Pep AI · B2C · peptide and GLP-1 tracker
Give every creator a tracked link and discount code
Shows who to keep and whose rates to cut
What they did
What happened
In their words
Cedric Roberge - I speedran an ai app to $100k in 70 days.
… we charge for the app with the subscription based off those downloads. It is profitable. But also I would say that it's not our number one marketing channel. Influencer marketing is by far been number one. I try and repost as many as I can. You know, we have about 100 creators posting videos for us. So there's multiple posts going out every single day. What it looks like is, you know, it's just a bunch of people that are taking peptides and GLPs
and they'll usually talk about their journey or things that are important. Like I'm, you know, eating this amount of food and drinking this much water and I use PepAI to help track it. So that video got like 7,000 views, but that's a repost on your brand account, right? So do you know how many, like how much engagement that got originally? What we do is we track everything through like these creator codes. So when people are signing up, it can say that a creator refer you. We also have one links for all of our creators in their bio. And if you don't know what that is, it pretty much tracks if someone is downloading the app through their link.
So that way we can look through all their statistics and see like who's converting the best and then keep working with the creators that are doing well. And the ones that aren't performing as well, you know, that's where we can be like, you know, based on our deal wasn't as super profitable. So we're willing to keep working with you at this lower price. And that's kind of how we track everything and make sure everything stays profitable. This woman is just like walking down the street, talking to the camera. Is that the main format that you guys are doing? Or are there other like, because talking head seems like it's very like high trust, I imagine.
But then I don't think she really showed the app, did she? She does at the end. But you know, that's not really even what performs the best. What I've noticed performs really well is videos like this, which I'll show you. It's a slideshow. But these slideshows, they like go through and talk about these important things while taking peptides and GLPs and then how the app you can, you know, use the app to track all of that together. And this is …
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- Sign nearly every creator in your niche before running paid ads$30K then $50K revenue in months 1-2; ~$100K in 70 days
- 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
- 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'
- Remove or simplify features nobody uses
- 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
Tags: tiktok, instagram, app-store, google-play, attribution, creator-codes, link-in-bio, onelink