Will Wang

We cross 200 followers 🎉🎉🎉 (Now actually 267)! It happened so fast and I didn't managed to screenshot when it reach to exactly 200. Still many big thanks to my 267 audiences who has such beautiful and unique tastes! I will bring more joyful post to you in the future. Looking to connect with more founders, web/ios/android devs, tech people and anybody who has passion in this world! BTW before December we still have some limited free beta seats of FounderPing, so have a look! It helps you get more insights from your users, right in your app.

RevenueCat put out 338 pages of subscription app benchmarks off 115,000 apps. Here are the five numbers I'd actually act on. 1. Supply exploded, revenue didn't. New subscription apps went from 2,000 a month in Jan 2022 to 14,700 in Jan 2026. Apps launched before 2020 still take 69% of all subscription revenue. The 2025+ cohort takes 3%. 2. Hard paywalls convert 5x better and earn 8x per install. 10.7% vs 2.1% by day 35, $3.09 vs $0.38 revenue per install at day 60. One year retention: 27% vs 28%. Freemium doesn't retain better, it just earns later. 3. Day 0 is the whole game. 55% of 3 day trial cancellations happen on day 0, 84% by day 1. About half of paid conversions happen on day 0 too. If the aha moment doesn't land in the first session, the paywall test you're running is decoration. 4. Longer trials convert better and the industry is doing the opposite. 17 to 32 day trials convert at 42.5%, 4 days or less at 25.5%. 46.5% of apps use the short ones, up from 42% last year. 5. Google Play leaks money. 31% of Play cancellations are failed billing, vs 14% on the App Store. That isn't churn, it's a dunning bug, and fixing it recovers 15-20% of revenue with zero new users. On the iOS vs Android argument everyone keeps having: iOS earns 2.6x the D60 revenue per install, but trial to paid is a dead heat (32.6% vs 32.5%) and by year one the payer value gap is 8%. iOS monetizes earlier, not better.

Anybody using Happier.dev? It's a great app for a geek like me and I will even voluntarily broadcast it for free. In simple words, it centralize all of your coding agents in one place. For me, I got 2 laptops, 2 VPS and a workstation for different purpose. And each machine got codex, cursor and claude code living on it. Happier setup a relay on my VPS and every coding agent report to it. I can use Codex on laptop and then continue the session on worksation with Claude code. What's even cooler is that you can command all of your agent army on your phone 24/7. And just contribute a little fix to Happier!

iOS devs: your next update might skip the queue entirely. Apple expanded automated review this month. A indie dev says his 1.1.8 build cleared same day, and he figures it's trusted accounts only. The split nobody announced: clean record, updates that ship without rejections, and automation waves you through in hours. Apple says minor updates average 14 hours now. New apps get the human queue, and it's running weeks long. Apple told Mobilegamer on Oct 20 it prioritized existing app updates and expanded automation, while absorbing 378,000 submissions a week. Account history is now a shipping speed setting.

Just share my screen locker image I discovered yesterday 😂. It's silly but reallly hilarious Wish you all could be like this lovely seal, be happy!

This is the signal that you took a good care of your codebase - diff is only ~+1000 lines for a major change. If I let Claude/Codex drive autonomously without review, I think the diff could be at least +5000 lines.

And This is my dog!

I made it, 100 followers 🎉🎉🎉! It's a small success of course but many big thanks to my 100 audiences who has such beautiful and unique tastes! BTW before December we still have some limited free beta seats of FounderPing, so have a look! It helps you get more insights from your users, right in your app.