Thomas

Mobile apps and AI marketing

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

I'm doing #Shipaton and DO plan to Ship A Ton.

I'm still building privately, but will update by app number. I'll share some video hooks I'm using for marketing, analytics, earnings, etc.
The fun stuff.

Let's talk about App #1.
It's a niche habit and memory app that has one (very poorly designed) competitor pulling in lots of money.
They have no social media presence despite having the easiest to market app ever.
I'll be auto-generating and posting slideshows, 3 slides. 1 and 2 go together, 3 is "share with your friends" with app name at the bottom and cta.

Mascots
I created a game art generator to create assets for 2D games mainly because gpt-image-2 doesn't create transparent images, so I designed a prog that my agents/claude can talk to to create whatever art it wants and removes the background, like the key below.
I was able to use it to generate app art.
So every app gets a mascot and custom art. Really differentiating from the slop.
Going chibi style on all of these.

App #1 failed review this morning for not having the EULA in the description. Fixed and resubmitted.

App #2 is done. It's a fork of App #1 in a different vertical. Adding everything to app store connect, porting products to RevenueCat and then will submit that before EOD too.

I hope to have 5 or 6 apps on the store being auto-marketed by the time #shipaton ends. #buildinpublic

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

Don't think you can do this too.
This is the power of having an audience that they love to pretend doesn't exist.

Example, I built TrustMRR a few years before Marc did (the original concept) It was called ProveMRR even...lol.
Zero users.

Social proof is the only strategy that works, for anything. You will NOT make it without it or thousands in marketing where you can pretend you have it.

[Jonathan Wilke @jonathan_wilke]

Good morning friends! The madness of https://t.co/3tMzhIlC1s doesn't stop:

👀 1,147M visitors
🏆 #1 rank at $14,013
💰 $132k revenue
📦 867 products added
🔗190k+ product link clicks
📋 A new product added ~ every minute

Let's see where we can take this 🚀

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

App #1 is flashcards.
Swipeable cards that you click on to show the answer.

App #2 uses the same card swiping feature, but with no clicking to reveal because it's not needed. All of the content is different. Denied for being "too similar" Literally nothing is similar. Completely different paywall, art, every word is different, completely different target market. The only similar feature is swiping cards and unlocking sets of cards but the card functionality isn't the same even.

App #3 was just accepted though.

Apparently now you have to upload a video of you using the app for it to get accepted.

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

@alexcooldev yup, it’s just fancy influencer marketing.

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

@jonathan_wilke @levelsio I saw a site like this 2 or so years ago.

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

It is unbelievable how long this took.

BatchReel will be launching soon. It’s like postbridge but I’m not charging for it lol.

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

Is Grok @bot better than a honed in Clawbot?

Like mine is monitoring my servers and giving reports on app analytics.

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

hey @PalmerLuckey @modretro Could you guys do CRT TVs?

People are paying 200+ dollars for old ones and fighting over them at estate sales.

Bonus points if it has a VHS player.

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

if you're making games and you don't know about Animal Hospital, 99 Nights In The Forest, etc then you're ngmi.

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

@levelsio I remember the other year people talking about using reddit to have it recommend their products. it was a trick where you edit a post to put your product in after the thread loses steam then models training in it would rate your product highly incorrectly. something like that.

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

@adamlyttleapps what specifically are you trying to build?

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

@Vinci_x3 the “it’s like X” is the inspiration.
though a lot of the time X is the inspiration because it prints.

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

I remember when 4o was telling people stuff like “Yes, using your life savings to start a business selling poop is a fantastic idea!”

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

Remember when the 4o sycophancy was one-shotting so many people? 😂

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

@penitent_games @notch The mid-life crisis is less about death and more about realizing you’re set in stone and your dreams didn’t pan out.

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

Jack built a business through persistence and the audience came from that.
Marc and others carried him on their golden chariot a little but he put in the work and was headed there himself anyways.

Will reposts articles for engagement. He is an “app guy” that is banned from every app platform. I wouldn’t take app advice from a guy banned from every app platform the same as I wouldn’t take tax write-off tips from a tax evader in prison.

Why you guys continue to push this guy is beyond me. Is there no one else? Or do you trust the algorithm shoving him in your feed constantly knows better than you do?

[Marc Lou @marclou]

He's got that dog in him.

I saw it in @jackfriks in 2023.

Must follow him.

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

@Shpigford @literallyhimmmm why is there dog shit in your house?

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

yes, let's take advice and make popular the guy that gets banned from every platform.

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

They think they are fooling us.

Organic Canola Oil lmao

[Thomas @TheVibecodeKing]

@WrEcK3 hey, is this you? I was going through one of my old drives and found this. Learned so many tricks from this back in the day.