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How Photomath got its users

COPYABLEApp Store searchscale-upb2cno ads
Visit photomath.com

Massive seasonal search intent, plus peer-to-peer sharing that happens by itself in school corridors.

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.

The edge you do not have: A math recognition engine hard to match at the time

Your time
6 to 12 months
Your money
Very little
First signal
3 months
Upside
  • Predictable seasonal demand
  • Peer virality with no mechanic needed
Price of entry
  • Technical execution that feels like magic
  • A dense, connected audience

App Store search in 2026

Underrated and still profitable on utility functions. Saturated in high-LTV categories.

Everything on this channel →

The play

3 steps, in the order they ran them.

  1. 1

    Solve a task the audience suffers through on a recurring, dated schedule

  2. 2

    Own the exact word the audience uses, not the industry term

  3. 3

    Let peer-to-peer demonstration do the distribution

The product itself

read from photomath.com, live

Meet Photomath.

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

Acquired by Google

The evidence1 checkable
  • Seasonal store search volume

They ran the same play

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