“I will beat you just by putting a buy button on the first screen by pure law of numbers right and that's sort of the like un-glamorous app design things that you sometimes need to do to actually optimize the business”

Just Put A Buy Button On Screen One — Pure Law Of Numbers Beats Elegant Delayed Paywalls

Jacob's brutal truth: no matter how elegant a delayed-paywall strategy sounds — show the product first, earn trust, then convert — the math kills it. Four out of five users never open the app a second time. Showing a trial CTA on screen one, even if it feels pushy, will out-convert a thoughtfully staged paywall simply because it reaches 5x more people.