I built an app, hit $44K MRR, and sold it.

Here’s the exact tool stack to scale without a big team: When building an app, you have different stages and different tools.

Let me walk you through each phase, showing the tools I use:

Most people think building an app costs lots of money.

But what if I told you you can create an app for under $1,000?

I’ve done it, and I’m sharing the exact process. I started at 16 with $1,000, no coding skills, and zero experience.

If I can do it, so can you.

Let’s break it down:

If your onboarding sucks, your app won't make any money.

I exited 2 mobile apps at 27 because I mastered onboarding.

Steal my $45k MRR onboarding flow: An onboarding flow is the first experience users have with your app.

So it should turn visitors into paying customers.

Let's start with the first screen:

How I built a $40k/month onboarding flow:

The key is introducing 'positive friction' An onboarding flow is the first experience users have with your app.

My onboarding flow allowed me to turn more visitors into paying customers.

Here is my 40k/mo onboarding flow breakdown:

I built an app, hit $44K MRR, and sold it.

Here’s the exact tool stack to scale without a big team: When building an app, you have different stages and different tools.

Let me walk you through each phase, showing the tools I use:

This Bible App Makes $250K/Month

Bible Chat was #1 in Reference with 1M monthly downloads and $250K MRR.

Let's break down their strategy: 1. Daily TikTok = Unlimited Views

Bible Chat dropped in May 2023 and hasn’t missed a day since.

Their main account @biblechatapp has racked up 110M+ views but here’s the thing:

259M+ views + $300k MRR 🤯

Coconote AI has only been around 9 months and they’ve already:

- Hit $300K MRR
- 40K+ downloads/month
- 259M+ views across multiple accounts

Here’s how they do it (it’s not what you think): One of their videos did 41M views.

And they’re not even creating most of their own content.

It’s all recycled videos, bulk recordings, and viral trend hijacks.

Full breakdown below:

AI girlfriend apps are printing MILLIONS

Crushon AI was pulling in $200K MRR.

Dippy AI, had 60M views in 3 months.

Here’s how 🧵👇 1: Massive TikTok presence

Dippy AI and Crushon AI are running 50+ TikTok accounts each, posting DAILY.

That’s 100+ videos a day across multiple accounts.

TikTok is a numbers game. More posts = higher chances to go viral.

I've spent a decade building apps and had two successful exits. Recently I sold my $45k MRR app.

Here’s what separates winners from flops: 1: Solve a problem for people

Successful apps solve a widespread & painful problem.

Flops? They try to do too much or solve problems nobody cares about.

Be specific. Your app isn’t for everyone and that's okay.

It’s for your dream customer, for example:

10 years of app-building knowledge in 2 minutes:

Save this for later. 1: Solve a Painful Problem

Apps that solve real, painful, specific problems win. If you can’t define your app's purpose in one sentence, rethink it.

The SIMPLE PLAYBOOK that took my app from $3k MRR to $44k MRR in ~6 months

Follow this & YOU will increase revenue 👇
STEP ONE: Traffic 📈

You can have the best product in the world, but if no one knows about it you wont make any rev

More traffic = more data = quicker feedback to make small adjustments and A/B test onboarding, paywall, pricing, etc...

I scaled my mobile app from $3k to $40k MRR in a matter of months.

The growth strategy is simple 👇 I used to rely on organic socials and ASO to drive downloads.

When I made the switch to Paid Ads... Everything changed

How did I find my winning paid ads? Here's what I learned

Learn EXACTLY How This App prints $600K/Month 👀📈

Anyone can write about this, but let me show you why I'm credible to talk about it.

I scaled my quit vaping app to $40k MRR using similar strategies.

The 600k app is in a similar niche - it helps people drink less alcohol. Why this idea works:

This app makes $500k/month because it solves a painful problem for the target audience.

Alcoholism = big problem = marketing angles & value prop become clear from the start.

Let’s talk about their marketing:

7 biggest reasons why you’re not seeing any results with TikTok Organic:

(Don't make these mistakes) 1. Not posting consistently

This is one of the biggest reasons why most people never see any major results.

They don’t stick with it consistently long enough for the algorithm to reward them.

You need to be posting everyday in the early stages…

Even if it’s just once.

YouTube is a FREE University.

But 99% of people don’t know the right channels to watch…

Here are 5 channels that will teach you more than a traditional 4-year degree: 1. Alex Hormozi

One of the marketing legends…

He can teach you how to sell just about anything.

If you want to learn:

- Sales
- Marketing
- Client acquisition

He’s your guy to watch.
youtube.com/@AlexHormozi

How I built @PuffCountApp, and leveraged TikTok to help 150k people quit vaping.

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 It all started when I was a junior in college and Juul hit the mainstream markets. Prior to this time I couldn’t buy a cig off someone if I wanted to because no one smoked nicotine. But almost overnight everyone I knew had a Juul. They were passed around like candy at parties.

Here’s how a mobile game I built 5 years ago suddenly got blown up by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Jimmy Fallon.

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 I built an app called Wordle when I was 18 mostly for fun, to sharpen my coding skillz, and maybe make a quick buck. It didn’t quite take off like my previous app, Grid, did. So after a few months and ~100k total downloads, I stopped updating and promoting the app.