Joseph Choi
Founder, Consumer Club. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Joseph Choi is an app growth strategist and the founder of Consumer Club, originally known as the Viral App Founders Community. He focuses on scaling consumer applications to over $1M ARR using organic TikTok content and creator distribution frameworks.
1shows
1appearances
18statements
6resolved
4supported
1contradicted
67%fully supported
Everything Joseph Choi said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Choi: Apple Pay double-tap UX change sparked the consumer app boom
“I think one of the other reasons why the consumer apps are having such a boom is because of the double tap to pay. Like, I think that Apple pay that simple, like UX change has changed people's perception of iOS subscriptions.”
Choi: Brands can hire TikTok creators with zero followers as actors
“Because the TikTok algorithm is for you page based, it's all about making good content so you can skip the audience part. So if you find, if you cut out the director role and the audience role, You can now hire creators just as actors, like just to be the tale…”
Choi: Copying Viral Apps and Content Yields $10K MRR in Months
“That you can just copy these apps and get 10 K MRR within a couple of months. Probably if you just copy the content, copy the app do some slight differentiation”
Choi: Goli awards Teslas, BMWs, and Rolexes to top TikTok affiliates
“Now if you search like goalie creator prizes, they give away, they're giving away like insane prizes to top affiliates. To just basically have a monopoly on all the creators. So for example, they have these like, you know, if you sell 7000 dollars in GMV, you …”
Choi: Organic growth requires testing randomly then spamming what works daily
“So I think a lot of this game is just, like, Trying a bunch of random stuff and then seeing what works. But then once you figure out what works, you can just spam it every day.”
Choi: TikTok photo carousels convert worse than talking-head influencer videos
“What I've heard from people in both the e-commerce and the app space is that slides are generally lower converting because there's less of that human feeling of an influencer talking to you know, with a talking head video.”
Choi: Goli admits its aggressive TikTok creator prize incentives are unprofitable
“And Goalie has said themselves that this is not profitable, but it just makes it really hard to compete for these talking head creators because they're just all making videos for Goalie.”
Choi: Building utility apps for TikTok Shop creators unlocks free marketing
“Like if you reach out to all these influencers, I bet they would use it, use the app in their TikTok shop affiliate videos for free because it actually helps them make content. So you could get the marketing completely for free and you could do this for any ni…”
Choi: Poker players are probably the best sports and gaming app customers
“When you think about it, poker players are probably the best customer that you can have when it comes to like sports and, you know, games and people who would use apps.”
Choi: Unmonetized daily poker content accounts offer a big app opportunity
“There's tons of accounts that just post these poker videos every day, and they're completely unmonitized. So this is a, I think it's a big opportunity.”
Choi: 95% of TikTok FYP content is from new accounts
“TikTok is, is different. It's different because people watch content on the for you page. They don't watch Content from people that they actually follow. Like if you scroll through your for you page, 95% of the content is brand new accounts that you've never s…”
Choi: Featuring too many faces on one account damages algorithmic reach
“If you put too many faces in a single account then it'll hurt your reach. The algorithm kind of gets confused. Like, who do I show this to?”
Choi: Building apps for underserved internet subcultures can yield $10M businesses
“So if you think about you know, other movements that haven't really, that don't really have a product attached to them yet, I think that's sort of the, like, ten million dollar business that can be started in all kinds of niches.”
Choi: Tabs Chocolate scaled from zero to $10M per year
“Tabs chocolate, they went from zero to ten million a year for an e-commerce product, this chocolate company.”
Choi: Top golf swing app makes $70K monthly on 10K downloads
“If you go on sensor tower and you search like golf swing there's the top app I think is, has 10,000 downloads a month and it's making 70,000 dollars a month.”
Choi: AirBuds scaled on TikTok via creator-branded micro-accounts
“So AirBuds does the same thing. It's like Layla AirBuds, Stacey AirBuds, Will AirBuds. So all of these accounts, they're new, they're brand new accounts that they found the creator and then they had them create a new account. So this was very cheap to do. They…”
Choi: Looksmaxxing app Umax generates several million dollars annually
“And this app makes a lot of money. I don't remember what the revenue is, but it's several million a year.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Joseph's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Founder, Consumer Club | 1 | 18 | 67% 4/6 | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |