Jake Glacer

Founder & Developer, Erly · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jake Glacer is a software developer and entrepreneur known for creating Erly, an accountability alarm clock app requiring users to complete physical tasks to shut off. A former Big Four accountant and CPA, he taught himself programming and scaled the app to over $50,000 per month in revenue shortly after launch.

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Insight

Jake Glacer: Marketing is the most valuable skill in the AI era

“Focus on top of funnel only. That is the most valuable skill right now is marketing. There's so many people that can build an app and it's so easy with AI, but there's not so many people that know how to market and know how to get views.”

Jake Glacer Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 15:06 This Insanely Simple App Makes $50K/Month

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Glacer: Third-party iOS alarm apps were unreliable before Apple's AlarmKit API

“Up until this point there were a lot of other alarm apps out there, but they were sort of gimmicky and not reliable because they used different like app sounds and workarounds to make the quote unquote alarm.”

Jake Glacer Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 5:13 This Insanely Simple App Makes $50K/Month

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Glacer: Early reached $1K in 3 weeks, $50K in month 4

“I did my first 1000 dollars in revenue three weeks after the first influencer video went up and then first 30 came on in month three and first 50 came up in month four.”

Jake Glacer Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 6:56 This Insanely Simple App Makes $50K/Month

Insight

Glacer: Viral apps must solve painful problems simply to enable rapid content marketing

“My framework at this point is just solve a painful problem in a simple way, and it should be inherently viral. If it's not inherently viral, the idea itself, Then add some sort of novel aspect to it to make it inherently viral. With AI, there's so much that's …”

Jake Glacer Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 7:38 This Insanely Simple App Makes $50K/Month

Disclosure

Glacer: Early pays $2-$3 CPM on view-guaranteed creator deals

“Generally the deal structure is multiple videos a month, like two to four videos a month with a view guarantee. That's sort of the most important part is that you're paying for the views that you get. And so I view it as pretty low risk. Honestly, you can sort…”

Jake Glacer Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 11:15 This Insanely Simple App Makes $50K/Month

Insight

Glacer: Influencer marketing profits follow a power law from viral hits

“And then the money's really made on those big videos. It's sort of power law. A lot of the videos will sort of do. Okay. Every once in a while, you know, big, 1,000,002 1,000,005 million view video. And that's where you really make money.”

Jake Glacer Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 11:41 This Insanely Simple App Makes $50K/Month

Insight

Jake Glacer measures influencer ROI by correlating view and conversion spikes

“I recommend staying super simple. Just track views and measure spikes is sort of the approach that I take. So I'll track all the videos and I have a historical data and then When a spike happens, I'll see, you can be pretty sure that that video resulted in wha…”

Jake Glacer Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 12:17 This Insanely Simple App Makes $50K/Month

Opinion

Jake Glacer: Claude Code Is the Best App-Building Tool

“Cloud Code, the absolute best tool for actually building the app.”

Jake Glacer Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 13:21 This Insanely Simple App Makes $50K/Month

Disclosure

Glacer: Early's initial MVP was built in three weeks without an alarm

“The initial scope of the project was just an accountability app. So there was no alarm feature whatsoever. And I built the app in three weeks and then I realized I didn't know how to market.”

Jake Glacer Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 4:41 This Insanely Simple App Makes $50K/Month

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
This Insanely Simple App Makes $50K/Month	Jul 5, 2026	8m

Jake Glacer

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