App founder Blake Anderson describes the revenue performance of his portfolio of consumer AI applications built after teaching himself to code with AI.
“The first app that I built was called Riz GPT. It's at two and a half million dollars in annual revenue.”
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Anderson: AI backend compute costs are under 3% for most mobile apps
“Unless you're doing image generation or using advanced voice mode, AI costs are sub three percent.”
Blake AndersonDec 29, 2024▶ 14:01He Made $10M with 3 iPhone Apps
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Anderson: TikTok and Instagram distribution are solvable for driving massive traffic
“TikTok and Instagram are very solvable right now. You can figure out the various influencer strategies, the user generated content strategies, organic account growth strategies to funnel millions of people to your products.”
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Anderson: Social media algorithms push more views to new accounts
“And I don't think that the algorithms were as optimized for new accounts to be able to generate millions of views a few years ago. But now that they're all in bloodbath competition with one another, They have to incentivize new creators. And so they'll push mo…”
Blake AndersonDec 29, 2024▶ 2:54He Made $10M with 3 iPhone Apps
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Anderson: $100 creator promo drove 500,000 Rizz GPT downloads in one month
“I pay them each 50 dollars for a promo. So 100 dollars total and overnight five, ten million views total. 45,000 downloads in that first big day. 200,000 downloads on that week. 500,000 downloads on the month.”
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Anderson: Physical product niches signal high-converting opportunities for new software apps
“When you find a niche that's heavily monetized with physical products, that's a good indicator that the niche converts. It's also a good indicator that You can probably build a software or application to solve a problem within it.”
Blake AndersonDec 29, 2024▶ 8:12He Made $10M with 3 iPhone Apps
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Anderson: Millions remain on the table for an all-in-one AI glow-up app
“I think that there's still a lot of room for like an all-in-one AI glow up application. Umaxx was kind of like the first iteration, but if someone were to put real time investment into building a super valuable application here, that really helps people improv…”
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