pdftobrainrot.com · PDF to brain rot videos
Launch a viral 'PDF to brain rot video' side site to funnel users
~41M views on one video, but no paying users; shut down
Failedproduct-viralityorganic-short-videoportfolio
What they did
Built pdftobrainrot.com: turns a long PDF/lecture into a voiceover over background 'brain rot' video (e.g. Minecraft parkour), intended to funnel users toward the main product.
What happened
Went massively viral (one video ~41M views, 4.5M likes) but did not convert to paying users; sunset.
- Stage
- scale
In their words
Sub Club by RevenueCat · Bootstrapped to $6.7M ARR and an Exit to Quizlet in 2 Years – Brett Bauman & Zack Hargett, Coconote“we were experimenting with something called pdftobrainrot.com, which we've since sunset”
“one of the things that we learned is that, that is a toy and it's not something that people are going to pay for”
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