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I made a prayer lock app for Hindus.

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I made an app that locks your apps behind Bhagavad Gita verses.

144 pickups. 7+ hours of screen time. 0 shlokas. That was me. Every day.

Tried Screen Time limits, bypassed in 3 seconds. Tried willpower, doesn't survive past 11pm.

So I stopped fighting the habit and redirected it.

MantraLock uses Apple's Screen Time API to actually block your apps. Not a timer you can dismiss. Not a reminder you can swipe away. A real lock.

2 minutes of sadhana before every scroll. That's it.

Christians have 6+ prayer lock apps. Muslims have 6+. Hindus had 0.

Not anymore.

https://t.co/x7doGud1Kn

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everyone is a content creator in gods infinite scroll

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Only time indian rupee goes up is in cricket match toss

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@iScienceLuvr @AndyHow07099846 Turn off your notifications :)

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@striver_79 The internet is not decentralized and that’s why this started

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@Sarv_shaktiman @opengotchi W gotchi congratulations

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My take on why apps for India is more challenging.

But giving up was never an option.

https://t.co/iknU6qvNEe

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india is a low trust society

hard paywalls (even with free trials) don't work in India

India relies on UPI.

outside India people rely heavily on cards for all purchases - food, travel, and everything.

so approving an in app card transaction is comes as a natural move for them

in india - if someone offers something for free we start think of ways in which they are trying to fuck us over

so now https://t.co/x7doGud1Kn has a free trial with 0 payment upfront.

what works in the west just won't work anywhere. that's why I've made the attempt to hyperlocalize mantralock.

10 local languages, onboarding, payments everything catering to an indian persona.

trust must be earned.

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mantralock (prayer lock app for hindus) month 2:

→ 1112 users
→ $94 revenue
→ $29 MRR
→ at 90th build now

making indians pay is final boss distribution

experimented a lot with the onboarding, freemium vs hard paywall. here's what's working so far ⬇️

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Distribution:
1) Tried TikTok ads (but the audience app is Indians/Hindus so nuked some money)

2) Instagram influencers and niche pages - good for downloads but Indians hesitate to pay.

3) Meta ads (targeted outside India) - best downloads and conversion

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optimistic delusion + obsessive action type shit

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before fishing the bait must be fucking perfect

and this is not about fishing bro

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know your strengths and double down on them

ego will come in the way to make friends with your weakness

but there is limited time friend, it's double or nothing

go hard on your strengths, there is a bliss in accepting the weaknesses

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@bryan_johnson 1% microbe final boss

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@Manishkumar040 Jai hind

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@Manishkumar040 The same society is happy once you show enough material success - even from a process that they never imagined

Fuck society

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@Manishkumar040 Society keeps trying to make stupid games for us to win stupid prizes

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@CasperInChain Gn bro

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@ereniroh What was the number of onboarding screens before and after?

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nasa brings back pictures from the space to inspire humanity

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@Ahmedcreatives Just like there is temperature for llm responses from 0 to 1 for deterministic or non deterministic responses

I feel the scale goes from 0 to infinity for anything creative because subjectiveness and taste is involved

So im on the other side of the argument