Ashley Pokorski
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Founder @goingsoloapp - Helping solo travelers make friends on their trips🕺social media marketing
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Current stats for Going Solo app👇🏼(launched may 20, 2023)
•170k users🎉🎉
•$16k revenue (first monetized Nov 15 2023)
•115k followers on the apps instagram
•5M organic views on a marketing video
•$350k angel investment
2024 goals🚀
• 270k users
• launch all planned
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Update guys, things are looking a bit better 😂😂😂
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I think the story of how I met my boyfriend is worth sharing, so here goes haha. I met him in Thailand at a bar, while I was solo traveling. He happened to have graduated college in my hometown, San Diego. I asked if he wanted to join me on my scooter ride 4 hours from the
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POV: me in my tiny Paris studio sketching an app I thought would be cool, vs the reality now with over 200k+ users 😌
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Going Solo is officially angel funded! So excited,
@goingsoloapp
got its first big investment of $350k 🥂
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I didn’t pay myself any of the revenue I made from the app, wanted to always keep it seperate, so this is the reality of that choice 😂
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If you’re in social consumer: here’s an example of an organic reel that got 3.2M views. Three important factors
1. Engaging clip
2. Catch phrase
3. Trendy audio & short vid
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Now that I have investment, I realize just how important it was to go through the process without it to begin with, & to be on a budget. It forced me to only do what was absolutely necessary, and to work really hard. Investment or not, I will always stay frugal & focused on
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@adventuwe
Its investing in my business while I’m young and I still can:) people spend 60k-200k+ on college, why wouldn’t I spend way less to start something that I I’m really passionate about & truly believe will succeed? Money comes back, time doesn’t.
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I’m 22. I can’t say I’ve learned even a quarter of the knowledge I’ll learn by the end of my life. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned that’s made the biggest impact, it’s been learning emotional maturity. Staying calm and thinking about the long term when anything adversary
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Are you kidding me rn. One of my users DM’d this to the apps instagram page. The best definition of user generated content EVER🫶🏼😭
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TRUST YOUR VISION. It’s going to work out, everything works out for you, you are successful 🪄✨💫☄️
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Some of the hardest things I’ve been through so far as a first time founder:
- someone copying me in the biggest & smallest ways, from little things I do on my stories, to app features, to exact designs, so word for word text in captions, bios, and while promoting.
- dealing
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I’m 22 and I never go out, never drink, and only hangout with my boyfriend, his family, my family, & sometimes my childhood best friend who happens to live in the same city as me again. I love my quiet life. I love going to the beach alone and going to get my poke bowls alone. I
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Stop worrying about profitability in an app, if you have a lot of users, you’ll make money. You just will. So focus on adoption & a great platform. Revenue shouldn’t be the forefront priority to begin with for an app that you want to attract users to!
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Tools I use for managing my app startup:
Upwork: hiring & paying developers
Figma: all app designs / UI / wireframing
Trello: for managing the developers
CapCut: editing my social media marketing videos
Slack: communication with everyone in team
Firebase: tracking my metrics /
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Me complaining about my horrible bank account balance but also sitting in the parking lot of my luxury gym drinking my $7 latte🙂↔️🫠😪
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I’m here to remind you to go to the beach. It’s almost summer!!!!!!
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These types of vids work good for organic marketing reels :)
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@ownsheetofpaper
Building a business with your personal money and no one funding it, no investors
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I’m meeting up with one of my angel investors in 10 mins. Nervous because I’m half their age and sometimes I get imposter syndrome. Like, you’re investing in MY company? Anyway haha it’ll be great. We’re getting brunch! 🍳 brunch on a rainy day is always a cool vibe 😌
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Me in 2020, living in France with free healthcare, living my best life hehe
I was 18, It was senior year of high school & Covid just hit, I decided to become an “au pair” (nanny abroad) but the visas for au pairing were closed, cause of Covid. ONLY student visas were allowed, so
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My app :) - a meetup / social app for solo travelers & backpackers 🌎🎒
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One of my users: “I recently went on my first ever solo trip to Barcelona and thanks to Going Solo I wasn’t alone for any of it I met up with the 3 most amazing girls and spent majority of my trip with them!! This pictures are from our first night together and as you can see it
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The girl I used to nanny searching my name on her iPad 😂❤️
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When it comes to my app, I will work overtime, spend hours going back & fourth with the team, work on the weekend, edit & post 6 videos a day. When it comes to refilling my car tires when they’re low on air, forget it. Meal prep? Never. Paying a toll road fee from 5 months ago?
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The formula I’ve seen work to market my social consumer app on social media:
Before the beat drop: “So you wanna____”
Second part: show the app or write “welcome to our app” or “we made an app for that”
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Gonna start documenting my viral videos on X instead of MRR, because viral vids = users, which is way more important (imo) than MRR in an app startup
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@itsloukman
Hahaha I said bootstrapping for 1 year😂 which is accurate information, I just signed with funding a few weeks ago!🙏🏼
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When my competitor first blatantly copied me, I tried to blast social media and post about it, tried to get people to “see” how shit*y it was. I now realize it only makes you look dumb. Makes you look defeated. Never make that mistake! Just keep building, keep being creative 🫶🏼
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One of my users: “So the first video is from literally two days after I downloaded the app I met a group of travelers and we went on a river cruise and then had a picnic for dinner in front of the tower. Literally I don’t know what I would’ve done without your genius idea. It’s
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The universe works in magic ways if you let it. Before I started my app I posted a random (stupid) instagram story asking “does anyone know how to make an app” ahaha..somehow, a guy swiped up and offered completely free help & knowledge. He taught me how to outsource talent,
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as a non technical app founder, I’m proud to say I now know what deploy, migrate, CICD pipeline, API integration, IAM user, server-less, data query, repository, API call, and more means🤣
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I’ve been working so hard on like 8 new features for my app for the past few months, and we finally got a test build out for the first time with basically all of it done. This feeling makes me think, “this is why I’m an app founder, this is why I keep going.” Literally the best
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Hey tech fam, as a first time founder who just got her first big investment deal, what’s one piece of advice you would give me to successfully go about the next year with the funds & in a relationship with my investors (I don’t mean what to exactly use the money on, but if
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We’re rewriting our entire front end of Going Solo in react native so we don’t have to deal with 2 code bases for Android & iOS! 🎉🎉
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Having investors is like amplifying the manifesting & good vibes to be successful. They want it just as bad as you haha. (A spiritual take, scroll if u don’t believe in juju🪄)
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Founders, take this as a lesson to never let your devs become toxic and overpowering, about before it’s too late. This INSANE past dev posted complete lies about me, so here’s a little drama to spice up your Friday morning😂
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When my app broke due to a memory limit a few months back, and every user got logged out of their account, I quite literally thought my life was over 😂 I love being a startup founder
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Another example of an organic marketing reel for my social consumer app😌
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Some days: 😴😫☁️🫤🌧️👨💻🛋️🍟
Other days: ☀️☺️💃🏼🪩🕺😁☕️🥗🏋️♀️
& that’s okay:)
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This ladies & gentlemen is why I love living in Orange County🥵
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For the tech bros in SF, yes! There’s some Going Solo activity in sf on the app:) some groups & users in the area 😌
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Fav part of being an app founder? The days where I get to do my little pre design sketches for new features. 😌
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My startup has literally become my child. When it’s broken, I’m broken. When it needs me, I’m there. I’m always thinking about it, trying to make it better. When it’s thriving, I’m proud, like a mother would be. In other words, I’ve gone insane, and I don’t think there’s a cure
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Starting my first ever business book, will report back 🫡
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Me & my boyfriend are buying a catamaran sailboat before a house, here why:
⛵️Financial freedom: it’s only around 100k for a nice livable sailboat. We’ll have a low monthly boat payment, and the rent for a dock spot is only $400 a month!
⛵️Lifestyle freedom: Once we get good at
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Tmr marks the start of an absolute grind. Waking up early, working hard in the gym, being productive. Who’s with me??
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As a solo non tech founder, outsourcing my development to freelancers has be tough and risky, but I will still always vouch for it instead of using an agency. Because I have more control over everything that’s happening and all my important access points, I’m always “in the
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It’s funny how we have so much time, so many hours in a day, and since 90% of us work half that time, it doesn’t feel like much. But what would you do if you didn’t work? Work gives us that excitement for free time, makes weekends feel better, makes vacations more inviting. It
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My days as a startup founder be like:
7:00am - WORK MODE YES YES YES🤪🥳
9:30 - need to stop looking at screen, need to workout NOW🤕😵💫
10:00 - ok now let’s WORK🙌🏼💪🏼🤩
1:30 - Ok I need a break 😦
2:30pm - ENERGY ENERGY back to it 😝
4:00pm - slumped, body & mind on 0%🪫
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UGH. When I send a notification and get a bunch of traffic to my app at once, it breaks, no one has been able to fix it for months, and I always just move on and don’t send notifs and everything is fine. Now that I have the budget, I’m gonna rlly invest on our architecture and
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If you’re excited about it, it’ll work out, stay excited 😌
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When I’m a rich billionaire and someone asks what my biggest advice is I’m literally gonna say being impulsive, cause that’s what’s gotten me pretty much everything great in life so far 🤣
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Keep showing up. Show up for yourself, for your mind, your body, your soul. Show up on days when it feels like you’re just going through the motions. Show up even if it’s only 10%, even if it’s 1%, just show up, every day.
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First months of launching Going Solo the average daily downloads was 150, now it’s 600🥹🙏🏼
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I love when people send me their meetups from my app. There’s no better feeling & it makes all the hard work worth it.
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Consistency is annoying, boring, irritating, repetitive, and redundant…. but it’s the ONLY way to see results
I edit & post around 3 reels a day to promote my app. They’re usually somewhat the same, they rarely go viral, but when they do….😫🤌🏼📈✨
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You know when you get a vibe from a person that’s just SLIGHTLY passive aggressive but in the most non obvious way, and just an intuition that they aren’t “actually” happy for you. lol. I guess that’s the meaning of “evil eye”🧿🪬🙈
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Sometimes I feel really alone, confused and frustrated as a solo non tech founder, but it will be worth it.
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The best feeling as a founder: a well oiled system where everyone in the team is happy & there is an organized plan
and a viral marketing video of course haha
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There’s nothing like the joy of “ new build is available” from my developer 🤭
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It’s kinda annoying how when you open x and see a post, it refreshes to new posts automatically, I was invested in that!😡
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There’s 300 users on my app in Beirut Lebanon, 100 in Lahore Pakistan, 217 in Hong Kong, 30 in Zanzibar Africa… there’s users in pretty much every city in the world, that’s the power of social media marketing!
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We’re working on retention. We’re a meetup app for backpackers so it’s kinda hard to keep GREAT retention, but I have a plan😏😏
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I can’t decide if driving 30 mins to the beach every single day and staying until it’s almost dark out is an addiction, a form of therapy, or a lifestyle…
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Came to Hawaii to jump around waterfalls & swim in the ocean but my boyfriend had other plans😞
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My biggest advice? Don’t ever believe your competitor when they say they’re your friend, you’ll get backstabbed😌
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My app went down cause we tried to merge to prod even tho we just made a whole staging env to make sure this didn’t happen😝😝 how’s your Wednesday???
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Tbh Ive had 98% good experiences with men. Im not saying there aren’t creeps or disregarding anyone’s experiences, but I’ve just had the best experience with humans and I’ve traveled solo to 10 different countries. Most men who approach me will just be genuinely nice then go
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I’ve made so many marketing videos that my fingers literally make them on autopilot on 2x speed😂😂😂
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The universe gives me so much more good than bad. The bad tends to feel a lot stronger, but it’s most certainly smaller, and always fleeting. Meditating really puts everything into perspective, especially when you visualize what you’re grateful for. It’s usually family that comes
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I swear I’m the CEO of impulsive & chaotic:
Started my bachelors degree in psychology in Italy on an Italian student visa then switched online cause I got bored, and went broke, so I finished the semester online from the US then transferred to a university in Paris on a French
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