Pep AI · B2C · peptide and GLP-1 tracker
Remove or simplify features nobody uses
What they did
In their words
Cedric Roberge - I speedran an ai app to $100k in 70 days.
… a schedule of like, Oh, you take this once a week cycling where they can be on it for a week off it for a week back on it. That was a really big one. Um, the calculator was a really big one. I was scared to add this at first because it, it almost seems like medical advice, but after we did a ton of research and talk to the attorneys and stuff, it's not, but it's a calculator where they can put in their vial amount, how much backwater they added.
And then how much of their doses they're taking. And then it shows like on like a syringe, the units to pull to that was a feature I didn't want to add for a long time. Cause I was like, this just sounds really scary, but it is something people really, really wanted. And that drove a ton of traffic once we were able to add that. Um, but we definitely had to justify that it was safe for us to do. Can you tell me those features that you removed? First one was a body scan. It was like an AI body scan to just kind of track. Like it just gave you insights and stuff on like your body. And then like, as you like take more pictures down the line, but like no one was using it.
Okay. We have achievements, but no one uses them. So I didn't actually remove this, but I made it way less advanced. It was just much simpler. Just like, Oh, you have a one day streak now. Change that a little bit. And then another thing we removed was we did have like a blood work thing where users could put their blood work in there if they wanted, but no one used it. So we just were like, all right, we'll get rid of it. We're constantly removing stuff and adding things and just testing what works best. That's really cool. That is, it sounds very iterative and you're actually, it seems like it helps the marketing too. It's not just like providing a more useful product.
It's like, like with the example where you would input the amounts and then give the, the dose amounts feature like that. Did that help the marketing by you basically like tell your creators like, Hey, we're launching this feature. We've, we know that people resonate with it because we just listened to them and that's why we built it. And then they like talk about it in the videos. If we add a new feature or something like that, that's like …
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- Pay new creators ~$200 for a trial month; sign the winners for 3 monthsCore of the creator program behind most revenue
- Pay creators a one-time 20% of each sale on top of their feeCreators post more than agreed and put in more effort
- Give every creator a tracked link and discount codeShows who to keep and whose rates to cut
- Make creators keep your app link in their bio for the whole deal'A ton of downloads' in two weeks with no posts
- Send creators past winning videos as ideas, then let them make anythingFounder says creators love working with them; content performs
- Post educational slideshows that end with the app as the tracking toolBeat talking-head videos, per the guest; no numbers
- Run top creator videos as Meta ads and raise the budget every week~$2.50 per download; profitable by the guest's math
- Give creators scripts copied from competitors' ads and run them as adsLost money; replaced by organic winners
- Test a cluttered AI-made image ad listing ~8 featuresBest ad at under $2 per download, beating video
- Run peptide creator videos as TikTok adsTikTok kept rejecting them as medical advice; moved to Meta
- Give under-25s a short onboarding and older users a longer oneLonger flow works well for 25+, per founder; no numbers
- Show 'try it free' slides before a paywall with $40/year and $10/month plans
- Build the most-requested features, like a dose calculator, after legal reviewCalculator 'drove a ton of traffic'
- Collect feedback everywhere, including creator calls, and ship 2-3 updates a week
- Tell creators about each new feature as a reason to postCreators all want to post about new features
- DM 1,000+ creators a week with one message, then get them on a callSigns many creators every week; delegating made it scale
- Skip creators with no real comments or few niche videos to avoid bought viewsEarly signings with bought views brought zero signups
- Review each new creator's first video before it goes liveA few redos; most videos were fine
- Give creators lifetime access and text them almost daily instead of view bonusesCreators do more than the contract, including TikTok Lives
- Repost as many creator videos as possible on the brand account
- Raise a small angel check for marketing; pay developers in equityFunded the creator program from launch
- Enter a trending niche where existing apps do no marketingFounder claims the app helped start the peptide-tracker trend
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