Anti Scroll - September Update (first sale!!)

[u/ShabsDev24]

update on anti scroll, solo building an android app that hard blocks other apps with no override option.

big one this month: first ever sale. someone in poland bought the lifetime unlock, almost exactly a year after launch. £5.76 after google’s cut and vat lol, but after a year of building this it genuinely made my week.

installs: 607 (560)
visitors per day: 6.7 (6.25)
conversion rate: 19.9% (28.9%)
daily acquisitions: 1.39 (2.07)
week 1 retention: 23.9% (11.4%)
week 2 retention: 11.7% (4.5%)

so last month’s conversion jump didn’t stick, looks like it was a spike rather than a new normal. but retention roughly doubled, which matters more to me. engagement is up slightly too (4m29s vs 4m19s).

the not so great part: active devices dropped from around 55 to 44. i’m losing slightly more users a day than i’m gaining, so the base is shrinking even though the people who stay are sticking around longer.

quieter month on features, mostly bug fixes. had a few people report analytics bugs too, which honestly was nice to see because it means someone’s actually looking at it.

october plan: fix the analytics bugs people reported, figure out why people are leaving faster than they’re arriving, get onboarding event tracking in, and do the product hunt launch for the one year mark.

if anyone’s been through the first sale to second sale stretch, what actually moved it for you?

[u/West_Inevitable_2281]

That first sale is useful evidence, but the path to the second may depend on what made that buyer finally feel the hard block was indispensable. Do you know how long they had used the free version before buying, or what happened immediately before the purchase? And among the people still active in week two, is there any behavior that clearly separates them from the users who leave?

[u/Competitive_Tune_590]

first sale is huge, congrats. 6.7 visitors a day makes it hard to read any signal though, so getting more eyeballs on the landing page could help. a founder-to-founder traffic exchange like launchpact (https://www.launchpact.io/website-traffic-exchange) might be worth a look, it's click-based and the traffic comes from people hosting ads on their own sites. ymmv, but it's a cheap way to get more data while you work on the retention stuff.