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Give creators TikTok slideshow templates to post and pay them by views
Founder calls it their biggest success; no numbers given
What they did
What happened
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- Current marketing
In their words
I Built Two Apps That Make $120K/Month
Pat WallsOkay, so that's all on the build stuff, which I think is awesome. How would you think about marketing an app in 2026? What would be your kind of step-by-step there to figure that one out?
Kyle FowlerWe've had so much success with TikTok slideshows. They're very simple. They're very repeatable. You come up with a format, you find out what converts and you find out what gets views, and you find the balance of those two things to drive downloads. And it's very hard to attribute, but if it's the only thing you're doing, it's very easy to attribute. Use Noise. It's a platform that
Kyle Fowlerallows you to distribute TikTok slideshows to creators. They receive a template that they post, and you pay per the amount of views they they get. You can also start with just TikToks on your own account or making a few accounts and seeing if they get enough views and validate it that way. And especially if you have more time to burn,
Kyle Fowlerthat's a pretty good way to validate it.
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Tags: tiktok, slideshows, templates, pay-per-view, creator-comp, attribution