WrestleAI · B2C · AI wrestling coach app
Make a top niche influencer your co-founder and launch with App Store preorders
3-4K preorders; #18-19 on the App Store and $1,000+ on day one
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What they did
His co-founder Kaden is one of the biggest wrestling influencers. They hyped the launch to his audience and set up an App Store preorder so downloads would land on release day and push the app into the top charts. By month two they had saturated his audience and moved to paying other influencers.
What happened
About 3,000-4,000 preorders; #18 (or #19) on the App Store on launch day, $1,000+ revenue by early afternoon, flood of positive Instagram comments. Co-founder's audience saturated by month two
- Stage
- Launch (Launch (September 2025))
“I think influencer marketing is so valuable, so much that my co-founder is actually one of the biggest people in the wrestling influencing space. So, we launched with him.”
“When we released, we set up a preorder to be on the top charts, so the day we released, we were like 18 on the App Store just from his influence.”
“I wake up at like 1:00 p.m., and we're number 19 on the App Store, and we've made over 1,000 bucks.”
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