day 156 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships as you scale, i highly recommend using Revyl by for automation testing! we’re using them for our core flows like daily challenge and onboarding every time we ship. saves hours of manual testing and catches stuff

day 157 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships we just launched a fun new mini game: Anagrams! we did a variation where you can see how many 6 letter words you can get in 60 seconds, then challenge your partner to beat your score for your daily connection :) we

day 158 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships download the latest trash update below 👇

day 159 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships after focusing on organic, we started testing paid search keywords and ranked for our own if you’re growing organically, competitors/copycats will not only steal ur marketing formats but they’ll also start bidding on

day 160 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships quick update on anagrams, it was played over 45k times yesterday. turns out couples and friends love word games way more than we expected are there any other brain/word games you want us to add next that you'd want to

day 161 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships failed 9x to go viral this week, trying again tomorrow download the latest update below 👇

day 162 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships quick reminder to respond to every sub 5 star review fast and try to get on a call to solve the issue if needed it will dramatically improve ratings, set you apart from other products, and people will also be more

New quotes from Y Combinator startups scaling on Convex via Conduit a0.dev Encore and VibeFlow (YC S25). "We needed a backend that could scale to millions quickly and could enable real-time experiences."

day 163 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships thanks Jacob | Viral Growth for the shoutout! : ) consistently posting across your creator team is important, tt will often boost your trust score if you post 1–2x/day, even if they don’t necessarily hit we try to balance

day 164 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships we made every member in our team change their chrome new tab screen to a tab of our metrics, auto-updated every 2 minutes best way to stay dialed in and watch growth take place (or stay stagnant) in real time shoutout

day 165 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships today we hit another mini milestone, 10k+ users live on the app! next goal is 1m live users shoutout again to Amplitude for the real time graph download the latest update below👇

day 166 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships we’re super excited to be re signing the goat Sophia to keep leading marketing across all our channels. she’s helped grow candle to ~4m likes across all platforms and over 110k MAUs so far, and we’re just

day 167 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships we just launched live countdowns! 🎆 you can now set important countdowns for dates, vacations, concerts, when you see each other next and more, and see them count down together in real time. you can also add them to

day 168 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships new categories and icons are coming soon! for question connection, our “oddballs & unhinged” pile turned out to be one of the most answered, and requested, categories yet, so we’re leaning into that these next couple

candle has now been in the top 200 for over a month!

day 169 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships a repeatable low effort marketing tip is if you see a video on your fyp describing a problem ur product directly solves (and there should be plenty if you warmed up your accounts correctly), just help them out and show

day 170 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships as we’re starting to expand internationally, one thing that’s very important to us is making sure candle stays affordable and accessible for people everywhere purchasing power parity (or ppp) basically tells you how

day 171 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships wanted to share another mini milestone for candle today. we hit $100k in revenue over the past 28 days, reaching this point in less than 6 months since the inception of the idea. it was not always like this. after

day 172 of building candle, the duolingo for relationships we are officially out of beta! candle just launched on yc 🎉 ycombinator.com/launches/OFK-c… candle is a game designed to help couples or friends connect and stay in touch every day, simply and intentionally what began as a