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  1. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

    GOLD! 
    I've worked with clients who've had monthly pricing on their app. Monthly pricing is the way the app store is headed.
  2. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    Thanks Andy -- this post may actually be immensely helpful for a business I'm working on with a partner. I'd love to keep you up to date with how I've used it to help.
  3. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    I want to clarify that I made this mistake for three YEARS before I caught on. You'd be ahead of the curve if you could adjust your habits appropriately that fast. I started coding in 2012 and started releasing apps in 2012. It took me maybe 2-3 months to learn to be just good enough to...
  4. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    I taught myself the old fashioned way. Don't try to take shortcuts, play the long game.
  5. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    That must've been either 2012 or 2013. Actually met an investor there I still am friends with.
  6. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    I love it! I also did Techcrunch (Disrupt?) in SF and we failed in similar ways (like trying to make the app too perfect).
  7. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    I'm currently writing about everything I know about finding ideas worth solving. Will share it to my newsletter first.
  8. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    My earlier response:
  9. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    It's important to look at this as if you're a venture capatalist -- you might invest your time in making 10-15 landing pages for different ideas and post them to different areas, and out of those 15, 14 of them will fail. But that 1 that does well will account a solid 99% of all the traffic you...
  10. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    After selling the app portfolio, it's taken a bit for me to "reset" if that makes sense. I've focused a lot of effort on just improving myself in the last year or so. You're probably asking the wrong guy. VR IS coming very soon, and I'd imagine if you're familiar with the tech you're in a...
  11. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    It's certainly ONE indicator of validation, though I bet it depends on how ugly and hard the workaround is.
  12. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    I don't know why, but knowing that you were thinking about me makes me feel all warm inside. When I first started out, there was too much content online about others who were circlejerking about how great they were and not enough people who shared honestly about all the hardships and failures...
  13. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    I did not use adwords -- I actually targeted some keywords through Google like "Instagram gif", "Share gifs to Instagram", then I posted the link to my landing page within the pages that were ALREADY RANKING HIGH for those keywords. An example: A Yahoo Answers! question was at the first...
  14. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    I felt like I was spinning my wheels and needed a fresh start. My plans are to keep experimenting with shit and see what works. You'll notice I used the web to create traffic for my apps, and that's where I'm comfortable marketing. So I'll keep marketing online for different things. If I...
  15. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    The ads were full screen ads provided by a third party that showed when a user reached the "share to instagram" page of the app. I think the ads didn't feel like a good long term investment -- they hurt reviews (fell from 4.5 star avg to 3 stars) and it didn't sit well with me to have part of my...
  16. Rcaraway1989

    How I lean startup’d my way to $240k+ on the saturated App Store

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    This is a long needed followup to this post. Some of y'all have been pinging me about this, so HERE WE GO. I cofounded a social app startup at age 22. Because I was gonna change the world, DUH. If you could believe it, our private social networking app, our BABY, never found product market...
  17. Rcaraway1989

    You can't just will an app idea into success, yall

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    Words to live by. Again, easy advice to comprehend, actually getting over the mindset hurdles of "OMG ARE MARKET IS TOO SMALL" is very hard but worth it. I can't know without testing, but I'd imagine there's still plenty of space for this type of portfolio. This strategy feels very similar...
  18. Rcaraway1989

    You can't just will an app idea into success, yall

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    Both hiring developers & developing apps yourself are a skillset. Hiring requires more financial resources, developing yourself requires more time. I don't think one is better than the other and I think the conversation for which is better than the other is useless. Bill Gates was an...
  19. Rcaraway1989

    How I went from financial App failure to finding success on the App Store

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    Good on you for thinking lean. Lean Startup processes are the way to approach ANY project: even if I were doing work for a large company.
  20. Rcaraway1989

    You can't just will an app idea into success, yall

    IDEA 
    I get a lot of questions, since I'm in the mobile app space, where people think if you can come up with some idea where the keywords are easy to compete on, throw up compelling app icon and marketing and "game" the system, you can make any idea work. Almost 100% false. Paul Graham touches on...
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