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Postma: Lensa matched my startup's total lifetime revenue in one hour
“Seeing Lenza swoop in one month after we actually launched this already and just did our revenue in one hour or something.”
Danny Postma Apr 24, 2023 ▶ 32:54 Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
Opinion
Postma: Lensa destroyed the AI profile picture market
“So yeah, Lensa basically killed the whole market after they went live.”
Danny Postma Apr 24, 2023 ▶ 24:04 Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
Assertion Supported
Web-based AI avatar tools preceded Lensa using identical underlying APIs
“So there were at least, I'm aware of two or three different web-based applications, ProfilePicture.ai and then Avatar.ai as well, which had come out first with this idea of creating personalized avatars. I believe all, all of these products are based off of th…”
Steph Smith Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 32:27 The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
Insight
Mobile-native UX vaulted Lensa past earlier web-based AI avatar tools
“I think them, their capitalization on mobile as a platform was really smart and kind of vaulted them ahead of a lot of the web-based avatar products that did come out first and have similar quality images, but were just harder to use.”
Olivia Moore Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 34:12 The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
Assertion Supported
Lensa AI generated over $20 million in two weeks from avatar packs
“And some of the external app data estimates say that they made, you know, upwards of twenty million dollars in a couple weeks, getting people to buy Pack of avatars for eight dollars.”
Olivia Moore Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 24:00 The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
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