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3AK · B2C · training app for sprinters

Grow a big track following first, drop your brand name in videos, then launch

$10K in month one and ~$70K in ~6 months

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What they did

The founders are college sprinters who posted track and field videos and built up hundreds of thousands of followers, with no paid marketing. Before the app existed they ran a 3AK Shopify store. They slipped '3AK' into their videos ('3AK method') and linked the website in their bios, so the name was already familiar. They then launched the app to that audience on Dec 16.

What happened

'When we just dropped the app, it just blew up': $10K in the first month, ~$70K in about 6 months, ~40K users.
Stage
launch

In their words

We Built This $20K/Month App (Zero Coding Experience)

Play from 4:59
4:55

Pat WallsLet's talk about ideas. How did you come up with the idea and how'd you know something like this can make money?

4:59

BraylinWhat we did is we found a niche that not a lot of people were in. We realized a lot of people run track, but there's no apps for track and field specifically. So we said, let's put our app where we already have influence right in the niche. And that's exactly what we did. We had built up hundreds of thousands of followers in track and field alone with our videos, no marketing. We were subliminally putting 3AK in our videos before we even dropped the app. Cuz we had the Shopify store, the e-commerce, so we'd be like 3AK method and on the website, this and that, we'd have it in our bio. Then when we just dropped the app, it it just blew up.

5:28

Pat WallsLet's talk about the actual app that you guys built. What is the app that made $70,000? Could you show it to me?

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