He Made $10M with 3 iPhone Apps

I taught myself to code with chat GPT and my apps have made over $10 million to date how did this guy make over $10 million with three iPhone apps after learning how to code less than 2 years ago well two letters AI now with the

Advent of chat GPT and the popularization of AI there's so many different problems that you can solve either in different ways or a decreased cost in order to solve it I spent over an hour talking to Blake to figure out the truth behind how we built

the truth behind how we built these million dooll AI apps and how other builders can take advantage of the same opportunity and he shares it all including his process for finding million dooll AI ideas and validating them his blueprint for building an app from scratch as a complete beginner and

from scratch as a complete beginner and the marketing strategy that is making him Millions Tik Tok and Instagram are very solvable right now you can figure out the various influencer strategies to funnel millions of people to your product now let's get into the details

I'm Pat walls and this is starter story welcome man it's nice to have you tell us about who you are and what you built yeah absolutely my name is Blake Anderson in one year I taught myself how

to code with AI the first app that I built was called Riz GPT it's at 2 and2 million in annual revenue the second app that I built was called umax once again came up with the idea designed and built the application and led the majority of the marketing in the past year we've

done almost $5 million in Revenue then the third app that I co-founded was called CI this one I also came up with the idea for though I did not build the actual application I helped with the designs but I have two amazing co-founders that lead operations on that

CI was launched about 6 months ago and is now doing over a million dollars in Revenue per month okay so you built not one but three successful AI apps that are doing almost $20 million per year tell me about this opportunity in

apps right now okay this is a great question there are two primary reasons that apps are so lucrative right now the first is the Advent of chat GPT and the popularization of AI there's so many different problems that you can solve either in different ways or at a

either in different ways or at a decreased cost in order to solve it with Riz GPT it would have been virtually impossible to build a AI dating assistant without the use of llms and number two is novel distribution techniques Tik Tok and Instagram are

techniques Tik Tok and Instagram are very solvable right now you can figure out the various influencer strategies the user generated content strategies organic account growth strategies to funnel millions of people to your products and I don't think that the

algorithms were as optimized for new accounts to be able to generate millions of views a few years ago but now that they're all in bloodbath competition with one another they have to incentivize new creators and so they'll push more views to new accounts than they did previously all right so

than they did previously all right so essentially apps have become way easier to build and Market recently which is why they're a great business to start for anyone that's watching this right now but let's go back I want you to share the story of how you got started with this whole thing I've always been fascinated by

always been fascinated by entrepreneurship always hustl throughout childhood figuring out new ways to make money mowing lawns raking leaves shoveling Drive waves then in high school I was still hustling like I built an ethereum mining machine back in 2016

or 2017 scaled Instagram meme pages but to be honest I drank way too much alcohol did too many drugs really just prioritized like partying and living a relatively degenerate lifestyle after college so senior year I'm graduating

college so senior year I'm graduating all of my friends have great jobs in New York City making six figures and I had nothing I had moved back home family isn't doing well financially house is going up on the market my older brother is giving me loans for groceries

brother is giving me loans for groceries I was like okay I got to figure something out I do not want to get a full-time job and I set a goal for myself right as I graduated college I was like over the course of the next 12 months I will figure out a way to make $50,000 on my own all right so you're

$50,000 on my own all right so you're back at your parents house borrowing money from your brother to buy groceries but you set this crazy goal for yourself to make $50,000 over the next year I suppose this is where your first app Riz gbt comes into play right

how do you get started with it yeah we had friends that would send in fraternity group chats or whatever group chats with guys saying like what should I say to this girl and we figured that we could build an app to help people respond to girls I taught myself to code with chat gbt in the month of May

June 2023 and then we launched in July of 2023 the first version of the app was so bad I built this myself we didn't have notifications we didn't have reviews The Design was a mess the pay wall was terrible and the first few promos go out and it doesn't really do

promos go out and it doesn't really do anything few downloads we're making a few bucks and then I find these two underground undiscovered creators I pay them each $50 for promo so $100 total and overnight 5 10 million

views total 45,000 downloads in that first big day 200,000 downloads on that week 500,000 downloads on the month we're at 80k Mr from the jump that's pretty much all profit we ended up scaling it to a little bit over 250k Mr and then it dropped down in

and then it dropped down in plateaued to like 150 to 200k Mr consistently and that's where it's at Now Blake is proof that you don't need the perfect app or website to start making thousands of dollars off an idea all you need is an MVP in a smart marketing strategy but you also need to

marketing strategy but you also need to make sure that you're working on a solid idea that's why I created the starter story Academy a place that helps you find an idea validate the idea with real feedback and shows you how to execute on that idea so you can get those first