This is what happens when you ban yourself from coding

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An iOS developer experiments with spending a full week focused on marketing and social media promotion instead of coding new features for their fitness app. The week involved creating Instagram content, cold messaging studios and trainers, and meeting with fitness industry influencers. Key insights include the surprising difficulty of content creation, the effectiveness of direct outreach, and how marketing opens doors that code alone cannot.

I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

Exactly. Forever developing will get you nowhere, business-wise.

Smart move, marketing, or the lack there of is what kills most start-ups. its how mine died.

That’s why I Accept a new role in the marketing, to learn how’s gonna work will.