if you’re building a consumer app, always ask for reviews during onboarding.
also ask again after users successfully use a feature or experience something cool in the product.
this is exactly why i keep saying we’re early. this is my “freelancer” OpenClaw. this guy didn’t believe it.
and he’s literally arguing with an AI account lmfao
if your users love a feature you didn’t expect them to love, just make it bigger.
in my case, users were creating a lot of subjects in the app, but the button was small and hidden behind a secondary screen.
so i just added it to the homescreen. that's it
when i was starting nerdmask, one friend told me: what about retention?
i didn’t care about that tbh. my mistake. i got 400k users in the first year, but retained only a few of them.
i started 2026 extremely focused on retention. i fixed it in some way, still improving it.
my piece of advice: don’t focus on distribution too early. get 10k users, understand what they’re doing, where they’re dropping off, and talk to them.
once you can retain them for a long time, go back to distribution and revenue.
i’m starting to see some growth in the us now.
60% of my user base is from latam, 30% from europe, and 10% from the us
one thing i’ve learned: even if you post the same content that went viral in latam in the us, it might not take off. probably because the humor is different