Samuel Premji

Building apps, trying to become rich. 50K downloads across my apps

[Samuel Premji @SamuelPremji]

@mnt_rushmore How did you get them? And what will the product do?

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If you’re starting from zero, what should you focus on first:

Building a great product or building an audience?

#buildinpublic #mobileapps #indiehackers

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@erden_xi Personally I'm doing free for the start and monetize later but I guess both ways can work

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@mnt_rushmore How many users/downloads do you have on your product?

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@kyleleung_io I want both personally but I agree that 99% of the benefits likely come from that first $10K/month passive income

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@malakhovdm 50K downloads is from another app and yes the downloads came from ASO but with this new app it's harder to get downloads from ASO.

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I'm trying to promote my app.

I tried:

- Short form content: stuck at 200 views
- Blog posts: not getting any clicks

Am I the only one?

What have you tried so far to promote your app?

#buildinpublic #mobileapps #indiehackers

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@sundaramkatare Amazing. I guess I;ll start posting more to IG reels instead of just tiktok.

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@starebrain But isn't AI only mentioning the top sites?

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I'm trying to promote my app and I wonder:

Is it possible that even the long-tail keywords in a niche are too competitive, so there's basically no way for a new site to rank its articles?

#buildinpublic #mobileapps #indiehackers

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@HeyFaina So like on reddit I would find people searching for like "I keep forgetting what I study"? Is it what you're saying?

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@xiaojinfu888 My issue is that even those hyper specific things are too competitive for me to rank. Maybe I just need to search for better hyper-specific intents idk

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@HosseinGorji021 Agree

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@HosseinGorji021 It's the studying niche. Specifically how to remember more from what you study

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@acetriesagain Yeah trying different hook variations is one thing I'm doing right now because I ran out of ideas and my hooks weren't good enough.

But I tried copying most other viral short form in my niche and still no success.

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@MeekerKame81032 With blogs really 0 traction. Like absolutely 0 clicks. With tiktok my most viewed thing has 1200 views but the rest is all below 400 views. And even that 1200 view video got me 0 downloads. But I guess I have to keep trying

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@thallisribeiro I don't understand why they don't focus on just one app

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@rafal_darlak It's hard to "just connect with them" they're hard to reach. But I'll keep trying

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How do you guys market your mobile apps?

#buildinpublic #indiehackers #mobileapps

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@getswithapp How many downloads did you get from reply blocks?

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@acetriesagain Yeah I do short form content (didn't work but I'll persist) and I'll also try blog posts at the same time.

But I want to know, what do YOU do to market your app if you have one?