Cal AI

“Appending AI is valuable when you are creating innovation within a relatively stagnant industry, such as Cal AI.”

“And then most recently Cal AI, which we launched just like a little bit over six months ago and is at about two million downloads and over a million dollars in monthly revenue.”

“Showing it on an influencer video, when it, when the phone is only on the screen for two seconds, you need the viewer to understand what this app does and why they want to get it for themselves. And if it's unclear, if the app is too convoluted, then influence…”

“I've actually really liked the concept of just showing a log, kind of like an Instagram feed of your content, even if it's a single person utility app.”

“A lot of people will make GPT wrappers for things like Cal AI. We have so many clones right now, and most of them have done nothing to make the app more accurate. They just put a basic prompt in and have GPT estimate the calories, whatever that means from the …”

“Well, Cal AI was grown through influencer marketing.”

“Between, you know, between Riz, GPT, Cal AI, you guys have kind of invented this whole new primitive, and there's probably like a thousand different apps that like Cal AI for X could work for it.”

“And what I noticed with a utility app like Cal AI is that people don't really care to share their food.”

“Had the founders of in two separate pods Cal AI come and Riz GPT come, come and do an interview. And I asked them how much do they pay per CPM? Like what is successful for them? So they basically acquire, I mean, they're doing like a million dollars a month. M…”

“The popular example right now is like Cal AI. And I've had those guys on the podcast that they're doing thirty million dollars a year.”

“There's tons of those, but there's going to be like a hundred of them in the app store in like two months. And then Cal AI will not be able to charge what they are.”

“For example, the one, the flavor right now is Cal AI, you know, apps like that. Like those companies are doing like twenty million dollars ARR on, on downloading an app.”

“A hundred percent. This is a Cal AI. This is like your, I want like some college kid who's like, I want to get in and get out. I want to come in. I want to get it to a couple million dollars of ARR. I want to cashflow it. And then maybe it's a thing in two yea…”

“You know, the reality is anyone can go and make a calorie tracking app, but they built an amazing funnel, right? So I think like the key lesson in a Cal AI is they packaged it really, really nicely and made it seem even more valuable than it is, which I think …”

“And I think that people think that it's getting saturated with consumer mobile apps, but I don't think that's the case. That's my hot take. I think there's going to be so, so many examples of, you know, there's gonna be like a hundred, you know, mini versi…”

“You're seeing the Calais of the world making millions of dollars a month with relatively simple apps with AI baked in. So I think that there's going to be a lot of people who want to build something similar in different niches.”

“You have the Cal AI guys doing like three million dollars a month and so many people copying it.”

“Cal AI, which does fifty million in ARR”

“People have been building mobile apps since 2008, and it became increasingly harder to build something that people are going to download and pay money for. Until two things happened, actually. AI came. Anyone could create something, but more, even more than th…”