holy cow! AI UGC can now show your app...

here is how:
1. Create talking video of AI UGC using arcads

How can this flight tracking app make $6M ARR?

Let's dive in... In 2018, @rjonesy, former Apple engineer, left his full time job:

he saw an opportunity to structure flight data into an app

but when things took off...

covid hit... no more traveling!

$2M in 1 year...

This Singaporian app studio is blowing up

Let's try to understand how... In July last year, they released two identical apps:

1. MetroNovel
2. Literie

One of them is TOP 10 in the Books category.

This guy built a $40,000/month app:

- 12 million total downloads
- Outsourced everything
- Uses TikTok to drive millions of views

Here's the story of how he did it—and how you can too: couple of years ago, @StevenCravotta wanted to quit vaping but couldn't find an app to help.

So he built Puff Count.

Now, he's making $480,000/year...

So what was his secret?

This college student from Egypt turned $63 into $4 million in 1.5 years.

Building an AI wrapper…

- Launched on X with only 16 followers
- Hit $64k MRR in 6 months
- More than $4M now

Here’s the crazy story of how he pulled it off….. In Feb 2023, @yasser_elsaid_ made chatbase that lets users create a chatbot from any PDF document.

This is him working on his MVP from a restaurant which he shipped in 2 months…

The tech stack?

LangChainAI
pinecone
OpenAI

this guy built a $95B empire by acquiring 600+ companies:

- no public interviews exist with him...
- 2 or 3 photos online
- 34% annualized returns

Here’s how of Mark Leonard built one of the most successful software companies of the century: In 1995, Mark Leonard, a former venture capitalist, saw an opportunity:

He wanted to build a company that could acquire and hold Vertical Market Software (VMS) businesses forever

But the venture capital world was all about shiny companies...

He built a $200M gaming empire with:

- 0 funding
- No team

Here’s the most impressive solo developer story you've never heard: In 2011, Eric Barone graduated with a computer science degree.

Rejected by multiple job applications

... he ended up creating one of the best-selling indie games of all time:

This app makes $140 million/year…

- they don't target Gen Z
- Most moms in the US have it...

Here’s their WILD story on how they pulled this off… Life360 is a location sharing app for families

Here are 3 genius marketing strategies they used to grow over $100m/year:

this app got 1 MILLION visitors

.... in a week

here is how: the app transforms spotify playlists into a mood board you can share with your friends...

for the boomer out there, think notes in the agenda of your friends...

but digital

This former Uber employee bootstrapped his AI app to $2M ARR in just 1 year…

- without knowing how to code
- with zero employees
- and 10,000+ paying users

Here’s the crazy story of how he pulled it off… Josh led Uber’s NYC business to $3 billion..

but when ChatGPT launched he saw an opportunity…

and he started to learn how to code with AI…

There’s a Turkish app studio that

- Makes $2 million/month
- Owns 6 AI apps
- Grows with paid ads only

Here is what you can learn from them… HubX owns multiple apps including...

Nova
An AI chatbot pulling $900k/month

PhotoApp:
An AI photo enhancer doing $600k/month

In total... they made $1M in the last 7 days!

What's their secret for paid ads?

they are one of the fastest growing YC company ever

they are just 2 founders and 1 intern...

they were the only remote company of the W24 batch

... here is an amazing success story In 2023, @MaxBrodeurUrbas got fascinated by AI Agents:

Robots that can think, and do multiple tasks for you

Beautiful promise, but in reality, they were unreliable and hard to set up...

This app studio pulls in $100 million+ each year….

…. building AI apps that identify plants!

Here’s how they've scaled to 9 figures with paid ads: Glority Global made a fortune...

in the plant industry!

They follow a simple 4-step playbook when scaling these apps

This is the Berkshire Hathaway of apps:

- raised $525 million
- 500 million downloads
- makes $100M/year

Here’s the story of most impressive app company you’ve never heard of

... and how they've scaled from $40,000 to 9 figures with paid ads: based in Italy

Bending Spoons operate like a private equity firm:

- Acquire solid apps
- Optimize monetization
- run paid ads
- Use cash flow & debt to fund next acquisition

So how do they acquire companies like Evernote & Meetup?

There's a +$100m/year app studio:

- Based in Istambul
- Owns 20+ apps
- Grew with paid ads only

here is what you can learn from them... The Turkish studio Codeway owns 20+ apps including...

CleanUp:
A phone storage cleaner pulling $4M/month

Ask AI:
An AI chatbot doing $2M/month

How can they scale paid ads so much?

He built a $7M app empire with:

- 0 funding
- Didn’t know how to code 1 year ago

Here is the most impressive bootstrapped story you’ve never heard of:



in 2023 @blakeandersonw was broke

and decided to go all in in mobile apps

he shaved his head to make himself uglier to remove social distractions

...and learns to code with Chat GPT

this app makes over $50M ARR:

it's one of the biggest subscription apps in the store

here is how they do it: last week, I was scrolling tiktok, and I saw this ai generated ad with 10M views for Remini...

this 17 Years old kid scaled an app from 0 to $3M ARR in 2 months.

Here is how he did it: 4 months ago @zach_yadegari reached out:

he couldn't find a slot in my calendar, because he was busy...

GOING TO HIGH SHCOOL!

Gigi has entered the top 10 of the app store in one of the most competitive categories: Dating 🔥

They became masters at organic content with an internal team posting short form videos.

Here are my take aways 👇 Extreme Ownership

Virality shouldn't be outsourced, the CEO is fully committed and got multiple videos with 1M+ views

5 Top tactics to grow a health & fitness app that are not paid ads on Meta: 1. DM admins of wellness FB groups:

This is not very scalable but drives extremely engaged users.

We grew our app from $0 to $1M ARR in 9 months.

Here is one of the tactics that we used 👇 Step 1:

Reach out to 100+ TikTok creators, and get full rights to use the video they published.