Niclas Illg

building Cupie (100k calls in 2 months).
prev #8 App Store with a teacher-gossip app that got me sued 🇩🇪

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

We might've just killed FaceTime.

0 to 100k calls in 2 months.

First couple with 60 day call streak.

And I'm just getting started...

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

made a fun notch interaction for Cupie today 👀 detects when you're in a call outside of the app

If you're into consumer social apps & design, let's connect!

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

@infiniyoung 100% agree

[Iman @imodarressi]

the trouble with king making this early is that genuinely smart people drop much weirder & wayyyy cooler ideas to spend years competing with the company that just got funded to the moon

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

Reading actual code is a memory i will always be fond of

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

@spottedinprod noted

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

@paularambles Working on exactly that lol. Our calling app for couples shows you little notes when it hears one of you mention something worth remembering!

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

@MaxHirsch13 I agree but it's also a trap though. User feedback is very different coming from a paying user vs. someone who got free access bc they know you. Gotta keep that in mind.

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

@paularambles mine was when my boss at my side job during high school told me i should start learning how to build apps. life changed forever.

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

@imodarressi fortune cookie type beat

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

@KrishivThakuria Don’t worry bro it’s coming

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

if I see any more tweets by guys in their 40s using the term "maxxing" i will shoot myself

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

@alexzaje such a nice touch

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

just walked past Steve's old house in Palo Alto... weird feeling

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

@jakecastilloooo yessir you're an inspiration keep going 🙏

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

why does Meta HQ lowk look like a run down slavic village? I expected flying cars and fruitiger aero type shit

[Andrew Yeung @andruyeung]

We created gyms because modern day work no longer required physical activity. Without exercise, our muscles atrophy.

I predict we’ll need gyms for our brains too, once AI starts doing our knowledge work.

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

How about you start training your SI (Sexual Intelligence)

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

Free sauce for builders 👇

We took push opt-in from 30% to 80% with one design strategy:

Don't just ask your users for permission plainly.

Show them their loved ones already do it and let them feel guilty for not having it yet.

Works like magic ✨

[Niclas Illg @niclasillg]

@BrianNorgard like how big we talkin?

[Iman @imodarressi]

@raycondones was one of our first users on meets btw (4th biggest twitch streamer)