How to build a $400k/mo AI App using ASO, Organic Growth, and Paid Ads
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So today I brought my friend Romain on. And the reason I brought him on is he knows which AI apps are popping, why they're popping, how to get users to these AI apps, and just go through the ecosystem and some of the tools that Romain's using. And I'm excited to have you, man. Me too. Thank you for having me. Let's do it. All right, where do you want to start? Maybe let's just start by opening, what's it called, TensorFlow? A center tower. And yeah, we can just start sharing your screen and sort of walk people through the process of some other AI apps that are doing really well, how much revenue they're bringing in, and how they're acquiring users. And my goal is really just to show people how you think.
Yeah. All right. Let's do it. Have you seen this new Verse app that was popping this week?
A little bit.
Tell me more. Yeah. So to me, this app is kind of interesting because I'm not sure I can even easily describe what it does. And I feel so old saying that. But basically, it's an app that transforms the playlist, like a Spotify playlist, into something visual. And they do these beautiful covers where you see a kid who would have designed his wall in his house with a couple of posters and stuff like that. And he does it from a link, basically from a Spotify link. And it recently popped up on TikTok. It was super viral. And to me, there are a lot of interesting insights from this one. One, it's very hard to come up with a way to consistently come up with good ideas, because this one is so unique, such a unique idea. The second one is this app does something that is very that is very important when you are thinking about a new app idea, is that they embedded the marketing flow inside the concept of the app itself.
So basically, when you create this wall with the app, and I don't even know how to call it. I think they call it vision boards. with the Spotify link, then what to do next with it. And the next step is basically to share it with your friend, either share it directly through iMessage with the link. And they did this very well done invite flow where you can show the exact app like the design that you have made, and send it to your friends. Or even through TikTok, because kids, those days, they are creating more and more content. And they are on TikTok themselves. And it's very easy to share those on TikTok. So I think it's a very good example of an app that, from day one, and they were released early September. I was checking on Sensor Tower. The app just got released.
And they already got millions of visitors on the website, and it's just the beginning. And yeah, it shows how important it is to think about the marketing funnel when you do an app, even before building new features and building the products.
Yeah, I think it's a few interesting things about that particular app. So one is I think it got to spot eight in the App Store. So it's kind of crazy how embedding a little AI virality into it could get you to chart so much. So I think that was really interesting. I will say the other thing I think about Verse is It's a really hard product to build. There's two ways to build AI apps. One is you come up with a completely new idea like they have and spend a lot of time thinking about a unique product. They have this canvas that I think is really cool. It really is a beautiful product. The other way to do it, which is what we're going to get deeper into during this episode, is What are existing popular apps and then how do you add an AI sizzle to it to capture that demand?
And it's way easier to do that. However, by the way, I love doing number one too. Today I think we're going to talk more about there's demand out there. How do you capture that demand and just add a little AI sizzle to it?
100%. And actually, I think it would be more relevant to talk about that because that's exactly what I did in my previous company. We did an intermittent fasting app, like other apps that were nothing revolutionizing. that already had a little bit of competition, but we executed the product and the growth very well.
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