Lover of Apps

Indie App Developer, Exploring New Frontiers

[Saad 📱 @saadbelfqih]

I've got two apps in the pipeline waiting for launch

https://t.co/C7o7eV1lgX which I've been building for a while now, and another one I'll announce soon

Both are self-distributed and focused on macOS

I've been dragging the ADSwift launch for a while.. some users have even started asking when it's finally going to become paid

Aiming for a launch this week if everything goes well

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

Is this the "fair competition" praised by recent articles?

If a store with dominant market share taking a 30% cut can bully developers into not passing on savings to customers on competing stores with lower fees, then competition doesn't stand a chance.

[Ernesto Lopez @ErnestoSOFTWARE]

@wickedguro Shout out to @jackfriks

Our channel was fully automated with @postbridge_ and thanks to them we hit 100k on YouTube

[infinil @iaminfinil]

looking back this was simply the result of bad pricing & not handling refunds automatically with revenuecat

refund rate stats
feb - 14%
may - 2%

[Lover of Apps @loverofapps]

I had a burst of creative inspiration last night. I am using Claude 4.6 Opus in ways that I could have never imagined. On top of that, I submitted my first original AI film to a AI Film Festival.

[Lover of Apps @loverofapps]

I’ve known Nick for years, he is on a whole other level when it comes to data science related to the App Store. I will not pretend to measure things as deeply or understand things as deeply as Nick does but I will say his success in the App Store & in business is undeniable.

[Nick @nickjsheriff]

“Why 100? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.” - Einstein

If I were wrong, a single tweet from you would have been enough to disprove me. Instead, the only tweets you’ll ever produce will continue to reinforce the validity of my assertions.

😆

So the only thing I’ll get from discussing this publicly is founders of non-viable & questionable apps flooding my DMs with immature messages, unwilling, and frankly unable, to have an actual intellectual conversation.

I repeatedly challenged him to publicly share the metrics he claims to have that refute my points.

I asked him to stop speculating and simply prove me wrong.

Instead, it devolved into name-calling and deflection, calling me “slow” to shift the conversation away from his product, his brand, and his execution.

To what end, exactly? The data I shared comes directly from Apple, it’s just aggregated. A symptom of his own execution.

Established founders won’t engage this way. They’ll simply block me, and honestly, that’s preferred.

But anyway, you all know Apple provides this data to developers. I’ll only continue pulling it back if there’s genuine interest, so I’ll leave it to a vote. If you want to see more, you’d need to vote or use the app yourself.

[Nick @nickjsheriff]

Congrats, Kyan, it’s impressive you’ve built a recurring subscription business that appears to run with ease. But Apple’s sentiment data raises a concern: a meaningful portion of your paying customers are unhappy with what they’re paying for, which points to issues rather than a product success story.

The core problem looks like your pricing strategy and LTV assumptions.

Achieving an LTV that resembles your largest competitors on paper doesn’t mean you’ve earned it through equivalent value delivery, and the sentiment data shows a disconnect between what customers pay and what they receive.

You can engineer metrics that look like industry leaders, but if satisfaction, retention, and sentiment don’t support those numbers, the market eventually exposes the gap, this is to help you fix issues that will impact your economics as well.

Since recurring revenue with healthy economics leads to significant compounding, just do not scam consumers to inhibit this.

I’m not making the claim independently, your own data supports it.

Consistently high dissatisfaction among paying subscribers raises the question of whether founders are being taught to build products optimized for acquisition and monetization rather than long-term customer value, which is why posting revenue screenshots alone is misleading.

The broader issue is that many founders are being taught to rapidly launch AI-generated subscription apps relying on aggressive acquisition tactics and dark patterns rather than sustainable viability.

Ask yourself: if your app required an upfront payment equal to the LTV you’re extracting through weekly recurring subscriptions, would customers still purchase at the same rate?

Or are those conversion rates only possible because pricing is fragmented and supported by onboarding flows optimized to maximize signups rather than informed purchase decisions?

If the answer is no, because you haven’t even measured that, the market is telling you something about perceived value & your care of ux and not just ui that helps to serve a corporate interest only driven by how much you can extract from a customer.

The more your business depends on pricing psychology and conversion optimization rather than genuine demand, the harder it becomes to argue growth is driven by product value and brand affinity.

If dark patterns were removed from onboarding and billing flows, would conversion rates hold?

Many founders never run that experiment because revenue becomes the primary objective and customer value becomes secondary.

Aggressive monetization is often legal in a capitalist market, but that doesn’t make these healthy businesses.

The question isn’t whether the tactics generate revenue, it’s whether you’re building something viable and sustainable, or something that only looks successful because it’s optimized for revenue extraction.

If customers churn at elevated rates and sentiment stays unhealthy, the success isn’t being driven by quality, satisfaction, or brand affinity, it’s being driven by convincing people to pay for something they don’t continue to find valuable.

Vanity, viability, or both, the choice is yours.

ToneAdapt’s Sentiment Data:
https://t.co/j0bhyFETeF

[Lover of Apps @loverofapps]

With AI Film making taking off, it’s kind of crazy that @sama would retire Sora 2 completely. They should at least make it available for professionals & indie creators to create content. The films could go viral on Youtube & win AI film festivals then big Hollywood deals happen.

[Lover of Apps @loverofapps]

@PrunaAI @vinn0013rsq dm’d you

[Lover of Apps @loverofapps]

@_frederickjames even if you have half of that ie 4 years at double that amount, you have more than enough time

[Lover of Apps @loverofapps]

@PrunaAI @vinn0013rsq Cool, I ran some experiments with it yesterday. They were successful but the workflow kind of limits it to a personal project at the moment.

[Lover of Apps @loverofapps]

@vinn0013rsq @PrunaAI How fast for 1 image?

[Rudrank Riyam @rudrank]

Doing a podcast today with awesome folks about the journey of ASC CLI! 🤩

[Adam Lyttle @adamlyttleapps]

Reminder that the next app chat live is 12 hours from now

Subscribers get an exclusive zoom link where we discuss the progress of your app

The conversation is live streamed here on X (if I can get it to work 😂)

[jack friks @jackfriks]

join the crew and you can earn sick trophies on your piblic page btw :)) like this: https://t.co/M3Ucu575V4

[jack friks @jackfriks]

i made an app that feeds you to the sharks if you don't publicly launch your own product in 30 days.

no more of this: "dude i just 100x'ed my workflow with this new AI model"... meanwhile...

0 projects launched
0 revenue
0 users

100 x 0 = still 0.

it's time to go from 0 to 1.
it's time to: https://t.co/UO3UHNNZiR 🏴‍☠️.

ship a new product every 30 days until one changes your life or...

DIE, in the app, and get kicked from the community forever while being publicly humiliated.

no refunds for those who fail to ship. custom trophies to be collected for those who succeed.

if you DO ship, you also get to remain in a community of people who actually ship things and get users ++ revenue.

sidenote: i'm really excited to see if this can be the push someone needs like how @marclou's shipfast project pushed me and is the entire reason i have a $35K MRR solo operated SaaS now and many other successful mobile apps

GLHF, DON'T DIE, and KEEP GOING!! i've never taken a launch this legit so let's see how it goes :)

[Coalition for App Fairness @appfairness]

More than a year after the #DMCCA came into force, remedies for app stores, mobile browsers, and search engines remain unimplemented. The UK built one of the world's most sophisticated digital competition tools - capable of targeted, pragmatic intervention.

[Lover of Apps @loverofapps]

@jogicodes @niklogvinenko Web

[Saad 📱 @saadbelfqih]

Living with the thought that your App Store account could get terminated out of nowhere not because you are doing smg shady, but simply because you unknowingly violated one of their long list of terms that can be interpreted in many different ways… is definitely the worst parts of this business..