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@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar Yoni Smolyar

Yoni Smolyar posts on X about brainrot, iphone, ads, instagram the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social category influence social networks XXXX% technology brands XXXX% finance XXXX% countries XXXX%

Social topic influence brainrot #2804, iphone 5.45%, ads 3.64%, instagram 3.64%, osmo 3.64%, dji 3.64%, subreddit 1.82%, $200day 1.82%, influencers 1.82%, coded XXXX%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @grok @izzyozen @kevinespiritu @robj3d3 @rowansail @outofchrome @crislenta @trevorloula @senjuha33165305 @thebrainrotapp @producthuntco @adiloloi @superwall @producthunt @gustiffer @davidattisaas @ederteixeira333 @mihneadevries @johnappscaler @jslsux

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"spent $XX on tt ads for each of X different creatives for @thebrainrotapp one of them was 4x better than the rest also views aren't everything. winning ad got half the views of the others test ur ads"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-22 16:21:22 UTC 14K followers, 6852 engagements

"You can't outsource your brain to AI You still have to use your brain"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-17 19:15:50 UTC 13.9K followers, 8417 engagements

"a week ago I posted on reddit r/saas sharing the story of building brainrot "from X to 25k in XX days" overwhelmingly positive top of the subreddit 150k views and XXX upvotes yesterday i reposted it onto r/sideproject but updated "0 to 30k in XX days" i got accused of lying and "fakestory farming" "he didn't even write the code" post started getting downvoted to hell all of my comments got downvoted to hell every positive/normal comment from other users got downvoted to hell subreddit moderators removed the post reddit is wild lol"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-22 18:35:21 UTC 14K followers, 20.3K engagements

"8/9 POST LAUNCH: After the launch the huge spike in sales fell to a more consistent baseline of about XXX downloads per day about $200/day in proceeds after Apple takes their cut. These XXX downloads are mostly App Store Search (people search "brainrot" or other keywords in the App Store) many of whom I assume come from my Instagram videos where I talk about the app. I'm now working on distribution strategies and having varying degrees of success. Trying UGC creators meme pages TikToks etc. Struggling honestly. I know there is a playbook and I will keep trying. I've heard from many that it"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-14 03:06:27 UTC 13.9K followers, 54.2K engagements

"7/9 The first section of the email was all about brainrot This primed all Product Hunt enthusiasts to go check out my app. This is the primary reason it performed so well Their emails include the following line worth pursuing if you're considering a launch: P.S. Got a launch that deserves the spotlightPitch us at editorial@producthunt.co"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-14 03:06:26 UTC 13.9K followers, 57.1K engagements

"despite having a bunch of followers on social media i feel pretty unskilled at social media marketing UGC influencers paid ads reddit ASO all sorts of new AI UGC things i find myself hopping around these things and then pausing them when i realize the app's retention needs focus before any of these things will be profitable"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-24 19:21:19 UTC 14K followers, 1792 engagements

"second degree dinner and push notifications"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-06-21 19:58:40 UTC 14K followers, 102.7K engagements

"brainrot investor report. XX days post launch tbh i'm not sure if it serves me or hurts me to be this transparent about metrics i don't really care either way i'm a huge advocate of building in public and i LOVE when other people share the numbers of their projects"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-24 19:21:15 UTC 14K followers, 24.3K engagements

"6/9 How did I get #1 How was I #4 by 7am I was wondering these questions. I found the answer the next day. Product Hunt sends out a daily newsletter highlighting a few interesting products launching that day. The morning of my launch they sent out an email with Subject: "Cure your brainrot""
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-14 03:06:26 UTC 13.9K followers, 67.7K engagements

"@KevinEspiritu I have been loving the drawings"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-24 14:17:59 UTC 13.9K followers, XX engagements

"2/9 WHY BRAINROT: I was solving a real problem in my life. Through content creation I became deeply addicted to my phone and social media. The dopamine of likes/comments/followers is super strong and sucked me deep into 10+ hour screen time days. I wanted a screen time app / app blocker to fix this so I decided to make one myself"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-14 03:06:23 UTC 14K followers, 97.8K engagements

"3/9 THE TECH: iPhone app only no Android support at this time. Wrote it in Swift heavily leveraging Cursor / Claude / now Claude Code. Never made a mobile app before. @Superwall for the paywall I highly recommend it. The app is 90%+ "vibe coded" despite me being a staff software engineer at a big tech company. AI code generation is amazing and a massive unlock. Took me about XXX months from start to App Store release. I scrapped and rewrote the app twice and got rejected by the App Store X times before approval"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-14 03:06:24 UTC 14K followers, 91.9K engagements

"5/9 THE @ProductHunt LAUNCH: This was HUGE for me. I scheduled the launch the night before. Made a quick little launch page and sort of forgot about it. The next morning I see a DM from a follower and I'm already #4 on Product Hunt. I look at Superwall and omg like 5000 downloads already today by 7am. I promote the launch to my followers pls vote for me and throughout the day sure enough #3 #2 #1. Locked in #1 on Product Hunt on my first ever launch. This generated for me over 10000 downloads in one day. About $5000 in revenue"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-14 03:06:25 UTC 14K followers, 78.5K engagements

"san diego founders: i'm hosting a meetup in two weeks on saturday august 2nd first of many dm for invite"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-22 00:33:37 UTC 14K followers, 5719 engagements

"start your day with some scrolling warm up the thumbs warm up the noggin"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-22 15:05:26 UTC 14K followers, 2980 engagements

"4/9 THE LAUNCH: For the XXX months that I was building I kept the substance / identity of the app a secret. I shared that I had an app idea I was building it showed timelapses of me coding and shared all of App Store rejections. But I kept the idea a secret because I didn't want someone to steal it and launch it before me. Being afraid of copycats is infantile I know but I just wanted to be the first to launch a screen time app called brainrot. I finally shared the launch to my followers and generated a few thousand downloads in the first day. That turned into like $3000 Insane. But that's"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-14 03:06:24 UTC 14K followers, 84.9K engagements

"@david_attisaas $XXX in an hour is $876k ARR"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-15 18:41:46 UTC 13.9K followers, XXX engagements

"omg my first payout 😱 imagine paying your rent just from shitposting internet gremlins are winning in 2025"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-19 14:04:45 UTC 13.9K followers, 39.3K engagements

"this is my first time selling software. it's been a dream of mine for a decade just never pulled the trigger / skill issue so now that i finally have my code out in the wild and thousands of paying customers i thought i would feel amazing and accomplished"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-24 19:21:16 UTC 14K followers, 1506 engagements

"1/9 BACKSTORY: The story of how I got here actually started many years ago with many failed projects and businesses and XXX days ago I started documenting my journey through daily videos on social media. My thesis was: i'm constantly starting and failing all these projects and then restarting from square X. Maybe it would be benefit me if people saw MY STORY. The entrepreneur hustling and persevering behind the scenes. Inspired largely @levelsio I managed to build up a following of about 200k people across platforms (insane) and eventually launched brainrot to my audience"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-14 03:06:23 UTC 14K followers, 104K engagements

"I launched my first ever iPhone app XX days ago and have already made $26000. Here's everything I learned: LONG THREAD 🧵"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-14 03:06:22 UTC 14K followers, 1.5M engagements

"@rowansail @robj3d3 Step X is don't call yourself boring You are young and ambitious you are finding your path and fighting two voices one of stability and employment and one of volatility and entrepreneurship You're figuring out who you are and what you want from life You are not boring :)"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-24 20:15:34 UTC 14K followers, XXX engagements

"just because he's your homie doesn't mean he should be your business partner"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-21 23:18:20 UTC 14K followers, 10.1K engagements

"I got over X million free views and 10000+ app downloads by taking advantage of a completely misunderstood feature of instagram long thread 🧵"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-06 19:58:52 UTC 13.9K followers, 209.6K engagements

"everyone wants to be eco friendly until Alaska Airlines asks how much you'd like to pay to offset your jet fuel"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-23 22:28:47 UTC 14K followers, 2174 engagements

"but as always the goalposts have moved and i feel inadequate retention is shit app needs work $XXXX revenue per install app needs work XX% trial cancel rate app needs work XX% paywall conversion rate onboarding needs work"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-24 19:21:17 UTC 14K followers, 1343 engagements

"9/9 CONCLUSION: It's been a grind and a blast this success is sitting atop about half a decade of failures. Remains to be seen the future of brainrot. I'm cautiously optimistic. My personal brand has been immensely valuable in this. I highly recommend to any builders reading this if you relate to my story of constantly starting and failing and restarting from square X consider making daily videos about your progress and efforts. It may take many months for the videos to pick up traction they may never pick up traction but having an audience is tremendously valuable and I recommend it to any"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-14 03:06:28 UTC 13.9K followers, 49.8K engagements

"i'm paying someone in slovenia $300/mo to brand their meme page into a funnel for brainrot this is called guerilla marketing"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-23 16:13:35 UTC 14K followers, 16.6K engagements

"taxi driver is listening to some X spaces about hot meme coins to trade today makes me sad :( i really don't like meme coins"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-24 13:03:42 UTC 14K followers, 1698 engagements

"my happiness correlates to my caffeine intake a lot of the time"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-21 20:04:13 UTC 14K followers, 6024 engagements

"@EderTeixeira333 And i had an App Store Connect screenshot in the post lol although screenshot don't mean anything anymore everything is photoshop or AI"
@YoniSmolyar Avatar @YoniSmolyar on X 2025-07-23 03:34:44 UTC 13.9K followers, XXX engagements