App Masters · B2B · app marketing agency
Publish AI-built apps, push ASO, and ask everyone who wants a refund why
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What they did
App Masters has a couple of developers vibe-code apps with AI, publishes them, pushes ASO to see if there is traction, and treats refund requests as feedback: people were willing to pay, so ask them why it didn't live up to their standards and fix that, instead of building internally. (Guest disagreed: prefers a private TestFlight with friends or a Facebook group to save marketing costs.)
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“We've We've got a couple of developers that vibe coded using AI to code the apps. You know, we know a little bit about ASO, so we're pushing that, and then we're trying to see if there's ASO traction.”
“because I can see I can talk to them and be like, "What What Why did you ask for the refund?" right? Like, because they were willing to pay”
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