I'm just back from vacation and it was fantastic, did absolutely nothing bar watch spooky movies and chill. I'm used to running through airports during my vacation but with 2020 putting that on hold it's been a nice time to just break for the sake of taking a break
We re talking to mobile app founders about how they stay on top of user feedback. With reviews spread across Google Play, the App Store, and even CRM tools, it can feel like a full-time job just to know what s going on.
I m curious:
Do you personally check reviews daily, or is it more ad hoc?
How do you currently track and respond to reviews across platforms?
Are you using any tools or custom setups to catch emerging issues early?
What s been the hardest part of staying proactive with reviews (without burning hours every day)?
I have noticed something about how I use AI for important decisions. I start with a point of view. I explain the context. AI gives me a thoughtful response. I challenge it a little. And eventually, I often walk away feeling more confident about what I already wanted to do.
Which made me wonder: did AI actually stress-test my decision, or did it just help me rationalize it better? With people, we have social biases. Friends, colleagues and mentors may soften their advice, bring their own biases, or tell us what they think we want to hear.
Someone asked here this week how to turn free users into paying ones. The answer I gave was half right, so here is the other half.
The easy half is that a free user has not decided the problem costs them anything yet. So you look for the ones with money already attached. A consultant, a tool they cancelled, someone's hours.
Hours are where it goes wrong. Every project I have been paid for was client work, priced before it existed. An hour saved there widened the margin, because the number on the contract did not move when the work got faster. That is why saving time reads as obviously valuable to me.
An agency billing hourly is the exact opposite. Every hour you save them is an hour they cannot invoice. Same job title, same daily pain, opposite reason to buy you.
When you re browsing the Product Hunt leaderboard or checking out top launches, which category of products actually makes you stop and click?
Example, yesterday @lazverry told me on my forum thread that they are a creator, so they spend a lot of time looking into Design & Creatives and Productivity.
ralify is at it's first launch today, and we are holding the #1 spot on Product Hunt since the start! I d love to hear from you: Which part of our launch experience are you most curious about? Let s dive into the details together!
Your killer app's biggest competitor is a new browser tab We're seeing a TON of new platforms and systems that offer incredible functionality, I'm not here to dismiss that in any way.. BUT (you could feel that 'but' coming, right?)... Injecting AI into the places that people are already working makes waaay more sense when possible. My main discipline is marketing - I've spent 20 years jumping between tools every other month, it's exhausting but there's always a core group of tools that survive and it tends to be communication tools. Whether it's simple like Slack or WhatsApp, or Project Management like Jira, Monday etc. this is where the teams do their work. I have an oversimplified ask: If you're making a cool tool for a business try and find a way to bring it into their existing workspaces. That way you don't have to deal with as much behavioral change/resistance of logging into a new tab each time (I know, I know.. I'd love to change the world with a killer app too). As useful as your tool is; the accessibility/ease-of-access will always be somewhat of a hurdle and it's something to keep in mind.
This is quite urgent as I'm launching apps back to back. I have some paid customers here and there and some OK traffic, but Im not sure what to pursue with more energy. What kind of conversion rates are considered "good" in order to pursue a product more seriously? When I say conversion rates I mean the following:
From landing page to app visit
From app visit to registration
From registration to paid customer
What numbers do you consider good? I haven't managed to find clear answers online.
PS: Im a solopreneur so I have limited resources, I cant be pursuing products that make no sense number-wise.