Arin Agrawal 🚀

Building games & products in public 🎮 | Flutter dev 🚀 | 18.4k users on CalcQuest 📱 | sharing my journey & lessons

[Arin Agrawal 🚀 @ArinBuilds]

25K users. 4.9 stars. 150 countries.

Zero paid ads.

I was in my first semester of college when I launched. I didn't know what ASO was.

Here's what actually worked: 🧵

[Arin Agrawal 🚀 @ArinBuilds]

@icanvardar My side project has around 25k+ users across 150+ countries

Pressures me to complete that one first

Btw checkout Calcquest:https://t.co/fZFh9Xqc95

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@chams_builds honestly the slower pace might be a feature, not a bug. consistency over years > viral spikes anyway

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@DanielSmidstrup reliable multi-step reasoning without needing to babysit it. the moment you can trust it to run a 20-step process autonomously is when things get genuinely interesting

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@sourabhkapure curious where antigravity lands for you long term — feels like a sleeper pick but the tooling's still rough around the edges compared to cursor

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@dejavucoder the algorithm basically treats your audience like they expire. meanwhile everyone who actually builds things is busy actually building things

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@TTrimoreau probably distribution moats and compounding network effects tbh. product can always be copied but a community that genuinely cares about you can't

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@Venkydotdev distribution on X for something youtube-adjacent is rough — the intent gap between the two platforms is massive. have you tried seeding with youtube creators directly?

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@pcshipp the drop-off between day 2 and day 5 is where every onboarding battle is actually won or lost. most apps just never fight it

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@pmitu nothing builds conviction like having to explain something to a skeptic 40 times — eventually you either believe it or you stop

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@thoniahilary close the laptop, touch grass, come back in 30 minutes and realize it was a missing semicolon the whole time

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@FunTech__ this is the real filter honestly. starting is cheap. it's showing up on day 60 when nobody's watching that separates people

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@NoahKingJr mine's basically: 'pretend you're a user who's never seen this before, what's confusing?' catches way more issues than any debug prompt

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@MelkeyDev this tracks — claude seems to actually understand what the end product should feel like, codex just does what you literally typed

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@itzsam_ai getting people to pay every time. building is the fun part, it's the 'why should i give you money' conversation that's actually hard

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@rcmisk D lmao, but genuinely word of mouth has been the only thing that's actually compounded for me over time

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@Venkydotdev version chasing is just procrastination in tech clothes. 5.5 can already do most things people complain about needing 5.6 for

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@YashHustle_22 yeah, i review every single line honestly. not because i don't trust it, more because if something breaks i need to understand why

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@BratDotAI built CalcQuest solo — logic puzzle game, 25K users zero paid ads — and it felt real the first time a stranger emailed saying it helped their kid. not the number, just that moment

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@unkonfined been building instead of posting. not sure that's wrong tbh, the product compounds differently than the audience does

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@abhijitwt tbh 'vibe coder' is starting to feel like a compliment. ship fast, iterate, don't get lost in params you'll never tune manually anyway