u/Disastrous-Menu-6649

I recently got feedback on my store screenshots being too overcrowded and confusing to look at.
Another critique point was that dark mode is not optimal as store images.

I'd appreciate your opinions on this. Which of these 2 options do you like better? Maybe merge some aspects of each one? If you would do something completely different, I'd also love to hear your suggestions.

Thanks :)

EDIT: Reddit really messed up the resolution... Higher-Res here: https://imgur.com/a/cBu83rf

Solo dev, nutrition and lifting app, both stores. Real installs, people using it, no purchases at all for months. First subscription came in last week while I was traveling, plus a trial. Not much money but the debugging that got me there might be useful for someone sitting at the same zero.

I had all the AI features fully gated. Made sense to me at the time, it is the expensive part. But that means nobody ever experienced the thing they are supposed to buy, they just hit a wall. Giving people a handful of free uses first changed the conversation completely.

My paywall was also one screen with the same copy no matter where you came from. Showing it right after someone got something out of the app, with copy that mentions what they just did, works so much better that it barely feels like the same screen.

I lost more time than I want to admit to receipt validation. Went at StoreKit and Play Billing directly and kept running into entitlement edge cases. Switched to RevenueCat with a webhook writing a Firebase claim, and the cross device problem that had been quietly broken for anyone with two devices just stopped existing.

Also trials that end with no warning basically churn on purpose. Adding a reminder before it runs out took me way too long to get around to.

And my store listing was a feature list. I rewrote the first two lines to be about the actual problem people have and that did more than anything I did to the screenshots.

If you have installs and no conversions, I would look at what happens in the first two minutes after install before touching your pricing.

So my all-in-one nutrition and workout app had been live for months with exactly zero paid conversions. I had kind of made peace with it. Then I was in Indonesia, checked the dashboard on my phone one morning out of habit, and there was an actual subscription in there. And a 7 day trial from someone else on top.

It is 11 dollars MRR. I know. But I had been staring at a zero for so long that it did something to me anyway.

For context, 50 active users in the last 28 days, 22 of them new. So not a lot of people, and none of them had ever paid before this.

The thing that annoys me in hindsight is that none of the fixes were about the app itself. I kept adding features. The features were never the problem.

The one that really got me was activation. I finally measured it and about 7 percent of new installs ever reached the point where the app does the thing it advertises. Seven. I had spent that whole time thinking about how to get more downloads.

Notifications were a similar story. Two people out of hundreds of installs ever granted the permission, because I asked at first launch before anyone had any reason to say yes. So the app that is supposed to build a habit had no way of reaching anybody.

And I had everything AI powered behind a hard paywall, which felt like the obvious way to do it at the time. But nobody ever got to feel the thing they were supposed to pay for. Letting people use it a few times and then running out works a lot better.

There was also a stretch where I was making decisions based on web analytics that turned out to be mostly bots, and a backend bug I went looking for in my code three separate times before I realized the deployed function was just old. That one is on me.

Anyway. Still tiny, still no idea if it holds. But somebody paid for something I built, which is new.

Flutter, Firebase, RevenueCat, Gemini for the AI stuff. Ask whatever, I will answer.

I went from 66 kg to 50 kg (I'm short AF) over the last 5 months while making solid progress in the gym, which honestly surprised me a bit given the size of the deficit.

What I did:

- Peptide stack: Reta, MOTS-C, KLOW

- 3-4 hard strength training sessions per week

- No dedicated cardio, but I kept NEAT high

- Around a 600-800 kcal average daily deficit

- 2+ g protein per kg bodyweight, fully vegetarian

- Supplements: creatine, omega-3, zinc, D3+K2, B12, boron, magnesium and L-Theanine

Training progress has been really good overall, but I have been dealing with an elbow tendon issue since February, so I could not push as hard as I wanted for part of the cut.

I am now pretty close to starting a lean bulk. Main goal is to keep building strength and hopefully give the elbow a better environment to heal, since staying in a pretty aggressive deficit probably is not helping at this point.

Not posting this as a recommendation, just sharing what I personally did and what the outcome looked like.