Robert Maeda

Building a wishlist app: Japanese and Tagalog

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

Built this furigana generator in 2024, pre-vibe coding. Just something fun to help with learning Japanese. Then a couple months ago I used cursor to add translation.

Trying to think of what else I can build to make language learning easier for me

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

@terencebuilds And gonna make YouTube accounts for shorts today too. Hopefully a bit more reach there

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

And don’t sleep on reels for marketing

Same 5 view video on TikTok is currently at 485 on Instagram.

Gonna keep trying and failing so I can learn and get better at app marketing

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

Short video that wasn’t really niche-targeted: 5 views (probably only 2-3 from the for you page)

Video more aligned with the content I’ve been liking for account warmup: 833 views, 52 likes, 7 saves

TikTok is annoying tho cuz my “better” video on another account is stuck at 0

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

Short video that wasn’t really niche-targeted: 5 views (probably only 2-3 from the for you page)

Video more aligned with the content I’ve been liking for account warmup: 833 views, 52 likes, 7 saves

TikTok is annoying tho cuz my “better” video on another account is stuck at 0

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

@Harshit01631557 Nice bro, someday I’ll start YouTube 😮‍💨

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

Finally got the courage to film a ugc video with me in it. I’ll post after a few more days of warmup

Getting out of my comfort zone to make things work

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

@aidevpreneur Account status is all good, but still stuck at 0-2 views for subsequent videos

Gonna keep at it but also try posting the same stuff on a new account (with minor tweaks)

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

Just posted video number two… couldn’t get AI UGC quite right so trying faceless content

Hopefully I can bust out of view jail 😮‍💨

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

@enricooenzo Are you gonna try to maintain the first app at all? Or just let it run its course

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

PLEASE stop making these AI-generated food posters for your business...

I'd rather see iphone 3 quality pics instead of this creepy burger

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

Still 2 views is hilarious actually

I was upset for a minute but this is just good feedback to research, tweak and get better

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

Just posted video number two… couldn’t get AI UGC quite right so trying faceless content

Hopefully I can bust out of view jail 😮‍💨

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

@kaynesheenan Manifesting my move to Japan to use the app ~

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

@aidevpreneur Are you creating the image of the person first and then doing image-to-video?

I was trying that method out but the results weren’t too good 🥲 I think I just suck at prompting tho

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

AI UGC is tough, been playing around with fal ai since I don't have the budget for arcads 🥲

So close to just making my own content and putting my face in the videos

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

Finally made and posted the first tiktok for marketing my app.

Gonna try out a few formats, but just gotta stay consistent!

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

@aidevpreneur Yeah have a few published, I guess I’ll try again lol

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

@marcusleovn Love this bro keep building, also building the exact future that I want

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

@arnavthecurator @kr0der @ChadAppDev 😂😂😂

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

@Jbm_dev Just started so too early to say, pins have been getting clicks but no outbound clicks

The flow would be pin -> blog post with signup cta

[Robert Maeda @robmaeda3]

@Jbm_dev Mainly tiktok, and a little bit of pinterest for my wishlist app!