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Bro built an app that won't let you fake your workouts
Bro built an app that won’t let you fake your workouts 🤯 It’s an alarm clock. To turn it off, you have to do push-ups and the app uses AI to actually verify you did them. No cheating. Jake (24) launched Early at the end of 2025. Four months later it’s doing $50K/month with 200K+ downloads.
I built this app for my dad. Now it makes $18K/month
Kourosh built an app in a very crowded market... and yet still managed to grow it to over $18K/month. His secret is insanely simple: everyone else is chasing tech-savvy power users, but Kourosh built this app for a type of custer everyone is ignoring (his dad). This video is the story of how to build a successful product in a "saturated" market. *50+ AI app ideas making millions:* https://clickhubspot.com/q8ij Say hi to Kourash: https://x.com/BuildingWaves Check out Voicy: https://usevoicy.com/ 🔔 Follow the Second Channel: @StarterStoryBuild 🏁 We're hiring: starterstory.com/jobs Chapters: 0:00 - He built this for his dad! 1:09 - What's your story? 1:59 - What's the app? 3:24 - Founder background 4:14 - More AI app ideas 4:56 - Finding the idea for Voicy 5:50 - Build process 7:28 - Tech stack 8:21 - Growth story 9:51 - Unique customers 11:22 - Building in a crowded market 13:06 - Final advice 14:28 - Reflections 15:17 - FREE app ideas This video is an educational case study of this founder’s experience. It is not financial advice and does not guarantee any income or results. Every business is different and your results may vary.
$50k/month founder nearly killed his app by spending thousands on UGC 😊
Bro spent thousands on UGC with zero winning format and nearly killed the business. Lino went straight to big fitness influencers before he had any proof of what actually converts. Thousands per video, margins at 5-10%, barely scraping $3-4K in revenue. The fix: he partnered with one big fitness creator for equity instead of chasing deal after deal. Suddenly the content was free, the creator had skin in the game, and AbMaxx took off. From there he cut every other UGC deal, doubled down on Meta ads at 2-2.5X ROAS, then moved the same creatives to TikTok and hit 4-5X ROAS targeting a younger audience.
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