Giving Google Ads another try 😬

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I got my first MRR from @RevenueCat 🥳

Some observations:

— Conversion rate is low bc $6/mo is pretty high for mobile users

— A few trial users canceled and subscribed on the web instead (I don't have to pay Apple tax, can't complain)

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OK. Rolling your own auth was a mistake 🥹

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Celebrating a small milestone today 🎉

KTool has delivered 100K articles to our users 🥳

My _tiny_ startup has been helping more than 4,000 people gain back their focus 🤓

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If you’re using @PaddleHQ, spend 15 minutes to:

- Enable Checkout Recovery: send abandoned cart email notification

- Apply for Profitwell Retain: automatically recover involuntary churns

This helped me a few times already.

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My onboarding improvement seems to be working

The Setup conversion rate increases from 59.3% to 71.91%

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I shipped a lot in February 💪

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It's a write-release-notes kind of day for me.

I've been using Apple Notes to write most of my content, and I love it.

Although not as powerful, it's better than 99% of web-based editors out there.

Any Apple Notes fan here? 👋

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After improving retention, my focus will be on customer acquisition again

✅ Sponsored 2 newsletters
✅ Booked an SEO service
⬜️ Bring back freemium
⬜️ Add Google Sign In
⬜️ Reach out to 5 newsletter authors

What's your plan for this week?

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Someone signed up using the auto-generated email by Apple.

And the email address starts with "churns" 💀🤣

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Open startup update (Feb 2023)

💰 $525 revenue (+42%)
💸 $702 MRR (+13%)
🤑 $636 profit/mo

👨‍💻 8.3k visitors (-14%)
🧑‍💼 352 new signups (-16%)
#⃣ 4.24% (visitor → signup)

💳 16 new subscribers
😢 3 churned
#⃣ 4.55% (signup → subscriber)

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Failure of the day 🫣

My message for validation email was so confusing that some of my users emailed me the 6-digit code instead of filling it in the app 🥹

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Dark mode 🫣🫣

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✨ Better Safari extension onboarding

Shamelessly copying from Grammarly because it's so good 🤌

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Submit a full feature release

— AppStore Review: all good, approved

Submit an emergency fix

— AppStore Review: here are 1,000 guidelines you've violated

🥲🥲

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Distributing a paid Safari Extension turns out to be quite challenging.

- Unlike apps, you cannot distribute it outside of the AppStore

- You have to use In-app Purchase API

- There is no official support for IAP API on the web

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Just found out a few users abused my service and have been using KTool for free for the last few months.

Damn, I hate B2C 🫠😢

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✨I shipped a minor feature: image zoom in

Unlike books, web images could contain small text and it’s quite hard to read on a Kindle.

KTool allows you to zoom in for a better reading experience.

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Spent Sunday afternoon on this little animation 🥹

WDYT?

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✨ New pricing page

I simplified my pricing page following advice from
@_lhermann

Do you think it's "clean" enough now? 😁

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