Road to 1,000,000 Votap users Day 69 | Current: 1351 Votap just hired a new employee a cat? Over the last few days I started working on Votap Premium, and that meant diving into tools like RevenueCat. If you ve never used it before, it basically handles all the messy parts of subscriptions so you don t have to rebuild everything from scratch. It allows you to: create and test paywalls manage subscriptions across iOS (and more later) track revenue, retention, conversions handle edge cases you don t even think about at the start We ll soon introduce two main tiers: Monthly / Yearly Premium Lifetime Founding Voter (one-time purchase, limited offer) But just to be clear: nothing core is going behind a paywall. Voting will always stay free and unlimited. That s the whole point. Premium is more about enhancements, things like: custom username premium badge deeper charts & filters small identity + cosmetic upgrades Right now I m just experimenting with pricing and the paywall itself, seeing what feels right. It s not final yet, just getting the system in place. Feels like one of those big shifts going from just building to actually generating revenue for the first time. Download Votap from the App Store if you want to check it out when it's live. More tomorrow.
We re letting users take over Votap One thing that s been really cool lately? The emails. People telling us what they like. What they d change. Which politicians we should add next. I answer as many as I can, but it made me realize something: If Votap is about public opinion then the app itself should be shaped by public opinion too. So in the next update (coming very soon), we re adding a proper feedback space directly inside the app. You ll be able to: Suggest features Request politicians Comment on ideas Upvote what you want to see next Other users can vote on suggestions too so we build what people actually care about. Votap is a people platform first. So the product should evolve with the people using it. We want this live before our next bigger user acquisition push (aiming much higher next time ). If you want to help shape it, download Votap from the App Store. More tomorrow.
Road to 1,000,000 Votap users Day 63 | Current: 1346 Soon you ll be able to tell your fellow citizen to go to hell or, ideally, have a proper debate. I m about 90% done building a dedicated thread system for Votap. You comment on a politician or an article. Someone replies you get notified (push + in-app). You tap it and land straight in a thread. You ll see: the original comment that started it your conversation and the full back-and-forth No more lost replies. No more chaos. Just actual discussions. (And yes sometimes that might include telling someone to go to hell ) Update coming soon. Download Votap from the App Store! More tomorrow.
Road to 1,000,000 Votap users Day 60 | Current: 1294 Over 100 users have already chosen their fate. Will you be the next? That s how many people have already generated their username through the new update. Now onto step two: I m currently working on making conversations actually feel like conversations. You ll be able to: tag the person you re replying to get notified when someone responds go back and forth in proper threads Not just random one-off comments anymore. Download Votap from the App Store if you want to try it when it comes out. More tomorrow.
