01/field note—organic growth
Your app,growing wild.
Wildgrow writes your scripts, reads your niche, and hands you a day-by-day plan to grow on TikTok & Instagram — while your ad budget stays at zero. No agency. No dancing.
free during beta · no credit card · 2-minute setup
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HookPhone to face, dead serious: “I had 47 tabs open.”
TurnHard cut — tabs collapsing into one clean list.
PayoffSpeedrun saving 3 articles. “It just… remembers.”
CTA“Link in bio. Your future self says thanks.”
hook score
0/100
02/field note—where growth dies
You shipped the app. Then you posted into the void.
Building was the part you're good at. Distribution is where great apps quietly die — a graveyard every founder recognizes.
It was never the app. It's the distribution.
Wildgrow exists to close exactly that gap — with scripts, signals, and a plan instead of luck.
03/field note—germination
Invisible to inevitable, in three phases.
Seed
Tell us your app
Two minutes, no account needed. The engine derives your positioning, your content pillars, and the exact viewer you're for.
Sprout
Get your daily scripts
Fully-written video ideas — hook, shot-by-shot beats, caption, sound — engineered around what already works in your niche.
Spread
Post and compound
The 30/60/90 plan turns posting into momentum. Every video teaches the algorithm — and you — what to make next.
04/field note—the instruments
Five instruments. One growth system.
Find the angle, write the video, prime the account, follow the plan, learn the craft. Watch them work:
Idea Engine
Endless angles for the same app, each hook scored before you film a single frame. The winner becomes the full script you saw above.
Watch me clear 47 tabs in 9 seconds.
speedrun
“Does it work offline?” — answering the comment section.
reply demo
POV: you found the app that finally killed your 47 open tabs.
pov
I built an app because I kept losing every article I saved.
founder story
3 features nobody asked for. Everyone uses #2 daily.
listicle
hook score = stop-the-scroll odds · sample output
Niche Radar
Who's already winning in your space — and why.
sample data · goes live with a connector
Launch Playbook
The exact sequence: set up, warm the algorithm, launch.
30 / 60 / 90 Plan
A day-by-day roadmap from cold account to first breakout.
day 30
find your hook
day 60
first breakout
day 90
compound
Viral Academy
The mechanics of short-form, taught founder-to-founder.
05/field note—the craft
Stop posting on vibes.
Short, founder-friendly lessons on the real mechanics of the for-you page — 31 lessons across 10 modules, about 170 minutes end to end.
Open the AcademyThe FIRE framework
Frame, Ideate, Run, Endure — the whole system on one page.
Frame: how the For You Page actually works
The signals that decide whether a video gets 200 views or 200,000.
Ideate: hooks that stop the scroll
Win or lose the first three seconds — on purpose, every time.
Ideate: keeping the thumb still
The craft of making people watch to the end (and again).
Ideate: make videos the algorithm rewards
The unglamorous format rules that quietly multiply your reach.
Run: from views to installs
Turn a viral moment into users who actually download your app.
Run: distribution and the launch sequence
Fire broadcasts in an order that compounds, daily.
Endure: retain, amplify, compound
Keep the people each shot brings, and bank an asset for the next.
Endure: building a content system
Stop relying on motivation. Make consistency mechanical.
Formats that work right now (2026)
The exact short-form formats indie founders are using to grow apps this year — what each one is, why it works, and how to make it.
06/field note—the evidence
We didn't invent the playbook. We made it usable.
Wildgrow is new — so instead of stock-photo testimonials, here is the sourced record of the methods it's built on. Their numbers, not ours. Click anything to verify.
Followers ≠ ranking[1]
TikTok
Every post gets a fresh test audience
In its own words: “neither follower count nor whether the account has had previous high-performing videos are direct factors in the recommendation system.” A brand-new account gets the same shot.
~1M signups[2]
Robinhood
Skip-the-line waitlist · ~$0 pre-launch ads
A referral waitlist where you moved up by inviting friends drove roughly a million signups before launch — on near-zero ad spend — with the copy hitting #1 on Hacker News.
100K → 4M[3]
Dropbox
Two-sided referral · no paid marketing
A give-and-get-storage referral grew users ~3,900% in about 15 months — with no paid marketing and no full-time marketer on the team.
~$100M ARR[4]
Ahrefs
Product-led content · zero salespeople
By teaching instead of selling, Ahrefs grew its blog from 15K to 250K+ monthly Google visits and reached ~$100M ARR with ~69 people and no sales team. Content compounds; ads don’t.
~$132K MRR[5]
Pieter Levels · Photo AI
Build-in-public · audience compounds
Launched to $5.4K in week one, then ~$132K MRR by month 18 — built on an audience compounded in public over a decade. Distribution you own keeps paying off.
sources
- [1]TikTok Newsroom — tiktok
- [2]Prefinery — robinhood
- [3]Referral Rock — dropbox
- [4]Ahrefs / Tim Soulo — ahrefs
- [5]SoftwareSeni — pieter levels · photo ai
their numbers, not ours. no fake numbers on this page — including ours.
Early access. We're building in public — real founder stories will land here as they happen. No fake reviews, ever.
Be one of the first07/field note—the exchange
Two plans. Everything unlocked while we're in beta.
Sign up free — no card. When billing lands, you get a 7-day trial and can cancel in two clicks. Every script you generate stays yours.
Wildgrow
most popularEverything you need to go from posting to spreading.
- Unlimited AI ideas & full scripts
- Niche & Competitor Radar
- The full launch playbook
- Full 30 / 60 / 90 growth plan
- Complete Viral Academy
- Hook & retention scoring
Studio
for portfoliosFor founders running a portfolio of apps.
- Everything in Wildgrow
- Up to 5 apps / brands
- Priority AI generation
- Export to CSV & Notion
- Early access to scheduling
billing isn't wired up during the beta — every plan is unlocked at signup
08/field note—straight answers
The honest answers.
Including the one everyone asks about TikTok & Instagram access.
No — and that's on purpose. Wildgrow is your strategist and writers' room: it hands you the ideas, full scripts, and the plan. You stay in control of posting, so your account stays safe and authentically yours. One-tap scheduling is on the roadmap.
Your next 10,000 users are scrolling right now.
Give them a reason to stop. Your first scripts are ready in minutes.
free during beta · no credit card · cancel anytime