Adding AI to proven app concepts is easier than inventing new categories
Greg Isenberg · How to build a $400k/mo AI App using ASO, Organic Growth, and Paid Ads · Oct 9, 2024 · at 4:23
Greg Isenberg and Romain Torres discuss strategies for building and scaling AI consumer mobile applications.
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“There's two ways to build AI apps. One is you come up with like a completely new idea like they have and spend a lot of time thinking about a unique product. They have this canvas that I think is really cool. And it really is a beautiful product. The other way to do it is, and which is what we're going to get deeper into during this episode is what are existing popular apps? And then how do you kind of add an AI sizzle to it? To capture that demand. And it's way, way easier to do that.”
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