willwat

Solo dev. Building apps and tools.

[willwat @will_e30]

Entire social marketing pipeline got nuked overnight for one app, no views on tt, ig, fb and yt on accounts thats are months old. Pretty sure something with US vpn/vps got flagged. Switched to proxies, warming up for a few days then will try posting again and see whats up. 😅

[willwat @will_e30]

@razanismai7 @seraleev aso + seo + geo+ organic social

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@appmaxxing Nice congrats

[willwat @will_e30]

@seraleev Never been able to get a transaction abandonment offer approved, ive tried just a one time “tasteful” offer, always rejected.

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@athcanft Auto mode?

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@mariosaputra Very cool

[willwat @will_e30]

One of my apps got banned on play store again, just random out of nowhere ban with screenshots showing it crash on onboarding where users cant get into the app. I cant replicate and there a tons of users that can get into the app with iap/subs working. 😢

[willwat @will_e30]

I had this brilliant idea: add user sign in to one of my mobile apps to collect emails, then email discount codes to bring users from mobile to the web app version for platform derisk, more control, better pricing for users, more margin for me.

Result: got smoked, it didnt work

📉iOS users reaching paywall dropped from 89% to 50%
📉iOS rev decreased 50%
🚨iOS users were dropping off right at the signin screen
🤡$0 web app rev even with 20% lower prices + 25% discount code vs mobile after emailing 1000 users.

Not worth it, just removed auth completely from onboarding and shipped update on asc.

[willwat @will_e30]

Spent 8 hours trying to figure out why revcat paywall images wouldn't load AND unity ads would not load on android.

Router dns was set to 1.1.1.1, which was routing requests to a CDN edge my ISP couldn’t reach.

Switched router dns back to auto, everything works. fml. 😭

[willwat @will_e30]

@pcshipp I swiched to mac mini from mbp some months ago, better specs for the price.

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seo + geo for apps is underrated, chatgpt is was the #1 app referrer to one of my apps in may, chatgpt is also sending 2,000 visitors/m to the landing page for the app as well.

[willwat @will_e30]

@TerekhinIvan Congrats

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5 star reviews are rolling in on android.

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@upbeat_dev Nope, all my apps do, right after the demo/aha moment and Apple approved them all.

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@maks6361 Same, i work best in my home office vs anywhere else.

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Warning to all building with ai capabilities on mobile and using admob, whether text/img/vid make sure your moderation is bullet proof.

All it took was someone trying prompts over and over until one generated something not allowed, then they reported it to google and got my 14 year old admob/adsense account banned. Tried to appeal and it was denied.

Ive since added 7 layer moderation checks in all my apps that use ai 😂.

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@thepatwalls

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@mariosaputra im using clerk for my mobile and web apps, makes it pretty easy for cross platform logins, im using email/gmail/apple options.

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@charlesng116 Nice, I did same 8 months ago, good luck!