u/Mean_Oven_9777

The competitors app, like mine, is 100% free and has no ads/IAP:

(check play store "globo")

Somehow he managed to get to 100K+ downloads on android

While I am at 1k+ downloads:

(check play store "geochamp")

We are both doing lots of reddit marketing, I checked. But he never created any viral post, and reddit marketing alone could NEVER lead to 100k downloads.

SO:

I assume he invested a significant amount of money into running play store ads to get users? How much for 100.000 users would I need to invest? 10.000$ ? 50.000$?

... would be surprising to see someone invest money into running ads for an app that has no IAPs/ads

Also note:

his product is worse. So it's definitely not the product that matters

The competitors app, like mine, is 100% free and has no ads/IAP:

(check play store "globo")

Somehow he managed to get to 100K downloads on android

While I am at 1k downloads:

(check play store "geochamp")

His product is worse. So it's definitely not the product that matters

We are both doing lots of reddit marketing, I checked. But he never created any viral post, and reddit marketing alone could NEVER lead to 100k downloads.

NOTE:

Even though is app is free, has no IAP & contains no ads I assume he invested a significant amount of money into running play store ads to get users?

... would be surprising to see someone invest money into running ads for an app that has no IAPs/ads (which is the case for globo & geochamp)

How much for 100.000 users would I need to invest? 10.000$ ? 50.000$?

Note:

• I am not planning on monetizing my app to grow since I do not have any money to invest into ads and I am convinced the CAC/LTV would not come out positive with my product
• I want to become sth like globo or Seterra, which are both 100% free and still grew to 100k/1 million users (Seterra due to early mover and website-ads referencing, with which I am fine)

The competitors app, like mine, is 100% free and has no ads/IAP:

(check play store "globo")

Somehow he managed to get to 100K+ downloads on android

While I am at 1k+ downloads:

(check play store "geochamp")

We are both doing lots of reddit marketing, I checked. But he never created any viral post, and reddit marketing alone could NEVER lead to 100k downloads.

SO:

I assume he invested a significant amount of money into running play store ads to get users? How much for 100.000 users would I need to invest? 10.000$ ? 50.000$?

... would be surprising to see someone invest money into running ads for an app that has no IAPs/ads

Also note:

his product is worse. So it's definitely not the product that matters