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B2C · baby feeding app

How Solid Starts grows

3 tactics and 1 figures from 1 interview.

A doctor-backed baby feeding brand, Solid Starts grew on a large organic following and a team that cared deeply about baby-led weaning. The tactics also show its limits: a trendy AI ad drew backlash from parents, and a guest cited it as an organic-heavy app that eventually saturates its niche. None of the tactics give numbers.

Summary written 2026-09-26 from the tactics below. Figures are as founders stated them.

About Solid Starts

What it is
Baby-led weaning / infant feeding app with a big brand, doctors on team and huge organic following

As described in the interviews, not independently verified.

Solid Starts's 3 tactics

Solid Starts · B2C · baby feeding app

Backlash: parents questioned whether to trust the brand

Ran an ad using the trending AI 'fruit babies' format (babies made of fruit) for an infant-feeding brand backed by doctors.

Failedpaid-social
Sub Club by RevenueCat · 2026-07-22

EWA: Learn English · B2C · English learning app

Organic-only apps plateau; paid added late often ate into organic

Apps with huge organic (Replika, Solid Starts) eventually saturate their niche; organic stagnates and adding paid later largely cannibalizes it. Start performance marketing early: every ad also feeds organic (EWA's Instagram grew to ~7-10M partly from ad-driven followers).

Mixedpaid-socialorganic-social
Sub Club by RevenueCat · 2026-07-22

Solid Starts · B2C · baby feeding app

Credited for product quality; no numbers

Solid Starts' team members each messaged the founder out of passion for baby-led weaning; Replika hired ML people before ML was popular.

Workedteam-process
Sub Club by RevenueCat · 2026-07-22

Solid Starts by the numbers

MetricValueContextSaid in
team size20 people
estimate
Team members passionate about baby-led weaning (phrased loosely: 'if you have 20 people')Sub Club by RevenueCat
2026-07-22

Topics

Interviews