The First App I Ever Built Makes $25K/Month

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Summary

This video features Kian, a college student who built his first project, a guitar-tone tool called Tone Adapt, and scaled it to $25,000 in monthly revenue in under five months. By leveraging AI coding tools to build his V1 in just one week and using his background in UGC content creation to market aggressively on social media, Kian demonstrates how to turn a personal pain point into a profitable software business. The interview covers his development stack, his growth strategy of posting three times daily, and practical advice for aspiring founders to validate ideas by solving niche problems.

Chapters

  1. 0:00Introduction to Kian and Tone Adapt
  2. 1:48The Story Behind Tone Adapt
  3. 5:10Validating the Problem
  4. 8:46Building the V1 with AI
  5. 10:56Marketing and Growth Strategy
  6. 13:56Advice for Aspiring Founders

Topics covered

  • Building apps with AI
  • Revenue growth

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Transcript excerpt

I went from a college student who had never built anything in his life before to creating my first project with over 100,000 users and making $25,000 a month. >> This is Kian. He's 21, [music] still in college, and just 5 months ago, he shipped his very first [music] app idea to the world. >> I used Cursor to build the entire project. Took me about a week to build everything. >> What I love about his app idea is that it's dead simple. It's not some crazy trend or viral idea. It's just a useful tool for a very niche audience, which is why it's already making him $25,000 [music] >> If you have a tiny little problem, there a month. are at least thousands, [music] if not tens of thousands of people out there with the exact same problem that you have. >> I asked Kian to come on to the channel to share everything, and in this episode, we'll dive into the incredibly simple app that he built, wh…