App Marketing & ASO
How to take an app you vibe-coded to market: ASO, launch, growth hacking and organic growth through TikTok/Reels. Concepts and practice, without drowning in technical detail.
Stages
Foundations — the app marketing landscape
The funnel, positioning, how store discovery works, and pre-launch readiness. This stage sets the frame for everything that follows.
ASO — store optimization
Being found and being chosen: keyword research, metadata, visuals, ratings and localization. Every claim is grounded in Apple's and Google's own documentation.
🔓 Recommended after: Foundations — the app marketing landscape
Release and launch
Staged release, store rules and rejection causes, the launch day plan, and the channels that bring your first users.
🔓 Recommended after: ASO — store optimization
Growth hacking
Loops versus funnels, where ideas come from, prioritising with ICE and running the experiment loop, referral and retention hooks.
🔓 Recommended after: Release and launch
Social and short-video platforms
Choosing channels, the logic of short-form video, a practical working routine for TikTok and Instagram Reels, UGC and creator partnerships.
🔓 Recommended after: Growth hacking
Measurement and monetization
Which metrics to watch and which to ignore, reading the retention curve, CAC/LTV, and the logic of the paywall.
🔓 Recommended after: Social and short-video platforms
Practice — a 30-day launch playbook
Apply what you learned to your own app: a complete store listing and keyword set, then a weekly repeating content and experiment system.
🔓 Recommended after: Measurement and monetization
📚 Sources and documentation
- Creating your App Store product pageofficialdeveloper.apple.com
The source for every metadata limit and visual rule on the Apple side.
- Get discovered on Google Play searchofficialsupport.google.com
How discovery works on the Play side — title, description, ratings and localization.
- App Store Review Guidelinesofficialdeveloper.apple.com
The official source for rejection causes — read it before planning a launch.