Milan Halamka

Ship fast - Grow faster
Mobile apps / Marketing that actually converts
Building @uprateagents - the AI agent indie devs didn't know they needed.

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

just listed https://t.co/hWbXOO9ViT on https://t.co/4bs6xvUH9H — win by getting liked, not upvoted.

every like on this tweet pushes it up the board 💗 https://t.co/CrluR4jhOn

[Alex Cloudstar @alexcloudstar]

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Submit your product, then quote-tweet this post to go live today.

Top 3 by day's end get a dofollow backlink.

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[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

Called an indie dev today. He pays $499/month for an ASO tool.

Told him Apple just opened search-term popularity in the Ads API. Free. More accurate.

Silence. Then: "so what am I paying for?"

Charts, man. You're paying for charts.

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

The one that gets everyone: UserDefaults.

- Every app uses it. Almost nobody declares it. Reason code CA92.1 in PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy and it's done.

- And it's often not even your call - it's inside an SDK you added two years ago.

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

Apple doesn't reject you for what you collect.

It rejects you for the gap between what you collect and what you declared.

Five things the reviewer actually opens:

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

CalAI is the app that half of you are trying to clone.

So I threw it in our tool. Rankings, ASO, sentiment, pricing - done in seconds, no setup.

Free launch for a few design partners: $300 in credits, no card. Reply "CALAI" and I'll send it to you.

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

that's right - I agree. the worst is the distribution

[Jana @BratDotAI]

Unpopular opinion:

Getting an app to the App Store is easier than getting it to its first $100/month.

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

Ranking every part of building an app from "fine" to "I want to quit":

6. Writing the code. Honestly the fun part.
7. Icons. 40 exports later, still ugly.
8. Screenshots. 2 hours in Figma. Result: "good enough."
9. ASO. You know you should. You won't.
10. Replying to reviews. All 47. From people who never opened the app.
11. Submission. Rejected. No reason. Week gone.

What's your #1-5? Drop your list.

[Michal Langmajer @MichalLangmajer]

I was wondering how is the App Store situation these days with all the vibe coding.

So I scraped the entire iOS US App Store overnight...

Now I'm staring at the data and trying to figure out whether there is something broken/duplicated/etc.

But it seems real...

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

@JustJerry121 wow bomb thanks a lot for the feedback.. Let's write to me in DM - I'll send you more information there

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

Builders and indie devs!

Looking to CONNECT with:
- vibe coders shipping their first app
- indie devs with apps in the wild
- App Store obsessives
- AI builders and automation nerds
- studio founders scaling portfolios

Building Uprate - agents that run your App Store while you build.

Drop your APP below 👇
Show the world what you're building.

I have a collaboration offer for everyone who replies.

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

@StevenACZ great, thanks, I'm glad you connected

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

How to be really famous on X?
Like the post on Linkedin!

My Name (Milan Halamka) has been seen by about 800k people

Probably the biggest success of my life.

Thanks for that @strasak_cyril

[LinkedIn Lunatics @LinkedInLunat1c]

Marathon and B2B Sales

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

Code's DONE. Now the real pain begins - store submission.

Screenshots in every device size. Metadata. Keywords. Privacy labels. "What's New." Now do it all in 40 languages.

Most devs ship English-only and lose 80% of their market.

We fixed it.

Drop your app → get back fully localized screenshots, copy, and metadata. Store-ready in minutes.

Free during early access. 300 seats. 138 gone.

Grab one 👇

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

Photoroom hit $94M/year with zero paid ads.

Then they changed the contracts of prepaid customers mid-year, removed features they'd already paid for, kept the money, and blocked critics in their own Facebook group.

Here's how they built it - and where it got dark 🧵

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

A solo Polish iOS dev raised $150K in 2019.

Today his Stoic journaling app does $1.5M/year.
Profitable. 3M+ downloads. He never raised again.

Here's exactly what he built ↓

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

A solo Polish iOS dev raised $150K in 2019.

Today his Stoic journaling app does $1.5M/year.
Profitable. 3M+ downloads. He never raised again.

Here's exactly what he built ↓

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

Finch tells the world it grew through word of mouth.

The real story: it outspends Calm on TikTok and Meta ads.

$30M ARR. $0 raised.

One of the dirtiest paid acquisition machines in wellness - disguised as a wholesome bootstrapped story.

Receipts below.

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

And this is just the start - way more coming soon. Check out https://t.co/hWbXOO9ViT + join the waitlist to be first in the NEW ERA of app management.

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

You know the feeling!!!

Hours of vibe-coding. The app is finally DONE.

Then it hits you - PRICING.

170 countries. What do you charge in the US? In Japan? In Brazil?

YEAH… me neither.

So we built a tool that does it automatically. Localized, market-accurate pricing for every country - in a few minutes.

Right now everything's FREE during early access - but we're only letting in 300 devs. 124 already in and filling fast.

Get in while it's open 👇

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

@AphelionGrace Wow, it looks very elegant!

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

Finch tells the world it grew through word of mouth.

The real story: it outspends Calm on TikTok and Meta ads.

$30M ARR. $0 raised.

One of the dirtiest paid acquisition machines in wellness - disguised as a wholesome bootstrapped story.

Receipts below.

[Milan Halamka @Milan_Halamka]

@BratDotAI It's the same! I'm the most finished with this design.