Nikhil Akki

founder @appllamaio | polyglot builder, entrepreneur

[Nikhil Akki @nikhilakki]

@jaimintf i m gonna make gpt look like strava, its insane how easy app dev has become with mcp and skills

[Nikhil Akki @nikhilakki]

@jaimintf Congrats Jimmy!

[jaimin @jaimintf]

if your app still looks like the one on the left, you're doing it wrong.

i used the same prompt. same model.

the one on the right used appllama mcp + skills

prompt ↓

[Nikhil Akki @nikhilakki]

@jaimintf What a time to be an indie hacker

Finding apps that make serious money and building them hasn’t been so easy as it is today

Exciting times ahead!

[Appllama @appllamaio]

Most people find app ideas wrong

> go to appllama
> filter apps making over $25k/mo
> ratings less than 4.5
> pick the worst rated ones
> build it better

find gaps, fix them.

[Nikhil Akki @nikhilakki]

analysis using research platform - @appllamaio

[Nikhil Akki @nikhilakki]

$19.99 a year. $29.99 forever.

that's alpenglow. sunsafe does $39.99 a year, $69.99 forever.

both hide the lifetime behind a second paywall screen you only reach by tapping away from the trial.

they're selling it to people who already said no.

at 1.5x you're capping your best customers at one payment. worth it?

[Nikhil Akki @nikhilakki]

i did this research using appllama (https://t.co/yvj0Kk3QIu)

[Nikhil Akki @nikhilakki]

ios lets you ask for notification permission once. per install.

say no and the app can never ask again.

forest asks its own question first-a fake push preview and two buttons: "remind me" or "maybe later."

tap maybe later and the real prompt never fires.

the one shot stays unspent.

most apps ask on launch and burn it on a stranger.

[Nikhil Akki @nikhilakki]

@jaimintf

[jaimin @jaimintf]

If you're building an iOS app, save these 5 agent skills:

> expo/skills - best practices
> Appllama/appllama-skills - app creation
> emilkowalski/skills - animations
> vercel-labs/agent-skills - performance
> twostraws/SwiftUI-Agent-Skill - SwiftUI

What skill did I miss? ↓

[jaimin @jaimintf]

just launched https://t.co/iNaJ61tHHI 🚀

find the top flows, designs and data from highest earning iOS apps

you don't have to outbid. not a ponzi :)

[Nikhil Akki @nikhilakki]

@jaimintf I like DIN

[jaimin @jaimintf]

Some of my favourite fonts.

(studied from 850+ top iOS apps on appllama)

[Nikhil Akki @nikhilakki]

$1.29M/month. six apps. all the same app.

coinsnap → notesnap → vinylsnap → foilsnap → starsnap → antiqsnap

one mechanic: point camera at thing, get told what it's worth.

next vision found it in 2022 and has been swapping the noun ever since.

four of the six shipped in one four-month window last year.

same skeleton each time.

welcome, onboarding, 1 paywall screen, scan.

stop hunting for an original idea. build the factory.

[jaimin @jaimintf]

Save this skill if you want to create high quality iOS apps

trained on 850+ apps and 35,000+ screens from https://t.co/25YlQDDM2s

give it any screen and it can recreate the:
> motion
> animations
> typography
> visual system

put an end to ai slop. more ↓

[Nikhil Akki @nikhilakki]

$8M a month from 200k downloads.

that's $40 per install. most apps never clear $5.

gamechanger's trick: the person doing all the work never pays.

paywall = 1 screen. team setup = 13 screens.

straight from their store listing "coaches can access premium features for FREE."

because every roster a coach builds pulls in 15 families at $99/year to watch their kid.

you don't monetize the user. you monetize who the user brings.

research data - https://t.co/XpfLuW82rx

[Nikhil Akki @nikhilakki]

@ns123abc time to switch to cursor / codex

[Nikhil Akki @nikhilakki]

@mattshumer_ yes sort off, for the last couple of hours claude code is erroring out (529) but claude desktop works.

[Nikhil Akki @nikhilakki]

most app builders try to hide the exit on their paywall.

the apps making money do the opposite.

i went through paywall screens across 841 top-grossing apps today.

the pattern that keeps repeating: a "remind me before my trial ends" toggle sitting directly above the buy button.

picturethis ($12M/month) pairs it with a cancel link in the top corner visible before the price is.

they're not selling the subscription.

they're selling the exit, because what blocks the tap isn't the price, it's the fear of forgetting to cancel.

make leaving easy and more people are willing to start.

research data - https://t.co/XpfLuW82rx