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How Opal got its users

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Productivity creators showing their screen time before and after. The proof is the content, there is nothing to script.

Read from signals. Consistent with what is publicly observable, but nobody confirmed it. Check before you quote it.

Can you run this?
COPYABLE

You could start this on Monday. No budget, no audience, no permission needed.

Your time
3 to 6 months
Your money
A few thousand dollars
First signal
6 weeks
Upside
  • Numeric proof you cannot produce yourself
  • Content reusable as paid creative
Price of entry
  • A result measurable within days
  • A product that holds the promise

Creators and UGC in 2026

The most effective channel in consumer mobile today, and the most saturated at the top end.

Everything on this channel →

The play

4 steps, in the order they ran them.

  1. 1

    Find the before and after number your product moves

  2. 2

    Recruit creators whose audience shares the problem, not the category

  3. 3

    Let the creator tell their own number instead of reading a script

  4. 4

    Ride the calendar moments, January and back to school

The product itself

read from opal.so, live

Attention on autopilot.

from $8.29/mofree tier653 public pages

Run this against your own product

In your chat

Carries the play above, and is written to tell you no when this channel is out of reach for you.

In your editor

The same twelve channels as an agent skill. It reads your repository and eliminates what you cannot run. Open source, MIT.

curl -o ~/.claude/skills/howtodistribute/SKILL.md https://howtodistribute.com/skill.md

Repeated App Store features

The evidence1 checkable
  • Creator screen-time videos

They ran the same play

Want this verdict on your product?

Describe it. You get back the channel I would run in your place, the 30-day plan, and the number at which you stop.