Fitted · B2C · AI closet and outfit app
Fly the team and creator to one house for a week to build and post
2M-view video on day one; 100K people joined the waitlist
What they did
What happened
- Stage
- Pre-launch
- Effort
- One week, ~$10K
In their words
Reid Moncada - He went from 0 to $150k by building an ai fashion app (no-code)
Reed Mancatawhen I set forth on building Fitted, I had six friends send me this TikTok of who is now my co-founder, Max, who created this outfit generator for himself in class, and it went viral. And reached out to him on every single platform imaginable, LinkedIn, Instagram, I guessed his email, you know, you name it, and before I even had a product, and I would pay him 20 bucks a video to just, like, just cook. And
Reed Mancatait worked. And he would get videos with like 20 to 30,000 views, and we didn't even have a product, he was just talking about his fashion, so I was like, "Okay, there there is something here." So we did that for a little bit, went cold, and as fate had it, he lived in LA, and he graduated without, you know, anything lined up after, and he said, "Hey, I'm I'm down to go all in." And at this point, we were still, like, really bootstrapped, and I raised, like, 10k from a homie, and I flew everyone out for my team into a apartment in Palm Springs, and
Reed Mancatauh for a week, we just like cooked with the devs and our content creator. And it was like magic, that first day we woke up with a video that had 2 million views, and then we threw on a waitlist, and then we got 100,000 people on the waitlist, and, yeah, it was just like pretty crazy. And then we built that initial momentum, and then we just kept riding it. In the past year and a half, I'd say that we have a video go viral about like once a month, and really the playbook is just like
Reed Mancatajust keep finding new content formulas, and then um keep iterating, and then just keep cross posting them across all of our socials, and then with the ones that hit, you just put ad dollars behind them, and you have a really compelling video. And you're not really selling the user, you know, it all kind of trickles in. At first, when we started, it was a web app, and it just didn't convert. I mean, we did pretty well, you know, all things, you …
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- Pay a fashion creator $20 a video, then make him a co-founder with equityHis account drove ~95% of 500M+ views and 600K downloads
- Run ads only on videos that already went viral on their ownDownloads for 1 to 15 cents each, per the host; guest calls it really cheap
- Keep testing new video formats and post each one on every accountAbout one viral video a month for 18 months; top videos hit 136M and 60M views
- Post a TikTok about a feature before building it, then ship what hitsViral outfit-generator video became the first tool; a web-only feature video hit and is shipping
- Build the roadmap from what the creator's fans ask for in commentsFounder says it drives the roadmap; no numbers
- Rebuild the web app as a phone app after sales stallCouple hundred thousand downloads right after launch; web app hadn't converted
- Drop the hard paywall and make the app free, with some paid features
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- Team up with TaskRabbit so helpers come and photograph users' closets
- Become the official virtual closet of the movie Clueless
- Launch a crypto token for the app and build a following on X~$250K a day in token trading; not yet tied into the app
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- Give equity to a creator whose fans are your target customersTikTok account grew from zero to ~3M followers
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- Let users share their priciest pieces as a 'neck worth' post
Tags: tiktok, waitlist, build-sprint, pre-launch