My app made $547 from one video. This is my organic TT system: 1. No VPN. All the traffic is UK, CA, EU & a bit of US. I imagine I'd get way more conversions if I was US focused. But this works fine for me and the alternative seems quite complex and some downsides. 2. The video. It's literally remade content from my niche. Nothing special. If anything, the $$$ is probably quite low considering the stats. I can definitely improve the CTA to get more conversions. Took about 8/9 videos, all same format, most got a few hundred views and then this one went viral. 3. Downloads mean nothing. On fully paid ads I get ~10% download to paid. With organic, I'm getting maybe 1.5%. This post got me around 400 downloads. You could easily be doing 50k downloads and doing less than 5k/m. 4. Filter your comments!! I already did this, but this matters 10x more on organic vs paid. I got about 20 comments asking if the app was paid, these will crush your conversion rates. I have about 50 keywords. Better to be over cautious here. Overall: not only is profit margin obviously WAY higher with organic, but you're not relying on another black box system. The TT algorithm is more reliable than a paid model imo. If you can scale this across accounts you'd be printing. I prefer this a lot. Although both together is the real sauce. I'm curious to see what churn will be like in comparison.

half of these conversions were made possible by reception.sh

Memes aside, this is the new era of software. Even the best teams are facing issues right now (altho 17hr response time isn't amazing). My thoughts go out to the engineers, doubt they'll be sleeping this week. I've been in incidents before, and it's intense.

Our SaaS made ~$1,000 in one day. Maybe software isn't dead? This is why (I think) it worked. 1. Product Market Fit. There was a huge gap. As quite a few people said, it just makes sense. Especially for big consumer apps. We're the first movers in the space, there are some big enterprise people but the DX & UI were both awful. 2. Pricing. We launched with limited early pricing of $25/mo or $200/yr. The yearly deals drove a lot of upfront revenue. When you consider you're getting unlimited AI responses (thank you Anthropic), this is a pretty great deal. 20 spots left btw, so go get em. 3. Our network. We have a network of good friends making a lot of $$$ with apps. This gave us a great chance to test everything, as well as get everything approved by apple. This is not trivial to do, and is a genuine moat (you can't vibe code trust). 4. Trust & Community. This is the biggest one, I think. I've built up a huge amount of trust within the app community, I'm super active, deeply embedded & care about the success of all of my friends. This translates into the products I build. A lot of things came together. I'll be curious to see if this success continues beyond an initial launch. Whatever happens: we created a new way to convert users on mobile, and that's a nice contribution to the app space.