Position and the person
Write the product as a sentence a tired founder would say out loud. “AI for productivity” is not positioning. “Turn a Figma frame into a TikTok-sized ad in one chat” is closer. Name the ideal customer in a role plus a constraint (indie iOS, B2B admin, local shop). If you cannot name ten people, you do not have an audience yet, you have a hope.
Landing page and store assets
The landing page and the App Store / Play listing must tell the same story. Screenshots should show the actual UI doing the job, not a gradient and a slogan. Preview video is optional; a clear first screenshot is not. Clippable can draft ad creative from those screenshots. It cannot invent a listing Google will rank.
Ad creative, organic, paid tests
Organic: post the same hook you would put in an ad, in places the ICP already hangs out. Paid: one campaign, one destination, one activation event. Kill the ad if the page does not convert; do not “optimize creative” on a broken offer. For app-specific generation, use the AI ad generator for apps.
Activation, retention, measurement
Install is not the product. Measure time-to-first-value. If people bounce after signup, more ads make the problem louder. Keep a simple sheet: spend, installs, activated users, 7-day return. Invented benchmarks from Twitter threads are not a dashboard.