Umax
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Moore: Runway, Otter, and UMax dropped from Top 50 GenAI list
“There were a couple companies on the list, like Runway, Otter, UMax, across web and mobile, that have been on the core top 50 ranks in the past. But maybe they got just edged out by, like, Deep Seek launching this time, and so they lost their spot for this ran…”
Anderson: UMax generated nearly $5M in revenue over the past year
“The second app that I built was called UMax. Once again, came up with the idea, designed and built the application and led the majority of the marketing. In the past year, we've done almost five million dollars in revenue.”
Anderson: Umax consistently generates over $100,000 in monthly net profit
“Umax does a little bit over a 100,000 dollars profit a month consistently. Used to do more.”
Choi: Looksmaxxing app Umax generates several million dollars annually
“And this app makes a lot of money. I don't remember what the revenue is, but it's several million a year.”
Choi: Building apps for underserved internet subcultures can yield $10M businesses
“So if you think about you know, other movements that haven't really, that don't really have a product attached to them yet, I think that's sort of the, like, ten million dollar business that can be started in all kinds of niches.”
UMax hit 10M downloads and peaked at $700K monthly revenue
“Then built you max that has done over ten million downloads, 500,000 monthly revenue. Now I think it's closer to 400,000, but at our peak, we were around 700,000 in monthly revenue.”
Anderson built UMax with zero upfront cost using GPT-4 Vision
“With the use of AI specifically GPT vision, I was able to do so with essentially zero upfront development costs with the exception of my own time.”
Anderson used ChatGPT to teach himself how to code
“I, myself, I use ChatGPT to teach me how to code to build RizGPT and UMax.”
Anderson uses highly curated burner accounts to research consumer behavior
“When I was building you max, I had a burner account where it was like only looks maxing content or anytime I build a new application, I create a burner account and I curate my entire feed around that and like put myself in the mind of someone who's consuming t…”
Shaan Puri: AI looksmaxxing app Umax reaches $6M ARR run rate
“The app does three and a half million downloads. He's making six million in ARR on this app right now, a six million ARR run rate. The app costs three 99 a week when you unlock your thing.”