Exploring UI and building apps, Product@RevenueCat
Joined March 2009
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Jun 11
"They are still too difficult. What I want is write a thing on the screen rather than have to interpret it in a (programming) language"
It took 34 years but we're finally here now!
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Jun 5
I launched my app with a monthly subscription because it felt like the obvious choice.
Then I started seeing a lot of people on X recommending weekly subscriptions instead.
Rather than blindly making the switch, I decided to run my first RevenueCat experiment and test both options to see what actually works for my app.
The experiment has been running for a few weeks now. It’s still too early to draw final conclusions but I’ve already gathered some valuable insights.
ALWAYS RUN EXPERIMENTS ON YOUR PAYWALL
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Apr 24
Our AI editor for Paywalls is now available to everyone!
It's pretty cool.
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Apr 17
Okay this is *crazy*
An agent running entirely on iPad* that can control any app
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Apr 2
Having lots of fun setting up hermes as our family assistant. What's up Alfredo?!
hermes-agent.nousresearch.co…
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Mar 22
Build this with my kids (5 and 8) in two hours. They're huge Pokémon fans so it's obviously Pokémon themed and a game. They had so much fun! When I told the older one that we used to type the lines Claude Code was producing by hand, he was very much in disbelieve and thought I was pulling his leg.
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Mar 22
The game is here if you want to take a break from t-rexes jumping over cactuses.
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Mar 16
Six weeks ago, I fell down the OpenClaw rabbit hole. One of my experiments was to give it an API key for one of my RevenueCat apps, and I was blown away.
It made things that would take minutes in the dashboard take seconds. With no handholding.
Immediately I started productionizing it, building my first production feature for RevenueCat in 5 years (with some help from some friends). Using codex claude code, we quickly built up a prototype which is in private beta right now: Rico, our first in-house agent.
revenuecat.com/feature/ai-ag…
It's clear to me now that CRUD software won't be enough anymore. Many interactions with software that were once tedious become magical if you just pour some tokens on it. We will need to reinvent much of what it means to be a SaaS. It will require new thinking, and RevenueCat needs to get there fast.
We now have several agentic features in the works, and I think it's just the beginning. RevenueCat of today is the brain stem, AI and agents are the neocortex we will layer on top to create a truly powerful, thinking machine that will help any developer make more money, autonomously.
As part of that we need help. We're catching up quickly here, learning how to build and deploy agentic systems. But we need to build a team, and I'm looking for the first product engineer to own how intelligence is built into RevenueCat. You'll work directly with me, @elwatto and others to bring the vision to life.
Apply, or send me a DM with the craziest AI system you've built
jobs.ashbyhq.com/revenuecat/…
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Mar 11
"I think Claude Shannon’s spirit is probably proud to know that his name is now being associated with such advances. Hats off to Claude!"
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Vibe coding has unleashed a torrent of new iOS apps in the app store.
After basically zero growth for the past three years, new app releases surged 60% yoy in December (and 24% on a trailing twelve month basis).
Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-we…
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Feb 28
We're less than two weeks away from the 2026 State of Subscription Apps launch
Like we did last year, @drbarnard invited the world's leading voices in b2c apps to join him on @SubClubHQ for 11 mini episodes,
Kicking off with @omooretweets from @a16z:
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Feb 27
Everyone is talking about the death of consumer apps in the vibe coding era.
But at @a16z, I see B2C AI startups growing and retaining users better than every before.
My takeaways on how consumer founders succeed in the AI era 👇
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Feb 25
Hear me out: Tinder but instead of profiles you get demo videos to swipe on.
Feb 24
Cursor now shows you demos, not diffs.
Agents can use the software they build and send you videos of their work.
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Feb 20
Feeling the urge to revive my wacom tablet to quickly annotate screens I'm feeding into claude et al.
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Feb 11
I built a Mac app that takes screenshots every 3min and creates a video of the day for me which I revisit for reflection. Planning on feeding that to an AI next to act as my coach. Tell me times I seem to be low energy and distracted, workflows I could improve on etc.
Feb 11
the most valuable openclaw wrapper would be an agent that watches you work for a week, learns everything you do, then does 90% of your job autonomously. i see 100s of new clawskills on github every day, but that is bottom up. a true top-down would be your agent continually learning from your actions. that's the next unicorn. who's building this?
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Feb 11
My experience installing and fixing computers for my entire family, neighbors and friend's mom's cousins might come in handy at last!
Feb 10
The opportunity to onboard "normal people" to the latest AI is much bigger than I originally thought.
Honestly, $100k per month feels low.
In a high income city, it could be a $10m business.
To validate it, I tried to stand up an AI Assistant by myself (as a tech novice). It was painful.
Here's what I did:
0. Phoned a tech friend to get basic steps
1. Bought a Mac Mini
2. Created a Claude Developer Account
3a. Factory reset old iPhone
3b. Created a new phone line for iPhone
4. Created a new email address
5. Created a new iCloud account
6. Used EasyClaw for setup
That took me about six hours, but I had a functional AI assistant by the end of it. It was fun feeling like an idiot. I like being an embarrassing beginner.
A bunch of pain points to solve (for anyone who wants to build in this space):
- I had no idea what I needed. I called a friend and annoyed him for an hour to figure that out in the first place. People don't know what they don't know.
- I don't know what "Terminal" is and had never used it. Running commands there was totally foreign to me and I made dumb mistakes (like thinking it wasn't working because I was typing my password and it wasn't showing).
- I really wanted to understand security and how to keep this new unit completely walled off from my other systems. It took me a while to make sure I was doing all of that properly and how to maintain that integrity going forward.
- I had no understanding of tokens, usage limits, and how to think about that usage going forward.
- Connections and integrations of tools (like iMessage) were not intuitive at all.
- No understanding of best practices for prompting, training, etc. The ongoing improvements would be great as a recurring stream after the initial deployment.
Those are just my initial reactions off the top of my head. I'm sure I'll have more as I continue to play with it.
P.S. We're definitely living in the future. I got my AI Assistant to text my wife that I was coming down for dinner. She rolled her eyes at me when I got downstairs. THE FUTURE PEOPLE!
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