i built an app in 24 hours that makes me $3500/week using ai avatars
What this video is
⚡ a 11-minute video, readable in 60 secondsThe creator describes building an app called Headshot Studio, which turns a selfie into a professional headshot, in 24 hours using one AI tool and no coding skills. He says his core strategy was validating the idea against a competitor, InstaHeadshots, found via the Meta Ad Library, then marketing his own app through Meta (Facebook) ads on a $29.99/year subscription with a 3-day trial. He states the app's Stripe dashboard shows $3,519.65 in gross volume, with $780 and 117 users in the most recent 7 days. The video then walks through the same niche-finding and app-building process on a second example, a dog-training app called Drive, but does not report revenue figures for that app.
Subject: The creator built an app called Headshot Studio, which turns any photo into a professional headshot, using no coding skills and one AI tool. [01:00]
Key takeaways
- Situation: The creator says he built Headshot Studio in 24 hours. [00:00]
- Goal: The app markets itself as private, fast (ready in under a minute), and tuned for LinkedIn, resumes, and corporate sites. [01:48]
- Number: The creator says the app made over $3,000 in the last eight days. [00:00]
- Number: Stripe dashboard shows $3,519.65 in gross volume. [00:14]
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- Number: In the last 7 days the app got $780 in revenue. [00:18]
- Number: In the last 7 days the app got 117 users. [00:18]
- Number: Everyone in the last 7 days bought the $29.99/year subscription. [00:18]
- Number: A stat overlay claims 1 in 5 free users convert to paid, said to beat the industry average for trial-to-paid conversion. [00:30]
- Number: The $29.99/yr plan includes a 3-day trial. [00:34]
- Execution: The Stripe transaction log shows trial starts, a trial cancel, and several purchases on Aug 7-8. [00:34]
- Execution: Users upload a selfie and choose a background setting - Executive Desk, Boardroom, High-Rise Office, or Studio Backdrop - to generate the headshot. [01:31]
- Execution: The app flow is upload a clear selfie or portrait, choose a setting, and get a polished corporate headshot in seconds. [02:09]
- Execution: The creator marketed the app using Meta ads (Facebook). [02:10]
- Strategy: The creator validated the idea by finding a competitor called InstaHeadshots with about 63 active ads in the Meta Ad Library. [02:13]
- Number: InstaHeadshots ads claim 300,000+ professionals and 30M+ headshots generated worldwide. [02:29]
- Number: InstaHeadshots offers a $59 ERAS-compliant headshot with results in 15 minutes. [02:29]
- Strategy: To find a niche without existing tech skills, the creator recommends a niche-finding tool called Niche Trend Hunter, which discovers trends using real search data and can take 30 seconds to a minute. [03:07]
- Execution: The creator typed 'dog training' into Niche Trend Hunter, calling it a big niche where people pay for solutions. [03:19]
- Tools: The app-building tool used is Base44, where users describe the app they want and it builds it in seconds, deployable to web or the app store. [03:35]
- Execution: Niche Trend Hunter gave dog-training recommendations including an at-home DIY dog service, a stubborn dog training system, and accelerated potty training. [04:11]
- Number: One recommended concept, a motivation diagnosis app, is priced $37-$49 as a one-time payment. [04:44]
- Execution: The presenter copies the generated app description from Niche Trend Hunter and pastes it directly into Base44, having no coding experience. [05:02]
- Execution: The presenter shows an Instagram account called farmerpaws using hyperrealistic AI avatars posting dog-care videos organically, with one video reaching 43,000 views. [05:49]
- Strategy: The creator says he can make a similar AI-avatar page for his dog app and put the link in bio, as a marketing-without-face approach. [06:09]
- Execution: The Instagram profile jack.getagrip promotes a porn-quitting app called Get a Grip, shown with 65 posts and 3,203 followers. [06:21]
- Number: The creator claims the account's first post got 30 million views, saying it is an AI avatar and not real. [06:49]
- Number: The creator notes a next reel got 1.4 million views and another got 400,000 views. [07:01]
- Tools: The creator identifies the AI tool used to generate the talking-head avatars as Higsfield. [07:18]
- Tools: The creator demonstrates an AI content-generation tool called Supercomputer, showing a generated video titled 'Black Entrepreneur Vlog.' [07:20]
- Tools: An AI app-builder tool called DriveCode is shown generating a dog training app from a written plan with a chat panel and live preview. [07:49]
- Execution: Using Base44, payments can be connected directly in the app to start collecting sales, with options for subscriptions or one-time charges. [08:03]
- Execution: A Miro whiteboard slide titled 'Step 5 - Setup Instagram + ManyChat Automation' outlines selling apps versus digital products. [08:21]
- Number: Pricing options for the dog app are described as a one-time $19 unlock or a subscription model. [08:46]
- Number: An alternative pricing structure suggested is $29 a year or four to six dollars a month, often paired with a three-day trial for the yearly plan. [08:52]
- Execution: The built app can be published directly as a web app, with options shown for Web or Mobile app. [09:06]
- Execution: The platform includes an App Store and Google Play submission check that scans the app against the latest guidelines. [09:19]
- Lesson: The presenter recommends beginners start off publishing as a web app rather than submitting to app stores. [09:37]
- Execution: A second example, an Instagram account called Trinity Pins with 6,203 followers, sells a Pinterest automation tool called Pinsflow as a web app for Etsy, Shopify, and faceless creators. [09:44]
- Execution: Trinity Pins posts Reels using an AI avatar hook stitched with screen-recorded clips of the creator using the app, one reel shown with 227 likes and 22 comments. [09:53]
- Execution: An App Store Scan Results tool rates the Drive app as close to native App Store standards, fully compliant on design, performance, and user deletion logic. [10:24]
- Execution: Pressing 'Fix it with AI' automatically resolves the flagged issues so the app can then be submitted to the App Store. [10:28]
- Lesson: The creator says he personally prefers launching directly as a web app and making sales that way before moving to the app store. [10:39]
- Execution: The Drive Assessment Quiz is described as a 7-step flow scoring food, prey, affection, and play drive, ending in a personalized dog profile. [11:00]
- Number: A comparison shows a 12-month service dog training curriculum idea with an estimated 5.4K monthly searches. [11:09]
- Number: The same comparison shows a low-drive-dog motivation guide idea with an 89 competition score. [11:09]
- $29 a year or like four to $6 a month.
How this brief was shaped: Case Study Breakdown · confidence Medium
Transcript opens with revenue proof (Stripe screenshots, OCR shows paywall purchase/trial logs at $29.99/yr) then promises to reveal the app built and the workflow for finding a niche, building it with one AI tool, and marketing it, matching a situation-strategy-execution-result arc rather than a pure step-by-step tutorial.
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