An app that shared its results privately with the host; Canva cited as a public example
Show different prices depending on what people answer in onboarding
Heard it works really well; app unnamed, no numbers
What they did
What happened
In their words
Live App Teardowns: App Growth Optimization
Steve P. Young… so forth. Yeah. I think you can expand on this app. I honestly think that you should figure out like, hey, are you here to block adult websites? Are you here to block social media? What else are you here to block? Because I think the next step not Yeah. I think the next step to monetization is tailoring your onboarding to the person that is downloading and telling you a little bit about themselves. And so I'm recording a video a little bit later for our academy, where I don't wanna give away the app because they told me privately what how they've been doing it, and so I'm gonna share it just for the academy that like, "Hey, anecdotally, I've heard that this works really well for them." But they kinda tailor the pricing and the paywall to what you kinda said during your onboarding. And the clearest example I can see right now that should be obvious to everybody is Canva. So if you do personal or professional, or even any of the AI tools, they'll ask you, "Personal or professional?" And you'll see different prices based off what you say in that personal or professional realm. Okay. Man, no questions? All right, Hakim. Good to see you. Joseph, good to see you, bro. As well, I can see your apps doing really well, Joseph. So, congrats, bro. All right, let me get into some more stuff. H, no questions, huh? I'm I have to talk the whole time, dude. Nobody wants that. Nobody wants that. Okay. Paul, I feel like we've talked before, because your app looks pretty in Like I've seen this app before, all right? Let me get into Manosh, "Please review my app." Manosh, did I just not tell you there's like a 6-month wait, bro? Like it does take a bit. So I will, just send it, maybe we'll do another live like this if this does well in terms …
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