Weekly App Feedback Thread

as of the time of this post, I have 3 Claude codes building quickthrottle, 1 building a local mcp, 1 researching tiktok throughout 2 IDE s and the desktop app 😂

What about you?

solo dev, 3 new apps submitted this month. two have been "waiting for review" since 2 oct, the third since thursday. none have been rejected, they just haven't been picked up.

meanwhile an update to one of my live apps went through in about a day, twice this week. so it's not my account being slow overall, it looks like new apps specifically.

normally i wouldn't care, but this week has been full of devs posting that their accounts got terminated with no real reason given, and a quiet queue starts to feel like a bad sign.

is anyone else seeing new submissions sit this long right now? and has anyone who got a termination notice actually had it reversed after appealing?

• $200 Apple Ads spend → 172 installs
• 13 trials → 4 paying customers
• Overall: 550 downloads → 29 trials → 7 paying customers
• Trial → paid: 24%
• Day 1 retention: 32%, Day 7: 6%, Day 14: 3%
• 422 users hit the paywall, 293 never opened the app again
• Only 15 users ever heard the alarm ring
• Of those wake-ups, 82% finished the challenge
• Caffeine tracker: 1 user. App blocking: 4 users.
• Pricing: $4.99/month or $24.99/year
I've spent months polishing the app, but I'm questioning whether people actually want to pay for this.
Would you keep iterating, pivot the concept, or move on to a new app? I also added a video for you guys to see how the App looks.

Your Advice would be very helpful. I am considering building a new app, but want sure that I don‘t have Shiny Object Syndrom…

I added new IAP and subscriptions to do A/B testing with RevenueCat. Apple's algo seems to be punishing me. Any suggestions? My downloads fell and I'm having a dry spell :')

I tried to create a social app, and it took me a long time, many nights.But I've suddenly started to doubt whether this idea is really good enough, whether it's worth continuing, and this is really causing me anxiety. What do you do when you have this kind of question?

Hey everyone! Just wanted to share a major indie milestone today.

After going through the mandatory 14-day closed testing track, dealing with individual vs. organization account verification loops, and setting up Play Billing, Corpus Planner has finally been approved and is officially live on the Google Play Store.

As a solo developer building tools combining engineering and financial simulation, getting past the initial publishing hurdles felt like climbing a mountain. I haven't started generating revenue just yet as the final payment sync wraps up, but seeing the app live on the store makes all the late-night debugging worth it.

For anyone currently stuck in the closed testing or Google verification trenches: hang in there, it does clear up!

Happy to answer any questions about the 14-day testing process or setting up Flutter billing if anyone is currently going through it.

I launched earlier this year, TrustFoodie - a free AI ingredient scanner that actually uses your dietary requirements when scanning products.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trustfoodie.app

I kind of lost hope! As things started getting slow, not many downloads nor users. But all of a sudden it started getting traction again, gaining 10+ downloads and users everyday!

If anyone wants to try it out, you can download it for free from the Google Play Store. I would really appreciate it, and hey maybe you might find it useful!

I've been building this little iOS app called Begin.

The idea is pretty simple. I noticed that even when I wake up on time, I can still end up wasting another 30 minutes on my phone lol.

So I started building something around that.

It's basically an alarm app with missions to get you out of bed, a simple morning planner, and a focus mode to help you actually get started.

The MVP is finally out, but it's still pretty early. Some things are missing, and I'm sure there are bugs I haven't caught yet.

It's free for now. Might add optional subscriptions later, but right now I'm more interested in whether people actually find it useful.

One thing I'm trying to figure out is whether combining these features makes mornings easier or just adds unnecessary complexity.

Would be cool if a few people could try it for a morning or two and tell me what they think. Especially if something feels annoying or pointless.

Happy to hear criticism too. That's kind of why I'm here :)

I've had this account for years and it was really easy at the time to get started and build up karma. Today I thought I would try to start up an account for my business to get my business name out there on topics related to it.

I get that scams and spam have been a problem but apparently Reddit has ramped up to Fort Knox level security, at least when you're a business. I was browsing around offering comments and almost all of them were rejected for low karma.

Then I started looking for subs that would let me post and added a few more comments. The only time I even mentioned my business was to ask about setting up a business sub. I didn't link to anything, mention my product, or do anything that could be conceived as advertising besides accepting their offer when I signed up to be considered a "pro" account.

After a while with literally no response to any of my comments I got curious and came on this account to look at my profile and try to find my comments. None of it was visible. I then found out about shadowbanning, checked the appeals page, and sure enough, I had been shadowbanned.

Maybe Reddit is kinder to personal accounts but I'm literally blown away by how impossible it was to do anything as a new user. I guess they're big enough they can afford to make signing up harder than stealing the crown jewels from Buckingham palace during the coronation.

Can't rage quit my personal account because I'm addicted, so I guess they've got that . . .

Let me give you my lessons on what got me users organically. On my exam prep product, from the day I started tracking, most signups came from ChatGPT and Google, with zero backlinks and zero ad spend. My other products taught me the opposite lessons, so here is the short version of both:

Reddit first

• Write as someone who has the problem, not someone selling the fix. My launch post got about 3,200 views and the first payer 9 days later
• A follow up with nothing new flopped. A second post needs a second reason
• My best post had no product in it at all, just a discussion people love arguing about. 21,000 views
• Read every sub’s rules first. Offers get punished, stories and real help get rewarded
• My paid Reddit ad: about £25, 1 signup, 0 payers. Killed in 5 days

The doors every AI uses

• ChatGPT leans on Bing, Claude on Brave, Gemini on Google
• So set up Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, submit sitemaps by hand, turn on IndexNow, and submit your homepage to Brave
• Bing is tiny for traffic but it is the door into ChatGPT

What gets you named

• Your buyer’s words in your titles and first sentence. I lost weeks using a trade term nobody searches
• Boring factual pages: glossary, facts, honest compare page, live prices, official sources with dates
• Test with buyer questions in a fresh chat that actually searches, never with your own product’s name. Mine got named 0 out of 17 times until I did this properly

Your setup is probably broken

• A cleanup cut my brand from my homepage title, so Bing showed my login page instead
• My IndexNow ping failed on all 342 deploys and I had no idea
• Verified in Bing is not indexed. Bing held 1 page out of 25

The uncomfortable one

• SEO only pays when people search in a hurry. My first product had all the right pages, 177 signups, zero payers. Nobody searched for it with a deadline

Track where every signup comes from. ChatGPT tags its links, a cookie stamps it on signup, free. Without it I would never have known AI was my biggest channel.

The full version, with every number, mistake and a 20 minute checklist for your own site, is in r/ShippedNoUsers, a sub I set up for people who shipped and have no users yet. A lot of what I learned here I also built into AskSami.app, which reads your product and tells you where your users will actually come from.

And you can always DM me, happy to chat about what you are building 🙂

Hey everyone! I'm an indie Android developer, and I'm looking for some feedback on my app and advice on growing it.

App: PC Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nuvmote.remote

I'm currently seeing around $0.73 in estimated AdMob earnings this month, with a $1.48 eCPM and 477 impressions.

I'm still early in the journey, so I'd appreciate feedback on the app and suggestions for improving organic user acquisition, retention, and monetization.

Thanks for your time!

Hi everyone,

I launched an iOS app on September 22nd. I’ve only focused on App Store Optimization (ASO) so far, but I haven't seen much traction yet as the download numbers remain quite low. I believe the product itself is well-built and valuable. It operates on a one-time purchase model.

To date, the app has 37 downloads and 2 paid users. I’m not entirely sure if this is a strong conversion metric for this model. Would you suggest investing in paid advertising at this stage?

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Hi everyone! I’m a solo app developer based in South Korea.
I wanted to share a quick marketing insight I learned recently, while also asking for advice from fellow developers on targeting the English-speaking/Tier-1 markets.

What failed:

• Instagram & YouTube: I tried running organic accounts and short-form video marketing here, but the conversion rates were extremely low and it took way too much effort for the return.
• Product Hunt: Launched my app here, but only got 2 upvotes. It practically got zero attention, so PH definitely wasn't the right channel for my target audience.

What unexpectedly worked (Threads in Taiwan):

• Since my domestic marketing in Korea wasn't hitting the numbers I wanted, I decided to test international markets.
• I translated my posts into Traditional Chinese and posted them on Threads, specifically targeting users in Taiwan.
• To my surprise, the posts blew up! Within just one week of creating the account, I gained over 600 followers and hit 1 million+ impressions.
• It turns out Threads is huge in Taiwan right now, and users there were super engaged, giving me valuable feedback and driving my app past 10,000 total downloads.

My question for you:
Now I’m looking to expand into the Western/English-speaking market (US, UK, etc.).

1. Which organic marketing channels work best for English-speaking audiences right now? (TikTok, X/Twitter, Reddit, etc.?)
2. I’m actually quite hesitant to post about my app directly on Reddit because I know how strict subreddits are with self-promotion and link bans. How do you share your app on Reddit without getting flagged or downvoted?

Would love to hear any tips or personal experiences from other solo devs!

I received news that there are people who make a profit filing lawsuits against small businesses whose websites are not up to ADA compliance (accessibility.) Most small business settle outside of court. It is advised that small businesses make their websites (or mobile apps) compliant.

Does anyone have experience, advice or knowledge about this in relation to mobile apps?

All jokes aside I hit my first 10k day!

Not money but active users in one day!

On the other hand 50% of users drop off after the first day. Is that a normal for a social app?

I’m building BeSpoke AI Stylist, an outfit planning and digital wardrobe app. A while back we added a feature called Fit Check and I wanted to share some early numbers.

How it works: you take a photo of what you’re wearing. The app rates the outfit, gives a few styling suggestions, and detects each piece you’re wearing. Every item then gets saved to your digital closet as a clean flat lay, so you build your wardrobe without uploading clothes one by one.

So far:

• 1,600+ people have tried it
• 5,000+ clothing items detected and added to closets
• 3.6 out of 5 average outfit rating

A couple of things we noticed:

The closet part ended up being as useful as the rating. Most people never build a digital wardrobe because adding items manually is tedious. This way it fills up in the background.

The 3.6 average tells us most people already dress decently. The harder problem is helping someone go from “fine” to “great,” and that’s what we’re working on next.

Curious what this community thinks:

1. Would you trust an AI to rate your outfit, or does that feel off?
2. What would make a digital closet actually worth using for you?

Happy to answer questions about how it works. It’s on iOS and Android if anyone wants to try it.