David Barnard

Author’s posts

• Building sustainable growth loops and lasting habits — Anton Derlyatka, Sweatcoin

  • Growth

  Sweatcoin turned walking into a currency - but its real success comes from engineered virality and habit-forming design.

  

• Daily Sub Club minisodes leading up to the State of Subscription Apps 2025

  • Growth

  Bite-sized insights from top app operators - dropping every day until the full report launch

  

• Why Google App Campaigns is high reward, high maintenance — Ashley Black, Candid Consulting

  • Growth

  Google’s ad platform offers huge growth potential... but only if you keep a close eye on where your budget is going

  

• Freemium mistakes, brand wins, and trusting your gut – lessons from Deezer’s Sherina Khalidi

  • Growth

  How Deezer balanced performance and brand marketing, fixed its freemium strategy, and learned when to ignore A/B test results.

  

• What you need to know about Apple’s Advanced Commerce API

  • Growth

  Apple’s latest API aims to simplify complex in-app purchases - ideal for apps with large catalogs and bundled subscriptions.

  

• How a dorm room project became a 5M MAU scanning app

  • Growth

  From a student side project to a thriving business - how Genius Scan stayed focused on users and kept growing.

  

• Benchmarks are a jumping-off point, not the end-all, be-all — Phil Carter, Elemental Growth

  • Growth

  Learn how Phil Carter's Subscription Value Loop framework helps subscription apps scale sustainably—plus, why balancing data with intuition is the key to growth.

  

• “Web-to-app gives you the ability to control the user journey and funnel more effectively” — Nathan Hudson, Perceptycs

  • Growth

  From the web to your app: Insights on the rising web-to-app trend

  

• “A big market is great only if you can take a substantial share of it” — Patrick Falzon, The App Shop

  • Growth

  On the podcast: estimating the revenue potential of an app, crafting an exit strategy, and why LTV is such a terrible metric.

  

• How a Golf App Doubled Revenue with Bold Bets — Alex Prasad, V1 Sports

  • Growth

  Why simplifying monetization transformed V1 Sports’ business

  

• The #RCGrowthChallenge: Win a $15k budget & 3 months of hands-on support from Steve P. Young

  • Company
  • Growth

  Announcing, the #RCGrowthChallenge 2024

  

• “With TikTok, good quality content can go viral from scratch.” — Joseph Choi, Viral App Founders

  • Growth

  How apps can leverage TikTok’s discovery power with viral content, micro-influencers, and shareable features.