I just hired a new employee… a cat? 🐱

🚀 Road to 1,000,000 Votap users — Day 69 | Current: 1351

I just hired a new employee… a cat? 🐱

Over the last few days I started working on Votap Premium, and that meant diving into tools like RevenueCat. If you’ve never used it before, it basically handles all the messy parts of subscriptions so you don’t have to rebuild everything from scratch. It allows you to:

→ create and test paywalls
→ manage subscriptions across iOS (and more later)
→ track revenue, retention, conversions
→ handle edge cases you don’t even think about at the start

We’ll soon introduce two main tiers:
→ Monthly / Yearly Premium
→ Lifetime “Founding Voter” (one-time purchase, limited offer)

But just to be clear: nothing core is going behind a paywall. Voting will always stay free and unlimited. That’s the whole point. Premium is more about enhancements, things like:

→ custom username
→ premium badge
→ deeper charts & filters
→ small identity + cosmetic upgrades

Right now I’m just experimenting with pricing and the paywall itself, seeing what feels right. It’s not final yet, just getting the system in place.

Feels like one of those big shifts… going from just building to actually generating revenue for the first time.

Download Votap from the App Store if you want to check it out when it's live.

More tomorrow.