Guided Journey · Grow × App

Grow an App

Retention-first app growth

Takes you from an app people sign up for and then quietly abandon to a sealed retention engine with a habit loop, an activated first run, and one metric the whole team trusts. It orchestrates its eight skills phase by phase, asking you the decision questions at every step and recording every result in your project's docs/ folder so the journey resumes across sessions.

Written to your repo
  • docs/PRODUCT.md
  • docs/CUSTOMER.md
  • docs/EXPERIMENTS.md
  • docs/METRICS.md
  • docs/DESIGN.md
  • docs/GROW-APP-PLAN.md journey tracker — stop anytime, resume any session

One prompt runs it

Every phase asks before it acts, and every decision lands in your project’s docs/ folder as a living document — quit anytime, resume in any session.

Use it when you need to
  • Grow an app whose retention can't yet support acquisition
  • Design ethical habit loops and fix activation friction
  • Replace opinion-driven roadmaps with weekly discovery
  • Choose the One Metric That Matters for your stage
  • Sustain engagement with intrinsic motivation, not gimmicks
Install this metaskill
npx skills add wondelai/skills/grow-app --global

This skill is compatible with Claude, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and other agentskills.io-compatible agents.

Journey Map

8 phases, one deliberate order

Each phase invokes one skill from the library, asks you the decision question, and writes the answer to your project’s docs/ before moving on.

  1. 01 Why do users come back without us paying? Hooked UX hooked-ux → docs/PRODUCT.md
  2. 02 Why don't new users reach the loop? Improve Retention improve-retention → docs/PRODUCT.md
  3. 03 What do our own users actually need? Continuous Discovery continuous-discovery → docs/PRODUCT.md + docs/CUSTOMER.md
  4. 04 Which bet is worth building? Lean UX lean-ux → docs/EXPERIMENTS.md
  5. 05 Is the team building the right things? Inspired inspired-product → docs/PRODUCT.md
  6. 06 Which single number tells the truth? Lean Analytics lean-analytics → docs/METRICS.md
  7. 07 Does it feel alive in the hand? Microinteractions microinteractions → docs/DESIGN.md
  8. 08 Will engagement last, or curdle? Drive Motivation drive-motivation → docs/PRODUCT.md
In Practice

Grow an App Retention-First

Users sign up, poke around, and vanish. Buying more of them won't help.

Our app's D30 retention is [X]%. Run the grow-app journey —
habit loops, activation, weekly discovery, and the One Metric
That Matters — before any acquisition spend. Keep growth
experiments in docs/EXPERIMENTS.md.

Use grow-app skill.
Example Prompts

Try these with the skill installed

Users sign up and vanish — grow this app the retention-first way. using grow-app skill

Start the journey

Run the grow-app journey; start with the habit-loop audit. using grow-app skill

Habit-loop audit

Continue our app growth journey from the tracker. using grow-app skill

Resume journey
The Source

Born from a guide

This journey packages the playbook below as a single skill — the guide is the long-form read behind every phase.

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How to Grow an Existing App with AI Skills

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Install Grow an App

Free, open-source, and ready in 30 seconds.

npx skills add wondelai/skills/grow-app --global
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