Mahdi Barkhordari

Building an Indie iOS App Studio in public & sharing our daily journey and tips. @ProductTankBrum co-organiser!
#buildinpublic

[Connor @BusDownBonnor]

If you watch this entire thing and don't get to $10K/mo its on you.

Real quality sauce right here

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

@twoclipping Prompts

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

Literally!

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

I was completely wrong about Subio’s onboarding.

After studying dozens of top financial apps, onboarding flows, and speaking to our users, I realized
users don’t just need features.

They need confidence before using the app. So we rebuilt the onboarding.

What do you think?

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

@buildwithmaya Hey
https://t.co/sipjLanD0l

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

@ErnestoSOFTWARE Wow!! I loved this and honestly hope I can do the same someday soon before its too late! 🥺

[jinjingliang @JinjingLiang]

@AnthropicAI The state of things:

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

What?!

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

@vitaliidodonov PDF

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

@SarahPerezTC Not a bad news but kind of required given the current stage literally everyone launching apps with AI and no guarantee they continue or are able to provide value on an ongoing basis to the users.
Thanks for the post 😊

[Marc Lou @marclou]

I documented my SaaS journey to $20K MRR.

It took 512 days.

I got excited, I cried, I laughed, I lost hope. I got literally every moment on camera.

This video is the raw story of what building a startup actually feels like.

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

@Raynerdtech True until neck ache kicks in!

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

@asphramin 🤣 Id definitely want to keep that $1K soOo yeah thanks for sharing!

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

What was main distribution/ acquisition channel before $5K MRR?

- X
- Reddit
- YouTube
- TikTok
- LinkedIn
- communities
- Any other?

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

@kobyjconrad Will she join us as a co-founder? 🤣🤣

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

@kobyjconrad This was awesomeee!!!!!!

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

What's wrong with our paywall?

It's just not converting or maybe it's the app or the onboarding!

We're changing the onboarding however in our next release. It's currently on Adapty and I can clearly see some issues its causing e.g. delays in loading.

#buildinpublic

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

@maks6361 Have a safe journey and I guees the most awesome thing was quitting the 9 to 5 😁

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

Don't read and follow these tips and get your app banned due to subscription mistakes!

If you're building subcription apps this is MUST READ! 👇🏻👇🏻

[Jake Mor @jakemor]

🧵 Superwall had on off-the-record* meeting with someone very high up at Apple yesterday to ask questions about what is and isn't allowed on the App Store. We asked for rules on

→ App2Web
→ Transaction Abandon
→ Free Trial Toggles
→ A/B Testing Paywalls in General

Here's everything we learned...

* Guidelines are intentionally subjective and ultimately up to the reviewer to interpret (more on this in my last post). The only way Apple takes an official stance on a guideline is by updating them.

Some topics may never enter the official guidelines... that doesn't mean they're allowed.

There's a whole layer of internal policy behind the guidelines that isn't written down anywhere and subject to change.

The text you read is just the tip of the iceberg. That's what this thread is about. 👇

[Mahdi Barkhordari @mahdibeee]

@vitaliidodonov MRR