How I Grew My App From 0 to 10,000 Users in 30 Days
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In the past 30 days, I 100x the number
of users on my app from zero users to
over 10,000 users signed up and using
the app. And I also went from zero
dollars of revenue to over $4,000 of
revenue in one month. And in this video,
I'm going to break down everything that
I did to achieve this really monumental
growth in my app. But before we even get
into me telling you exactly what I did,
just to make sure there's no haters in
the comments that are like, "Bro, this
is fake. Show us the proof." Let me show
you the proof first. The app that I'm
building is called Yorby, and it's a
social media marketing platform that has
two main goals right now, and that is to
help you find and get inspiration to
make viral marketing content to market
your business faster. And then we also
help you create viral marketing content
to market your business faster. So,
we're trying to make marketing content
inspo and creation a lot easier. And the
main premise of how it all works is that
number one, we have this viral content
database, which is a whole database of
different types of viral formats that
other businesses have used, strictly
what other businesses have used to
market their business on social media
and what's worked. And then from there,
you can actually remix these videos
within our content studio. For example,
let's say we see this video. And when
you click on the content studio button,
you're going to then be opened up into
our content studio right here. And from
here, you can remix this content to fit
whatever niche that your business is in.
This original video looks like some type
of health and wellness brand. But let's
say I want to remake this same exact
video with for a dating app, like a
fictional dating app right here. Then
you can just send this chat message and
then we use our AI. will then transform
this entire script to fit your niche,
your brand, whatever you're trying to
market, while still maintaining that
same original viral format and viral
soul that that video had. So that's the
main premise of our app. And in terms of
the growth right here, you can see that
we went from, let's see, January 1st,
what, zero, literally nothing on January
1st. And then we've steadily grown and
right now we have over 10,000 signed up
users. And then in terms of revenue, if
you look at the gross volume, you can
see that in the past four weeks, in the
past month, we have made over $4,000 of
revenue in the past month. And literally
before that there was literally nothing
going on. If you go over here, I'll do
the whole uh let's see all time. And you
can see right here, basically nothing
happened. And then in December, things
start to pick up. We started getting our
first couple of users and things just
started going crazy afterwards. So
that's all the proof. Let's actually get
into what exactly we did to achieve this
crazy growth. So the number one biggest
lever and honestly our only marketing
channel that we've really done in the
past 30 days is social media marketing
content. So, in terms of the different
marketing strategies that we tried to
achieve this exponential growth, really
the only thing that we've done is
organic social media marketing content.
Kind of like how Yorby, the app that I'm
building, is all about helping you find
and make really good, high performing
social media marketing content. We
literally use Yorby to help make the
videos that we created to market our app
on social media like Tik Tok and
Instagram. You know, something about
getting high on your own supply,
practicing what you preach. So, we can
confirm that Yorby works cuz it's
literally what we use to run our whole
marketing department. And also, to be
very clear, I am not the marketing
person. I'm the technical co-founder. I
do have a co-founder who goes by Mangm
Doug on social media. He is the main
business and growth guy. He has handled
the entire social media marketing
process. So, I am going to speak on
behalf of what he has done. But if you
guys are interested in hearing it
straight from the source, let me know
and I can get him on the channel and we
can do a joint video together or
something. Leave a comment down below if
you want a video like that. So, really
the biggest glove growth lever that we
have had is using AI generated social
media marketing content. Honestly, the
formats are pretty simple. It's what we
call a hook and demo format.
Essentially, in the very beginning, we
just created this like AI person where
they are like looking really excited in
the camera. I'll include video B-roll
right here so you can see it, but
basically they're looking like, "Oh my
god, what?" And then we present a very
juicy hook in the beginning. And that's
what we primarily have used Yori for.
Within Yorby, we dumped up all of the
knowledge that he has and I have about
making viral social media marketing
content. And we use it as our
brainstorming partner, our co-working
partner to help us brainstorm really
juicy, high performing hooks that's
trained on our entire database of
content. And then from there, from this
really juicy hook, we make sure this
hook presents some type of problems.
Like an example hook would be POV, you
finally understand why creators stopped
using chat GPT. It's like, wo, what? It
sparks curiosity in the user. And then
the following clip we insert after this
hook is a demo of the product that we're
building, which is Yorby. And this video
demo then shows the solution to that
initial problem we created and showed in
the hook. So that's why we call it a
hook and demo format. And that is
literally all that we did. And it's
honestly kind of crazy because going
into this, this was in the month of
December when this all happened. And
both my partner and I, we were both
traveling kind of just on holiday
vacation with our family, right? And we
accepted the fact that, hey, chances
that people are going to be in the
holidays and wanting to purchase product
probably pretty slim. We're not going to
be home at our home based on our laptops
all that often. So, let's just forget
about growth. Let's just be heads down
and focus on building a really good
product. And then come January in the
new year, that's when we can focus on
getting a lot of growth instead. And
that's what we originally agreed on. But
then kind of out of nowhere, my
co-founder is like, "Hey, I'm going to
start posting some content, get the
account warmed up and let's just see how
it goes." All right, sure. No worries.
Then out of nowhere, literally while we
are just abroad traveling, video goes
viral. Multiple videos go viral back to
back to back to back and next thing you
know, our app is exploding. Our database
is failing because it is way too weak
and small and not optimized to handle
over 10,000 users. It was only built to
handle like 20 users and it was just so
stressful. But it was a good type of
problem to have. And honestly, that's a
whole another video topic on its own
about how to scale the app and all the
pain and the headaches that we went
through. But a lot of juicy stuff there.
I will talk about that in a follow-up
video. And if you want to see that
video, make sure to subscribe to the
channel cuz then you'll get alerted when
that video comes out. When my app
unexpectedly grew from zero to 10,000
users in 30 days, one of the most
critical things I did immediately was
gather everybody's contact information
like their email. Even though the growth
was so rapid, I knew that email
marketing is one of the best ways of
marketing and communicating with your
users. So although I wasn't doing any
active email marketing at the time, I
still made sure to capture the email
information on signup so I can use it
later on. And there are so many
different email marketing providers out
there, but the one that I find myself
coming back to year-over-year is called
Brevo, which also happens to be the
sponsor of today's video. What I liked
in particular about Brevo is the fact
that they have great developer support,
which makes it really easy to capture
user information and contact them later
on. But they also have a really nice
graphical interface to create email
marketing campaigns and to just manage
your users in general. Don't get me
wrong, I love being code. I love in
terminal, but we made graphical user
interfaces for a reason. They also have
the ability to create email flows and
various marketing automations, as well
as contacting your users via SMS and
WhatsApp. And now that the [music]
growth has settled out a little bit, I'm
finally finding some time to use Brevo
and start my email marketing campaigns
to get more users to convert [music] and
use my tool. I personally am a big fan
of their pricing model as well because
unlike a lot of other email providers
out there that charge you based on how
many contacts you're managing, Brevo
primarily charges you based on how many
emails you're actually sending, which
makes way more sense. If you're looking
for an email and marketing solution
that's easier for both developers and
non-developers, then definitely check
out Brevo right here using this link.
And once again, thanks to Brevo for
sponsoring this segment of the video.
And that AI video format is literally
all that we did. It's one of those
things where when you find something
that works, you just got to double and
triple down on it. And that is exactly
what we have been doing up until this
point. But while doing that, while we
have been doubling down on this proven
format that we know works, this AI hook
and demo format, we also wanted to test
out human content as well. And we
started hiring other human UGC creators
to literally just recreate the same
exact video that we created with AI or
make their own types of videos as well.
And I know something you might be
wondering is, wait, if AI content's
already working, why are you bothering
hiring humans to make the same content
as well? That's a really good question
and the honest answer to it all is the
fact that hiring humans versus just
making the AI content yourself. It's all
about leveraging time versus money.
Because yes, AI content, we could
theoretically just do it all of
ourselves, but it takes a lot of time to
make that content, believe it or not.
And when you're just hiring somebody
else to do it, you're hiring this like
real human creator to make that content.
We were just leveraging our newfound
revenue and money that we were making
from Yorby and paying essentially other
marketers to help us grow our app. But
the thing is with any type of social
media content that you post to market
your app, it's really more of like a
venture capital play. It's really one of
those businesses where like if you get
10 people to make content, 10 different
accounts to post content to market your
product, you're going to most likely
nine out of 10 of those accounts are
probably going to fail or not do all
that well. But then that one account out
of the 10 is going to be one outstanding
winner that's going to drive like the
vast majority of your growth for your
business because that one account just
continuously gets picked up by the
algorithm and will push your product out
to other people. So that's why we still
hired humans even though we did know
that the AI content did work. And at the
end of the day when we internally
discuss the idea of AI content versus
human content, what's the future?
Honestly, for us, it really doesn't
matter. And I think that's what the
algorithm will say as well. The
algorithm does not care how the content
was made. Did you make it? Did you pay
someone else to make it? Did you use AI
to make it? They don't care. I think all
that they care about is is the content
good or is the content spam. And then if
the algorithm detects that the content
is really spammy and lowv value content,
they're not going to push it out no
matter what. At the end of the day, I
would not stress out too much about, oh
my god, should I do AI content, human
content? What's the future? Do it all,
do one, doesn't matter. Just you just
need to focus on making good content or
what the algorithm deems as good
content. So, posting short form social
media marketing videos definitely
accounted for probably over 80% of our
growth. And the other 20% of our growth
has largely been through LinkedIn. Once
again, this is not me. This is my
partner, my co-founder. He's the one
that does the whole LinkedIn stuff. But
really, I think what LinkedIn does is
really targeting kind of a different
customer base. Whereas with social
media, I think we've been getting a lot
of solo plans, like solo players, like
solo creators who want to do this all.
We also offer a team plan that lets
users add up to 10 different team
members into their team to collaborate
with one another. And I believe if I had
to take a guess and just from really
short anecdotes here and there, LinkedIn
has been a better marketing avenue to
hit those team-based people as well. So,
while LinkedIn is definitely
significantly less conversionoriented
compared to posting on Tik Tok or
Instagram, we still think it's really
important because it really targets and
attracts a fundamentally different type
of audience to come over to us.
Potentially, more enterprise clients,
more team-based clients, bigger teams
that have longer sales cycles. So, right
now, we haven't had nearly as many sales
on due to LinkedIn compared to Tik Tok
and Instagram, but it's still a platform
we want to continue to invest in because
we think it's going to pay a lot of
dividends in the future. So, that is
basically how we achieved all the growth
on our app. Now, in terms of future
plans on what we plan to continue to do
moving forward is number one, we still
plan to go hard on posting a lot of
short form marketing content, Tik Tok
and Instagram, make more accounts, hire
more people, AI content and human
content, everything. And what's really
interesting is the fact that we've
noticed with going viral on Tik Tok and
Instagram, we have gotten so much
inbound and interest from other
creators, like other UGC creators that
want to make videos on our behalf. So,
it almost has solved that sourcing
problem for us. We're not finding
ourselves having to reach out to other
people to convince them and asking them
to make content for us. We're getting a
lot of inbound. So, that's actually been
a really pleasant surprise. We're still
really strong believers in short form
videos on Tik Tok, Instagram, and like
YouTube shorts as well to being a strong
growth lever for us moving forward. But
other things that we do maybe
potentially play with in the future in
the near future is paid ads. Obviously,
everyone knows what paid ads are. We'll
probably more interested in going on
meta paid ads than Google search paid
ads. We'll see. But right now, my
co-founder and I, both of our plates are
so full, it's going to be hard for
either one of us to do it. So, if we
were to do this, we would probably hire
an agency or someone to work with to run
our paid ads for us. But that is still
like second tier in priority, whereas
still just going hard on organic social
media marketing content on Tik Tok and
Instagram is still the number one
priority. The third tier thing that we
are interested in is SEO, search engine
optimization. That one really early
stages. We have a potential SEO strategy
we have in mind, but it's still way too
early. We haven't done the work at all
for it, but it's something we do want to
tackle, especially as we do our product
development. And with this whole SEO
strategy, I think that's going to be
something that I'm going to lead a
little bit more on because I think with
SEO, you can do stuff like programmatic
search engine optimization or just
clever search engine optimization tricks
and websites that you build with like a
coding background. So, that's kind of
where I think I will probably come in
using my coding background, my
programming background as marketing.
But, we'll see. That's a little bit
further out in our timeline just because
we have a lot of other things we want to
build. Those are our future plans for
how we continue to plan to grow our appe
in the meantime. But that is all I got
for today. That is everything that we've
done to 100x ourr users on our app in
the past 30 days. And it has been a
crazy crazy 30 days. Very very exciting.
And hopefully in the next coming weeks I
can make more videos and we have more
exciting landmarks that I can share with
you. And if you are interested in that
type of content, once again make sure to
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That's all I got for today. Thanks for
watching. I'll see you in the next one.
Peace.
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The speaker details how their app, Yorby, achieved monumental growth, going from zero to over 10,000 users and $4,000 in revenue within 30 days. Yorby is a social media marketing platform designed to help businesses find inspiration and create viral content using a database of successful formats and an AI-powered content studio. The primary driver of this growth was organic social media marketing through a "hook and demo" video format, which involves an exciting AI persona, a problem-posing hook, and a product demo. This success, largely driven by the co-founder, was unexpected during a holiday period and caused database scaling issues. While leveraging AI content, they also hired human UGC creators, noting that the algorithm values good content regardless of its origin. LinkedIn contributed a smaller but strategically important portion of growth by attracting team-based and enterprise clients. Future plans include continued investment in short-form content, exploring paid ads, and SEO.
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