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Exactly thirty days ago, I had zero coding experience, which meant no app, no users, and definitely no invite to Epstein Island. And then in a weekend, I built an app that now has made $6 in its first month. I got an AI video, completely AI with 30,000,000 views, and thank thank goodness, no invite to Epstein Island. I also got interviewed by New York Magazine, but I'll touch on that later. I'm gonna show you exactly how I did it. And honestly, the way that I'm marketing this is it's pretty cutting edge, man. I mean, I haven't seen anybody talk about this, and I'm I'm not even joking around. And I usually hit, like, 10 sets of joking arounds at the gym. So, like, that's how you know. This is serious. So I started seeing all these AI tools actually get good. And, of course, you know, me being a little mischievous little businessman, I wanted to build an app just just for the heck of it. You know? Like, I just wanted that under my tool belt to put on my resume for being a mister beast contestant in the year, like, 2040 when that's the only job left. So I started brainstorming ideas. I did not wanna just come up with another generic app or completely copy somebody. Like, I wanna do something different just for the sake of doing it differently, even if it's worse. And I wasn't coming up with anything good, and then I was hanging out with my friends, and they all talked about how they wanted to quit porn in 2026. And I was like, that's a good idea because I figured out some pretty interesting methods and strategies that I hadn't heard anybody talked about that I was able to help my friends with. And so I was like, I could probably turn this into an app, and it'd be fun. So, like, it solves a problem. You know? It was perfect. But I almost didn't build it because

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I started playing around with ChatGPT to build it because I'd heard somebody say that they built an app with ChatGPT. I can't remember who, but I started, you know, just I I don't even know what I was doing, but, basically, I was copying, pasting code from ChatGPT into Xcode,

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which is how you build iOS apps.

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And the the the first thing I made was so bad, and so I almost just scrapped it. And I have no idea how to code. I took one coding class in high school, and all I did was play Minecraft and spill an entire mug of coffee on one of the nice iMac computers there and completely destroy it. I knew nothing about coding. So then it was like a Friday night, and I was on Twitter, and I saw that Claude code was what everyone was using. I know I'm a little bit late to the party, but I started messing around with Claude code on a Friday night, and it was like magic,

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bro. I've I've never had that experience of just like,

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I don't know. I literally felt like it was Jarvis from Iron Man. Like, I could just do anything and I would tell it to do something and it would be exactly what I was thinking about. And then I could tell something more and then it would be perfect. Jarvis,

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triple the size of him. I mean, her. Her. And so I started working on this idea to help guys, basically, men's self improvement app.

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And the first versions were super bad, but I just slowly kept chipping away. Basically, my method is just to get the home screen, get, like, the core actions down of the app, and then just slowly fix the bugs, make it look better, add a little bit of taste, and all that. And so I did that Friday night.

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And then Saturday, I literally worked all day Saturday

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and all day Sunday. And then by Sunday night, I actually had,

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like, a pretty good app that was really simple. I'm sure there was a ton of bugs in it. I'm sure my API keys were just hanging in the public,

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uh, whatever, and someone could just take them. But I started using it myself, and it was exactly what I was thinking about when I wanted to build the app. And it I felt like it worked, so I sent it to some friends, sent it to some family, and they started messing around with it. And I was like, okay. This is you know, I think this is actually pretty good. I'm not gonna go too detailed into the app. I mean, if you're watching this and you do struggle with it, like, feel free to download the app, try it out, and DM me, and let me know how what you think of it. But, basically,

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uh, most apps I think are just you it's just all about all about resistance and willpower,

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and it's like you're stretching back this rubber band. And the harder you try to resist something, it's just gonna let you're gonna let go eventually, and it's gonna slap you in the face, and you're gonna relapse. And there's gonna be a bunch of shame, and you feel like an idiot, and then you just you never beat this addiction. So basically, my method is to just replace these bad habits instead of resisting them. So you build a life where it there's just no time for it. Like, when you go on a trip with friends and you just stayed so busy that you didn't even think about, uh, one of your addictions or whatever. You didn't even scroll or just, you know, something like that. And so I actually wrote up this Reddit post just, like, talking about these theories, and the post went viral. I got, like, maybe a 150,000

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views across a couple subreddits.

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It ended up getting banned, cause then I tried editing it and putting the app link instantly got banned. But from that, this New York Magazine chick reached out. She interviewed me. So that was cool. I was like, okay. I feel like this is actually a pretty good app, and I'm gonna go for it. I also tried publishing it to the app store and just kept getting denied over and over. So if you are trying to submit an app, just keep chipping away. So now the app was live, and of course, nobody's downloading it. Like, ain't nobody searching this thing up. And I didn't wanna spend too much time building it because

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if it sucked and it flopped, then I don't wanna have wasted three or four months of my life, you know, working on on the side on this thing, and I could have just been doing something else. So I start making TikToks myself because that's what I do normally. I do, like, TikTok shot videos,

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and

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nothing was really popping off. I just don't think I look like, uh, like the older brother figure maybe. I look a little too young, or I just didn't wasn't making the right videos. And I was just about to give up because just none of the posts were going. I was maybe gonna run ads. And then I saw these videos for these AI looks maxing videos, and I was like, oh, this seems fun. I'll just, you know, toss one of these up. So I made one,

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and the first

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reel that I posted of it, it got 30,000,000 views. I didn't show the app in it, so it didn't convert that well. But I was, like, freaking out. I posted on TikTok. It got six or 8,000,000 views,

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and I was like, okay. Maybe there's something here. That got, like, the first three,

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like, $3,000 in revenue, I think, and it was completely free. I mean, video costed me maybe, like, a quarter to make and, like, ten minutes. So I kept making these AI videos, and something that I realized that made these convert way better, if you're making AI videos or not, highly recommend doing this approach, is people don't buy for prevention. They buy for,

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like, aspiration or to look better. And so what I was doing was just, you know, selling this outcome of, oh, you'll avoid these bad habits.

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Instead, what I did is sold the dream outcome of, like, this is what your life will look like if you quit this addiction. You'll have girls. You'll be more motivated. You'll be more confident, all this stuff.

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And, yeah, like, people don't wanna buy toothpaste that just avoids cavities. They'd rather buy toothpaste that makes your teeth white. You know? Like, bro, let's be for real. I'm not gonna break down my exact content workflow because I'm still using it, and it's dude, it's so good. Like, I don't know. I don't know if I wanna leak it. And I also don't know if I'm gonna keep pursuing it because they're I'm getting a lot of hate from people that say I'm, you know, making AI slop, but, like, you know? I don't know.

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I still have to come up with the video ideas and, like, they're still my ideas. It's just like a different character. It's not me on the screen. So I don't know. Alright. So here are the results for the app. As you can see, I'm I'm doing about $200 per day. So by the time that this video is out, it's literally tomorrow. I'll be at six k.

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7,000 users, almost 8,000

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well, 1,100,

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like, converting users. These are just downloads, I guess. These are my conversions. I don't know if these are good yet. I'm still pretty new to this. Just kinda, like, having fun doing it as, like, side project stuff.

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Um, as you can see, just

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always got sign ups coming up. And, I mean, like, $0 in ad spend is pretty sick. So I think the 30,000,000 view video taught me a lot

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about videos that convert or if you're working with creators

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or influencers.

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Like, you can't just make any video now. Like, users and viewers are pretty smart. They know they can smell BS. I know that my videos are AI, so it's like yeah. But in the future, when I start working with influencers and other creators, like, just making sure you I don't even know how to describe it. Just this feeling of, like, you know that the app was the reason why someone's life is way better, and the app is the, like, switch and the solution for this person. The next thing I'm glad I did was just ship it really quick because if this this flops

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or did flop or, like, was worse than it is now, I could easily just build the next thing. With AI, it's like, dude, you I could spin up another app in a few days and just get it rolling. So, yeah, like, don't spend too much time building and just keep building. Like, I would practice marketing because that is, like, where it's at right now. Like, two years ago, you probably needed an entire

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developer to code a worse version of the app, and now you could just do it with AI and your brain, have a little bit of good taste, solve a problem, and you're good to go. And now you just need to figure out how to market it. So, yeah, you gotta be creative here because it's just viewers are so much smarter than they were five years ago. I'm trying to scale this thing extremely hard. I'll be trying to document some of the stuff. Maybe I won't. Maybe I will. Follow me on Twitter, bro. And, yeah, I hope you have a good day. And, yeah, makes