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I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Let’s set the stage:

The Lagree Buddy app has enough quality features that this is an actual, useful thing that I feel comfortable promoting & charging money for.

There are more features I want to build, but they’re bigger features and are still weeks from releasing (because I need to QA them in the real world).

Since the hard paywall and overhauled onboarding (discussed here), there has been a noticeable increase in purchases (woohoo! see chart below)

Given the information above, I figured I should try an experiment.

What if I spent every business hour on marketing/distribution instead of coding and building more features?

That felt so uncomfortable to even say out loud because it meant spending a week on social media and talking to people about the app. But it also meant not hiding inside the code.

So here’s a detailed (but slightly stream of consciousness) recap of how that week went.

Day 1 || Monday, August 25th

If any influencers out there want to give me some tips on how to IG correctly, please do. But my current thought process is to craft a story arc for one day. And then to break that arc into 4-6 posts, to be posted every 3 hours or so.

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