Fitted · B2C · AI closet and outfit app
Post a plain screen recording of the website explaining the laundry service
600K views and investor interest, but viewers mostly weren't customers
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What they did
After the founder had nearly given up on TikTok for the laundry service, an early investor took over the account and posted a simple screen recording of the site explaining what it does.
What happened
600K views, investor and brand partnership interest, but a local service business could not turn the audience into customers.
- Stage
- Early (Early (laundry service))
- Effort
- One video
In their words
The Superwall Podcast · Reid Moncada - He went from 0 to $150k by building an ai fashion app (no-code)“But I mean, I was like a service business, so, you know, it wasn't like It wasn't like really scalable to do influencer, or like, I don't know, going viral as like a service-based business.”
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