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Baron: Profitable Modern Mobile Apps Do Not Need Authentication or Databases
“Next thing is authentication. Honestly, isn't even needed for modern apps. Like mine doesn't have authentication or a database and I'm printing money.”
Baron: Skip designing mockups and jump straight into coding apps
“First of all, what I always say is do not design any mockups. Instead, study the best apps in your niche and study the best apps in other niches with tools like screens design and just go straight into coding.”
Baron: AI cannot one-shot whole apps, only discrete modular components
“AI isn't there yet where you can just say like, Hey, make me a mobile app. Make no mistakes. Don't hallucinate like that. That won't work at all. What AI is really good at doing is if you break down your app into blocks, and then of course you can one shot a f…”
Baron: 15-Minute App Onboarding Tripled Prayer Lock's Organic Conversion Rate
“I immediately saw my organic conversion rate more than three X organically without paid ads with my new knowledge.”
Baron: Apps Need 10% Download-to-Trial Conversion Before Paid Ads
“Improve the onboarding until you've at least have a 10% download to trial conversion rate. Later on, you want to do paid ads and you need at least a 10% download to conversion rate.”
Baron Recommends TikTok Spark Ads Over Meta for Boosting Organic Content
“Place ad spend on your organic videos doing more than 10 K views. And for this, I'd recommend TikTok, Spark Ads more than Meta or any other platform.”
Baron: Prayer Lock Generated $21K in December and Grew Over 50% Monthly
“And in terms of monthly revenue, we closed December at 21,000 dollars in sales. A previous month was at 15 K dollars and October was at 10 K. We've been growing at over 50% a month in total downloads.”
Baron: Pivoted From Adult AI Apps to Christian Tech Out of Disgust
“Back in January of 2025, I was actually building an adult content AI app, but when I finished it, I just felt completely like disgusted and disappointed with myself. So I decided to make the weirdest pivot in history and turn into the Christian space to try to…”
Baron: Prayer Lock Took Three Days to Code, Seven for Approval
“It took me three days to code the app and over a week to actually get it approved on the app store.”
Baron: 10K Daily UGC Views Drove 200 to 300 App Downloads Daily
“In my case, 10 K views A day was getting me around two to 300 downloads a day, but this is because this specific format is very optimized for downloads.”
Baron: Prayer Lock will probably close January at $40K monthly revenue
“And we're probably going to close January at 40 K a month.”
Baron: Has Not Touched His App in Over Three Months
“I haven't touched my app in over three months now.”
Baron: Prayer Lock backend and web hosting on AWS costs $2 monthly
“And then for all my backend services and hosting my web pages and everything, I use AWS. That's around two dollars a month.”
Baron: Prayer Lock's In-App AI Services Cost Just $9 Monthly
“Then as for the AI in-app services, I use Google Gemini Flash, 2.5. That's around nine dollars a month.”
Baron: Prayer Lock generated ~$20K revenue on ~$9K ad spend in December
“If we go to the last 30 days, for example, for the month of December, which I closed at pretty much 20 K, I spent around nine K”