Lessons on building a viral consumer app: The story of Saturn
The most common criticism lobbed at me:
Why don’t you build a durable app? Why have your products only been flashes in the pan?
Building a retentive social product is a black swan event: it is extraordinarily rare to create the next Facebook and displace a daily communication tool. There is no repeatable... See more
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HOW TO BUILD A BIG CONSUMER B2C MOBILE APP IN 2026
1. start with a single recurring behavior people already document, like meals, sleep, workouts, studying, dating, or routines.
2. anchor the app to one question users already ask themselves daily, like “am I doing this... See more