I thought Cursorβs $20 plan was incredibly generous. But now Iβm in month 2 and Iβm hitting the 100% limit way faster than in my first month.
Is this a new-subscriber move, or did Cursor officially lower the limits recently and I missed it?
Glam Up hit $1.8m ARR in 8 months.
Sprout hit $3m ARR in 7 months.
The key to that was our UGC playbook.
I'm finally dropping the playbook and lowkey I'm scared to drop this. You'll understand why once you read it.
It's gonna be three parts but here's part 1. Part 1 itself is 40 pages long.
I made sure it's tactical advice and upfront with no BS.
Bonus: repost + reply 'warmup' and I'll DM you the Account Setup + Warmup module from our internal creator course.
Must be following so I can DM.
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π¨ SAUCE ALERT π¨
I've roasted hundreds of apps live in our Adapty discord for free
I'm sharing the most common mistakes and the reasoning why they should be avoided
most of the apps roasted are new apps with almost no traffic/no ratings btw
1/ free trial + freemium
offering both is terrible.
a new app likely lack of usefulness and users will see everything there is to see in a few minutes then either cancel their trial or delete the app
I stand by "hard paywall + no trial + no freemium" for newly released apps from inexperienced app makers
that's what I did with stoppr and I've reached $5K revenue in 2 weeks
don't try to balance out a "low usefulness" app by offering too much of a discount to try it out
2/ bad UI/UX
some screens aren't pretty and it's near impossible for makers to know that if they didn't download and test many successful apps + analysed why they're great.
make a claude skill with the screenshots from very successful apps in your niche and explain for each why they're great
you can find them on https://t.co/JCKxmnPm2G for example (ps: I'm not affiliated)
3/ less than 10 ASO screenshots
why?
apple scans the text from your screenshots to index your app in its search results.
it's free real estate
you should use all available real estate
if you don't have enough features to show them across 10 aso screenshots.. then be creative... you can split a phone canva across 2 or even 3 aso screens - and for each a unique title/subtitle
4/ no aso video
adding a promo 10-15s animated aso video in my ASO led to a much higher download rate
people like watching videos and they'll see how your app looks like with animations etc without even downloading it
this reinforces their intent to download your app
5/ offering a trial to everyone
why offering a trial to users coming from paid ads?
usually those are more qualified and with stronger intent.
try trial for users coming from organic content and no trial for users coming from paid ads.
6/ no post-onboarding interactive flow
if you don't explain your users how each feature works, what each sub-menu does, etc etc, some will get confused
add a quick post-onboarding interactive flow to overcome their doubts and confusions.
especially if your app usefulness isn't clear enough and you're offering a freemium.. and they get confused how to use it... don't expect them to subscribe
7/ asking questions in the onboarding.. just for the sake of asking them..
would be best if you actually re-use some of your users' onboarding answers in your onboarding later
it makes them feel heard and understood
immense bonus point if you also use that data in the paywall to personalise the paywall to what they say they need from your app !!
8/ low speed of execution
I've roasted apps from makers who attended the roast live on thursday and they attended again on monday
I've asked them if they shipped their new app version with my recommendations
they said no for various reasons
you're competing with youngsters and leviathans apps moving at lightening speed and.. speed is what prevents a crashing plane to actually crash down
speed gives enough time for the plane to adjust and avoid a catastrophe
we're 6+ months away from anyone to one-shot prompt any app being at the UI/UX level of cal ai, quittr, oasis, etc
I don't say to NOT sleep - I say get your priorities straight because this window opportunity is once in a lifetime and certainly won't repeat
9/ there are many more mistakes I've seen that can be fixed and avoided easily
I'll write the full list on our discord -> link is in the first comment of this post
namaste