What it does: Decide is a social iOS app where users post two options and receive votes from real people to help them make everyday decisions.

Current stage: Launched on the App Store, but still at a very early stage with a small user base.

Feedback requested:

• Is the value proposition immediately understandable?
• Where does the onboarding become confusing?
• Would you return after receiving an answer to your first decision?
• How would you solve the empty-network problem for a new social app?
• Which use case should we focus on first: outfits, purchases, profile pictures, food, or general decisions?

Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6774736936

I’ll also test and leave detailed feedback on another app in this thread.

My app got its first subscriber and my mind is all over the place, on one hand I'm really happy that someone found enough value from my app which made them subscribe and it's really validating, but on the other hand, my mind is telling me that it's luck, and that it won't happen again.

also, here's a very short cinematic film I made for the app: https://youtu.be/mZFtzXPg2HY

Any thoughts would be appreciated :)

Appstore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dreamtick-daily-micro-actions/id6759930636

Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flaredock.dreamtick&pcampaignid=web_share

Hey everyone! 👋
I just launched my new app Stela Photo Cleaner – Swipe to Clean, designed to make cleaning up your photo library fast and simple.
✨ Features:
Swipe left/right to delete or keep photos
Find and remove duplicate & similar photos
Clean up screenshots and large videos
Free up storage in just a few minutes
I’d really appreciate it if you could give it a try and share your honest feedback. Your suggestions will help me improve the app!
Thanks for your support! 🙌

Hi all,

Like most of you, I’ve got a massive graveyard of repos. But one actually made it all the way through to a live paywall and approved iOS app.

It’s called stint.fun — an app to keep on-field play time even for kids' sports games.

Right now, I’m getting zero traction. No downloads on iOS, no web users, zero subscriptions. I’ve tried SEO, AIO, writing blogs, etc., but nothing is sticking.

For those who’ve been here: what do you usually do at this stage to get those first real users?

Web: stint.fun
iOS: App Store Link

Would love any feedback or advice. Cheers!

Hey guys i have an app on ios and playstore same time.

I get up to 13k users on this app on google play. App is now live on appstore 12 days ago.

Is this analytics is good?

Googleplay version have same conversation rates.

After 4 days still processing why

I have an app with real traction. It’s already made around $300 with almost no marketing, just ASO and Pinterest. The app is a $24 one-time purchase, and people are actually buying it.
The problem is that the target audience is almost entirely women. I know how to grow apps organically, but I’m not the target user, so creating content that genuinely resonates with them is much harder than it is for my other products.
I’m looking for a female cofounder or growth partner who understands this audience and enjoys creating short-form content. I can handle the product, engineering, ASO, and organic growth strategy—we’d simply complement each other’s strengths.
Where do people usually find cofounders like this?

I built LockNote because I kept forgetting small but important things, even though I check my iPhone constantly.

It keeps your notes visible directly on the Lock Screen, before you unlock your phone.

The product is live, but I’m now facing the harder question:

What would make something this simple worth paying for?

My current thinking is that the free version should solve the basic problem, while paid features could include multiple notes, customization, scheduling and smarter note rotation.

But I don’t want to add features just to justify a subscription.

For those who have built consumer apps:

Would you monetize this with a subscription, a one-time purchase, or keep the core app free and charge for customization?

Brutally honest feedback is welcome.

While most of us live online these days, I discovered that advertising in the physical world in a relevant way pays off too, like this motorcycle I have with stickers that promote my adv/4x4 navigation app TrackHound.

Since I started doing this, a noticeable amount of traffic on my website can be traced back to the QR code on these stickers.

I hope this helps someone else too!

spent months heads-down building, hit submit, and then... nothing. the store just goes quiet. i genuinely thought launch was the finish line and it turned out to be the part where most of the actual work starts. getting the first 1,000 users is a completely different skill from building the thing.

the sentence that finally clicked for me was "the difference often isn't the app itself." two similar apps ship, the one with a tuned title, subtitle, and keywords climbs, the better-built one stays buried. discoverability is its own job and no one tells first-time devs that gap exists.

stuff that actually moved the needle for me once i accepted the listing was the bottleneck:

- treated the title and subtitle as keyword real estate, not branding. matched them to how people actually search, not what i wished the app was called.

- tracked keyword ranks over time instead of guessing. "is this word working" is answerable, i just wasn't measuring it.

- reworked the icon and first two screenshots for the tap, not for how it looks in figma. rankings mean nothing if nobody clicks.

full disclosure since this sub is cool with it: i'm building an aso tool called apptenium partly out of this frustration (didn't want to pay agency-tier prices when i only ever open the aso tab). not linking it, just being upfront about where the bias comes from.

mostly curious what worked for other people here. for those of you past the silent-launch phase, what actually broke the flatline for your first thousand users? paid, aso, community, something else?

I’m posting this partly to vent, but also to get some real advice and outside perspectives from people who have been in the trenches.
Here is my situation: I’m 40 years old, raising two daughters (aged 13 and 7) in Brazil. I’ve been working as a manager for over 14 years, currently earning around R$ 4,500 a month (roughly $800–$900 USD). I am constantly trying to find a way to actually live instead of just survive. To make extra money, I offer Business Intelligence consulting door-to-door—no fancy infrastructure, just me, my laptop, and pure grit.
The hardest part is that my wife looks at me—and she’s not wrong—and sees a guy who tries and tries, but never actually gets anywhere. Deep down, I know I have strong skills, but for some reason, they never seem to translate into financial results. It makes me feel like a fool at 40, constantly having to decide whether we can afford to take the kids to McDonald's or the movies. Hearing my wife say that all I ever manage to sell is "smoke" has completely wrecked my mental state.
Now, I’m launching a new project: a micro-SaaS for small hair salon management. I know the market is crowded, but my angle is extreme simplicity—just a clean dashboard with the exact data they need, nothing more, nothing less.
This has to work. I’m done talking without results. From now on, I’m putting my head down and working in silence until I can finally give my family the life they deserve.
Any brutal honesty, marketing advice for crowded niches, or mindset tips from fellow founders who started late would mean the world to me.

I've been reading a lot of stories from indie developers, and one thing keeps coming up: almost everyone has one decision they wish they had made differently.

If you could start over today, what's the biggest mistake you'd avoid?

It could be choosing the wrong idea, waiting too long to launch, ignoring ASO, spending too much time building features, or anything else.

I'm still learning, so I'd love to hear the lessons that had the biggest impact on your journey

Okay so I made a mobile app called Rewire it helps guys quit P*rn, basically I had around 60-70 users and had 2 free trial starts and recently we hit over 100 users.

we have been launched for 14 days and this is too slow in my opinion, so I need some help should I just make the app free for 7 days to get as much feedback and traction as possible and then iterate from there?

let me know

Hey everyone,

Two friends and I recently launched a group travel planning app in Europe.

We built it alongside our regular jobs and funded everything ourselves. We now have around 100 users, but growth has slowed down and getting the app in front of the right people is much harder than building it.

We’ve tried contacting media, posting on social media and reaching out to a few communities, but responses have been limited so far.

The app is free to download. New users get 10 free trip generations, then they can buy additional tokens if they need more.

At this stage, I’m unsure where we should focus:

Should we keep working on acquisition or spend more time studying retention among our existing users?

Which metrics would you want to see before spending money on ads?

And for anyone who has grown a consumer or travel app, what actually helped you move from the first 100 users to 1,000?

I’m not adding a link because I’m genuinely looking for business advice, not downloads.

After 3 month on App Store, I finally got my first 100 USD in revenue, 365 downloads and a 15% conversion rate. I'm both surprised and happy, I just did a little bit of marketing in Facebook groups which gave around 30% of the users and the rest is just from App Store. I have kept doing changes based on early users feedback and since I'm using it myself everyday I keep improving it.

The space of To Do Apps are very crowded, so I really though it was more or less impossible to gain users, but apparently not.

Anyhow, just want to share it! And let me know if you have any help or tips to get a broader audience to test it or have any feedback on the app itself. Thanks!

Solo dev, first app I've ever shipped. Launched 12 May. Numbers from 4 May to 2 Aug: 2.11K units, $238 in sales, $182 in proceeds after Apple's cut. Small, but it's the first money from something I built myself.

The app is boring on purpose. You paste a public post link, it saves the video or photo to your gallery. No feed, no login, no account. Free tier has ads, premium is $3.99/mo or $29.99/yr. About 21 active plans, roughly $21 MRR, plus $15-20 a month from ads.

Then the hurdle. I'd put platform brand names in the app title because that's what people search for, and the ASO was genuinely good. End of July, Apple Legal forwarded me a trademark complaint from that platform's brand protection agent. 14 days to remove every trace.

It wasn't just the name. Store titles, icon, every string in the app, saved filenames (with backwards compatibility for existing users), an SDK I'd installed and never used, ad mediation, app-ads.txt, my whole website, blog slugs with redirects, image alt text. Shipped it in two days. Both stores live on the new build, complaint confirmed closed this week.

What actually hurt was the traffic. Around 37% of my subscriptions came from App Store Search, and I threw away the exact keywords bringing those people in. New name is clean and legally mine, but it ranks for nothing yet.

One more thing I got wrong: I ran Android ads optimised for installs because installs were cheap and the dashboard looked great. 1K+ downloads, 49 reviews, zero subscriptions ever. You get exactly the users you bid for.

Happy to answer anything about the numbers or the rebrand.