u/Sea-Inspection-191 — reddlx

I built an app to 4k revenue, but waste hours per week finding viral hooks.

Some background. Four months ago I launched an app called Magnetic and marketed it with shorts on Instagram. One format took off: 3 million views in June, and 200 downloads on my best day.

But after just 2 weeks the format stopped working, and I am now averaging 10 downloads per day (down 90%).

So I went looking for the next format by hand. Hours of scrolling, trying to guess why one video blew up and the next ten didn't. I looked for accounts with low follower counts but massive outliers.

I tried using Claude to generate new hooks but it was so bad, they were very unnatural or just cringe.

The annoying part is that if Claude had access to TikTok, its the kind of job Claude is good at. Give it a list of videos with their metrics, and it will find the pattern faster than I can. The only reason I was doing it by hand is that Claude can't see TikTok or Instagram.

So I'm building the missing piece. It's an MCP connector called SearchTok (searchtok.app). You add it to Claude or ChatGPT and ask things like:

"What's working in the public speaking niche on TikTok this week?"
"Which posts on this account are outliers?"
"What changed on the accounts I track since last week?"

It fetches the real posts and numbers and keeps a daily snapshot of the accounts you follow. Claude does all the thinking. The connector only fetches and remembers.

Two things I'd like to know from people here:

Would you use this as a connector in the Claude app, or from Claude Code?
What would you ask it first?

u/Sea-Inspection-191 — 7 days ago

▲ 19 r/EntrepreneurRideAlong

My last app made $4k, and I still can't make myself work on it.

Four months ago I launched a speaking confidence app called Magnetic. It has made about $4,000, and I've more or less stopped working on it. I picked the idea because similar apps were making money, not because I cared about the problem.

I posted simple shorts where I act surprised and use a text hook like “25 years of fearing public speaking, and now I find this??”

In the beginning, 2/3 went viral at the same time; I generated 3 million views in one month, and on my best day I got 200 downloads.

But the more I posted, the more the format stopped working.

I then tried new formats, spending hours scrolling Instagram to find the next viral format, but so far have failed to generate anywhere near the same amount of views.

I decided I had enough and listed it on TrustMRR for sale; hopefully someone will buy it and make it more successful.

The lesson for me was to build something you care about. Everyone on X says copy what works but the reality is if you don’t love what you build you will quit before it ever becomes successful (if your like me!).

So now I am starting a YouTube series where I build my next app fully in public; the app is called SearchTok.[app] and it solves the exact issue I had with Magnetic - finding viral outliers! I plan on showing everything behind the scenes, and I am nearly done recording my first video. I posted the landing page with a waitlist yesterday :)

So if you're building an app, try to make it something you care about! It will make the journey a lot more fun

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u/Sea-Inspection-191 — 10 days ago

▲ 0 r/bevelhealth

How did this nutrition score go up

I ate a big cookie and my score went up to 85! The food tracking is very bad, anyone else experience this?

u/Sea-Inspection-191 — 1 month ago