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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Building on a growing trend. Let's dive a little bit deeper into that. If you were to start over right now, peptides are already Reach the top of their trend curve and you have to find a new idea. What would be your step by step? If you're starting over in middle of 20, 26, finding a new trend and building an app, what would be your process?
A I would probably just live on social media. Every free second I have, I would just go on there, scroll, tick tock, scroll, Instagram, and just find what everyone's talking about. This is what a lot of successful people have done is finding things that are just blowing up. But I would literally just step one is watch tick tock. Every single day and find out what people are just genuinely obsessed over. If multiple people are posting about it, it's probably going to be something that you can turn into a tool that people would use. Um, step two is to investigate whether these apps already exist in the space. And if they do, I think it's actually a good thing because it kind of validates that this is something that people want. If there is zero apps, it's still a hundred percent can be popular and done well. But I think if there are a couple apps, that's a good sign because they People have built it. People want it. Just no one's really marketed it like successfully yet. Uh, next step is what I would do is look for these other apps and come up with ideas off of it. I would literally go through every single review on all of these apps. Um, like I said before, find what people like, what they don't like, what they wish the app had, and then take all that and give it to Claude or ChatGPT and have them come up with your app idea so that you have at least a foundation of what you want t…
AI assessment note: “step one is watch tick tock... step two is to investigate whether these apps already exist”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q is building a marketplace. Obviously that's really hard to do. It's hard to monetize. It's hard to get it to work, but an app like this, obviously it worked out pretty quickly. So let's talk about that. We're going to talk about how you grew it, but first I want to know how did you build it and how long did it take to go from idea to working app?
A Yeah, I didn't really take that long, honestly, because vibe coding makes it so easy. I, uh, started on replit, which was really easy because I would just explain what I wanted and it would build it for me. I also had Claude. As like my guide. So when it came to setting up revenue cat for in-app subscriptions, um, resend for sending out emails, anything that I have no idea how to set up, I could just ask Claude and it was like my senior developer. So using Claude and Replit, it took about two weeks to build out. Um, and then I used Firebase for the backend, which we just store all of our user data. The hard part though, is just Apple rejected it like a million times because they don't really want you to give medical advice. And a lot of this Features came off as that. So once we worked around it and found out how other kind of similar apps were doing it, we found, you know, the good spot where Apple was happy and they approved it. And now it's, hasn't been an issue.
AI assessment note: “using Claude and Replit, it took about two weeks to build out.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q about that, especially because your app is Trending and taking off right now, which we're going to talk all about that. And maybe some of the reasons why this app grew so quickly, but before we do, I'm curious, this is the first app that you built. What's your background? How do you get to this point where you've made over 50,000 dollars with an app in about seven weeks?
A Yeah. So, um, it's not the first app I've built. I built my first one in October. There's a student marketplace app for the university of Oregon. And we just went around campus and kind of told people about it and got like 800 users. But I always wanted to take it like to another level where I could Actually make revenue. Cause we didn't make any money with that app. The whole experience from the first app taught me that I needed to find a niche that was really specific to like a group of people that would be interested in it. So once I realized that, you know, I decided to find something that was really popular and how I went about that was just scrolling social media until I found something that everyone was talking about and realized that there was no successful app for this.
AI assessment note: “it's not the first app I've built. I built my first one in October.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q was like a couple of signals, which is your friend told you about it, then you saw it in TikTok, and then you had genuine interest in it as well. Those are like three things that I think are really important. If anyone's watching this, What would be your advice to them on like how to identify like an idea like this? Tell me a little bit more about that.
A Yeah. It's hard to say because, you know, this is like one of those things that it just blew up overnight kind of, and then I just moved quick, but that's kind of what I would do again is I would scroll social media, find all these big content creators online and what are they all talking about? Is there something you've never heard of that they're all talking about? Cause if there is, there's a chance that it's something new and no one has done anything with it. Um, an example I have is like people were really into the Looks maxing for a while and like just be trying to look as best as they can. And so this guy made an app where you like take a picture of yourself and it tells you what you need to do to make yourself look better. And that was just a trend on Tik TOK. So I think that if you can find any trend online, you can turn it into an app.
AI assessment note: “I would scroll social media, find all these big content creators online”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q I mean, I feel like that's one of the little secrets also of finding something trending is there's also like influencers that are maybe don't realize how powerful or realize how big their following is because the trend is still so early. And that's a great example of that. I'm guessing you couldn't attribute all the revenue, but 10,000 dollars from a single post is insane. What's the final step?
A Step five though, and I think the most important part about building an app is marketing. I think marketing and distribution matters way more than your idea, than your app, how great it is. If you don't have a vision for how you will market it and distribute it, then I just don't even think it's worth building. I got this advice from some other podcasts that I watched of other successful app founders, and that's their biggest piece of advice is just, if you don't know how you're going to market it and you Don't have a plan for influencer marketing, ads, whatever it is. That's the biggest thing. So unless you feel very confident in how you'll market it, I wouldn't even build it.
AI assessment note: “Step five though, and I think the most important part about building an app is marketing.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.90
Q awesome. Congrats. Last question that we ask all founders who come on here, what would be your advice if you could go back in time before you had this successful app that was making money, maybe after you had that first app that didn't really work out, what advice would you have for your younger self? Or for anyone watching this that wants to build a profitable app like you.
A Yeah. My biggest piece of advice and the advice I've given myself this entire time is just literally never giving up on myself. I've always been very like an entrepreneurship type of person. And I've always wanted to have my own company building apps or video games. And so it's always been my dream. And so once vibe coding became a thing, I knew I could actually do it. And so I've just never given up and I was literally never going to stop until something became successful. It just happened a lot faster than I thought it would, but I still want to scale. Even farther. I want to make this a one million dollar a month app. And so I got to keep telling myself the same advice. Just never give up fully believe in yourself. I've had literally a lot of my friends that I'm really close to that have just make fun of my app ideas. Even what it is now, they still think it's funny and not a serious thing, but I have a vision and I know where I want to be. So it's just never given up on what you really believe in.
AI assessment note: “My biggest piece of advice... is just literally never giving up on myself.”
