alright buckle up because this email is going to be a no fluff guide to how to find success in building mobile apps or SaaS companies as quickly as possible

so without further ado (?) let’s begin

Step 1: Start With Marketing

I actually recommend people to start with finding good marketing, and then working backwards to find their idea…

so what you’re going to do is start a fresh tik tok account, and you’re going to search for things you’re interested, for example, health, and you’ll engage with posts you genuinely like

eventually, you’re going to find patterns in what’s working for marketing in the health space and you may even find some products

but let’s take one trend for example, I see a lot of people talk about the carnivore diet, so you could make an app that shows meal instructions for the carnivore diet, and helps people stick to it

this also plays into the trend of people eating steak and eggs off of a wooden board, so you know those hooks will perform

this is how you start with the marketing that you know works, and then reverse engineer to get the idea

Design:

Designing your prototype has never been easier, you can use something like 99 designs where people compete to make the best design for you

but you can also just use text to app tools like create(dot)xyz to do it, you just type in plain english what you want it to build and it’ll do it

you can even paste screenshots of user interfaces you like and have it remake that and then make the tweaks you want

refine this until you get to an end design you like, keep it super simple, easy to use and make sure you have a proper onboarding flow that get’s users to share your product and also shows how easy it is to use

Building it:

you have really 3 options here to then actually get it built

1) learn how to build on flutterflow (will take few weeks)

2) pay a developer (5-10k most likely if solid dev)

3) Partner with a dev on an equity split

there’s no “correct” option, each one has it’s place but if you learn how to build it yourself, to build it, and also market it, and run the operations is a lot for one person to do

Gaining Users:

since we started with marketing first, when you launch, you already know what types of videos will work, so you will start with yourself making videos, and quickly scale to bulk creating accounts and using ai tools to mass produce content

and then scaling by loading your creator budget to Payd and having bulk creators post about your app for a set amount per 1,000 views

and then have a viral flywheel to get people to share it, this is how Payd got over 1,000 downloads in 10 days, and the majority of downloads are from search and referrals, not from my brand

and I’m going to break this all down in depth, in a 90 minute live masterclass this upcoming Monday, February 17th at 7PM EST which also happens to be my birthday

so I may even have a few surprises

if you want to attend, there’s only 250 live spots, you can register below

«click here to register for the live masterclass»

hope to see you there,

Alex