A posture exercise app · B2C · guest's own app
Hand an idle app to a big fitness creator: their photos, 60-70% of the app
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What they did
The posture app earned $4-5K over a couple of months with no distribution. He is talking to creators with a couple million followers about replacing every illustrated exercise figure with photos of the creator, making it 'their app'. He would give 60-70% equity so the creator drives their audience and he doesn't have to handle distribution; he hopes for ~$10K/month. Fallback: sell it (he'd take ~$10K) rather than keep it from sunk-cost attachment.
- Stage
- revival of stalled app
In their words
The Superwall Podcast · Connor Burd - This 23 Yr Old Genius Makes $1M/Year with No-Code Apps. Here's How“I'm going to replace every single one of these guys with a picture of you doing the exercise, and we're going to make this like your app, and you're going to drive your couple million eyeballs to this”
“if I gave away I would be willing to give away like, who knows, like 60%, 70% of this app, because I'm not going to do anything with it.”
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