# The-Diff > One stealable product idea or growth play, once a week. Get the moves that actually work, with evidence from winning companies who shipped it. This file provides information about The-Diff to help large language models understand and reference this publication's content. ## Posts - [☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes](https://www.the-diff.com/p/5-bit-fridays-6): Why is gaming the key to AGI? Why did a bird-speed app just hit 300K users? Does AI actually destroy jobs? How does FIFA profit more when the big teams advance? And is AI your new storefront, or your replacement? - [The "Open OS" play ](https://www.the-diff.com/p/the-open-os-play): How to compete by opening up what someone else keeps closed - [☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes](https://www.the-diff.com/p/5-bit-fridays-5): How do /goals work in Fable? The best new salesperson? Developing with AI, what's still yours? How did three YouTubers just beat Star Wars? And what is SpaceX doing with a new device? - [The sidecar strategy that saved my first business](https://www.the-diff.com/p/the-sidecar-product-strategy): How to sell more without selling anything - [ ☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes ](https://www.the-diff.com/p/5-bit-fridays-4): Is the AI-spending era over? Who is the default chat now? Did you know about the new app store math? Are you ready to not get this AI fine? And what screenshots are killing your conversion? - [How to steal a customer base ](https://www.the-diff.com/p/how-to-steal-a-customer-base): the "fork" strategy - [ ☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes ](https://www.the-diff.com/p/5-bit-fridays-3): Can a fake bug hijack your coding agent? Can a government switch off an AI model? Did Elon just buy Cursor with money he didn't have a week ago? Why did Snap beat everyone to AR — and may still lose it? And is "AI" now a turn-off? - [What most winback plays get wrong](https://www.the-diff.com/p/what-most-winback-plays-get-wrong): And why this winback move actually works - [ ☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes ](https://www.the-diff.com/p/5-bit-fridays-2): Is ChatGPT the new Meta Ads? Why is Apple renting its brain from Google? Where do the top apps actually grow? How long can an agent work alone? What happens when AI labs go public? - [Why weekly paid plans are winning ](https://www.the-diff.com/p/why-7-day-plans-are-winning): Stop selling the next year. Start selling the next 7 days. - [☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes](https://www.the-diff.com/p/5-bit-fridays-1): Which types of trials win? Do new apps stand a chance? How do you market to agent buyers? Are you building for AI users yet? Why are models changing pricing? - [Why this hybrid "webinar" strategy actually sells](https://www.the-diff.com/p/the-3-part-video-strategy-that-gets-you-sales): How these 4 companies drove growth with a unique webinar play - [The super long quiz strategy ](https://www.the-diff.com/p/2k-115k-a-month-later-steal-this-one-boring-move-that-did-it): A boring move that helped one app go from $2k to $115k a month later - [How RevenueCat told me I'm in the 1%...of worst apps](https://www.the-diff.com/p/how-revenuecat-told-me-i-m-in-the-1-of-worst-apps): And the cheapest growth feature you can steal from them and 4+ others - [Why I cut 60% of what my app does (again) ](https://www.the-diff.com/p/why-i-cut-60-of-what-my-app-does-again): Consumer apps live and die by doing this one thing really well - [The new underutilized sales trick you can steal ](https://www.the-diff.com/p/the-new-underutilized-sales-trick-you-can-steal): Try this easy and free way to get AI to become your best salesperson - [My exact workflow for getting IOS apps working instantly](https://www.the-diff.com/p/my-exact-workflow-for-getting-ios-apps-working-instantly): A guide for how to get a first time build with no failures and crashes. Exact steps, custom made templates, and a video walkthrough - [The feeling of not doing enough](https://www.the-diff.com/p/the-feeling-of-not-doing-enough): The Labrador Problem, FOMO-flation, and 4 things I tell myself to stay sane - [My thinking behind building free vs paid AI features](https://www.the-diff.com/p/my-thinking-behind-building-free-vs-paid-ai-features): How I built them and knowing if they even work - [Why I'm making it hard for people to pay me](https://www.the-diff.com/p/why-i-m-making-it-hard-for-people-to-pay-me): And the unusual chat-first upgrade flow I've made - [My first onboarding flow was selfish ](https://www.the-diff.com/p/my-first-onboarding-flow-was-selfish): here's what I did and how I quickly fixed it (with screenshots) - [Dateful is dead. Here's what I'm building instead.](https://www.the-diff.com/p/dateful-is-dead-here-is-what-i-am-building-instead): Building fast to fail faster, doing what's fun, and why constraint is the product - [I've built something I wouldn't pay for ](https://www.the-diff.com/p/i-ve-built-something-i-wouldn-t-pay-for): And can I even build the feature that makes this worth buying? - [2 hours getting nowhere, and what I should have done instead ](https://www.the-diff.com/p/2-hours-getting-nowhere-and-what-i-should-have-done-instead): Day 2: Stupid walls and a PSA on debugging stamina - [Day 1: Someone almost paid me $100/m before anything works](https://www.the-diff.com/p/day-1-someone-almost-paid-me-100-m-before-anything-works): And my only feature was broken - [How fast can we get this to $100 MRR?](https://www.the-diff.com/p/how-fast-can-we-get-this-to-100-mrr): The day 0 cold start, introducing the idea, and what I did in the first 2 hours ## Pages - [](https://www.the-diff.com/) - [archive](https://www.the-diff.com/archive) - [my-stack](https://www.the-diff.com/my-stack) - [start-here](https://www.the-diff.com/start-here) - [subscribe](https://www.the-diff.com/subscribe) ## Authors - [Jaryd Hermann](https://www.the-diff.com/authors/jaryd-hermann) ## Categories - [Idea Bytes](https://www.the-diff.com/t/Idea Bytes) ## Products - [Get A Fully working IOS App In Just One Prompt](https://www.the-diff.com/products/get-a-fully-working-ios-app-in-just-one-prompt)