B2C · business phone number app

How Dialed grows

1 tactic from 1 interview.

About Dialed

Outcome: Did not get traction at scale

As described in the interviews, not independently verified.

Dialed's tactic

Firewall · B2C · robocall blocking app

Launch separate robocall-blocking and business-number apps

Neither got real traction; one was killed by an Apple feature

Ad Hoc Labs built Firewall (robocall blocking) and Dialed (business phone numbers) as standalone apps with full launches and hardening, competing against incumbents like RoboKiller. Firewall was sherlocked when Apple shipped Silence Unknown Callers and never reached Android.

Failedportfolio

Sub Club by RevenueCat · 2025-12-10

Topics

Running a portfolio of apps1

Interviews

Pivots, Funding, and Building Apps That Last – Greg Cohn, Burner · Sub Club by RevenueCat · 2025-12-10