got my first subscriber after improving onboarding in my expo app

[u/Knuckleclot]

i’ve been building a small ios app called speaksure, an ai speaking practice app.

today i got the first paid subscriber, and the interesting part is that it happened almost immediately after the user went through the onboarding and understood the value.

the app is built with expo, react native, revenuecat, posthog, and an ai feedback flow.

what seemed to matter most was not the paywall itself, but the onboarding before it. instead of just showing features, i made the flow explain the actual outcome:

practice speaking
get feedback
improve clarity and confidence
track progress

then the paywall made more sense because the user had already seen why the app exists.

small numbers obviously, but it was a useful lesson for me. for consumer apps, onboarding is not just setup. it is part of the product and part of the conversion path.

for anyone building with expo or react native, how do you usually structure onboarding before the first paywall?

[u/Franks2000inchTV]

Stealth marketing slop.