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Nikita is a god at making viral iOS apps
His apps Tbh & Gas have both made and been sold for millions of dollars
Acquired by Facebook & Discord
Below are a list of hacks he uses in his new app Explode:
The company benefits from two distinct and multiplicative growth drivers: network effects to pull in more people and their code, and an ever growing code repository acts as a marketplace for people seeking out code for their projects.
Sean Ellis • Startup Growth Engines
Jason Fried Interview: Bootstrapping vs VC, Profit vs Revenue, How to Write, Basecamp, HEY & Once
youtube.comViral Marketing
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Growth was about engineer[ing] systems of scale and enabling our users to grow the product for us.”
Sean Ellis • Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
I note my ideas publicly: I used to keep ideas to myself. Now, I tweet them publicly as they happen. If a post does better than normal, I know it's something people find interesting. Then, I make more stuff on that topic.
Alex Hormozi • $100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff (Acquisition.com $100M Series Book 2)
"Distribution is essential to the design of the product. If you invent something but you haven't invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business. Superior distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true."
Alex MacCaw
alexmaccaw.com