Jungle · B2C · AI study app
Reply to a viral 'I wish this existed' tweet saying you're building it
200+ downloads and 50-100 DMs; confirmed the idea
Workedorganic-socialvalidation
What they did
A tweet went viral saying the author's dream AI product would turn anything they were learning into flashcards with AI. The founder commented that they were building something similar (it was only tangentially similar at the time) and chose the idea because of the response.
What happened
Over 200 downloads and 50-100 DMs; the founders took it as the opportunity to build Jungle.
- Stage
- Pre-launch (pre-launch, 3 months of runway)
- Effort
- One reply
In their words
The Superwall Podcast · Julian Alvarez - This ai study app makes $100k/mo. here's how (no-code)“That tweet blew up, and I commented saying we were building like something similar, which we were building something tangentially similar, but not the exact same thing.”
“I got like over 200 downloads, over 50 to 100 DMs, and basically just like a lot of interest in this”
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