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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00
Q Well, thank you for sharing that. Looks like a super cool app. What's your background? How do you get to the place where you're building super cool consumer app that's doing over 10,000 a month?
A My origin story starts as a gym bro. So I launched a fitness chain in China. We scaled it to fifty million ARR across seven locations, and then I moved to Europe. I worked for a German scale-up. I took them from a forty million series B to two hundred million series C, and throughout this process, I learned a crucial lesson. I understood that distribution has become the mode, and that should be the focus of every founder out there. I moved to New York, which is where I launched Flame. The reason behind Flame was because I saw there were a lot of apps out there to help you find a partner, almost none to help you make the relationship better afterwards. Started building Flame with my then French girlfriend. We started using the app to build a relationship. I also used the relationship to build the app based on what I learned, and we're married, so I guess it worked.
AI assessment note: “My origin story starts as a gym bro. So I launched a fitness chain”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00
Q sharing this. I mean, what I think is super cool is the amount of like scale and experimentation that you're doing here. And you kind of mentioned this earlier before, but you had like a whole spreadsheet where you track all the content. I think that's super cool. Could you show me that spreadsheet and kind of explain how you use it and how people could maybe create something similar?
A So this is the beautiful spreadsheet. And what we do here on the leftmost side is we track all the accounts, what phones are on, and then the important work starts from here, where we are tracking what is happening with the account. Is it on warm-up phase one? Two? Is it paused? Is it healthy, unhealthy, stop, blog, etc. Then we switch to understanding what channel is it on. Does it have TikTok only? Does it have TikTok and Lemonade? Does it have TikTok and Instagram? So as you can see, Pat, some of them have reactions, some of them have slideshows, some of them have other kind of content. My team goes in every single day, and they track how many views are we getting on the videos, how many likes are there, and then they leave notes in the comments on what is working, what is not working. Why? Because this helps us understand what part of the video performed well, what should we try to replicate today, what should we not try to replicate today. Another cool spreadsheet we have is where we track the hooks and how they're performing individually. Based on this, if this is working, then we'll iterate on it the next day and the next day and the next day by changing small wordings or putting the placement differently. Um, one of the secrets we had is we were having a woman who was reacting on the camera. We discovered that if we put the text Right on her neckline. So not on her face…
AI assessment note: “So this is the beautiful spreadsheet. And what we do here on the leftmost side”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00
Q That's awesome. I just love how simple it is, you know, solve a small problem. Just helping couples connect in a small way can be an app that makes over 10,000 dollars a month. On a similar note, could we talk about the tech stack? What are the tools behind this 10,000 dollar per month app?
A For building, we have a simple set of tools, Claude Code plus Claude Design, OP. Then RevenueCat allows us to manage a monetization. Mixpanel, we're also using the free tier right now. Then TikTok Native Analytics, I think is the best. No other tool can compete with it. You can see the retention, you can see where people are dropping off, what's happening. Then we also use Hicks Field. And the last part is just having a portfolio of infrastructure, right? I mean, look at this. One, two, three, four, Five. Every phone has three to five TikTok accounts. You're looking at 15 to 20 TikTok accounts right now. This is the infrastructure we use to manage the distribution phase.
AI assessment note: “Claude Code plus Claude Design, OP. Then RevenueCat allows us to manage a monetization.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q an app idea Could be before you even come up with the idea, or even before you even start building the idea. So could you break down this framework for me? I think it would be useful for a lot of people watching this who maybe have an idea or want to find an idea of how to essentially predict or know that an idea will be successful in 2026.
A What we do to understand what is the right thing to build or what is the right thing to scale is going to TikTok and locate three things. First one is we. Viral. Has this format, has this kind of content, has this pain point, has it gone viral before? What we mean by virality is, has it hit over a 100,000 views on multiple pieces of similar content from accounts under 5000 followers? Now you'll ask me like, Ankit, why is 5000 important? You know, why could it not be coming from an account with million followers? It's because when it's under 5000 followers, the content goes viral Not because of that account's reach, but because of the content itself. Second is scalability. You need to grind, man. You need to put out volume. It's a volume game. It's about how much can you put out, how much can you understand what's working, what's not. At one point, we were putting out 150 pieces every day to test a single hook. And for this volume, I always say, pick something that can be scaled. Can you produce hundreds of these without burning out? How? Either you use AI-generated content, which has become incredible, You look at Kling.com videos. You look at C-Dance videos. The kind of content that's been created is really close to realistic videos. Or the second thing we also did is we hired UGC out of Eastern European countries and Russia, and it was literally one dollar for a 62nd video. Y…
AI assessment note: “What we do to understand what is the right thing to build... is going to TikTok and locate three things.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q same thing and implement the VSC framework and track all of their content. So I will put that down there in the description, if you're okay with it and you can download it right now for free. Let's switch topics. And talk about this app that you built. Could you just demo this app to me? Show me the app that you built that makes over 10,000 dollars a month.
A We're sitting on the homepage right now. As you can see on the homepage, we've got me and my partner put up there, and then we have the daily question. The question of the day is, do you prefer to be the little spoon or big spoon while cuddling? Moving out of that, once I answer this question, what happens is then the AI is training itself based on every answer it receives, right? So we've got a frame AI built into the app, which when you open, You have different modes of the coach you can employ. So there's a naughty coach. There's a gifting genie. If you want to give your partner something, some of the part which I love about the app personally is also the bucket list where we allow you to create a bucket list with your partner. You can plan your memories, things you want to do together. And my favorite is the memory, right? Now there's so many beautiful memories couples have, which they can cherish together. We allow you to keep track of those memories in a timeline, which is private just to you and her. And this is how the app works. The whole point is providing people with a daily ritual, a daily way to connect with their partner, keeping the love alive, keeping the spark alive.
AI assessment note: “We're sitting on the homepage right now. As you can see on the homepage”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Okay, cool. I love the VSC framework. So could you show me a piece of content that has all three of these?
A Well, what I'll do is I'll start with a piece of content that doesn't actually. So when we look at this piece, we see that it's fitting the V part of the framework. Then S, it's scalable as well. As you can see, it's light shows created with nano banana with a text overlay on them, not complicated to create. Then the third part, when we come to the convertibility element, what we do is once we put out a content, we scan the comments. If they're not asking about the product, they don't mention the product, I would say that it's the biggest sign that it's not going to lead to high conversions. Of this video that got 120,000 views, I think we got nine or eight trials started. Now, this one worked really well for us. There's a highly engaging text overlay where a woman is stuck in a long distance relationship. She's saying, how do you not mess it up? How do you not lose it? And then when we go on to the next slide, this is where we plug a product in. It's a slideshow. And What we do then is we comment seed within this. Every one of these comments you're going to be seeing is going to be promoted from that account itself or from another account we have. Now, this is a way we notice we can get high conversion on the content when we don't get a lot of organic traffic through. We go in from all the other accounts we have and we drop in comments on the comments that are already coming i…
AI assessment note: “Now, this one worked really well for us. There's a highly engaging text overlay”
