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Rebuild the web app as a phone app after sales stall

Couple hundred thousand downloads right after launch; web app hadn't converted

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What they did

The first product was a web app; it did OK but did not convert and growth stalled. The founder paid $1,400 for a 15-minute call with Nikita Bier, who advised going mobile. The team spent six months building the mobile app, then launched it alongside a video that went mega viral.

What happened

A couple hundred thousand downloads right after the mobile launch, versus stalled web growth. The launch coincided with a mega-viral video.
Stage
Launch
Effort
$1,400 advice call, 6 months of building

This shipped together with other changes, so the result can't be credited to this alone.

In their words

Reid Moncada - He went from 0 to $150k by building an ai fashion app (no-code)

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Reed Mancata… the devs and our content creator. And it was like magic, that first day we woke up with a video that had 2 million views, and then we threw on a waitlist, and then we got 100,000 people on the waitlist, and, yeah, it was just like pretty crazy. And then we built that initial momentum, and then we just kept riding it. In the past year and a half, I'd say that we have a video go viral about like once a month, and really the playbook is just like

4:49

Reed Mancatajust keep finding new content formulas, and then um keep iterating, and then just keep cross posting them across all of our socials, and then with the ones that hit, you just put ad dollars behind them, and you have a really compelling video. And you're not really selling the user, you know, it all kind of trickles in. At first, when we started, it was a web app, and it just didn't convert. I mean, we did pretty well, you know, all things, you know, all things considered, but it wasn't that breakout success that we were looking for. And it was really clear that

5:17

Reed Mancataweb apps just didn't really resonate with our audience, and so after we released the web app and growth kind of stalled, it was clear that we needed to build a mobile app. And, you know, we spent the 400 $1,400 on a call with in a 15-minute call with Nikita Bier, and that was his 2 cents, and, yeah, so then it was it was six grueling months of just, like, locking in with my team and pushing out the the the mobile app. And just like clockwork, right, we released the app a few weeks later, have a video go mega viral, and,

5:47

Reed Mancatayou know, we're at, you know, and then we get a couple hundred thousand downloads, you know, off the rip, and, yeah, it was just, you know, super exciting.

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Tags: ios, web, web-to-mobile, paid-advice