GlamUp · B2C · AI makeup glow-up app
Show a fake 'analyzing' scan with blurred results, and run the AI only after payment
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What they did
User picks a scan, gets photo instructions, takes a selfie or video, sees an 'Analyzing' screen, then all results are blurred behind the paywall. The scan is fake; the AI API is called only after payment to avoid wasted API cost.
In their words
The Superwall Podcast · Nicole Cheung - she makes $400k/mo from ai apps (while in college)“This scan is completely fake. It's a fake scan, so we don't actually get their results at all. We only run the API after they pay, because we don't want to waste, you know, the API cost.”
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