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If you measure success by active users I doubt it will become popular but the meditation habit can absolutely be families until it becomes natural.
Attempting to hijack your brain's reward centers as a way to succeed with a meditation app is kind of tone-deaf. At the same time I don't think it would be successful either - does anyone really care about building a fictional garden? The whole things strikes me as doing the wrong thing and probably failing at it too. They should have leaned more into the journaling / gratitude /overall mental health aspect - at leas…
> does anyone really care about building a fictional garden? I think the market already answered your question, given that some of the most popular video games from the past few years have been based around gardening and farming.
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If you could explain to me how you would make a instant gratified, phone addicted population on board with the idea of sitting down and doing absolutely nothing for 10 minutes every single day, while also simultaneously making it a non profit Im all ears.
Let's start with respecting your potential users and not fitting them into some phone junkies stereotype. And as others have pointed out, Meditating should be rewarding in and of itself, if done right.
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Appreciate the feedback and will definitely keep these in mind. Content such as blog posts take months to years for anything to come into fruition. A single 15 second tik tok talking about the app can get millions of hits within a 24 hour window. Not saying this will happen, but it has the highest risk/reward ratio and bang for buck. Almost sounds like I'm playing at a casino, but will keep you updated on this I also…
You seem to be very focused on blog posts both in your post in and your reply, as if the only options are blogging and paying TikTok influencers, and there's nothing in between -- but there are tons of options for content that aren't blogging. Blogging was never a very good marketing strategy, even back when blogs were still popular and the SEO was still easy. And I still think you're putting way too much emphasis on…
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You seem to be very focused on blog posts both in your post in and your reply, as if the only options are blogging and paying TikTok influencers, and there's nothing in between -- but there are tons of options for content that aren't blogging. Blogging was never a very good marketing strategy, even back when blogs were still popular and the SEO was still easy. And I still think you're putting way too much emphasis on…
I recommend listening to the sub club podcast (founders of revenue cat) but multiple app founders that have gone on to the podcast this past year have said they have literally gone from unranked to being in the top 100 of the App Store thanks to this “virality”. Almost all agree it’s one of the best marketing funnels right now and one of the best to invest into if your app is new. If your app is some B2B software the…
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> does anyone really care about building a fictional garden? I think the market already answered your question, given that some of the most popular video games from the past few years have been based around gardening and farming.
Yes, but those games are made to distract you, the opposite of mindfulness, ie being present in the now.
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Let's start with respecting your potential users and not fitting them into some phone junkies stereotype. And as others have pointed out, Meditating should be rewarding in and of itself, if done right.
Lol says the one bashing all of civilization instead of doing something about it. Not bashing my users just trying to follow your brilliant logic. I understand people should be meditating for the act itself, the app is suppose to help users stick with the habit until they make that realization themselves. Meditation isn’t something that is instantly gratifying so why should people stick with it? Unless they’re extrem…
If meditation is not instantly gratifying for you, let's not extrapolate that to everyone. Every craftsman needs to respect the craft and the eventual user. Thinking of your user as some dumb person with no agency is extremely counter productive.
I understand that you're trying to help people: You've posted an idea and people have pointed out why that might do the opposite of what you're trying to achieve.
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Let's start with respecting your potential users and not fitting them into some phone junkies stereotype. And as others have pointed out, Meditating should be rewarding in and of itself, if done right.
Lol says the one bashing all of civilization instead of doing something about it. Not bashing my users just trying to follow your brilliant logic. I understand people should be meditating for the act itself, the app is suppose to help users stick with the habit until they make that realization themselves. Meditation isn’t something that is instantly gratifying so why should people stick with it? Unless they’re extrem…