A subscription app · founder Pat interviewed
Feed reviews, cancel reasons and support tickets into Claude, then rebrand
Grew ~350% after the rebrand, per the host
What they did
What happened
In their words
I Built A $30K/Month in 35 Days
Cedric Roberge… it like successfully yet. Next step is what I would do is look for these other apps and come up with ideas off of it. I would literally go through every single review on all these apps, like I said before. Find what people like, what they don't like, what they wish the app had, and then take all that and give it to Claude or ChatGPT and have them come up with your app idea, so that you have at least a foundation of what you want to build.
Pat WallsThis is genius. I actually just talked to a founder who completely rebranded their entire app based on past, they took all their reviews, they took all their cancellation reasons in Stripe, they took all their support requests, they pumped it into Claude, and they completely rebranded their app, and then after the rebrand, they grew like 350% or something like that. So go on and look at the existing, even if you have competitors, go take their reviews, put it into Claude, build your own thing, you might be able to do it better. I like that. What's the next step?
Cedric RobergeStep four, I would say, is to find influencers in that niche and get them posting about it before you even launch. We reached out to a couple people, had them made a couple posts just to see like, "Are people interested in this?" And all of them said yes. We made some Reddit posts and we had a waitlist with like 300 people on it before we launched, so we knew that this was something people were really going to be interested in. And one thing I …
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