Day 242 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added image and audio support to fill in the blank exercises. Free users can now create their own exercises, practice with them and even use spaced repetition to remember what they learn.

Day 241 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added image support to the Telegram bot. You can now send an image to Grape bot to analyze its contents, extract text or save the image as a new note.

Day 240 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I'm working on a Telegram Bot. You'll be able to chat with Grape AI directly in Telegram. Create and read notes and do almost everything you can do in Grape's AI chat without leaving Telegram. It's very cool.

Day 239 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I'm working on spaced repetition feature. You can review flashcards, quizzes, fill in the blank exercises. Set daily reminders, choose how many cards to study and rate each answer to schedule your next review.

Day 238 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I'm adding a new study tool. Fill in the blank. You can turn your notes into exercises with AI or create them by hand. A simple way to test your knowledge and remember what you've learned.

Day 237 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added a way for AI agents to talk to each other. My Email Drafter agent needed my trip dates so it asked my Trip Planner agent and then wrote the email. Agents can now collaborate to get things done.

My app hit $850/m in 24 days. This is my Apple Ads System: 1. Type: Apple Search Ads. 2. Bid Strategy: Manage Bids. 3. Starting daily budget > $20/day. 4. Default Max CPT ~$1.20 (will vary by niche). 5. Search Match = OFF. 6. Keywords = biggest competitor's name. 7. Keyword Type = [Strict]. 8. Audience = Specific. 9. Device = iPhone only. 10. Customer types = New users. 11. Demographic = All (Unless F/M niche). 12. Ad Scheduling = OFF. 13. First: Ad Default. 14. Later: Custom Ads (copy competitors). 15. Split campaigns into territories. • Tier 1: US only. • Tier 2: UK, CA, CN, JP etc. • Tier 3: ROW: TH, MX, PH etc. 19. Your Max Bid scales by Tier • Tier 1: ~$1.20 • Tier 2: ~$0.90 etc 20. CPC should also scale by Tier. 21. Don’t sleep on Tier 3: has been good to me. 22. If risks verse, start with a low Max CPT Bid. 23. In general: see how the ad spends over 1-2 days. 24. Apple ads have a lot of lag in my experience. 25. If the ad doesn't spend after 1-2 days, increase it. 26. Don't jump straight to $4 per bid. 27. I did this at first and set ~$150 on fire. 28. You need to learn your niche’s average bids. 29. I have not localised pricing yet. Notes. This strategy works if your app is the same niche & has a similar aesthetic to a big competitor(s). We let the competitor do the marketing, bringing users in from socials to the App Store. We then catch users as they're searching, we interest them with our app instead of theirs. This also relies on having cracked app page, so your design needs to be on point. Apple Ads seem to cost a bit more than other platforms. But keep in mind these users are warm leads, they already have intent, and are more likely to convert in my experience. My Stats: Total ad spend: $584 Total Revenue: $964 Profit (after apple tax & refunds): $235. 30% profit margin w/o counting renewals / LTV. This includes the ~$150 I set on fire when I first started. So, it's realistically closer to 35%+.

Got the third subscriber and the MRR is $57 now. I'm still spending most of my time building Grape and adding new features every day. But I want to get closer to a 50/50 split between product and marketing. For now it's going slow but steady.

Day 236 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added a little feature to change settings in AI chat. You can ask Grape to change themes, fonts, editor options, note settings and even enable or disable AI models, all through a simple chat message.

Day 235 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added Grape CLI and published it to npm. You can read and create notes from your terminal. You might not use it yourself but your AI agents can use it to access and manage your Grape notes.

Day 234 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Finished the Spanish listings, added localized screenshots and submitted the app for review. I also added a header video to the App Store page using Apple's new feature.

Yet another great visibility hack for your SaaS is to get into the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotoco…, DR 91) It takes about a few minutes. Here is how: 1. Have a remote MCP server live for your SaaS. 2. Install the publisher CLI: `brew install mcp-publisher` 3. Run `mcp-publisher init` and edit the server.json it creates: a name, a title, a one-line description, a version and the URL of the server. 4. Prove you own the domain. Generate a key and add one TXT record to your root domain. 5. mcp-publisher login dns --domain yourdomain .com --private-key <key> 6. mcp-publisher publish You're live in seconds. No review, no form, no approval queue. A few benefits: Directories, MCP clients and IDE marketplaces pull their lists from THIS registry, so one publish ends up on hundreds of other pages without you submitting anywhere else.

Day 233 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I'm adding Spanish to the landing page. Competition in English speaking countries is tough so I'm going to try to reach Spanish users. Tomorrow I'll add localization to the app store listings and screenshots.

Day 232 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added a Tips page. You can browse tips to discover useful features and shortcuts. Grape will also show you a new tip every day when you open the app.

Day 231 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added find and replace to the editor. Grape is becoming a complete note taking app. Most of the essential features are now done.