App Store

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 25, 2024 by Ian MacKinnon · said 46 times in 23 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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2024 23 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode

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Nov 25, 2024 positive
Insight
Launching an iOS app Canada-only is the perfect App Store beta test
“You can go through all of Apple's various, you know, beta schemes, or you just launch Canada only, and no one's going to take notice of it anyway unless you tell them. So we have this great beta testable country here.”
Ian MacKinnon Nov 25, 2024 ▶ 10:20 He hit $40M ARR, exited for over $100M—& raised only $1.5M. Here's how | Ian MacKinnon, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
Dec 12, 2024
Disclosure
Jon Robin personally texted new signups and called negative App Store reviewers.
“August in twenty-twenty-one, I was still, like, I was still, I was texting, like, every new customer that signed up. I was, Calling people that would like leave a negative app store review. It was still a grind to try and prove it out to those early customers.”
Jon Robin Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 41:50 His sports betting app went from $0 to $10M ARR in a year—& to $150M ARR in 4. Here's how he did ... · PMF Show
Mar 10, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Gurski: Half of 2015's top ten health apps were period trackers
“When we started Floor, there were like dozens, maybe hundreds of popular period trackers, and in top 10 of health and fitness category, five sets were period trackers, and it was the main motivation.”
Dimitri Gurski Mar 10, 2025 ▶ 51:37 From mushroom-picking in Belarus to $200M/year. How he built Flo Health into a $1B health app. | ... · PMF Show
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