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How to get your first 100k active users

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Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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Go true native, not hybrid Users don't care. Most of them can't tell.

And you're the reason I don't use very many phone apps. Developer apathy becomes user apathy. If you make great apps, your customers will be enthusiastic about using them. If you make mediocre apps, you will attract mediocre users, or no users at all.

You are most likely using some hybrid apps and you don't even know it. When done right, you pretty much can't tell.

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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This evening we got our 171st user for our wishlist-service. When we launched it 1 year ago we tried to get it out on different channels like Reddit and HN without much success, while we _did_ see success in just talking about it to friends and family, and had just over 100 users in January this year. Since then, we've done close to zero marketing, and it's been amazing to see new signups, wishlists and items being c…

I'm using a throwaway because I don't want this associated with my my main account, but a super valuable market for you here is sex workers. I used to be a camgirl, and a main source of income for a good chunk of camgirls is getting people to buy gifts off of wishlists. Usually people use Amazon's wishlist feature, but that obviously limits you to things that are on Amazon, which doesn't have a great selection of sex-related stuff. Having a pretty, store-agnostic platform would be really welcomed.

Good places to find camgirls is /r/camming / linked subreddits in the sidebar, along with the sites themselves (I only used Chaturbate, so I can't speak to the other platforms).

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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"Get featured by apple/google" Honestly, its like giving financial advice and saying "Ok, win the lottery or marry someone rich"

It's not really like winning the lottery. There's a lot of different kinds of promotional features they can give you, with different levels of publicity. You just have to make a high quality app that does something useful or new (or a good game), and ask their editorial team if they can promote your app. They'll usually give you some kind of promotion on the store.

It's "editor's choice" and the other front/center features that you might equate to "winning the lottery". And yeah, you can't expect that unless you've already made something huge.

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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BTW, I'm the OP and am happy to answer questions here. My expertise is obviously in consumer internet products but I spend a lot of time thinking about growth. It's my superpower!

Now that you have users and presumably mounting operations costs, what's the plan for revenue?

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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And you're the reason I don't use very many phone apps. Developer apathy becomes user apathy. If you make great apps, your customers will be enthusiastic about using them. If you make mediocre apps, you will attract mediocre users, or no users at all.

You are most likely using some hybrid apps and you don't even know it. When done right, you pretty much can't tell.

And when done wrong...

Re: How to get your first 100k active users

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Hard to take her seriously when she is an sjw who discriminates against men and hires women. Read her post again. She says hiring women led to less bullshit. I call this bullshit.

My prediction is that company will fold within a year due to catfighting.

Hard to take every dumbo seriously these days.

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