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Author’s posts

• “The first idea isn’t really that important… just start moving and build anything.” — Sebastian Röhl, HabitKit

  • Growth

  Sebastian Röhl shares his journey from a corporate job to indie app success with HabitKit on the Sub Club podcast.

  

• WWDC ’24 recap on the Sub Club podcast — David Barnard, Jacob Eiting, Charlie Chapman

  • Engineering

  On the podcast: Highlights from WWDC 2024 and what they mean for subscription apps and RevenueCat users.

  

• “I think that people have the misconception of innovation being spontaneous” — Asya Paloni, Welltory

  • Growth

  What to do when there are no jobs to be done, how to build innovative features, and why copying Duolingo’s engagement strategy probably won’t work for your app.

  

• “Developers who take that time to understand [Android] is a different platform…reap a lot more rewards” — Sarah Karam, Google

  • Growth

  Insider tips for building better, more profitable Android apps

  

• “The [experiments] that have really worked are very bare bones” — Ramit Arora, Microsoft

  • Growth

  How the Microsoft 365 team optimizes their apps for ASO and monetization.

  

• “Competing on the App Store, you have to operate like a startup” — Ramit Arora, Microsoft

  • Growth

  Operating like a start-up inside the world’s biggest company

  

• “Pick a problem that you want to work on for 10 years, even if it were to fail” — Val Agostino, Monarch Money

  • Growth

  Time, talent, and money will get you far — but to ride the downs as well as the ups, you need passion.

  

• “Meta has a very strong algorithm… They’re good at finding your audience for you” — Marcus Burke, Independent Consultant

  • Growth

  Marcus Burke on the past, present, and future of Meta ads.

  

• “Content marketing is a long-term thing… You’re building brand and trust” — Fares Ksebati, MySwimPro

  • Growth

  On the podcast we talk with Fares about how to build your own content marketing machine.

  

• “If you’re contemplating a freemium model, there’s going to be pain in the beginning” — Paul Ganev, Surfline

  • Growth

  On the Sub Club podcast Surfline's Paul Ganev discusses why you should be calculating SAM not TAM and how to make freemium work.

  

• “If people pay, that’s a strong signal you’ve built something valuable” — Kenneth Schlenker, Opal

  • Growth

  Scaling to $5M in ARR on paid ads, positive and negative results from 121 A/B tests, and why they still haven’t built an Android app.

  

• “Tell stories that focus on differentiation… almost exclusively” — Matthew Panzarino, ex-TechCrunch

  • Growth

  What makes your app different, says TechCrunch's ex-Editor-in-Chief, is the key to cutting through the noise.