bytewise

Indie iOS developer. I write about App Store search, ASO mechanics, and what actually moves downloads. Evidence over growth hacks.

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@ChadAppDev If you use virtual credits I guess there was an option for removing credits from cancel

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@thsottiaux More accurate results with text to image than developed

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@SaidHaschemi Even this image was made with AI. Canva really went from “make anything” to “please stop making everything.”

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@elwatto Our totally unscientific benchmark:

$10k+ MRR: 1–2 days, max.
Below that: God knows.

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@kelvinbuildss Agree to disagree. I’ve found Codex to be better at both planning and execution as long as you optimize the workflow around it. Context, specs, and feedback loops matter more than assigning different models to different tasks.

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App Store Screenshots (App Store Preview) Design

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@LinoLeighton It is like old Japanese movies everything is censored

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Your app is searchable through exactly 160 characters:

30 title + 30 subtitle + 100 keyword field.

Most indie apps waste a third of it repeating words Apple already indexed.

Audit yours: delete every duplicate, every plural, every word from your app name. That's free ranking surface.

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@pcshipp Same wiring. My fix was treating the store listing as a build surface — metadata ships like code, and it keeps working while you build.

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@nikitabier At the top of the chart, 70 spots takes rebuilding the app. In the long tail, sometimes a subtitle change does it. Different physics, same chart.

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@bruvimtired Any harness where the model sees its own output. Everything else is preference.

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@Thomasbcn Reads right as an average most CPPs are built to look different, not to match a narrower search intent. A CPP that doesn't answer a tighter query than your default page can only lose. n=2800 is measuring adoption quality, not the mechanism.

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@BratDotAI ASO. It's the only one on that list where the demand already exists and you're just deciding whether to show up for it.

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@ouzdor Search is the only channel where the user shows up already telling you what they want. Everywhere else you have to interrupt someone. That's why the funnel builders keep rediscovering it.

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@upbeat_dev Right, on a competitor keyword the user already has intent for someone else. The CPP's job is to answer "does this do the thing I just searched for", not to introduce a name they've never heard.

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@jackfriks @postbridge_ The App Store version of this is coming too, people ask a model "best app for X" before they ever open search. Different index, same game: be the thing that's easy to quote.

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@shadcn Also: a picker can show 'Default', a price, a token cost. A slider can show a number nobody understands.

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@hridoyreh Unsplash doesn't require attribution. So this only works if you make crediting effortless, put your brand as the photographer name. Nobody's editing your link in manually.

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@marclou @trust_mrr 90% margin, 100% solo, 210K visitors. The 'you need a team to scale' myth dies a little more every month

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@marclou currently floating somewhere around 'second guessing myself'. see you at the top in 9 years