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Cravotta: Long onboarding boosts app paywall conversion by reinforcing user problem
“The onboarding is super important because this is an opportunity for you to walk the user through their own problems. So for example, on PuffCount, my onboarding is extensive and I ask the users a lot of questions. And some people say that's annoying. I don't …”
Cravotta: App founders should never upgrade Mixpanel or Amplitude
“I don't think you should ever really upgrade mixed panel or amplitude. Like you should get your data, understand what you need to change and then get out.”
Cravotta: Nimble founders can beat legacy apps with one viral TikTok
“Being a young founder, you truly do have an advantage. Because all these old heads in the industry, these big, slow moving companies that never iterate on their idea, a small, nimble entrepreneur can take them out. All it takes is one viral TikTok.”
Nick Buzz Says Aggressive and Controversial Marketing Acquires Clients
“You constantly have to market yourself. You have to be out there. You have to be aggressive. You have to have a tone that brings people in. It's okay if you're controversial. It works.”
Software Users Want One-Click Solutions, Not Complex Features
“Engineers out there and coders, they really want to build like the most complex, like high powered application out there and give the user so much freedom. That's horrible. People want to use the internet like this. I want to be able to give you my problem and…”
Andre Heckel Jr.: ListKit grew to $1M ARR in 87 days
“In 87 days, we grew it to a million dollars
ARR.
Zero to a million.
From the launch of the actual SaaS, yeah.
That's the first 87 days.”
Andre Heckel Jr.: Productized service is only non-VC way to start SaaS
“So I think the approach is the only way To go about it. If you don't have startup capital and if you don't want to go the venture capital route and what that is, is starting with a productized service.”
Andre Heckel Jr.: Build SaaS by incrementally improving competitor products
“Because the other thing about SaaS is you're not starting from scratch. You're following other competitors and making small tweaks and changes to improve upon what someone else has already built.”
Andre Heckel Jr.: SaaS free trials attract non-buyers over paying customers
“I just think it attracts the wrong buyer or person because they're not a buyer. You're attracting freebie seekers. We knew people coming to our website. It's low ticket enough To buy and it's low commitment enough. And instead of a free trial, what we did is w…”
Bush: Quitting a Job Immediately for Entrepreneurship Is a Major Mistake
“I didn't quit right away, which I think is a big mistake a lot of people do, because then I would have been operating from a place of scarcity the entire time.”
McIntosh: Founders should design their business model before the product
“I think business model first Product second, or at least tweak your product to make sure it fits really well into the business model.”
McIntosh: Brands should offend at least 20% of people
“If you're not pissing like at least 20% of people off, You're probably not doing it right.”
McIntosh: American consumers will not buy from non-.com domains
“And rule number four is that if you're going to sell to Americans, you got to have a .com because Americans don't buy from anything that's not a .com.”
Giovanisci: Video production quality does not matter if content is good
“What that tells me is it doesn't matter how good your video is. It just matters that the content is good.”
Stoddart: "Being yourself" is terrible SEO advice compared to solving specific problems
“Being yourself is like terrible SEO advice. What you want to do is you want to know what people are searching for. You can figure that out just by going to trends.google.com, type in a bunch of keywords, see what keywords are available, and then write an artic…”
Stoddart: Agencies are the best starter businesses because they require no capital
“I still think it's the best business for somebody to start because you just need a client. Once you get your first client, all of a sudden you have a profitable business.”
Stoddart: Address pricing upfront in sales calls to avoid closing stalls
“The second most important thing is to get like the price out of the way in the very beginning. Because what always happens, you go through this whole pitch and then people say, okay, I'll call you back. Let me think about it. And that's the worst thing that ca…”
Smale: Selling a $20M business is fundamentally similar to a $1M deal
“And really the difference between selling a, Million dollar business and twenty million dollar business isn't really that different. It's slightly more technical. It takes a bit more time. It involves generally more attorneys and accountants and different thir…”
Pat Walls: Most product tests and feature experiments do not move the needle
“Most of the tests that you run and the things that you try don't move the needle at all.”
Walls: Agentic AI Features Fail Without Aggressive Marketing and Utility
“In my opinion, that's kind of boring. It's pretty straightforward. Like you could chat GPT into how that works. You could do it for your own product right now, but it's probably not going to actually drive revenue for you because you don't have these two thing…”
Pat Walls: Handcrafted design differentiated Cat on Chair from vibe-coded apps
“What made it grow was that handcrafted custom doesn't look vibe coded. It doesn't look basic. Kind of app design. And I bet that's what sort of went viral on red notes because I would imagine people saw this and thought, wow, this is really unique. This is dif…”
Pearl: Creators should endlessly recreate their winning viral video formats
“If you have a video that hits like recreate it to infinity, I've been recreating the same viral content for years now, and it still continues to go viral and perform and convert.”
Glacer: Third-party iOS alarm apps were unreliable before Apple's AlarmKit API
“Up until this point there were a lot of other alarm apps out there, but they were sort of gimmicky and not reliable because they used different like app sounds and workarounds to make the quote unquote alarm.”
Glacer: Early reached $1K in 3 weeks, $50K in month 4
“I did my first 1000 dollars in revenue three weeks after the first influencer video went up and then first 30 came on in month three and first 50 came up in month four.”
Glacer: Viral apps must solve painful problems simply to enable rapid content marketing
“My framework at this point is just solve a painful problem in a simple way, and it should be inherently viral. If it's not inherently viral, the idea itself, Then add some sort of novel aspect to it to make it inherently viral. With AI, there's so much that's …”
Glacer: Early pays $2-$3 CPM on view-guaranteed creator deals
“Generally the deal structure is multiple videos a month, like two to four videos a month with a view guarantee. That's sort of the most important part is that you're paying for the views that you get. And so I view it as pretty low risk. Honestly, you can sort…”
Glacer: Influencer marketing profits follow a power law from viral hits
“And then the money's really made on those big videos. It's sort of power law. A lot of the videos will sort of do. Okay. Every once in a while, you know, big, 1,000,002 1,000,005 million view video. And that's where you really make money.”
Jake Glacer measures influencer ROI by correlating view and conversion spikes
“I recommend staying super simple. Just track views and measure spikes is sort of the approach that I take. So I'll track all the videos and I have a historical data and then When a spike happens, I'll see, you can be pretty sure that that video resulted in wha…”
Jake Glacer: Claude Code Is the Best App-Building Tool
“Cloud Code, the absolute best tool for actually building the app.”
Walls: Platform API updates open brief windows for thousands of new businesses
“Every time there's a new improvement to the API, which there's a lot nowadays because all these companies are shipping faster. There are thousands of business ideas that become easier to build, but there's not, there's a short window of time to do it.”
True Virality: 100K+ Views on Accounts With Under 5K Followers
“What we mean by virality is, has it hit over a 100,000 views on multiple pieces of similar content from accounts under 5000 followers? Now you'll ask me like, Ankit, why is 5000 important? You know, why could it not be coming from an account with million follo…”
Flame Published 150 Videos Every Day to Test a Single Hook
“At one point, we were putting out 150 pieces every day to test a single hook.”
Lack of Product Comments on Videos Signals Low Conversion Rates
“If they're not asking about the product, they don't mention the product, I would say that it's the biggest sign that it's not going to lead to high conversions.”
Placing Text Over a Creator's Neckline Maximized Reaction Video Performance
“One of the secrets we had is we were having a woman who was reacting on the camera. We discovered that if we put the text Right on her neckline. So not on her face, right on her neckline, the video performed the best for some reason, right? This is something w…”
Flame Operates 20 TikTok Accounts Across Five Dedicated Phones
“Every phone has three to five TikTok accounts. You're looking at 15 to 20 TikTok accounts right now. This is the infrastructure we use to manage the distribution phase.”
Pat Walls predicts AI will flood the app market within five years
“What's going to happen is a lot of, everyone's going to be able to build anything. And there'll just be this flood, this sea of apps. I'm sure it's already happening right now, but it's going to be way crazier in one, two, five years.”
Huberge: A single influencer post generated over $10,000 for PepAI
“We had one guy that had made one story post and from that we did a thousand dollars in revenue, which is insane for one story post on Instagram. And then when he made his actual first post, it got 50,000 views and we did like 4000 dollars in revenue just from …”
Bo: American digital nomads are the most underserved tax demographic
“In that process, I kept seeing that Americans were the biggest, most underserved group.”
Bo: Concrete financial ROI reduces sales friction in tax businesses
“In a lot of startup categories, you're selling a brighter future or some vague promise. In Texas, you can say, here is a likely financial benefit, and here is what our service costs. It makes the customer decision rational and straightforward. So you need to s…”
Bo: Productized immigration workflows could charge $1,000–$2,000 replacing $15k legal agencies
“A lot of people want to move to us and they're paying agencies eight, 10, sometimes even 15,000 dollars for the process. For what is essentially a workflow problem? A product that sits In the middle, guided process, templates, maybe a lawyer review at the end …”
Bo: Immigration, tax, and offshore banking share one customer across stages
“And what I really like about all three ideas, the customer is often the same person at different stages. It's not three separate customers, in my opinion, it's one customer and multiple revenue events.”
Bo: SavvyNomad's entire core product is built on Bubble
“We use Bubble, our entire product, Is built on it.”
Shin: Early-stage founders should cap initial builds at two weeks maximum
“If you're trying to go zero to one, rather just spend that time talking to more users and just building out the very first version in like a week or two maximum and just launch. Because all of your assumptions and all of your guesswork may go to nothing once y…”
Jeremy Redman: Satellite Micro-Products Can Efficiently Funnel Users to Core Software
“Most people will build one product and then market it. We marketed our product by building other side products that would funnel paid users to that one temple product.”
Jeremy Redman: No-Code Tools Let Founders Sell Functionality Instead of Information
“And with today's no code tools, now you can sell functionality, not information.”
Jeremy Redman: Specific Micro-Products Rank Faster in SEO Than General Software
“The more specific you can get, like cold outreach email for some sector or whatever, like for automation, that's going to rank as high as it can faster than something general, just like TaskMagic automation.”
Jeremy Redman: Lifetime Deals and Usage-Based Pricing Bankrolled Task Magic Early
“So one of the major unlocks that we found with task magic really early on was people didn't want to pay subscription pricing constantly. And the way to like really have this bank roll itself at the beginning was like lifetime deal and then usage based pricing.”