Vugola · B2C · AI video clipping tool
Copy competitors' viral short-video formats exactly, filmed with your own face
New Instagram account hit 10.8K followers; MRR grew from ~$3K to ~$11K
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What they did
1) Start a brand-new Instagram account and connect it to a ManyChat subscription ($15/month). 2) Spend a full day scrolling competitors' accounts to find their viral formats, UGC campaigns and creators. 3) Copy the winning format to the letter with your own face: same editing tools, same audio, same transitions, same hook length (3 or 4 seconds), same demo and CTA length, changed only for your product. 4) Keep following those brands and copying whatever new format they find; tech UGC accounts all ride the same trend until it saturates.
What happened
The account reached 10.8K followers within a few months, with videos at 132K, 18K and 21K views; he credits it with growing from $2-3K to about $11.2K MRR.
- Stage
- growth
This shipped together with other changes, so the result can't be credited to this alone.
“So, for step one, I got a brand-new Instagram account, and then also I got a Manychat subscription, and I connected those two.”
“I was finding my competitors' viral formats and their viral UGC campaigns and their creators.”
“So, I would record like my own face, and then I would just leverage the same exact tech stack that they used, the same audio that they used, the same like transitions, how long, so like is the hook 3 seconds, 4 seconds, how long is their demo, how long is their CTA.”
“We're already at 10.8K followers. Just a brand-new UGC account.”
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