Teen founder Isaac Katayev explains why monetizing unblocked school web proxy links via ads is difficult.
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Katayev: Cookie Duck gaming site peaked at $1,500 daily ad revenue
“So, in the beginning, when the main cookieduck.com was popular, it was making around a 1500 a day at its peak.”
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Katayev: No competitors have compiled cross-border luxury pricing data
“There's not really like a competitor to this already. It's pretty much a blank area. No one really compiled it.”
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Katayev: Integrating AI into native phone apps beats building standalone apps
“I feel like AI right now, everyone's trying to build, like, their own different app, but I think that building, like, AI into what we already have, like the messaging app, the phone app, that's really what's going to make AI a lot more convenient for people.”
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Katayev: Cookie Duck reached over 4,000 players in 30 minutes in seventh grade
“So by the seventh grade already, we had like over 4000 people playing on it in like 30 minutes.”
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Katayev: Built his first computer at age eight using YouTube tutorials
“That was for my eighth birthday because my dad wouldn't let me just buy a computer. He wanted me to like actually build my own computer. So I was watching like YouTube tutorials before I asked him if I could build my computer. I was watching YouTube tutorials …”
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Katayev: PriceSatellite's codebase and 10,000 product descriptions were built using AI
“A lot of Pi satellite is built on AI. So First of all, like the, like a lot of the code base, like the web scraper, the back end, the front end, the styles, all, a lot of that was built off AI. The categorization of products done with AI and the product descri…”