Sway AI · B2C · dating profile feedback app
Make a month of TikTok slideshows in 1-2 hours from a spreadsheet and template
Seconds per slideshow; a month of posts in an hour or two
Workedorganic-short-video
What they did
Designed the slide backgrounds in Figma, then used Canva with an Excel sheet that auto-populated the text onto every slide (bulk create). Each slideshow took seconds; a month's worth of content was batched in one to two hours.
What happened
Made content creation easy; videos routinely got 10-50K views
- Stage
- launch
In their words
The Superwall Podcast · Daniel Heintzma - I speedran a new app from 0 to $2m/year in 6 months (here's how)“So, we like designed the background in Figma, and then we did like an Excel sheet where like it auto-populated all the all the slides. So, it would take like seconds to create each one. And so like only within like an hour or two, you can like batch up a month's worth of content.”
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