i started a new app a few days ago. 0 users. 0 revenue. 0 screenshots i can show you yet. here is the exact checklist i run before i build anything: 1. find 10 people already paying for something close to it. if nobody pays, i do not build. 2. read 50 app store reviews and write down the complaints in their own words. that is the feature list. 3. find 5 winning tiktok formats and rebuild one around the idea. if it cannot hold attention, code will not save it. 4. write the paywall in one sentence. it has to sell the outcome, not the features. if i need a paragraph, it is not ready. 5. set a kill date. 14 days to the first real signal, or i shelve it. no endless building. what is your pre-build check, the one you never skip?

If you wanna target the US you wont need a proxy if you run just a few accoutns/phones. BUT I would not create the new account on the same phone for now. Thats a little too risky. Also make sure to properly warm up your new account. Dont rush it.

Oh thats interesting! Thanks for sharing

ditch the account

ive got great products and bad products. the bad products easily outperfom other great products in the same niche just because of the distribuition strategy

yeah took me very long as well. You hear it from a couple of people but somehow it takes time to realize

TikTok all the time

Ive vibecoded a couple of apps that are absolutely nothing special. and those work insanely good with the right distribution strategy.

a couple iphone 8's, one iphone X, one iphone 12 pro max

TikTok account before the app got approved

obviously that is possible as well. my peptides app has 0 marketing and grows basically by itself and by the people using it. but that takes long to build and a lot of iteration. ultimately that is the best outcome of an app

yes! onboarding needs to be on point as well. also dropoff isnt always bad. you still want to filter out users that have low intent while priming those with high intent for the paywall

also bei mir funktioniert alles. checkst du deine proxies auf scores und dns leaks?

exactly!

sure! will post more in the next couple of days

yup. somehow no one realizes that

yeah hardest part is sticking to something that doesn't instantly show results.

good point yeah. definitely super important

i've shipped 5+ ios apps. here's everything i learned about actually making money from them: 1. distribution beats product. every time. a mediocre app with a distribution channel beats a great app nobody finds. your best feature is worthless if nobody installs it. 2. the app store doesn't pay you. downloads are free attention. the paywall is where the business is. most devs obsess over the icon and the onboarding. the paywall converts or it doesn't. that's the whole game. 3. sell the outcome, not the features. nobody cares that your app has ai tracking, smart reminders and cloud sync. they care what changes in their life. i stopped listing features on my paywalls and started selling the result. conversion went up immediately. 4. on tiktok, format beats followers. a fresh account with the right format gets pushed. a big account with the wrong format dies. the algorithm tests the content, not your follower count. that's why 0-follower accounts print views. 5. research the format before you build. before i write one line of code, i look at what's already winning in the niche. which formats get millions of views, which hooks repeat, which apps show up again and again. building blind is gambling. 6. one post a day beats ten posts once. consistency compounds. warmed-up accounts, one solid post daily, and the niche learns you. most people quit in week two, right before it starts working. 7. kill fast. if the format doesn't move after honest testing, the idea is dead. sunk cost is what actually kills indie devs, not bad ideas. distribution is a learnable skill. product taste is a learnable skill. most devs only train one of them.

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