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Go Tall · B2C · height prediction app for teens

DM 50 people a day asking them to make your proven, easy video

Creators worked cheaply; with founder content reached ~$3K/month

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What they did

DM'd about 50 people a day pitching a super easy, already-proven video format. Because the format was simple, creators were willing to make it for a very cheap price. Creator pay was set from the known views-to-downloads ratio.

What happened

Founder plus a few UGC creators reached about $3K/month.
Stage
early-growth
Effort
~50 DMs/day

This shipped together with other changes, so the result can't be credited to this alone.

In their words

This Stupidly Simple App Makes $100K/Month

Play from 9:18
8:51

MichaelFirst, it was me just making content myself. It took about a month of just experimentation purely with content, making 10 TikToks every day. So then, eventually, I found the format. Because I only had one format, I had one distribution channel, it's very easy to see the attribution. Like I know exactly 100k views equals how many downloads. And then based off that, I'm like, "Okay, now I know I can hire creators for this amount of price."

9:18

MichaelWith the format, I replicated it myself on like two different accounts, and they both blew up. I had my girlfriend do it too, and like her account blew up. And I was like, "Okay, this is like an easy format. I can like teach anybody." So I just went on, DM'd like 50 people a day to be like, "Hey, would you want to make format, make this video? It's super easy." And so they were able to They were willing to do it for a very cheap price.

9:40

MichaelBasically, just myself, plus a few UGC creators, we were able to do maybe like 3k a month. After I optimized my paywall and scaled a little more, it was about 10k a month. In month five, it was about 30k a month, as I explored even more formats. And after 30k a month, it was simply just putting it on paid ads to scale to over 100.

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Tags: tiktok, creator-outreach, cheap-creators, proven-format