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Shipaton 2026 — RevenueCat's global hackathon for mobile app builders, August 1 to September 30

Shipaton 2026 — RevenueCat's global hackathon for mobile app builders, August 1 to September 30
You shipped a subscription app with AI — so why does it feel like you’re losing?The tools keep changing, but your North Star shouldn’t
The three-week COVID pivot that saved an 11-year indie businessDaniel Kennett nearly lost his house, his car, and his friendships building his first indie business — and then spent 11 years quietly building another one.
This is not a playbook: how Mimo grew customer LTV by 65%Why optimizing one metric at a time leads to false wins — and what to do instead
How to know if your free tier is generous enoughIs your freemium tier just a trial in disguise?
A machine learning test doubled Life360’s top-tier subscriptions — without losing a single mid-tier userGiordano Contestabile ran a test that showed degrading Life360's free tier would drive massive revenue — and then the executive team yelled at him for even suggesting it.
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Why you should be optimizing for live experience over aesthetics
Meet the subscription app pre-mortem: how to plan for failure before you shipWhy pessimistic planning leads to optimistic launches
The Hail Mary pitch that launched a #1 App Store hitBria Sullivan pitched a focus timer to Hank Green at the end of a meeting that was already over — and it hit #1 on the App Store.
AI-generated ads: balancing attention and trust in user-generated contentWhat actually works in synthetic ads, and how to juggle the boundary between algorithmic success and brand trust
The post-purchase screen: how to stop Day 0 cancellationsHow to stop losing subscribers before they even start the trial
How a switch from hard paywall to freemium led to a 75% LTV lift and a 50% conversion dropMoving from a hard paywall to freemium is like switching from checkers to chess
The counterintuitive freemium strategy that scaled Opal to 1M daily active usersKenneth Schlenker dropped Opal’s paid conversion rate from 20% to 9% — and it resulted in an explosion of daily active users and compounding revenue.
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