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Hey all, my brother and I have been working on a language learning app that includes Catalan for almost three years now.

We just released Version 5 which let's you create lessons about anything and lets you play through C2 proficiency with no hearts/energy/limits of any sort.

Hoping to get some feedback and ideas!

You can find us at r/polychat

I'm the founder of PolyChat a language learning app that's growing rapidly. (Over 10,000 users) and we are looking for affiliates.

If you are interested, please send me a DM here or on instagram.

Why is this an easy sell:

PolyChat is the only language app where you learn 17 languages through real conversations, unlimited free practice, and fully customizable lessons.

• A1–C2 mastery paths with 5000+ structured lessons per language
• Custom lesson creator: generate conversations and exercises on any topic instantly
• Unlimited free lessons with no energy system, no limits, no restrictions.
• Adult Mode for slang, dating, and real-world speech
• Every lesson is built around a real dialogue designed for usable, natural language
• Game-based learning with real grammar depth
• Leaderboards and streaks to keep you competitive and consistent
• Learn any language in any direction with language laddering

Looking forward to hearing from you :)

(PS, we are in r/polychat)

Hey all, my brother and I have been working on a language learning app that includes Catalan for almost three years now.

We just released V5 which let's you create lessons about anything and lets you play through C2 proficiency with no hearts/energy/limits of any sort.

Hoping to get some feedback and ideas!

You can find us at r/polychat

All was said in the title. Ads are one of our primary pushes for people to get premium in our app. We desperately need them to work and fast.

My project now gets a steady 3000 downloads/month. We are now focused on increasing conversion and retention rate. If we are successful in refining those things we have enough people downloading this every day for it to pop.

So how did we get here? Well, we certainly didn't wait for the app to be perfect for us to get some marketing going. In fact, in my opinion, the app is still in it's infancy.

I see a lot of people on other subreddits throwing their app on the app store, watching the initial pop from being a new app, then that pop disappearing. Then they post a picture of their app store stats and title it something along the lines of "Am I cooked?". You haven't done any marketing! You will be cooked if you aren't willing to do that. So start now.

There are some things you can do for free, and some things you need a bit of cash for...

1. Reddit is the best place for getting your first users. Identify all subreddits where you can shill your app. Create a few accounts, get some karma on them and start posting. Leave comments. Prepare for loads of negativity and the occasional ban. It doesn't matter. Keep going. For more aggressive experiments, don't use your main account.
2. SEO. Free to start, takes a long time to play out, but this can become a free source of regular downloads that takes zero effort to upkeep once it's going. Where to start? It's simple. Use Chatgpt to come up with 20 or so keywords that you want to target for people who might be searching for your product. Then, create articles with AI targeting those keywords. If you have cash, you can use some services that do all of this for you and even get you backlinks (which is how you rank up). It's ok for the articles to be low quality at the start, you just need to give google and other search engines something to hold on to. Then you use analytics to prune the crappy stuff and improve the stuff that's working. There's so much more I can say about SEO, but I'll keep it short in this post...
3. LLM SEO. It's literally the same as #2. LLMs train on the internet. So for you to appear in them you need to be easy to find. All of that comes from traditional SEO.
4. Posting content/UGC. Honestly, this is not easy, but it's a habit you can build. If you don't feel comfortable doing it yourself and you have some cash, you can find interns to do this for you on sites like Handshake.

Marketing for a bootstrapped company as something that should consist of ongoing efforts across multiple domains. All of these things you should think about how you can systematize/scale them once money starts rolling in. Automate what you can.

This should be enough to get started, but if you are interested in personalized or long term help with software stuff, vibe coding or getting the marketing ball rolling, I can do that. I love teaching people and think there's great benefit in working with other founders like myself. Shoot me a DM here and/or feel free to add me on Linkedin. (Jean-Baptiste Bolh)

Companies things take time to build. Ignore the 1 month 0->10k MRR stories on twitter. Understand that you will need to grind like crazy for a long time to make this work. Do as much user testing as you can.

Good luck with your project!

My project now gets a steady 3000 downloads/month. We are now focused on increasing conversion and retention rate. If we are successful in refining those things we have enough people downloading this every day for it to pop.

So how did we get here? Well, we certainly didn't wait for the app to be perfect for us to get some marketing going. In fact, in my opinion, the app is still in it's infancy.

I see a lot of people on other subreddits throwing their app on the app store, watching the initial pop from being a new app, then that pop disappearing. Then they post a picture of their app store stats and title it something along the lines of "Am I cooked?". You haven't done any marketing! You will be cooked if you aren't willing to do that. So start now.

There are some things you can do for free, and some things you need a bit of cash for...

1. Reddit is the best place for getting your first users. Identify all subreddits where you can shill your app. Create a few accounts, get some karma on them and start posting. Leave comments. Prepare for loads of negativity and the occasional ban. It doesn't matter. Keep going. For more aggressive experiments, don't use your main account.
2. SEO. Free to start, takes a long time to play out, but this can become a free source of regular downloads that takes zero effort to upkeep once it's going. Where to start? It's simple. Use Chatgpt to come up with 20 or so keywords that you want to target for people who might be searching for your product. Then, create articles with AI targeting those keywords. If you have cash, you can use some services that do all of this for you and even get you backlinks (which is how you rank up). It's ok for the articles to be low quality at the start, you just need to give google and other search engines something to hold on to. Then you use analytics to prune the crappy stuff and improve the stuff that's working. There's so much more I can say about SEO, but I'll keep it short in this post...
3. LLM SEO. It's literally the same as #2. LLMs train on the internet. So for you to appear in them you need to be easy to find. All of that comes from traditional SEO.
4. Posting content/UGC. Honestly, this is not easy, but it's a habit you can build. If you don't feel comfortable doing it yourself and you have some cash, you can find interns to do this for you on sites like Handshake.

Marketing for a bootstrapped company as something that should consist of ongoing efforts across multiple domains. All of these things you should think about how you can systematize/scale them once money starts rolling in. Automate what you can.

This should be enough to get started, but if you are interested in personalized or long term help with software stuff, vibe coding or getting the marketing ball rolling, I can do that. I love teaching people and think there's great benefit in working with other founders like myself. Shoot me a DM here and/or feel free to add me on Linkedin. (Jean-Baptiste Bolh)

Companies things take time to build. Ignore the 1 month 0->10k MRR stories on twitter. Understand that you will need to grind like crazy for a long time to make this work. Do as much user testing as you can.

Good luck with your project!

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