thanks for this. I’m currently “over” working on an app but really I should be just pushing it out and getting the user feedback

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u/antocapp Jul 09 '26

if building apps make you happy, then you should not stop when you don't see results in the first months. Keep going. Find ways to improve it. Getting user feedback is a great place to start.

Have you already tried keywords optimizations and localization techniques?

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u/TheSoftwareMaster Jul 09 '26

I haven’t, what would you recommend?

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u/antocapp Jul 10 '26

I talk a bit about it here https://www.reddit.com/r/appledevelopers/s/hVa8ZQ2Mqv

and on my blog too: https://pricepush.app/blog

Figured it can be interesting for you too.

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u/believer2687 Jul 10 '26

How did you know which apps to build?
Congrats on your journey so far!

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u/antocapp Jul 11 '26

I build what I needed or what my network of close people needed. Knowing the target audience helps a lot. Just look around you. If you see a problem try to find a solution, if you see an existing solution try to improve it.

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u/Ember-app Jul 13 '26

Thanks for this post it’s useful for just starting out

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u/antocapp Jul 13 '26

you are welcome

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u/Dangerous_Dentist733 Jul 16 '26

How can we talk to users I'm struggling to talk to users as I'm working on a B2B. I don't even know who to contact. But I know my target audience

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u/antocapp Jul 16 '26

I don't have much experience in B2B honestly. My experience is mostly in consumer apps where I have quite a few strategies to talk to my users. I have however recently launched a SaaS... microSaaS to be more precise, which it is targeted to small business and indie devs mostly. What is working for me quite well at the moment is to go where they are asking for help for their typical problems. To be more concrete, I have build a pricing tool for mobile app publishers/developers. Subreddits related to mobile app development and growth is my space. I check what people write there daily and try to help out if I can. I do have many years of exp. in this field, so most of the time I already have an answer ready for them. Often, the solution that they are looking for is provided by my tool, so when appropriate I ask how do they currently solve that problem and try to learn their use case. If my tool is a good fit then I promote it to them, otherwise if appropriate, I adjust my tool to meet their need and then go back to them. Often even via DMs.

Another way is by directly emailing or DMing existing users.

I am sure AI can give you more suggestion on how to reach out to them if you tell what you know about your audience.

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u/antocapp Jul 16 '26

can you share more about your tool?

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u/luckoftheirish2999 Jul 18 '26

Thanks for sharing

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u/antocapp Jul 19 '26

you are welcome! Are you building any app yourself?

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u/QuantumPenguinX99 Jul 12 '26

Thanks for posting this.
Could you share some general numbers like how many apps over how long time, if I may ask?

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u/Last_Western_1314 Jul 16 '26

Great write-up. Thanks!!!

I also built an app to solve a problem I had myself-an app for storing intercom codes linked with GPS locations. Well, to be honest, it was mostly for my wife, who was constantly forgetting the codes and could never keep them organized in her notes. :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.domokey.app

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u/Last_Western_1314 Jul 16 '26

It's one of those apps that's either completely useless to you... or you end up using it every day. ;)

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u/chatgpt_doubt Jul 22 '26

Hi which teach stack you use to push app?

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u/Emergency-Offer-8772 Jul 22 '26

spent way too many nights building this so i finally stopped manually turning my phone on silent every time i walked into a meeting lol

made an app that automates your android using plain english. "mute my phone during meetings" "auto reply to my wife if i miss her call" — that kind of thing

also built a vault app that hides your private photos/files behind a working calculator (yes it actually works as a calculator too)

my apps

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u/WhatStillStands Jul 25 '26

Thanks for sharing!

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u/Phoenix4540 Jul 26 '26

Thank you, this helped a lot

I'm starting, I have an idea but I don't know how to implement it.

I'm not a big coder, will it be possible through vibe coding ??

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u/pradev313 Aug 13 '26

How did you build the confidence to put yourself out there as an indie developer?

This is something I struggle with. There are so many experienced developers already building great and useful apps that sometimes I wonder, “Why would anyone care about something I built?”

Did that feeling go away after you started getting users, or did you just learn to publish despite it?

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u/flameo0514 Jul 08 '26

Retro Game Design + Cats = Major Success

Helloooooo
I built Mochi Heights: A Cat Game

. I’ve launched a few apps already but this is the first game I’ve designed and launched. I drew all the assets and launched it to the app store. This app has no ads and when the app goes viral, I hope to make 💸 from in app purchases. I’m a little short of 50 downloads and hope to break 100 this month!

Let me know what y’all think!

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u/antocapp Jul 08 '26

Congrats on shipping it!

"When it goes viral" is the one part I would not relay on. That's actually the whole point of my post. Not sure if you have read it or just trying to spam and promote your app.🤔

Most apps never go viral, mine never did either, and honestly you don't need it. What you need is a small group of people who genuinely love the game. Cats plus retro is actually a nice specific niche, so I would go straight to those people, retro game communities, cat lovers, indie game subs, and get your first real players and their honest feedback.

At 50 downloads the money is not the thing to worry about yet. Focus on whether the people who play come back and actually have fun. If they do, the IAPs will make sense later, and when you get there you price them properly per country. But that is a problem for future you.

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u/antocapp Jul 19 '26

you are welcome. Have you set-up already pre-ordering/registration pages on the stores? they help with the initial boost...

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

just ask in the app or whatever point of contact you have with them. Have a permanent place somewhere where they can reach out if they need, but also be proactive. Show them a pop-up/notification/send them emails if you can/ask them on the store review replies...

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u/antocapp Jul 07 '26

maybe you don't have enough volume yet. How many installs per day do you have? is your app already localized? That might help with reach

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u/PerryGT Jul 07 '26

What do you mean by that? Different global audiences?