How Widgetsmith got its users
A TikTok wave of home screen customization at the iOS 14 launch. The channel was an OS window that will not reopen the same way.
Confirmed. The team said it publicly, or the signals leave no room for doubt.
It worked because of something they already had, or a window that has closed. Copying it will not reproduce it.
The edge you do not have: Being ready the day Apple opened widgets, before anyone else
- A window with no competition for a few weeks
- Immediate store ranking
- Serious OS release monitoring
- To be ready before the announcement, not after
Organic social in 2026
The cheapest channel and the hardest one. Entry cost is zero, the real cost is your consistency.
Everything on this channel →The play
3 steps, in the order they ran them.
- 1
Track OS announcements and build during the beta
- 2
Ship on the day of the public update, not a week later
- 3
Let the creators make the tutorials. Do not try to beat them to it
Run this against your own product
Carries the play above, and is written to tell you no when this channel is out of reach for you.
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
How big it got
Number one on the App Store in 2020, solo developer
What else they ran
The evidence1 checkable
- The iOS 14 tutorial wave on TikTok
They ran the same play
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