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Yadegari: AI health apps must use fear-mongering marketing to drive downloads
“But I think that the primary lever to drive downloads to something like this would have to be paid ads or influencer marketing, where we could get into it more later, but it would play on the emotions of a little bit of fear mongering on the idea that they mig…”
Yadegari: AI chatbot apps differentiate on prompting, not UI design
“This is another thing where you could just look up chatbot on the App Store and pull out the UI. It does not need to reinvent the wheel. The only thing that's important to reinvent here is the prompting, and that's probably, so before we go into that, I want t…”
Yadegari: App UI must be immediately clear in two-second influencer clips
“Showing it on an influencer video, when it, when the phone is only on the screen for two seconds, you need the viewer to understand what this app does and why they want to get it for themselves. And if it's unclear, if the app is too convoluted, then influence…”
Yadegari: AI apps with high latency should use background loading
“What a lot of apps do is they bring you to an analyzing screen where it loads, and you just wait on the screen. I honestly hate this, and especially for something that can take 30 to 60 seconds, depending on how complex your prompt is, and when you're waiting …”
Yadegari: Utility App Users Do Not Naturally Share Food Scans
“And what I noticed with a utility app like Cal AI is that people don't really care to share their food.”
Yadegari: Marketers must evaluate an influencer's audience rather than their niche
“When thinking about influencers, I always try to, I, it's always important to look at the audience of the influencer, not at the actual influencer. Their niche could be one thing, but their audience could be something completely different.”
Yadegari: Influencers refuse pay-per-view and require upfront payment
“Influencers never like to be paid on a basis where it's pay per view. So you always have to pay, tell them what they're getting paid up front.”
Yadegari favors Instagram-style activity feeds for single-player utility apps
“I've actually really liked the concept of just showing a log, kind of like an Instagram feed of your content, even if it's a single person utility app.”
Yadegari: Sequential multiple-choice questions beat checkbox lists for app quizzes
“I think it would be, kind of to your point of making it digestible and gamified, instead of asking them, like, what are you feeling, and then giving a bunch of checkboxes and they could click anything, it would probably be better to ask a series of multiple ch…”