Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥

Building @copicakeapp 🍰 and @fightieapp 💪
Sharing my journey of being Ramen Profitable 3k MRR 🍜

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[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

I just discovered one of our valued paid users silently upgraded after hitting their plan's quota and this made me join the $100 MRR club 🥳

This fuels my courage and drives me to keep enhancing @copicakeapp for these remarkable users.

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[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

I was using @copicakeapp and trying to make some automations for my personal use, and noticed that without the grid system, it's quite inconvenient in some cases.

Eating your own dog food to enhance the product slowly!

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[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

@rkotzy @RevenueCat Thanks for the info @rkotzy ! Not sure whether I need to contact with the customer support for this or not, but at least right now the overall MTR is still below the 2500 limit, so I guessed it should be fine?

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

Based on the dashboard from @RevenueCat , it seems that the promo codes from App Store are tracked as part of MTR, but promo codes from Play Store are not part of it. (For lifetime one time product)

Has anyone witnessed the issue?

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

@y_nk @fightieapp You don’t need the main app to start exercise, each one works 😬

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

@y_nk @fightieapp Now you have no excuse to do exercises 😁😁

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

After 1.5 months of hard work, I finally released Fightie WOD officially to three different platforms :D

I also wanted to share a quick reflection on building this. I used React Native + Expo, and honestly, the ecosystem has come a long way! (It was chaos when I tried it 10 years ago)

If you're also thinking about cross-platform apps, I'd definitely encourage you to give it a try.

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[Fightie @fightieapp]

Finally, Fightie WOD is live on 3 platforms :)

🍎 iOS https://t.co/eBTUKwt7tf
🤖 Android https://t.co/0BYUIUDyuw
🌐 Web https://t.co/MjFhTWIpCM

Browse daily WODs, scale your workouts, and keep everything in your pocket.

Start training smarter today. 🔥

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

My AI designer works way better than I thought.

The previous version of @copicakeapp was a sh*t I would say, after comparing it with the new design now 😅

Everything looks way more promising now, better UI, better UX, and everything lol

👈 Before
👉 After

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[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

You need 14 testers to actively test your Android app for 2 weeks, meaning they have to interact with the app daily (not just install it and do nothing).

And all of this is only to get into the production review process. The app still isn't production-ready and could even get rejected.

What a painful process for deploying your app on Google Play for the first time! 😩

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[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

@y_nk yes

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

Revamped the settings page! Now subscription details are displayed correctly, and the new design looks way better.

Next up: integrating IAP on the app side, so the entire system works together seamlessly with support for both Paddle and App Store billing 😄

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[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

It's been a month, and finally, I have collected more than 1000+ training menus for @fightieapp to use.

I also set up an automation workflow to automatically upload a new menu to its Instagram account to boost traffic.

Everything is working like a charm :)

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[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

As someone who has spent years working as an engineer, it’s been challenging to shift into a business mindset.

No matter what, I have finally sent out my first cold email to potential sponsors to explore collaboration opportunities, and I hope to share good results soon!

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

@y_nk we'll see 😎

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

It's quite fun to utilize AI to analyze each workout and find out commonly used movements.

The result is - 88 movements are picked from 900+ records, not bad :)

The progress to polish your own dog food really feels good 💫

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[Fightie @fightieapp]

📣 You can now filter WODs by movements!

We've spent a lot of time analyzing every WOD to identify the most commonly used movements.

With this, you can easily find WODs that match your training environment!

#CrossFit #WOD #Fightie #HYROX

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

It seems that my strategy to build iOS/Android apps for @fightieapp WOD is slowly improving the website ranking!

I think a backlink from a major domain is much more valuable than several from smaller ones.

Will share more analytics data later if anyone is interested.

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Note: Domain Rating (DR) shows the strength of a domain’s backlink profile compared to the others in our database on a 100-point scale

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

I finally shipped the custom n8n node for @copicakeapp 🥹

Now Copicake works with both @make_hq and @n8n_io for automation!

Just keep shaping the product step by step :)

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[Copicake 🍰 @copicakeapp]

We just dropped Copicake for n8n! 🎉

Now you can generate images from templates inside your workflows! No code, no mess, just automation magic!

https://t.co/C3mCQqGjUm

#n8n #nocode #copicake #automation

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

@jasonleowsg Ramen profitable -> Takoyaki profitable 😂

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

@MartinBaunIT Finally someone said it out loud!!

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

@y_nk Hahaha sounds like another scary story 😆

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

@y_nk Ugh typo - that are “not” allowed to be tracked 🫠

[Ryu / Chia-Lung Chen 🔥 @ryuu_dev]

@y_nk The worst part is that the VP took the role and keep spamming everyone with tons of AI buzzwords and asked people in DM to do things that are allowed to be tracked by your EM or PM, so you even need to work on holidays and no one knows about it and he keeps pushing