An indie app rebuilt with AI · livestream viewer's app
Rebuild a weak app from scratch with AI in 2 months
40x increase in sessions or sales after relaunch; first build took 1.5 years and $120K
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What they did
After spending 1.5 years and $120,000 on a first version that still needed a lot of work, the founder rebuilt 'the app of my dreams' with AI in 2 months and relaunched on the App Store. No detail on tools or what changed.
What happened
40 times increase in 'sesh' (viewer comment; sessions or sales unclear).
- Stage
- Launch (relaunch)
- Effort
- 2 months of rebuilding
“It took me 1.5 years and $120,000 to build a crap app that still need a lot of work. It took me 2 months to rebuild the app of my dreams and launch to the App Store. The result was 40 times increase in sesh.”
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