Practitioner pattern · Joseph Choi (Runs Viral App Founders, a paid membership community teaching these TikTok tactics)
Post "top 5 apps I use for [problem]" videos with your app as one pick
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What they did
Avoid 'link in bio' or promo-code CTAs for cold For You viewers. Instead, make genuinely useful list videos such as "top five apps I use for tracking my progress in the gym" that name five apps, one of them yours; put more pain point and dream outcome into the hook. Works like 'top 5 credit cards' SEO articles.
In their words
Sub Club by RevenueCat · How to Go Viral on TikTok (and Profit From It) — Joseph Choi, Viral App Founders“but you know, you name five different apps, and then your app is one of them. It's a genuinely useful video.”
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