Debloat AI · B2C · face debloating app
Build the app for what TikTok commenters keep asking 'how?' about
40,000 downloads with little effort; app sold
Workedvalidationpositioning-niche
What they did
From doomscrolling looksmaxxing content: under bloated-to-not-bloated transformation videos, ~100 people ask 'How do I debloat?'. The comment section is a strong indicator of how real a problem is; the only existing solutions were products like pills people don't trust. Built an app for it.
What happened
About 40,000 downloads with easy marketing; sold; copycats now make $20-30K a month.
In their words
The Superwall Podcast · Rafael Kramer - this 14 yr old makes $100k/mo PROFIT building apps with ai (here's how)“if you would go into the comment section, which is a really good indicator of how strong a problem is, you would see people saying like, "How do I debloat?"”
“if you would see a transformation video of a guy be like bloated before and then not bloated after, there would be like 100 people in the comments asking, "How? How? How?" right?”
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