I recently crossed 1,000 active paid subscriptions from my apps! Crazy that it’s been just a year since I started developing them. The last 4 months have been really difficult health-wise, so I feel blessed to have time for myself while still gaining new subscriptions.

For everyone asking how I got 150k organic downloads per month, here are the top 10 things that worked for me: 1. Pick niches with proven demand, but that aren’t hyper-saturated. If a niche is too crowded, ranking gets much harder. Being early in a growing niche can give you a great advantage for a very long time. I took advantage of this for several of my apps. 2. Don’t build for months. Ship an MVP fast, ideally in less than 3 weeks. Speed matters way more than perfection early on. But on the other hand, don’t build AI slop in 2 days without properly testing the app either. 3. Don’t obsess over one app. If it doesn’t work after multiple real attempts, move on and use what you learned on the next one. 4. Every new app should be faster to build and better than the last. 5. If you don’t do paid marketing, avoid hard paywalls. Hard paywalls can crush retention, and weak retention hurts ASO. My apps all use the freemium model, and a few of them are completely free. 6. Localize more than just the app title. Localize subtitles, keywords, screenshots, and ideally the app itself. AI makes this much faster now. 7. App Screenshots matter a lot. People won’t download an app with weak or ugly screenshots. Good presentation is part of the product. 8. Don’t build for a niche that doesn’t exist. The App Store is mature. In most cases, it’s smarter to go after proven demand than to try to invent demand from scratch. 9. Be patient. Give ASO time. Don’t change metadata and panic 3 days later. Let title, subtitle, and keyword updates sit long enough before judging them. 10. Retention matters more than people think. Getting downloads is one thing. Keeping users is what makes organic growth last and is to me the #1 ASO hack. That’s basically the framework I still follow to this day.

I literally said “hello” to Claude Code and it used 20% of my Max plan on a one-line reply 😭 Is this a bug or did @AnthropicAI just quietly nerf usage?

I swear Apple's status page is maintained by one intern whose only job is to make sure every dot stays green no matter what. Services on fire? Green. Certificates broken? Green. All good bro 🟢🟢🟢

I still can’t believe Apple did this… App Store search is now Ad → Organic → Ad. Two ads in the first three results is insane. And if you were ranking #2 organically? Congrats, you’re actually ranking #4 now... ASO just got quietly nerfed.

Got our first “3rd-party AI data sharing” rejection from Apple. Need explicit permission clear disclosure (what data which AI provider). Anyone have a consent screen that passes review and doesn’t tank conversion? Pls share 🙏

Anyone having issues with @RevenueCat ? Even the mobile app stopped working ?

6 months of testing later… my friend and I finally got Meta to click: ~4x return over the last 7 days 📈 Next bottleneck: creatives. We want to hire a performance creative / motion designer for high-converting mobile app video ads. Any recs or platforms to find top people?

Agreed. The amount of undisclosed rork ads in the mobile app community has exploded this past month. It got to the point where I literally had to mute the word. Trust doesn’t survive when half the feed is ads pretending to be opinions.

Nano Banana Pro is freaking insane... I still can't believe how actually good it is

All I wanna know is how good Gemini 3 is when it comes to coding in SwiftUI. Has anyone tested it yet ?

I was enjoying too much Sora 2 Pro so of course they had to nerf it. Was 5 concurrent generations, reduced to 3 now. Guess in 2 days it's going to be 1 only...