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The Superwall Podcast
The Superwall Podcast dives into the minds of the world’s most innovative app developers. Each episode, we sit down with the people behind today’s most successful apps to uncover what really drives growth, retention, and revenue in the mobile world. From product decisions and paywall strategies to hard-earned lessons and breakthrough experiments, we explore the stories, tactics, and insights that power top-tier apps. Whether you're building your first MVP or scaling to millions, this is your front-row seat to what it takes to thrive in the app economy.
Episodes
41 episodes
Kiran Desai - The EXACT System to Go From 0-$10M+ With Your App
Kiran Desai didn't run paid ads to grow StudyFetch. He pointed a camera at a laptop screen, posted it on TikTok, and woke up to 3 million views and tens of thousands of signups in 24 hours. Today, StudyFetch has 7 million users, seven-figure MR...
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Yannis Chaouche - The NEW Short Form Strategy Dominating For App Growth
Yannis Chaouche was supposed to be a machine learning scientist. Instead, he reverse-engineered TikTok and built a system generating 500 million views and 3 to 5 million downloads without hiring a single creator.In this episode of The Su...
Nicole Cheung - she makes $400k/mo from ai apps (while in college)
Nicole Cheung built four apps before turning 25 with no engineering background. The last two pulled over $400K a month combined, including GlamUp hitting a million users in six months and Sprout reaching $250K MRR in eight months.In this...
Daniel Heintzma - I speedran a new app from 0 to $2m/year in 6 months (here's how)
Daniel Heintzman didn't wait to build before finding customers. He charged $15 for manual dating profile reviews on Instagram before writing a single line of code. Six months after shipping, Sway AI hit $2M ARR. Cal AI, his next project, was ac...
Alex Vech - Copy This Facebook Ads Strategy, It'll Blow Up Your SaaS
Alex Vech burned $800K on Meta ads that didn't work. Not total spend, just the wasted portion. The other $700K helped him build Boost App Social to $100K MRR and sell it for seven figures.In this epis...
Morrie Schonfeld - How I built a $500k/mo ai app (so you can just copy me)
Morrie Schonfeld's app got 400 million views in a single month. Fourteen months after launching from his Northwestern dorm room, Pingo AI is approaching $500K/month with 3 million users and zero paid ads.In this episode of The Superwall ...
Brett Bauman & Zack Hargett - COPY this ai app's $6.7m/yr marketing strategy
Zack Hargett and Brett Bauman grew Coconote to $6.7M ARR, 2 million users, and 1 billion social views, bootstrapped, in under two years. Then Quizlet acquired them....
Dillion Verma - 0 to $300k/mo in 45 days with my ai app (just copy me)
Dillion Verma bootstrapped his first consumer app to $300K MRR in 45 days. He had 18 months of failed products behind him, almost nothing in the bank, and one data point: a single TikTok that returned 6x ROI. So he took out a $100K personal loa...
Koby Conrad - I speedran an ai app from 0 to $1m/yr in 10 months
Koby Conrad built an app that hit $1M ARR in 10 months. He didn't spin up 30 micro-influencer deals. He hired the #1 influencer in sobriety as an actual employee.In this episode of Th...
Casper Opala - The Stupid Simple Content Strategy That's Making Apps Go Viral
Casper Opala turned his 10 million followers into a $217,000 app business in five months, and he didn't write a single line of code. His secret? Reverse-engineering his own brand deals to find pre-validated app ideas hiding in plain sight.<...
Caleb Dean - I speedran an ai app from 0 to $100k exit in 26 days
Caleb Dean sold his app for six figures after just 26 days of revenue. The buyer paid 5x ARR on an estimated $3K MRR before Runify even completed a full month live.In this episode of The Superwall Podcast, Caleb walks Joseph through the ...
Dris Elamri - Meet The 18y/o Who Solved UGC Marketing (100M Views in 2 Weeks)
Meet the 18-Year-Old Who Solved UGC Marketing (100M Views in 2 Weeks)Dris Elamri scaled Cluely's UGC program to 100 million views in two weeks with fewer than 20 creators—then left ...
Jay Raavi - Copy This UGC Strategy, It'll Make Your App Go Viral
Jay Raavi left Amazon to build Nomadtable — a solo travel app that now has 1M+ downloads and $65K/month in revenue. No team. No VC. Just organic UGC and a system he built from scratch.In this episode of The Superwall Podcast, host Joseph...
An Nayal - Full App Growth Guide 2026 - How to Make Viral Content to Get Users & Make Your App Retentive
An Nayal started with 0.8% day-30 retention. TikTok sits at 40%. Flamme, his couples app, now hits 50%.In this episode of The Superwall Podcast, host Joseph sits down with An to break...
Jonathan Parra - I made 4,000 app paywalls and learned this
Jonathan Parra has designed over 4,500 paywalls — more than anyone on Earth. As the former Senior Designer at Superwall, he spent three years building paywalls that helped enterprise apps grow revenue by 20–30%. Now he's sharing the exac...
Rafael Kramer - this 14 yr old makes $100k/mo PROFIT building apps with ai (here's how)
Rafael Kramer turned a viral meme into a mobile game at 14 years old — and made over $100K in profit in a single month. Now, through his venture studio Mindmush, he's racked up 10M+ downloads across 50+ apps.In this episode of The Superw...
Nic Weber - Meet The Guy Who Solved TikTok
Nic Weber's platform helped founders generate 2.5 billion views in just one year. Now Noise drives 30-cent app installs by treating TikTok growth like a science experiment instead of a creati...
Ryan Thorpe - Meet The Guy Dominating The App Store
Ryan Thorpe didn't build one successful app. He built a factory that cranked out 30+ apps with over 50 million downloads—and turned one of them into the #1 most downloaded app in the U.S., beating TikTok and Google on the same day.In thi...
Ivan Peskov & Nicholas Tsvietkov -The App Marketing Strategy No One Talks About
Ivan Peskov and Nicholas Tsvietkov cracked organic growth without making a single video. They posted 300,000 Instagram comments and generated 7,000 clicks—building SteelAlive into a distribution engine that automates what entire marketin...
Dmitri Mirakyan - he had nothing.. until he built a stupid simple $30k/mo app with AI
Dmitri Mirakyan started YourMove AI as a drunk joke at a party. Two and a half years later, the app hit $30K/month at 80% margins with over 1 million users—and he sold it.In this episode of
Jack Friks - He Went From Struggling to Make $1 From His App to Turning Down $1M
Jack Friks scrolled TikTok every morning for an hour, found what worked, and copied it. That "lazy" strategy took his app from $0 to $15,000 in a single month.In this episode of The Superwall Podcast, Joseph breaks down how Jack built fo...
Connor Burd - This 23 Yr Old Genius Makes $1M/Year with No-Code Apps. Here's How
Connor Burd is 23 years old and makes over $1M a year building apps. His main app, Payout, does $45,000 a month—almost entirely from influencers. But here's the twist: he doesn't ...
Roger Chen - How I Built the #1 App on The App Store (Twice)
Roger Chen built two consumer social apps that hit #1 on the App Store. Lobby reached 500,000 daily active users across five countries. Bro, his AI companion app, topped the US charts. Th...