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#Shipaton ends Sep 30. Your app needs time to get through App Store or Play Store review. Here are some tips to make the review process easier Read our late submitter’s guide: www.revenuecat.com/blog/company...

Building in public for Shipaton turned Gurwi’s Figma prototype into millions of views, a $15k prize, and a Times Square moment. Camilo’s story and advice for this year’s builders: www.revenuecat.com/blog/company...

We're hosting an awards show for apps... on a literal ship 🚢 in New York City Introducing The Shippies - a red carpet celebration of the people building, growing, and shipping some of the best apps in the world + winners of the #Shipaton 🏆 Register at luma.com/theshippies2...

We’re officially halfway through Shipaton 🚢 30 days left to build, ship, and submit. ⏰ The countdown is live on shipaton.com 👀 The project gallery is now public 📱 And don’t leave App Review until the last minute! Time to ship.

Your app's trajectory is basically set in week one (no pressure). 1 hour out: Our livestream with OneSignal on onboarding, push, and retention. Live Q&A at the end. #Shipaton www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-EI...

We have FIVE influencer awards this year for #Shipaton - $15K each for the winners One hour out: Join @bria_sullivan and @_chuckyc to see what building apps for influencer audiences looks like www.youtube.com/watch?v=72o8...

Today we're live with @GoogleAdMob talking about, you guessed it... ads! (And scaling ad revenue) They're also giving away $1k to the first 500 developers to sign up who meet the criteria. It's basically* free money 💸💸💸 *Always check the Ts&Cs though publishersonair.withgoogle.com/events/admob...

Do you want to succeed in Shipaton? Are you craving some MMRR (More Monthly Recurring Revenue)? Join our #Shipaton Livestreams! Upcoming topics include building a strong onboarding flow, integrating ads into your app, and finding more users! Subscribe here to be notified: luma.com/shipaton-live

#Shipaton has a games category this year. The Best Game Award goes to the mobile game with the strongest gameplay, art direction, and monetization model. www.shipaton.com/categories/b... #gamedev

There's $30K for the best web funnel at #Shipaton. This session shows you how to build one. One hour out: Join @stripe to see what a winning funnel looks like. youtube.com/watch?v=Iy5H...

#Shipaton has 20+ award categories this year. 9 RevenueCat awards, 5 Influencer Awards, and sponsor categories from @galaxystore, @replit, @jetbrains, @gonoise, @onesignal, @layers_to and @stripe. $1M in prizes across the lot. shipaton.com

One hour out: Seven weeks is long enough to build the wrong thing... really well. @HHaandr, @plahteenlahti, and @RhysKentish validate your ideas live for #Shipaton. youtube.com/watch?v=fkZw...

5 IRL Shipaton meetups this weekend: Tokyo, Istanbul, New York, Victoria, and Nagpur. Week two is when building alone starts to get hard. Go sit next to someone. #Shipaton shipaton.com/events

One hour out: MattBerryRC and a guest from Replit take an app from a plain language prompt to a published store listing. Most AI build demos stop once the code works. This one covers everything after that. #Shipaton youtube.com/watch?v=_poA...

Starting in 1 hour: Our dev advocates Charlie & Perttu break down the Shipaton scoring rubric, share insights from past winners, and flag the common pitfalls that cost builders points. Plus live Q&A. Come with questions 👀 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIyL...

✅ Incident resolved In-App Purchase keys are validating correctly again. Thanks to Apple for the fix. No action needed if you were affected. Full report: status.revenuecat.com/incidents/mr...

New this year: ship your #Shipaton app to the Samsung Galaxy Store. The Best App for Galaxy award – optimize for Samsung devices and the winner gets 3 weeks of featured placement on the Galaxy Store, a trip to NYC, and a Times Square billboard. Register: shipaton.com

Live now: RevenueCat Office Hours ▶️ Platform updates, real-time demos, and your questions answered by the team. Drop your questions below – we're answering live 👇 x.com/i/broadcasts...

Meet the Ship-a-little trophies 👀 This year every #Shipaton IRL Event will get one of these in their Meetup-in-a-box Last year many of you ran mini competitions – best Shipaton submission, trivia, etc – so we're leaning into it with trophy each can hand out how they wish 😅

"Always decline” is no longer available as a global refund preference in RevenueCat. Blanket declines erode their effectiveness over time and can push users toward chargebacks. If you had it enabled, your setting is unchanged. www.revenuecat.com/blog/company...

Most apps treat cancellation as the end. Our data shows ~20% of monthly subscribers come back within a year. The difference: a system (timing, context, frictionless re-entry) vs. a random discount 3 months later. Alice Muir Kocourková's full framework: www.revenuecat.com/blog/growth/...

Your isPremium check is two lines of code. Securing it takes a little more. New technical article: securing RevenueCat entitlements in Flutter, from client-side checks to the RevenueCat Firebase Extension. www.revenuecat.com/blog/enginee...

One hour to go: our Office Hours Launch Party. Our PMs and engineers demoing Paywalls AI Editor, Rico, Benchmarks, Web-to-App Funnels, and Stripe Managed Payments – with live Q&A straight from the people who built them. Register and join: app.livestorm.co/revenuecat/l...

#Shipaton 2026 planning is in full swing, and we want YOU 🫵 to help us bring the world's largest mobile hackathon to your community or campus Developer meetups, indie hacker groups, and student organizers can apply now to host a Shipaton IRL Event at shipaton.com/events

Most paywalls don't fail because of pricing... They fail because you don't know what to test! If you're building a subscription app, we put together a playlist covering the fundamentals of getting started with RevenueCat Paywalls: Get started here ↓ youtu.be/of1k0SvLyaI?...

React Native apps generate $31.78 in first-year value per paying customer. Native and Flutter sit around $21. That's a ~50% gap, from 115,000 apps in our data. Perttu Lähteenlahti on why it keeps happening: www.revenuecat.com/blog/enginee...

App Growth Annual 2026: registration is open. Oct 21 – NYC + online. One day with the people building the world's most-used apps. Keynotes, workshops, and tactics you'll actually use. In-person is limited. Apply early. Virtual is free. appgrowthannual.com

Checking UA campaigns 5 times a day hurts performance more than it helps. David Vargas, after 7 years running UA for 125+ apps, on the complete one-person system: four pillars, one channel, twice-weekly changes, no $30k MMP required. www.revenuecat.com/blog/growth/...

Trial reminder notifications are one the best ways to improve your trial conversions. Learn how to implement them in this blog post by our developer advocate Perttü 👇 www.revenuecat.com/blog/enginee...

Apple just launched monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment. Here’s where to try (or avoid) the new configuration: 👎 You have bad retention 👎 You want annual plan cash upfront 👍 Localized pricing 👍 Users who want to commit, but can’t afford it www.revenuecat.com/blog/enginee...

If you've ever build a subscription app on Android, you know how many headaches it can cause. Whether you go the hard route (building your Google Play Billing from scratch) or opt for the smoother path (🐱), we've got you covered with our new Android developer handbooks. 📚 → revenuecat.com/guides

📊 Introducing Benchmarks! Now you can see how your app's subscription metrics compare to other apps in your category directly in the RevenueCat dashboard Just head over to the new "Benchmarks" tab under "Analytics" in the sidebar to check it out now! 👀

1️⃣ Ship one paywall 2️⃣ Make it behave like many 3️⃣ Enjoy all your free time* Introducing Paywall Rules: → Show/hide components based on offers or variables → Personalize without new releases (or new paywalls) * Or fill it with other things you need to do Learn more 👉 revenuecat.com/blog/enginee...

We ran a company-wide Vibeathon to test vibe coding tools. Here's what we learned: 🚢 Shipping is fast 🤔 Understanding is not ⌛ App Store approval is the real bottleneck Read the full story on the blog ⤵️ www.revenuecat.com/blog/company...

You can now annotate your charts 📈 to mark major events in your app's story! Mark major new versions, promotions, and more to help explain why your numbers are moving—or discover that they're not—across your subscription metrics @charliemchapman.com has the deets 👇 youtu.be/fVwix9qdmLc