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My ASO Tool:

[Blaida @kedytcom]

My app hit a 14.1% conversion rate.

104K impressions turned into 10,500 downloads and $2,820 in revenue.

The strategy behind these numbers 👇

[Blaida @kedytcom]

Why indie devs lose their minds: You spend 6 months building. 2 weeks marketing. Then wonder why nobody finds your app. The work ratio is backwards. Building is the easy part. Getting seen is the war that breaks you.

[Blaida @kedytcom]

The hardest part of indie dev isn't coding. It's the silence after you ship. You refresh analytics 40 times a day. Nobody downloads. Nobody cares. That's when the doubt creeps in. The insanity isn't burnout—it's shipping into the void.

[Blaida @kedytcom]

Every indie dev thinks: "If I just add one more feature, people will care." So you add 10 features. Still nothing. The insanity is believing the product is the problem when distribution was always the answer. Ship fast, market hard.

[Blaida @kedytcom]

You know what makes indie devs go insane? Comparing your Day 1 to someone else's Year 3. You see their revenue screenshots and think you're failing. You're not. You're just early. Most overnight successes took 1,000 quiet days.

[Blaida @kedytcom]

Indie development is 10% building your app and 90% fighting the voice that says "this is stupid, nobody will use this." The code doesn't make you crazy. The self-doubt does. Ship anyway. 🚀

[Blaida @kedytcom]

😂😂😂😂

[Viktor Seraleev @seraleev]

Every indie developer a few days before Apple payout

[Blaida @kedytcom]

Year 1 as a full-time indie dev taught me: your runway isn't just money. It's also mental health, relationships, and energy. I burned through all of them faster than my bank account.

[Blaida @kedytcom]

Most indie devs quit in year 1 not because they ran out of money, but because they ran out of reasons to keep going. Build something you'd use even if nobody paid you.

[Blaida @kedytcom]

Your first year indie will feel like 3 years. You'll ship features nobody wants, ignore the ones they need, and wonder why growth is slow. That's normal. Just don't stop shipping.

[Blaida @kedytcom]

The hardest part of going full-time indie isn't building the product. It's watching your friends get promoted and buy houses while you're debugging at 11pm for $200 MRR 📉

[Blaida @kedytcom]

ASO is a game of extremes.

Today:

🇦🇺 Australia: +51 positions 📈

At the same time:

🇳🇿 New Zealand: -70 positions 📉

Same app.
Same update.
Different markets.
This is why I track rankings every day.
One market can be exploding while another is collapsing.

The lesson?

Don’t judge your ASO strategy from a single keyword or a single country.

Zoom out. Keep shipping.

[Blaida @kedytcom]

@compileandpush for the first : Quantity > Quality

[Blaida @kedytcom]

Year 1 indie reality: you'll spend 20% building and 80% marketing, support, analytics, and existential doubt. If you love only coding, stay employed.

[Blaida @kedytcom]

Localization keeps proving me wrong.

I thought the US would be my biggest opportunity.

Today Australia is leading the charge. 🇦🇺📈

Multiple keywords climbing:
+51
+40
+33
+29

The lesson?

Don't assume your best market.

Let the data decide. 🚀

[Blaida @kedytcom]

@adel_ljaljic good luck

[Blaida @kedytcom]

@AdamPOD22 just ASO + ASA

[Blaida @kedytcom]

Most updates don’t need new features.

Mine just got approved after adding new localizations. 🌍🚀

Now we wait for the rankings.

I spent more time on localization than coding this update.

Apple just approved it. 🍏

Let’s see if distribution beats development. 👀

New update approved. 🚀

0 new features.
Several new localizations.
Sometimes growth starts with translation, not code.

[Blaida @kedytcom]

Custom product pages are the most underused ASO feature right now. You can test 35 different page variations per app. I'm running 8 versions targeting different user intents. One page for power users, one for beginners. Conversion rates vary by 40% between them. Easy wins hiding in plain sight.

[Blaida @kedytcom]

Stop obsessing over keyword density in 2026. Focus on this instead: app clips, widget adoption, and share rates. These signals tell the algorithm your app is useful. I got more ranking momentum from 200 users adding my widget than from 2,000 one-time opens. Quality > volume finally matters in ASO.

[Blaida @kedytcom]

One localization.

One day.

+75 keyword positions. 📈🇪🇸

TryAstro MCP suggested Spain as a localization opportunity.

I localized the metadata and screenshots.

Apple approved the update.

24 hours later: +75 positions on a target keyword.

Most developers guess markets.

I prefer data. 🚀

Or even shorter:

Localized my app for Spain 🇪🇸 yesterday.

Today:

📈 +75 keyword positions

Found the opportunity with TryAstro MCP.

Sometimes growth isn’t a new feature.

It’s targeting the right market. 🚀