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   obrhoff (obrhoff@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 04:01:12 JST obrhoff

   Asking to the indie devs on Mastodon. Are you spending money on ads? (AppStore, Instagram etc.).

   If yes, is it worth it and how much budget do you spend? (please boost, I'm really interested)
   #indiedev #iosdev #androiddev

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     obrhoff (obrhoff@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 04:17:19 JST obrhoff

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     • Helge Heß
     • Frederik Riedel 🐻‍❄️

     @helge Idk. I see regulary ads on Instagram from indie apps such as @frederik

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     Helge Heß (helge@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 04:17:20 JST Helge Heß

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     @obrhoff No, I’ve played with that for years and it never made any meaningful difference.
     I think for Indies specifically themselves are the best promotion.

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     obrhoff (obrhoff@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 04:29:07 JST obrhoff

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     • Helge Heß
     • Frederik Riedel 🐻‍❄️

     @helge @frederik
     Werbung schafft ja bekanntlich Nachfrage, wo keine ist. Ich denke für die Meisten geht es um überhaupt awareness für ein Produkt zu schaffen.

     Ob Instagram ein guter Kanal ist, kommt sicher drauf an, aber bei den Preisen bin ich echt überrascht, dass es Indies gibt die das machen.

     Mir wurde neulich gesagt es seien mindestens 15k nötig um überhaupt dort was zu versuche.

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     Helge Heß (helge@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 04:29:08 JST Helge Heß

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     • Frederik Riedel 🐻‍❄️

     @obrhoff @frederik Ich verwende kein Insta aber ich vermute mal du hättest das Produkt gegebenenfalls auch anders gefunden und gekauft.
     Oder hat bei dir die Insta Werbung eine direkt Conversion ausgelöst?

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     obrhoff (obrhoff@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 04:48:19 JST obrhoff

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     • Leroy

     @leroy Thats why I'm surprised seeing indie devs spending money on Instagram ads.

     I got told, I should at least spend 15k€ only to figure out how to target people.

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     Leroy (leroy@indiehackers.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 04:48:21 JST Leroy

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     @obrhoff I spent a little on Instagram back in the day.
     I think it was only $300, I didn’t see a blip. Which isn’t really a surprise as all the reading I had done suggested a few thousand minimum.

     However, I did get a troll commenting on the ad asking what my opinion was on some dumb right-wing shit.

     Unfortunately I don’t have the required budget (and capacity to deal with shit) for ads.

     Funnily enough, I did a LinkedIn post and that saw 50-100 sales. But that was around 2018

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     obrhoff (obrhoff@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 04:51:30 JST obrhoff

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     • NMDoerner

     @cdfinder Print ads are kinda wild but weirdly cool.

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     NMDoerner (cdfinder@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 04:51:31 JST NMDoerner

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     @obrhoff

     I did try some online and print advertising for my #NeoFinder during the last 25 years, but it never really did anything.

     Word of mouth and happy customers are better than ads for #IndieDevs