building iOS apps until they pay more than my day job. documenting as I go

opus 5.5 is incredible it’s the first model that feels like it actually does exactly what I want it to do the usage is crazy too even complex tasks barely move the needle
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we might be able to ship gta 6 before it’s even live
Third iteration with Opus 5.5 medium. I am in awe. It turned blender, image-gen, and three.js into this beauty, which runs on your browser. An understatement to say that Anthropic cooked. You are looking at the future of game dev.
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waking up is gonna be a full-time job soon Alarmy makes you complete tasks before it lets you turn off the alarm solve math problems do squats scan a barcode across the room one of their Instagram videos showing this reached 38m views they somehow turned one of the most boring utilities into an endless content engine
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this is how I target the US on TikTok from Europe - factory reset a burner iPhone - create a brand-new iCloud account - turn off location services and Bluetooth - connect through a static residential proxy, they cost less than $5 - create your TikTok account using iCloud or Outlook since Outlook usually doesn’t require phone verification your feed should now be fully US-based I don’t think VPNs are a good option anymore this setup has worked every single time for me and you can target pretty much any country the same way just use a residential proxy from that country
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average EU subscription lifecycle
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are mobile apps dead? the ick is pulling millions of views across dozens of TikTok accounts instead of building a mobile app, they just made a website you can ship it in a day no App Store review no Apple fee no waiting around and the actual funnel still feels very app-like fake progress screen → paywall → conversion for some consumer products, native might honestly be unnecessary at the start
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Arcads just made recreating competitor slideshows way too easy you can now turn almost any format you find into something ready for your own brand in minutes - find a format you want to recreate or ask Mark to find one - tweak it to fit your angle - plug in your brand took me less than 5 minutes to recreate this one almost perfectly the gap between finding a working format and having it ready to post is basically gone
introducing AI Slideshows Create Viral TikTok Carrousel in one click Available today on arcads.ai
Paid partnership (ad)
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love seeing those
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2 weeks until the half marathon starting to think I might actually make it still wouldn’t call myself a runner but we’re getting there
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$60k/mo in one of the busiest niches on the App Store Micron is localized into 24 languages and mostly targets European countries they’re publishing dozens of localized slideshows every single day nothing is going particularly viral just lots of small hits consistently bringing in downloads
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the US is slowly creeping into the audience I still haven’t set any country-specific age restrictions looks like the account might be finding the right audience on its own after all gonna leave it untouched for now and see where it goes
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over 1m views with an alarm clock app? wakn up is absolutely crushing it right now they basically turned waking up into a competitive game 1v1 your partner finish the task first loser gets their apps locked ridiculously easy concept to make tiktoks around and probably the best-looking alarm clock app i’ve seen too
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the account i created a few days ago is slowly starting to pick up views unfortunately most of the audience is coming from Iran still, this pretty much confirms the old account was the problem, not the content
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mostly agree with the idea here but 5 downloads per 1,000 views is far from universal some niches can turn views into installs really well others can pull hundreds of thousands of views and barely move downloads posting more helps but the intent behind the view matters just as much
If you have 3 phones, you can have 24 TikTok accounts. Post 3x a day on all of them and that’s 72 posts a day. If they average 1,000 views each, that’s 72,000 views per day. 5 downloads per 1,000 views is healthy. That’s 360 downloads per day. 5% download to pay is healthy. That’s 18 new paying users per day. At $50 a year, that’s $900 per day. That’s $328,500 per year without counting renewals. The math is there. You just need to post.
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looks like this kind of format is all over the place right now saw another one today using basically the same emotional setup + app plug no kidney donated this time though
“i donated an organ to my girlfriend” might be one of the craziest hooks out there but the format itself is actually pretty smart crazy emotional setup huge payoff on the second slide somehow even the product fits into the story without killing the post no wonder this format keeps printing
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i wrote about a gym app using a very similar format last week quite a few of you said it gets views but barely converts anyone got actual numbers to end the debate?
there’s no way a $2M MRR app is doing slideshows (and you can copy them). you need almost $0. > screenshot winning slideshows > find a girl pic on pinterest > replace the characters + background image gen is cheap now. it’s worth trying.
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where are you when i need you the most
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created a brand new account today - no vpn whatsoever - 30 min warmup - same type of content that was getting stuck before first reel already crossed 500 views i know a lot of you said it was a content issue but how do you explain the same type of content working on multiple accounts while my old one barely pushes past 100 views?
Instagram feels so freaking random my reels get engagement, then somehow stop at ~300 views every single time i can’t figure out what gets them pushed any further is this account cooked or do I just need to keep posting?
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