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Consultant turned indie dev

Applying enterprise thinking to app growth

[Mac @d3muj4]

nothing like building a free tool to help a fellow maker 🚀

thanks for the inspiration @chizzatto

https://t.co/xCjAwIpjvH

[🇵🇪 Leo Martin @chizzatto]

I wonder if this would make a useful Mac app for devs. I could also learn some macOS stuff.

[Mac @d3muj4]

@kedytcom following now

[Mac @d3muj4]

@Arn0Stride7 same!

[Mac @d3muj4]

@thsottiaux remove the 5 hrs limit?

[Mac @d3muj4]

@juanjovn @MarioSaputra conversions sit at around 35%

[Mac @d3muj4]

@juanjovn @MarioSaputra shiiet I'm on 4-5% start trial, any suggestions guys?

[Mac @d3muj4]

@adamlyttleapps legend

[Mac @d3muj4]

Hot take: You can't complain about Opus 5 being retarded if you still prompt like it's 2025

[Mac @d3muj4]

@heyjaywilson @gettobiapp Legend, that sounds like a good range!

[Mac @d3muj4]

"Shorter onboarding always converts better. Strip out the screens."

This advice here on X is still actively killing subscription app conversion rates.

NOTE: Reducing friction is great for free apps. For paid software, onboarding isn't setup, it's your primary value argument.

If you delete the questionnaire, social proof, and product demo just to reduce screen count, you destroy conviction.

What actually works:
↳ Identify the user's explicit goal
↳ Demonstrate the exact mechanism solving it
↳ Show personalised upside & credible proof
↳ Bridge free-to-pro with clear context

Optimise for perceived value and user conviction, not simple time-to-paywall.

What's the current screen count on your onboarding flow, and are you testing a multi-step setup right now?

[Mac @d3muj4]

it's more complex than that, here's my fav analogy:

"Think of your metabolism like a company with a fixed monthly budget. If the "Marketing Dept" (exercise) demands a 20% budget increase, the CEO doesn't print more money, they cut spending in "Maintenance" and "Administration" to keep total expenses level."

Money is calories of course

[Mac @d3muj4]

@gregisenberg That /last30days skills is killing it man

[Mac @d3muj4]

@jurree @app_gotcha Not bad! The previous onboarding was too short. I think the biggest conversion trap is cutting onboarding screens purely to lower friction. It may work for cheap utility apps, but real apps need those screens to build conviction before hitting the paywall

[Mac @d3muj4]

Don't sleep on Apple's Retention Messaging API, it's saving 1 in 3 cancellations for us so far

plus @RevenueCat makes it a cakewalk!

[Mac @d3muj4]

Codex tip: stop feeding /goal vague prompts

use OpenAI’s own /define-goal first

it turns “fix this” into a scoped goal with success criteria, evidence and a stop condition

much better input for a long agent run

https://t.co/7Rz9ihDU0a

[Mac @d3muj4]

@ladprofit board

[Mac @d3muj4]

@mariosaputra count me in!

[Mac @d3muj4]

@hieudinh_ Seo

[Mac @d3muj4]

@kedytcom DM

[Mac @d3muj4]

YES, BUT

[Jurre @jurree]

~32k new app users in 1 WEEK, all organic. $0 spent.

article / tutorial dropping tmrw, follow for the sauce 👀