Olive Loren

According to @RevenueCat 's State of Subscription Apps 2026 report, "hard paywalls convert 5x better than freemium, but with significantly wider variance."

Day 35 download-to-paid, freemium vs. hard paywall

Does access method impact download-to-paid conversion within 35 days?

One thing we noticed while building TravelAnimator:
Many travel videos are actually round trips.

Road trips.
Hikes that return to the starting point.
Cycling routes.
Out-and-back journeys.

But creating the return path meant manually rebuilding the same route in reverse. Not ideal.

So we shipped a simple solution.

Over the past three months, I've spoken with 50+ agencies using Rankfender.

Most started the same way: a client asked "are we showing up in ChatGPT?" and they had no answer.

Now? Many have built entire new service lines around AI visibility adding 2k, 5k, even 10k in monthly recurring revenue.

Here's exactly how they're doing it.