Getting your AI-built app out of localhost and into the world — the playbook for first-time builders.
AI made everyone a builder. It didn't make anyone a go-to-market team. Why distribution — not code — is the wall the new generation of domain-expert founders hits.
Read → App Store 101Developer accounts, review, TestFlight, ratings, the search algorithm, and how you get paid — what really happens between your finished app and a download.
Read → ComparisonReplit and Base44 build and host a web app. A real native app on the iOS App Store and Google Play is a different job — here's the gap, side by side.
Read → The big pictureBuilding the app used to be the hard part. AI flipped that. The new bottleneck — and the new 0→1 — is distribution.
Read → The gauntletDeveloper accounts, signing keys, privacy labels, review queues — the whole maze, demystified, in order.
Read → SetupThe real reasons to form a company before you publish — privacy, and skipping Google's 12-tester gate.
Read → DistributionA realistic launch playbook for solo builders — where the first 100 actually come from, and what to skip.
Read → GrowthRatings drive discovery. Here's how to ask at the right moment and protect your launch from one-star drive-bys.
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