Peter

Things I wish I knew before launching my first mobile app: 1. Building in public is dead. Don’t share everything before launch. People are building faster than ever. You might have 100 clones before you even hit the App Store. 2. Build with React Native. iOS might make more money, but if your app goes viral overnight, you want to be able to launch Android immediately too. And you can reuse a lot of your code and backend for web. 3.Start marketing the moment you submit to the App Store. Don’t wait for approval. Marketing is more important than another feature. 4. Give users a way to report bugs. Your users will become free QA testers. You have no idea how many bugs users have found for me that would have taken me hours to discover myself. 5. Stop adding features until you have users paying. Features don’t bring users. Distribution does. Your time should probably be 80–90% marketing and 10–20% coding/fixing/improving. 6. Don’t sleep on instagram. Everyone tells you to post on tiktok. Ig brought me more downloads than anything else during the first 5 days of one of my apps. And trial reels are ridiculously underrated. You can test tons of content without putting it on your feed, reach new people, and gain followers at the same time. Save this before launching your first mobile app