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One person can't pay a $8,000 surgery bill. but 8,000 people can pay $1. the app: someone posts their bill. you give $1. the app prompts: "share this chain." your friend sees it, gives $1, shares. THEIR friend gives $1, shares. the chain grows. the bill shrinks. everyone gave $1. nobody felt it. the chain is the virality.

One person can't pay a $8,000 surgery bill. but 8,000 people can pay $1. the app: someone posts their bill. you give $1. the app prompts: "share this chain." your friend sees it, gives $1, shares. THEIR friend gives $1, shares. the chain grows. the bill shrinks. everyone gave $1. nobody felt it. the chain is the virality.

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THIS APP IS CRUSHING IT QUITTR is making $350K/month helping men quit porn They use a deep, psychological onboarding and a hard paywall to convert users struggling with addiction. Here is a breakdown of their onboarding 🧵👇 1/21

THIS APP IS CRUSHING IT QUITTR is making $350K/month helping men quit porn They use a deep, psychological onboarding and a hard paywall to convert users struggling with addiction. Here is a breakdown of their onboarding 🧵👇 1/21

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an app where your kid photographs their finished chores. you approve it. allowance money hits their account instantly. teaches money AND responsibility. gamified with streaks so they actually want to do it.

an app where your kid photographs their finished chores. you approve it. allowance money hits their account instantly. teaches money AND responsibility. gamified with streaks so they actually want to do it.

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This app is crushing it. $4M monthly revenue, with 600K monthly downloads Speak cracked the code to language learning with AI-powered personalization and speaking practice Here's a breakdown of their killer onboarding and conversion strategy 👇🧵 (1/18)

This app is crushing it. $4M monthly revenue, with 600K monthly downloads Speak cracked the code to language learning with AI-powered personalization and speaking practice Here's a breakdown of their killer onboarding and conversion strategy 👇🧵 (1/18)

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This app is insane. It makes $400K/month with 100K installs, and its onboarding has 80+ steps—yet users stay engaged instead of dropping off. Here’s how Foodvisor turns long onboarding into a growth machine. (1/7) 🧵👇

This app is insane. It makes $400K/month with 100K installs, and its onboarding has 80+ steps—yet users stay engaged instead of dropping off. Here’s how Foodvisor turns long onboarding into a growth machine. (1/7) 🧵👇

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THIS APP IS CRAZY. Coursiv is generating $200K/month by teaching how to use AI. It turns learning complex AI tools into an income-generating journey. It uses deep personalization, interactive learning, and smart monetization. Breaking it down 👇🧵 (1/19)

THIS APP IS CRAZY. Coursiv is generating $200K/month by teaching how to use AI. It turns learning complex AI tools into an income-generating journey. It uses deep personalization, interactive learning, and smart monetization. Breaking it down 👇🧵 (1/19)

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ScreensDesign MCP is live. Your agent can now search data from 2,600+ top iOS apps: onboarding, paywalls, pricing, post-paywall and more. Ask things like: “Give me five app ideas based on recently launched subscription apps that make 50k+” “Compare the paywalls of the top meditation apps” “Show me streak mechanics that aren’t Duolingo clones.” It works with any agent. We also launched "Ask" directly on ScreensDesign, so you can try all of this without connecting anything.

ScreensDesign MCP is live. Your agent can now search data from 2,600+ top iOS apps: onboarding, paywalls, pricing, post-paywall and more. Ask things like: “Give me five app ideas based on recently launched subscription apps that make 50k+” “Compare the paywalls of the top meditation apps” “Show me streak mechanics that aren’t Duolingo clones.” It works with any agent. We also launched "Ask" directly on ScreensDesign, so you can try all of this without connecting anything.

260,805 views • 1 month ago

imagine making $100K/mo from a manifestation app that launched 3 months ago. with 65K installs/mo and the paywall is a "note from the team" saying they have too much demand. -asks for notification permission and an App Store RATING before you've even used the app - referral code prompt early in the flow. growth loop from step one - asks your name, city, sexuality, age, kids, what you do for work, how you feel about it - you add important people BY NAME and describe them - asks what you're manifesting, your dream city, dream home type, dream partner - generates personalized audio stories from ALL of this. daily - the paywall is a "note from the team" saying they have overwhelming demand - the trial as helping "manage the load and keep things smooth for all" - single price. $6.99/week. no annual. no monthly. no decoy. just one option

imagine making $100K/mo from a manifestation app that launched 3 months ago. with 65K installs/mo and the paywall is a "note from the team" saying they have too much demand. -asks for notification permission and an App Store RATING before you've even used the app - referral code prompt early in the flow. growth loop from step one - asks your name, city, sexuality, age, kids, what you do for work, how you feel about it - you add important people BY NAME and describe them - asks what you're manifesting, your dream city, dream home type, dream partner - generates personalized audio stories from ALL of this. daily - the paywall is a "note from the team" saying they have overwhelming demand - the trial as helping "manage the load and keep things smooth for all" - single price. $6.99/week. no annual. no monthly. no decoy. just one option

198,453 views • 4 months ago

Imagine making $450,000/mo from an app that tells you "you are enough” every morning. That's "I Am," a daily affirmations app with 150K installs/month. - opens with "20 million+ lives changed" social proof. immediately. - 20+ steps of deeply personal questions about your life - you pick custom app icons and themes mid-onboarding - halfway through, a bundle offer for 6 RELATED apps pops up - soft paywall. you can dismiss it - only ONE option: 3-day free trial into $35.99/yr - visual 3-day timeline so you see exactly when you'd be charged - "remind me before trial ends" toggle. trust builder - by the time you see the price you've already customized the entire app

Imagine making $450,000/mo from an app that tells you "you are enough” every morning. That's "I Am," a daily affirmations app with 150K installs/month. - opens with "20 million+ lives changed" social proof. immediately. - 20+ steps of deeply personal questions about your life - you pick custom app icons and themes mid-onboarding - halfway through, a bundle offer for 6 RELATED apps pops up - soft paywall. you can dismiss it - only ONE option: 3-day free trial into $35.99/yr - visual 3-day timeline so you see exactly when you'd be charged - "remind me before trial ends" toggle. trust builder - by the time you see the price you've already customized the entire app

132,889 views • 4 months ago

🤯 Look at these two identical apps making $150K+ MRR Same niche. Same mascot concept. and they were launched less than a month apart. They are running the exact same psychological playbook: ➡️open with an animated brain mascot ➡️remove user shame and position the app as the savior ➡️calculate the exact number of years the user is wasting on their phone ➡️force a physical "pledge" (holding and tapping) ➡️ use a decoy pricing (Annual vs Weekly). But if you try to close the paywall? ✅ Unrot drops a "93% OFF" limited-time offer ✅ Brainrot drops a "50% OFF FOREVER" limited-time offer the similarities are incredible.

🤯 Look at these two identical apps making $150K+ MRR Same niche. Same mascot concept. and they were launched less than a month apart. They are running the exact same psychological playbook: ➡️open with an animated brain mascot ➡️remove user shame and position the app as the savior ➡️calculate the exact number of years the user is wasting on their phone ➡️force a physical "pledge" (holding and tapping) ➡️ use a decoy pricing (Annual vs Weekly). But if you try to close the paywall? ✅ Unrot drops a "93% OFF" limited-time offer ✅ Brainrot drops a "50% OFF FOREVER" limited-time offer the similarities are incredible.

67,065 views • 2 months ago

Imagine making $450,000/mo from a bible app. a bible app. a category most builders ignore. Haven has 21 onboarding steps, a chatbot that asks you to type out your deepest struggles, $6.99/week. no decoys. - chatbot-style intake, manual text input. not multiple choice. you TYPE your struggles - "relationship problems," "anxiety," whatever you're going through. manually typed. vulnerable - rating prompt during the opening carousel. 5-star reviews harvested before any friction - notification permission framed as "spiritual discipline, made easier" - "analyzing your responses..." screen. manufactures the feeling of complex computation - the paywall doesn't show features. it shows a personalized BIBLE VERSE - one single option. 7-day trial → $6.99/week. no annual. no tiers. - "notify me before my trial ends" toggle right above the CTA - 250K people a month download this. $450K/mo

Imagine making $450,000/mo from a bible app. a bible app. a category most builders ignore. Haven has 21 onboarding steps, a chatbot that asks you to type out your deepest struggles, $6.99/week. no decoys. - chatbot-style intake, manual text input. not multiple choice. you TYPE your struggles - "relationship problems," "anxiety," whatever you're going through. manually typed. vulnerable - rating prompt during the opening carousel. 5-star reviews harvested before any friction - notification permission framed as "spiritual discipline, made easier" - "analyzing your responses..." screen. manufactures the feeling of complex computation - the paywall doesn't show features. it shows a personalized BIBLE VERSE - one single option. 7-day trial → $6.99/week. no annual. no tiers. - "notify me before my trial ends" toggle right above the CTA - 250K people a month download this. $450K/mo

84,165 views • 3 months ago

Olive makes $150,000/month from a food scanner app. A warm, illustrated brand led by a friendly mascot. • 17-step onboarding with fear-based messaging • collects allergies, restrictions, specific additives • asks for a rating before you've even used the app • 3-screen paywall sequence • value demo → trial reminder → pricing • free trial locked to yearly plan • monthly is the decoy • CTA says "Try for $0.00" • account creation happen after you've already paid

97,106 views • 5 months ago

We just launched the fastest way to design high-converting mobile apps. Idea to Figma in <60s. Feed the results to Cursor/Claude with perfect clarity. Powered by UX patterns from 2,200+ top subscription apps. Retweet and comment, I will send you 10 free credits in your DM 👇

We just launched the fastest way to design high-converting mobile apps. Idea to Figma in <60s. Feed the results to Cursor/Claude with perfect clarity. Powered by UX patterns from 2,200+ top subscription apps. Retweet and comment, I will send you 10 free credits in your DM 👇

144,426 views • 8 months ago

LOOK AT HOW THIS APP SELLS $69.99!! $150,000/mo without a single fake timer. what it does instead: - Show a timeline of the 7-day trial. - Promise a push notification reminder before billing. - Anchor the cost against a Starbucks coffee. - "No Payment Due Now" three screens in a row. - Default to the Annual plan, hide the expensive Monthly plan as a decoy. $70/year is a hard sell. "12 cups of coffee" is not. Same price. Completely different decision.

LOOK AT HOW THIS APP SELLS $69.99!! $150,000/mo without a single fake timer. what it does instead: - Show a timeline of the 7-day trial. - Promise a push notification reminder before billing. - Anchor the cost against a Starbucks coffee. - "No Payment Due Now" three screens in a row. - Default to the Annual plan, hide the expensive Monthly plan as a decoy. $70/year is a hard sell. "12 cups of coffee" is not. Same price. Completely different decision.

12,211 views • 14 days ago

🤯 Unrot, a screen time blocker app making $250k/mo. I looked at two different versions of the onboarding flow, they completely gutted the first half of their funnel. Here is what changed: The Old Flow: - 10+ screens of passive text to tell a story about doomscrolling. - Play a 30-second breathing mini-game to demo the app. ✅ Paywall was a single screen: Monthly vs. Annual The New Flow: - Replaced the text story with a simulated chat. You tap pre-written options to talk to a "Brain" mascot. - Killed the 30-second breathing game. Replaced it with simple visual diagrams. ✅ Paywall is now a 2-screen sequence ending in a 93% off exit-intent pop-up.

🤯 Unrot, a screen time blocker app making $250k/mo. I looked at two different versions of the onboarding flow, they completely gutted the first half of their funnel. Here is what changed: The Old Flow: - 10+ screens of passive text to tell a story about doomscrolling. - Play a 30-second breathing mini-game to demo the app. ✅ Paywall was a single screen: Monthly vs. Annual The New Flow: - Replaced the text story with a simulated chat. You tap pre-written options to talk to a "Brain" mascot. - Killed the 30-second breathing game. Replaced it with simple visual diagrams. ✅ Paywall is now a 2-screen sequence ending in a 93% off exit-intent pop-up.

37,295 views • 2 months ago

🤯 $150K/mo by bribing users to cancel their own free trial. Look at the before and after of the Calz onboarding flow: Onboarding changes: - Removed cartoon mascot. - Added "200M+ logs" social proof. - Farms 5-star reviews mid-funnel. Paywall changes: - Killed the single-screen checkout. - Built a 4-stage "Trust Funnel." - Replaced trial toggle with forced annual. - Bribes you 50% to forfeit your trial. Relentless optimization.

🤯 $150K/mo by bribing users to cancel their own free trial. Look at the before and after of the Calz onboarding flow: Onboarding changes: - Removed cartoon mascot. - Added "200M+ logs" social proof. - Farms 5-star reviews mid-funnel. Paywall changes: - Killed the single-screen checkout. - Built a 4-stage "Trust Funnel." - Replaced trial toggle with forced annual. - Bribes you 50% to forfeit your trial. Relentless optimization.

16,191 views • 28 days ago

🔥 $60k/month travel app in 5 months. not flights. not hotels. Visa overstays and tax residency. → problem (deep anxiety) → needs protection → pays $30/year for certainty - pure lazy genius trick: photo geolocation scanning auto-fills your travel history. friction deleted. - preemptive 5-star review harvest before paywall - then paywall: $29.99/year, no negotiation, no tiers. that's how you get 10k/mo installs off pure anxiety and legal framing.

🔥 $60k/month travel app in 5 months. not flights. not hotels. Visa overstays and tax residency. → problem (deep anxiety) → needs protection → pays $30/year for certainty - pure lazy genius trick: photo geolocation scanning auto-fills your travel history. friction deleted. - preemptive 5-star review harvest before paywall - then paywall: $29.99/year, no negotiation, no tiers. that's how you get 10k/mo installs off pure anxiety and legal framing.

14,395 views • 1 month ago

I promise you, your paywall is leaving money on the table. Look at how hard Yazio fight for the conversion: 1. Hyper-specific goal date 2. Immediate social proof 3. Aggressive decoy pricing But the genius part happens if you try to exit: they intercept you with a game. ❌ You click close. 🎡 A roulette wheel appears. 📉 First spin: You win a boring 5% off. 🔥 Second spin: You hit the "75% OFF FOREVER" jackpot. By making the user "work" for the final One-Time Offer, they completely override logical price objections with a massive dopamine spike. Insane conversion mechanics.

I promise you, your paywall is leaving money on the table. Look at how hard Yazio fight for the conversion: 1. Hyper-specific goal date 2. Immediate social proof 3. Aggressive decoy pricing But the genius part happens if you try to exit: they intercept you with a game. ❌ You click close. 🎡 A roulette wheel appears. 📉 First spin: You win a boring 5% off. 🔥 Second spin: You hit the "75% OFF FOREVER" jackpot. By making the user "work" for the final One-Time Offer, they completely override logical price objections with a massive dopamine spike. Insane conversion mechanics.

13,810 views • 2 months ago

After 1 year of work, we’re finally launching on Product Hunt! ScreensDesign is live! 🎉 We built the ultimate iOS app intelligence platform. We know there might be bugs, and we’re improving every day. We’d love your feedback & support! ❤️

After 1 year of work, we’re finally launching on Product Hunt! ScreensDesign is live! 🎉 We built the ultimate iOS app intelligence platform. We know there might be bugs, and we’re improving every day. We’d love your feedback & support! ❤️

57,402 views • 1 year ago

$55,000/month from an app that teaches you how to sew? while VC-backed startups bleed cash in fitness and productivity, SewPal applies hardcore monetization to a sleepy hobbyist category. - terms and privacy acceptance screen first. gets the first "agree" tap. low friction. momentum started - ATT prompt fires immediately after → two permissions captured before any cognitive load - asks about your skill level and specific frustrations - you're not describing your interests. you're admitting your FAILURES. the app is now the cure - dedicated full-screen review farming page. "help us grow!" you haven't sewn anything yet - "design your trial" paywall. two options: free 7 days or 1 month for $1.99 - there IS no monthly plan. both are bundled with $29.99/year auto-renewal - "remind me before trial ends" toggle. you tap it to protect yourself. it triggers the PUSH NOTIFICATION prompt. your fear of forgetting to cancel just opted you into marketing - "unlock 200+ projects worth over $2,000." the $29.99/year suddenly looks like a 98% discount

$55,000/month from an app that teaches you how to sew? while VC-backed startups bleed cash in fitness and productivity, SewPal applies hardcore monetization to a sleepy hobbyist category. - terms and privacy acceptance screen first. gets the first "agree" tap. low friction. momentum started - ATT prompt fires immediately after → two permissions captured before any cognitive load - asks about your skill level and specific frustrations - you're not describing your interests. you're admitting your FAILURES. the app is now the cure - dedicated full-screen review farming page. "help us grow!" you haven't sewn anything yet - "design your trial" paywall. two options: free 7 days or 1 month for $1.99 - there IS no monthly plan. both are bundled with $29.99/year auto-renewal - "remind me before trial ends" toggle. you tap it to protect yourself. it triggers the PUSH NOTIFICATION prompt. your fear of forgetting to cancel just opted you into marketing - "unlock 200+ projects worth over $2,000." the $29.99/year suddenly looks like a 98% discount

11,336 views • 3 months ago

I built a free tool that lets you explore every app that ranked in the App Store top charts since 2018. (Link Below) You’ll see a color heatmap showing each app’s position month by month, perfect for spotting old trends that might work again or new ones starting to rise. It covers all categories, including top-grossing apps

I built a free tool that lets you explore every app that ranked in the App Store top charts since 2018. (Link Below) You’ll see a color heatmap showing each app’s position month by month, perfect for spotting old trends that might work again or new ones starting to rise. It covers all categories, including top-grossing apps

14,771 views • 9 months ago

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