Lensa AI
product on 4 shows · 7 statements across 3 episodes · said 48 times in 13 episodes since 2023
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Postma: Lensa destroyed the AI profile picture market
“So yeah, Lensa basically killed the whole market after they went live.”
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.”
Postma: ProfilePicture.ai Sales Grew 10x After Competitor Lensa Launched
“Like for Lanza, for example, like I got. 10 times more sales after they launched a product because suddenly people like most of the people, they were suddenly searching for like AI avatar. Right. But some people, they didn't use the word AI avatar. They used A…”
Postma: Instagram and TikTok Will Introduce Text-Prompted AI Face Editors
“I think what Lanza is eventually gonna do, but I'm pretty sure Instagram or TikTok is gonna go there. It's like, you will have your own editor of your own face, where you can just type in what you want to see right now, and it just outputs the photos for you. …”
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.”
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…”
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.”