Category: strategy
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Solo founder path to 7K downloads: pray to unlock
Mauricio Baron launched Prayer Lock at the end of April and rode a simple (and proven) idea into traction: pray to unlock the phone. The app hit roughly 6 million views across 11 accounts and is pulling about 7,000 monthly downloads. Two Instagram Reels accounts passed the 1M views mark by running faceless formats .…
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Student side-gig platform marketing play on TikTok
Home From College scaled TikTok reach with a UGC-ambassador program that turns relatable job-search pain into engagement and funnels viewers toward the app.
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This Dev TikTok Format Keeps Going Viral
Buildspace’s founder Farza is now building Tidbit and showing once again how to do build-in-public, this time on TikTok with 4.3M views across 40 videos. Around 16% of signups are coming from there. This video blew up a week ago – it sits at over 3.5M views. It uses a trending hook we’ve seen multiple…
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Djay, the AI music phenomenon on TikTok
Djay shot up the charts to #6 after faceless iPad/screen-record videos of its AI Automix blew up on TikTok, with dozens of creators posting simple clips that drove hundreds of millions of views.
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The New AdSense: Viral Clip Watermarks
Slapping watermarks on viral TikToks is becoming the new AdSense playbook (for Casinos and deep pocket brands). One account rode it to 260M views.
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AI slideshow, engagement farming 101
Three TikTok accounts are running a growth hack not commonly seen: pure slideshows that all open with the same AI-generated girl as the cover image and close with an engagement-farming slide asking viewers to comment to receive information. This recurring AI face acts as a recognizable visual hook, the slideshow format keeps production on the…


