"If it looks sleek and polished, I wanted the other person to go like, 'Wow, what is this?'" β Romain Lefebvre, Sequel
Word of mouth isn't luck. You can literally design your app to trigger it. π€―
Full ep: youtube.com/watch?v=TTLmH1β¦
Charlie Chapman @_chuckyc talks with indie app developers and solo creators about what it *really* takes to ship new apps and make a living from mobile.
- Your app icon symbol is too big. π "Just give it a bit of breathing room... I know you want it big, but just a few pixels down, it'll be better." The #1 mistake icon designer @matthewskiles sees devs make and much more in the full episode π
- "We started getting alerts from RevenueCat in our pocket. $5,000 in the first two hours." π€― @mergesort built one of the 1st ChatGPT apps in 19 days. One email to @gruber later β $10K in a day and a half. His advice? "Definitely reach out to press, you idiot." New ep. linkπ
- What if you could build a company that was just founders sitting around a kitchen table making stuff? π³ @asallen went through the startup cycle once. Then he built @notboring to be the opposite β 2 people, 0 plans to grow & a business model to keep it that way Episode linkπ
- He emailed every college golf coach in the country. One responded: "I need an Android app." So he rebuilt the entire app for Android. For one person. π Eric Duffett talks to @_chuckyc about the rookie mistakes that came before $1M in @ShotPattern sales. Full episode link π

