Insight
Lampropoulos: The best influencer deals pay $2–$5 CPM with view guarantees
“The best deals you can make
Are 20 to 50% upfront for four to five videos with a view guarantee.
That's based on a two dollar to five dollars CPM.”
Insight
Lampropoulos: Distribution Is Useless Without an Inherently Viral Product Idea
“There's a lot of talk now that distribution is the most important part. I kind of pushed back against that because if you don't have a viral idea in nature, distribution doesn't matter. So in my opinion, there are three pillars for a good idea, uniqueness, hel…”
Insight
Lampropoulos: Longer App Onboarding Drives Free Trial Conversions via Sunk Cost
“The length of the onboarding process also contributes to how many people convert. Although it does add friction, it also makes the people who go through it have the sunken cost fallacy. Which causes users to at least get the free trial.”
Opinion
Lampropoulos: Rork is the best vibe-coding tool, beating Bolt and Replit
“By far the number one tool for vibe coding apps is Roark. Bolt, the vibe code app, Replit, in my opinion, none of them come close to how good Roark is.”
Insight
Lampropoulos: Negotiating influencer deals is much easier over the phone than DMs
“Negotiating is 1000 times easier when you're on the phone with someone
And they can feel kind of your presence and your voice.”
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Lampropoulos: Wrestle AI generates $17,000 per month within six months
“I launched an app that makes 17 K per month. I launched within the last six months, and I'm excited to share how I did it today.”
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Lampropoulos: Green App Received Only 100 Downloads From 1.8M Impressions
“While this app green that I launched got, I think a hundred downloads off like 1.8 million impressions solely because this app didn't follow the purple cow philosophy.”
Disclosure
Lampropoulos: Will Not Take Profits From Wrestle AI Until $100K MRR
“I actually haven't taken a penny out of this business yet, and I'm not going to take a penny out of this business until we're at a hundred camera.”
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Lampropoulos: Wrestle AI hit $13K monthly revenue on $500 ad spend
“From there, I took about 500 bucks and I'm like, all right, now that we've saturated Caden's audience and we're a little bit known in the wrestling industry, we took the money, threw it into marketing and generated so far. Now we're at like 13 K for this month…”
Disclosure
Lampropoulos: I spend 20 minutes daily DMing influencers for Wrestle AI
“So now that our brand is kind of known, I DM off the business account, I scroll for 20 minutes a day, our for you page is catered to the wrestling niche, message as many people as I can in that 20 minutes, and then the next day, let's say I would hop on the ph…”
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Lampropoulos: Wrestle AI hit App Store #19 and made $1,000 on launch
“We're number 19 on the App Store and we've made over a thousand bucks.”
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Lampropoulos: Wrestle AI has 2M impressions and ~17,000 downloads
“So we've done over two million impressions on social media download wise. I think we're around 17,000.”
Disclosure
Lampropoulos: First App Lost All Capital After 18-Month Agency Development Delays
“Our app went viral on social media. We had 10 K followers waiting for our app. We had to hire like three development agencies. None of them got it right. It took us a year and a half to finally release the app. And at that point the hype died and we lost just …”
Disclosure
Lampropoulos: Took one month to build and launch Wrestle AI
“It took me around a month from The idea to being live on the app store from June to July first, that's when I launched.”
Disclosure
Lampropoulos: Paid a Fiverr developer $250 for app paywall integration
“So I paid someone on Fiverr like 250 bucks that took him about a week.”
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Lampropoulos: Wrestle AI secured 3,000 to 4,000 pre-orders prior to launch
“Back when we were first launching Wrestle.ai, we were hyping up the launch, we had about 3000 pre-orders, maybe 4000.”
