we generated 10M+ views on
TikTok without filming a single video**
this is just one of our accounts
we have more with a few million views
that go way beyond 10M+ views
no creators & no editors
we literally did it all with slideshows
and were not the only ones doing this
some of the biggest apps on the App Store
are running slideshow pages right now
and most founders have no idea
PURE is doing $5M/mo and pulled over 100M views from just 7 slideshow pages
Runna is doing $4M/mo and one of their slideshows hit 19M views
a lot of these pages are built around a character
and Claude can keep the same character in every post with Higgsfield
for context our content has done 150M+ views with our UGC program
so trust me when I say this is the cheapest way to get views I have ever seen
in this article ill break down why slideshows work with a real case study & exactly how to automate them.
enough yapping.
WHAT MAKES A SLIDESHOW GO VIRAL?
before starting our own slideshow page
I studied 500+ slideshow pages
and the ones that go viral almost always
apply these 3 things
1. A STRONG HOOK
the first slide is the only thing people see before they decide to swipe
so the best hooks call out exactly who its for
this recipe page has 488M views
and the biggest one is
"5 weeknight dinners for your lazy ass" with 42M😭
This applies for every niche
instead of saying " 5 ways to get abs"
You should say " 5 ways to get abs with this lazy 5 minute workout
the hook has to make you need the next slide
and sometimes the craziest thing works best
this is one of PURE's pages
every post is a girl with "sometimes you just gotta traumatise these men back"
That hook makes you need the next slide.
you are literally forced to swipe to see what she texted him
they post the same hook with a different text every time
and the 4 above did between 8.7M and 9.2M views each
once you find a viral hook
It just works everytime.
you can see the same thing with this other page:
"dinners you'll actually look forward to"
they posted that exact hook 3 times in June
and it did 11M, 4.4M and 3.5M views
then she kept going with the same idea
"dinners worth coming home to" is already on part 11
and it keeps going viral
same hook & different food every time
2. A CONSISTENT THEME OR CHARACTER
when people see the same character
over and over they start to recognize your page
go look at these 2 pages
every single post looks like the same page
Arise posts the same anime guy with "we built a leveling system in real life"
and GoTall uses the same boxers and skeleton with a tape measure every time
so when someone clicks on your profile
it looks like a real page and they actually follow it
most people just post whatever they find on Pinterest
and the feed ends up looking all over the place
so nobody knows what the page is about
pick 1 theme or 1 character and stick to it
Claude can keep it the same on every post with Higgsfield
4. THE SOUND MATTERS
most people pick a random sound for the slideshows
but it actualyl matters a lot
if you pick a song thats trending, people might stay
just to listen to it while they swipe
on that same recipe page the slideshows with "In the Mood"
averages 12M views
and the ones with "Dinner Is Served" average almost 10M
while the page average is 1.4M
so when a sound works in your niche just keep using it
WHY THEYRE SO EASY TO MAKE
a video needs a creator to film it and an editor to cut it
real UGC runs $15 to $25 per video
a slideshow just needs a few photos and a good hook
and now Claude can make the slides
and Higgsfield can make the photos
and if you want the character to move
you can use Kling AI right inside Higgsfield
so you can post 2 or 3 a day on every page
for basically nothing
HOW WE GOT 10M VIEWS REPURPOSING CONTENT
we had an old recipe app
and recipes are content that already exists everywhere
so instead of making something new
we just turned recipes into slideshows
every slideshow was the same simple format
a photo of the food with the name on it
then what you need to make it
thats literally it
then a CTA to the app at the end.
we posted 1-2 a day and genearted 8.6M views
our best one did 981K views
so if you already have content in your app
HOW TO AUTOMATE IT
those 193 slideshows were all made and posted by hand
and when we stopped posting in January the page stopped too
[ADD: what you tried first before Viktor, e.g. a VA in Canva, and why it didnt stick]
so this time we handed the whole thing to Viktor
this is exactly how we set it up
1. FIND THE BIGGEST PAGE IN YOUR NICHE
first we found the page thats already winning in our niche
and sent it through ViewTrack ( our own tool )
it pulls every slideshow they ever posted
with the views and the saves of each one
so you can see exactly what works before you make anything
2. SEND IT TO VIKTOR
then we dropped that page in Slack and told Viktor to go through it
using the viewtrack api key
Viktor is the AI employee we use in Slack
and we have him connected to ViewTrack, Claude, Higgsfield and Postiz
he went through all 353 slideshows on that page
and found the 3 formats that get most of the views
the top one averages 6M views a post
then he sent Claude a brief for 2 months of slideshows
3. CLAUDE MAKES ALL OF THEM
Claude took the brief, made the photos with Higgsfield
and built every slide with our app on the last one
( Claude uses Higgsfield through their mcp: higgsfield.ai/mcp
120 slideshows in one go
which would take a VA weeks to make in Canva
4. YOU APPROVE AND POSTIZ POSTS IT
once Claude was done Viktor dropped them back in Slack for us to check
we hit approve
and Viktor scheduled all of them on Postiz
thats 120 slideshows scheduled from Nov 1 to Dec 30
in a few minutes
running this many posts by hand is literally impossible
thats why we use Postiz
You can try postiz here: Postiz.com
I also tested Postiz myself on my personal brand
and the first post published did 200K views
they have a direct connector with Viktor as well
viktor.com/integrations/postiz
then every Monday have Viktor send you the views of every slideshow
then have Claude make a Pt2 of the ones that went viral
and for the ones that went really viral
have Claude turn the slides into a video with Kling 4 on Higgsfield
and post it on the same page
Its a new model that just came out 3x cheaper than seedance 2.5
HOW THIS TURNS INTO SALES
views are cool but views dont pay the bills
the last slide of every slideshow should be your app
also your caption should have the full app of the name
specially when starting out, because your app can
take a while to show #1.
from what we have seen 5M views is about $2,000 to $5,000 in revenue
depending on how good your onboarding is
its not as good as UGC or Influencers but the upside
is that is very automatable and easy to do.
so to recap
find the biggest page in your niche send it through Viktor using viewtrack api key have Viktor find what the best formats let Claude and Higgsfield make the slideshows turn the winners into videos with Kling AI on Higgsfield approve and let Viktor schedule them on Postiz put your app on the last slide and do this at scale
drop any questions below, ill try to answer all of them
I think slideshows are the most slept on way to get views for an app right now
tell me im wrong
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Full link in my first reply.
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