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We built degenmeetsregen.com literally in 12hrs and it onboarded a lot of people despite nobody being able to earn anything and despite it not having utility, and it being a PWA. It‘s ridiculous that the advice is: „ship an iOS app“

The trickiest part is designing around a viral loop and all its constraints.

Dunk alarm 🚨

„Build a beautiful iOS app“ this the Girardian status trap advice of rich and bored American founders. 


It‘s a closed loop status game to seek validation with same-class peers. As an externality, the beautiful iOS app is unnecessary to succeed.

Don‘t fall for playing status games.

Obviously not saying that iOS apps are useless. But they serve VERY specific problems which MOST founders do not have

I think this is the key part of your point. The mistake is made when you haven’t understood why your business does, or does not need this