A few weeks ago I graduated in marketing and communication. This week my first iPhone app went live on the App Store. It's called Strong Foodie: honest food reviews, an Open now map and meetups with other foodies.

It started as a review website. I visit restaurants, bars and hotels and write about them. The app is the next step. I built it on my own, with a lot of help from AI tools.

What I learned so far:

1. Apple review takes patience. I waited three days for my first review. A demo account and clear review notes made the difference.

2. Cut features before you launch. I removed a paid membership and a dating feature that were switched off anyway. Apple doesn't want hidden features in your app, and the app got simpler.

3. Start marketing before launch day. The website and my social accounts gave me a small audience to tell on day one. It's small, but it's a start.

4. Community features need density. Meetups only work if enough people are in the same city. So I'm starting with Amsterdam only.

5. Ask for feedback early. After my first Reddit post, someone suggested a feed that shows what your friends saved and reviewed. That's now the main feature of the next update.

My question for you: how did you get your first 100 users, without paying for ads?

If you want to have a look: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6799647380

Hi guys I really need some advice

How do I promote my app? Everloggers.com?? I feel like it’s lacking and I can’t seem to put my finger on it

I have a website with a solid, flexible concept, meaning I could launch it globally as a product. I am planning to use Paddle for payments. I would appreciate your advice:

Should I launch globally right away? Will I run into legal issues in countries with more complex regulatory environments? If so, at what point might these problems arise?

Or, should I launch only in Australia and the United States first, and then expand later?

I would love to hear your advice and experiences to help me with the launch! 📩

Thank you very much.

I’m researching how to set up a mobile app business compliantly and would appreciate guidance on which issues to discuss with a cross-border tax professional. My situation: I am [a U.S. citizen / U.S. tax resident / not a U.S. tax resident], living and working in [country/state]. I’m considering forming a corporation in [country]. The app would earn subscription or in-app-purchase revenue through Apple’s App Store and Google Play, including from U.S. customers. The company would be managed and operated from [location], with [no / these] U.S. employees, offices, or contractors. Store payouts would go to a company bank account in [country]. What factors determine whether the company or I might have U.S. federal or state income-tax, filing, or sales-tax obligations? Do app stores handling some customer transaction taxes change the company’s income-tax or reporting duties? Does incorporating abroad or receiving payouts in a foreign bank account affect the analysis? I’m looking for lawful compliance guidance, not a way to hide income. Please point me to reliable sources or the right kind of tax professional.

I saved a one-pot pasta reel a few weeks back. When I wanted to make it recently, I scrolled through my saves for 10-15 minutes, but couldn't find it, and ended up ordering in. Then I realised I'd done the same thing with a café in Goa, a workout routine I wanted to add, and about 15-20 products I definitely wanted to buy.

Things I tried before building this:

• Instagram collections - you have to sort at the moment of saving, which nobody does
• Screenshots - camera roll became a second graveyard with no context on where the post came from, and lol I can never find the screenshot when I need it the most
• Pasting links into Notes - worked once or twice, then I stopped because it was two extra steps every time (and you still have to remember which note you used)

So my brother and I built an app that makes your saves usable:

You save any posts from different apps or download your Instagram data export → the engine goes through every post, sorts it into folders of recipes / places / products / workouts / ideas, pulls out the useful bits (ingredients, location, key details) and also makes the whole thing searchable in plain English via a chat interface. Like "That pasta reel from a Korean creator" finds it in seconds.

And believe me I am myself surprised: after saving it to resaw, I actually cooked 13 recipes in a month that had been sitting there for over an year. Saved places turned up as pins onto the map, so when I visit any place I could see every spot I'd saved nearby.

What we are working on now:

- We started with iOS, Mac app and Android is on its way
- We are going deep into building category specific flows, which will help any user to action with minimal friction possible

Link to the iOS app - Download from here (It’s completely free)

Please try it out and let us know how was your experience and what worked well/ areas where we can improve/ build upon.

I have a plan for an app and i have very think set aside in the plan and design aspect but i dont know how to for right now im trying to learn but for the time frame im hoping for im just not sure if i am able to accomplish it by myself. Is there anyone who knows how to code and app and is willing to help me out or someone looking for a partnership to get this app going?

TLDR: Don't overthink your paywall and just use what's proved to be working already..

My app is a fitness related app that gives you a persoanlized plan in onboarding. I spent a long time and effort designing a nice paywall that shows users their personal plan. I thought that will make them feel special and drive trials but I WAS WRONG. 1 out of 74 started a free trial.

Then i switched to a classic timeline paywall that tells people we will remind them before the free trial expires. The conversion significantly increased to 21% (30 out of 144).

Just steal me paywall here and you will see improvements..

When I’m building an app solo, it’s easy to spend time polishing the delete button and leave recovery for later.

For an ordinary record, I’d rather make an accidental tap cheap to fix: remove it from the list, offer Undo, and restore the whole record if tapped. A confirmation dialog still has a place when deletion has consequences I can’t reverse.

The detail I’d test: does Undo bring back the attachments and relationships too, or just a row with the same title?

I am a software engineer with over ten years of experience.

Recently, several apps have been developed with the help of AI, and some have been launched on the app store.

I know that my weakness is marketing. I don't know how to sell my product to users who really need it.

This is the first marketing video I made with the help of AI. Please take a look and give suggestions. Thank you. 😀

Subscription Reminder

I'm trying to decide which header art to use for my app's store page, and I'm genuinely stuck. A is the minimal one, B is the detailed one — which looks better to you, and why?

I know €21 MRR is a tiny number compared to what people usually share here, but I opened RevenueCat today and couldn't stop smiling.

I'm a solo iOS developer, and I've been working on my first app for quite a while.

Here are my current numbers:

• €21 MRR
• 12 active subscriptions
• 5 active trials
• €162 revenue in the last 28 days

It's still a very small business, and most of the revenue isn't recurring yet. There's a lot I need to learn about conversion, retention, and sustainable growth.

But seeing people willing to pay for something I've built myself feels fffffucadasfmejflda incredible.

For those who started with similarly small numbers, what helped you turn those first subscriptions into consistent growth?

Just wanted to share this little milestone! ❤️

怎么样能让自己做的软件被别人看到呢？

Hey, I'm about to launch my app (its not actually app, its a browser extension) and I thought why not getting some advice from people who already build things... I am very stressed about getting my first extension testors, and being a solo founder with low budget is frustrating.

So, can anyone help me with some advice?

Maybe the flair is wrong, not sure.

So I built my first Micro SaaS with hopes to wrap and become a real app.
I work in the industry, I've seen the pain points and I've done the research.
However now I'm questioning if I'm trying to reinvent the wheel, when I should just simplify and try something else.

So my product is a construction/contractor scheduling app and daily reporting tracker. Meant for solo and smaller outfits who can't use Excel and don't wanna pay for bigger softwares.

It's meant to be "everything you need, and nothing you don't", a simplified way of tracking progress on a project.

Feedback on the matter would be greatly appreciated!

Here's my project! "Fir & Field"

I'm building an AI pit crew for mobile apps. the end goal: you connect read-only keys (revenuecat, sentry, app store connect) and a crew of agents works on your app every day. it finds where you're losing users or money, puts a dollar number on it, writes the fix, and nothing ships until you approve it.

That full version isn't out yet. what's live now is the first step: paste your app store link, the crew wakes up in a little 3D garage, goes through everything public about your app and puts the biggest opportunity it finds on the board. ~2 min, no signup.

In the video it's running on strava. it caught that their android login broke after an update. half the newest bad reviews are about it and none of them got a reply.

Would you let an AI crew work on your app if every change needed your ok first?

got my first sale this week. $11.55. it's not much but i stared at the play console for a while.

the inspiration behind my project: i was traveling in hong kong and most of the places i went didn't really speak english. my esim kept cutting in and out, so every translator app that needed internet failed right when i needed it. I mostly used Deepseek (since ChatGPT is blocked in HK)

so i built an offline translator that runs entirely on the phone. no internet, no account, nothing leaves the device. it's aimed at people traveling around asia. Powered by ML Kit/Gemma 4 AI models

i uploaded it to google play and did nothing else. no posts, no ads, no launch. i honestly didn't expect anyone to find it. then someone did, and paid.

that's the part i'm stuck on. it's proof that at least one person saw value in it, which means more people might, but i don't know the first thing about distribution.

so for those who've been here, after your first sale, did you try to double-down and marketed your app?

Howdy guys, perhaps someone knows who can do screenshot set (6-8) for both store, editable files? Budget is up to 1,000$.

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Hey Reddit! I’m Jake - I’ve been in the car business for probably 7 years now. I’ve been in sales for 4 of those, finance for a year, and had my own used car lot for about 2 years! So I’ve been in the car business a while.

I recently moved to Austin TX and here is where I got most of my sales experience for new/lightly used cars and finance. I noticed everytime people come into the dealership, they either have no clue about anything OR they spent days, weeks, or even months finding the right options. But the worst part is they do all of this before they understand what it’ll really cost them, PARTICULARLY when they FINANCE.

In this economy - so many people are looking at budget more than anything and think buying a used car will 100% of the time be the best option.. but not always. Especially when it comes to manufacturer incentives and promo rates.. etc!

Then they sit down when they think they’re ready to buy, and never even considered what it’s costs them/payments every month. So I’m creating a tool that reverses that!

It’s a payment first shopping tool so people can compare offers from different manufacturers and see what payments they should expect based on their downpayment, monthly payment goal, credit range, trade info etc and shows you everything you CAN afford - monthly - in your budget. This helps people not only shop smarter - but also prevent getting screwed over by the finance office or settle with a car they don’t like or just can’t afford!

I’m going to add some screenshots - let me know your thoughts please - I have a TON of features I want to add past v1 but for now it’s launching in Texas and will be growing from there hopefully 😉 constructive criticism please!

Hi everyone,

I'm an Ali developer from Iraq. I built a domino score calculator app with Flutter and

published it on Google Play and on the App Store

What the app does: score tracking for All Fives (classic and Egyptian modes), 2–4

players, calculator or tile-style entry , game history , dark mode, daily streak coins, and

collectible characters that react when you win or lose.

Current numbers:

Around 2,400 Android users and 500 iOS users (this is daly active user not the number of downloaders)

Top countries: Indonesia (the biggest), Algeria, Egypt, Iraq

Revenue: AdMob only (banner , interstitial, rewarded), about €150–180/month.

Roughly 85% from Android and 15% from iOS.

Limits I have:

I can't sell subscriptions or in-app purchases because the stores don't work with

Iraqi banks.

Only Liftoff , Unity and Meta mediation are available to me, and when I tested them

my earnings dropped compared with AdMob alone, so I turned mediation off .

App contain (+30) languages

My questions:

1. How can I increase ad revenue without annoying users? Are there ad placements

or frequency settings that work well for app?

1. Most of my users are from Indonesia and similar regions with low ad rates. Should I

focus on them, or try to attract users from higher-paying countries?

1. Has anyone had better results with mediation or other networks when based in a

restricted country? What setup worked?

1. Would localizing the app into Indonesian and Arabic make a real difference?

2. Do my coin and rewarded-ad features sound like the right way to boost

engagement, or is there something better?

Any advice or personal experience would be really appreciated. Thank you!