Industry
Consumer App Development
Apps for real people — designed to be discovered, used daily, and talked about.
Market
The Consumer Apps opportunity
Consumer app economics have gotten harder — acquisition costs are up, and retention below 30% at day 30 is the norm. The apps that win have strong social mechanics, meaningful daily utility, and push notification strategies that re-engage without burning out their audience.
Challenges
What Consumer Apps founders run into
- Day 1 retention that drops 80% without a deliberate onboarding experience
- Push notification strategy that drives engagement instead of uninstalls
- Social features that create network effects — the product gets better as more people use it
- App Store discovery in a market where the top 1% of apps take 90% of downloads
Projects
What I build for Consumer Apps
01
Social apps with feeds, following, and real-time messaging
02
Habit and wellness apps with streaks, reminders, and progress tracking
03
On-demand service apps with booking, payments, and reviews
04
Creator tools with content creation, editing, and sharing
05
Community apps with events, groups, and direct messaging
Deliverables
What you receive
- App Store and Play Store submitted apps
- Push notification infrastructure with segmented campaigns
- Social graph data model with follow, block, and privacy controls
- Analytics instrumentation for retention and engagement metrics
FAQ
Common questions
How do you approach onboarding for consumer apps?+
Get to the core value as fast as possible — ideally within 60 seconds of first open. Every permission request, form field, or screen before that is a drop-off risk. I design onboarding flows with this constraint in mind.
Next step
Building a Consumer Apps product?
Tell me what you're working on. I understand the specific challenges in the Consumer Apps space and I'll give you a direct answer on how I can help.