Journal

As an investor, I admire founders who haven't built much yet but have significantly de-risked their venture by engaging with potential customers. They've identified pain points and developed a thesis on what needs to exist to solve these problems. They prioritize understanding the problem through customer conversations over immediate technological development. When developers dive into building too quickly, relying solely on hunches, they gamble with uncertain odds—sometimes as low as 5% or as high as 90%, but there's no way to know until it's built and measured.

🚀 Monetization Insight from Toon Blast --> I recently came across an interesting feature in Toon Blast that highlights how to effectively combine gameplay progression with monetization. The feature, called Progress Pack, rewards players with coins as they collect stars from completing levels. However, there’s a twist—players need to make a small purchase to claim the rewards they’ve already earned.💡 Here's why I find this compelling:1. Psychological Commitment: The pack offers up to 3500 coins with an attractive 95% off. The player earns stars naturally by playing, but to unlock the rewards they’ve "already earned," they need to pay a small amount. This taps into the psychology of ownership and sunk-cost fallacy, where players feel motivated to claim what they've worked towards.2. Gradual Engagement: The feature motivates longer engagement by gradually increasing the rewards as players reach higher milestones (10, […]

Stop blaming the ‘’saturated’’ market for your ''failed'' game, and.. Get back to the drawing board.Because, you may be wrong all along. -You can’t make another match-3, it’s a red ocean.🙃🙃-Match3D? So many attempts, it doesn’t work.🤭🤭-Fine, but you can’t make another block puzzle😉😉We have 6 NEW games made in the past year,Dominating the most downloaded charts.All have a flawless gameplay and Actually creative marketing departments.Most importantly,They didn’t appear out of thin air!These developers worked hard:- Based on rock solid data,- Mastered the gameplay,- Engineered level funnels,- Evaluated the data for results...Results are not coincidental. It's science based creativity!So, next time before blaming the market,Make sure you have taken the right steps.Does ''saturated market'' even exist?

Finale: Let's wrap up the week with some news headlines.No, not the unity runtime fee - something bigger: A new model from OpenAI. One of the biggest flaws of AI so far has been its logic and math performance.The previous model, 4o, scored 13% on the math olympiad problems.The newest one just released, scored 83%.(Funny enough, similar to the math olympiad score I had back in high school 🤓 )This is probably the Q* project they've been teasing (or being leaked).But what's the significance? Why is this relevant? Don't we already have calculators?The thing is, predicting words is one thing, logic is a completely separate pattern that can lead to better chain-of-thought reasoning that can answer tasks more effectively.The current model is said to perform as well as PhD students in physics, biology, and chemistry.Let's tinker around and see what […]

I've been keeping a close eye on 24 pre-order iOS games. Some I follow because I love their graphics,some for their high level of innovation,and others because I think the publisher could have a big influence.I believe these are the games we'll be talking a lot about in terms of iOS performance soon.