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My app has a problem 🍵 Coding Vlog (App Launch Series) — Transcript · YTtoTranscript

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My app has a problem 🍵 Coding Vlog (App Launch Series)

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[music] >> stupid. Some of them Oh, I really hate it. >> [music] >> I could build this. My app has a major problem. Well, technically it has five problems. Three edge cases and a minor existential crisis, but who's counting? I'm building the app Stay Away, which encourages you to delete your social media apps from

your phone and helps you not relapse. But right now, my biggest nightmare is the onboarding flow. My onboarding completion rate is [music] 48.21%. It's under 50%, which means that half the people that actually download the app end up vanishing. Looking at the funnel, there's a giant cliff the moment I ask for notifications or device

activity screens. So, I need to figure out a way to fix this because if half the people are dropping off before even seeing the usefulness of the app, it's pointless.

I just spent some time mapping out the entire new flow on Miro. So, instead of ambushing them with permission requests like the old flow did immediately, the new flow is going to ask them to pick the exact social media app that's ruining their life and I'm going to show them a visual reality check of how bad

the addiction really is. And it reassures them, "Hey, we're not here to steal your data. We're here to help you destroy your screen time." I really hope that this improves [music] the onboarding flow.

>> [music] >> I also made a mistake last week when it came to testing this whole app because >> [music] >> I started to test with the wrong audience. The first thing I did after the app went on beta test mode was to tell my friends that, "Hey, the app is out. You guys can test it." And also

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tell my audience and the people who are on the waitlist. So, that got me quite a few people who were already testing the app or who are testing the app. But, I realized that there's a distinct hierarchy in the desperation of people who want to get rid of social media. So, there's the level one people. People who

think that standard app blockers will save them and maybe it is helping them. For me, it didn't help. The only thing that helped was getting rid of the apps from my phone. And then there's the whole level two people. People who realize they need to physically delete social media apps, but they need this

psychological buffer to stop them from redownloading it during a dopamine craving. That level two group is what StayAway is made for. And I cannot be testing it with the level one group because that's not even a target audience. I know this is supposed to be a coding vlog, but the reality is that if you are

a solo founder, you have to do things >> [music] >> other than code. Which is where the third problem comes in. It's called marketing. To market a anti-social media app, I have to do the ultimate ironical thing, which is reinstall Instagram and TikTok and start posting reels and short-form content. Oh, I really hate it.

>> [music] >> The building part was super fun, super easy. But, now that I have to do marketing as a solo creator, it does feel like throwing rocks at a wall and try to make it stick. [music] And it's so strange because I know I'm a content creator. I post YouTube videos, but

long-form videos versus short-form videos is quite different. And I'm trying to use AI to generate script ideas for videos. It's a terrible idea. Let me show you some of the videos I created. I mean, it's not stupid. Some of them got a couple of hundred views, but it's not viral content. All of these

AI-generated scripts sound like corporate >> [music] >> motivational speaker, like a boomer trying to speak like Gen Z, so it sounds super fake. And it's no surprise these videos are not going to do well. But I just got an idea. Like what if Hogwarts, so Harry Potter world, had a brain rot issue. So I'm trying to

target people who are against brain rot. It's more CapCut marketing stuff now. I was so overwhelmed yesterday because there's so many things that you can do when it comes to marketing. And I again felt this imposter syndrome because it's not my specialty, so it just felt like, oh, I don't know what I'm doing. I know

firsthand how complex learning to code actually is. And it doesn't really stop when you get a job. It's one of those fields where the learning continues, which is why I want to talk about Scrimba today, who are kindly sponsoring this part of the video. They've just dropped a new feature called Explain, and what it does is that it turns any

question or piece of text into an instant video explainer, an actual video generated on the spot. I'm a very visual learner. I need diagrams and just things to see. So this works perfectly for me. See, I don't remember what a race condition is. Watch what happens when I just ask it. I don't have to go through

a wall of text or scan old medium articles. Explain just generated a short video in seconds explaining the race condition to me. But here's the part that I actually enjoy the most, which is their Chrome extension. So the next time you land on some dense technical article you'd normally close, you can turn it this

whole page into a video explainer right there. >> Performance box CPM 2 [music] supports real-time streaming. It is ready for production serving via VL LM Omni and even on device >> And if you live in your code editor, it plugs in there, too, via claw, chat GPT, codex, whatever you're already using. You can even turn in a pull request into

a video walk through. Instead of scrolling through a 40-file diff, trying to piece together what someone changed and why, I could just ask it to get an actual video explaining it back to me. >> I've stood behind Scrimba for a few years now. Whether you're someone who's just trying to get your foothold into

the industry, or you're someone like me who's trying to keep up with all of these changing trends, definitely check out Scrimba Explain down below. It's free. The link is for you to use. Check them [music] out.

>> Just ate. And something else that I want to talk about in this vlog is about over-engineering. So, this was another trap that I fell into in the past 2 weeks because I had so much fun building this app, which is also strange with I don't know if I should complain about over-engineering if I had fun doing it,

but basically every time I got a small, tiny piece of user data, if I learned that oh, three users skipped this screen, I would want to refactor everything. And I created so many versions of the whole panic flow, you would cry. If you guys are like founders yourself, and you realize that you did this, let me know if this

normal, but I would wake up with a new idea of oh, yeah, I could build this. And then I'll try and like build that feature, which is not the right way to approach business. I have been in the tech world for a really long time, and been coding for 10 years. So, I know our

product managers going to behave. [music] They're going to be like, you need to prioritize, have a nice-to-have, must-have features, normal things. So, now I use this cloth skill, which acts like my personal assistant or like my product manager. Basically, reminds me of what is high priority and the fact that currently, I need to stop building.

I need to stop making changes to the app. I have no data of the users in the app, so it's supposed to be super high privacy, but I do have analytics, so I can see unique random users, what screens do they use the most, what techniques do they use, just so I understand as a developer what is

working, what's not working. Just found a bug where in one of the permutations you take, I don't track the streak, because basically this app it keeps a streak of how long have you deleted your social media apps for. But, there's a bug there, so I need to fix that with the next build.

I also think going back to the problems with the app, I forgot to mention, I have them here, the biggest one that I'm the most doubtful of, which is the fact that when it comes to these type of wellness apps, I'm not just giving you a binary solution, because the utility of a product like this

>> [music] >> doesn't only depend on the code, it also depends on the person using it. For apps like this, like wellness apps, you don't look at them the way the app is, you look at it the way you are. And it works great for me. In fact, now when the past few days

when I've been having to post on Instagram and TikTok and I'd re-downloaded the apps, I did find myself scrolling for a minute. [music] Although, now I've grown an aversion to scrolling. It just feels cringe to me. But, I still ended up using Stay Away to just like do some grounding techniques and calm myself down again. So, it

definitely helps me and it helped me stay away for the longest time, but I am starting to doubt if it would help other people as well. Some of the test results from the beta testers have been successful if it's the correct target audience, but if it's people that are really really really addicted, then

it's quite difficult for them to even convince themselves that I should remove the apps from the phone. I also hope like my idea of success for this particular app is if people stop using it. Like I don't want people to subscribe to it after 3 months. Maybe you can keep it in the background if you

really really want to just have like somebody there, but for me success is if people don't use the app over time. People don't use the panic button as much. It's also difficult to measure success right now cuz it takes a while to get there. >> [music] >> So, I should start with this whole thing

to just be a hands-on way to learn mobile development and because it was app that I already built before, but it was just for me and I just wanted to make it suitable enough for the public to use. That's all I wanted, but once you invest [music] hours of late nights trying to build something out, it's hard

to just think that oh, it's it's just a dummy little project. The sunken cost fallacy sneaks in and you start desperately wanting it to matter, but the weirdest thing is that even with this onboarding issue or having to market that, which sometimes is fun to think of ideas. I've not felt this alive

in months coding something. It's crazy to actually build something and even if it's just test users to see people using something that you built. There's this [music] weird joy in that that we get to experience as developers. Really quickly because it's so much easier to ship things out to people. I probably built it last month and wow,

people like actually using it. There's some people actually maintaining streaks, actually removed the apps from their phones and they've not relapsed. That's crazy. So yeah, I think like corporate software engineering is great for the stability and the mentorship and where you can learn especially if you're starting off, but to do things yourself gives you this

level of freedom that's really hard to mimic, but it also comes with its cons because you have ownership which feels great, but you also have the duality of stress that comes from ownership, the pressure, the self-doubt. It's just the duality of the craft. So I just want to end off by saying something that

I had to say to myself this week that if you're currently in the middle of building something, whether it's an app, a craft, piece of art, something that's just for you or even for the public, being in the middle >> [music] >> is not wasted time. You don't have to figure out that whole destination yet.

It's okay to take one commit, one update, one step [music] at a time. This vlog was more talkative than usual, but I hope you like that and definitely check out Scrimba down below. Love working with them. Incredible tool. And with that being said, thank you so much for watching. I will see you in the

next one.