Under 5,000 downloads produced $65,000 — because the app wasn't a workout app, it was one specific influencer's workout app, sold to the audience that already pays her.
a second app (AI accounting) at $10K MRR in three months
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The developer opens with the number and the constraint together: an app with fewer than five thousand downloads generated $65,000. "Only 5,000 people needed to check out the app. And I generated $65,000." He did not build it for a market. He built it for one person's audience. The partner is a fitness creator (named in the transcript as Kenzie Vance; the auto-caption garbles her name several times, so treat the spelling as uncertain). She was already monetising — coaching, ebooks, programs. That was the qualifying signal. His reasoning: "I already seen that the coaching, she already does coaching, she already does ebooks. Alright, let's amplify what she already has and build an app around it." The counterfactual he keeps returning to is the whole lesson. A generic workout app with her name attached would have failed. An app that is her — her programming, her voice, her brand as the product — worked, because the audience does not follow her for workouts in the abstract, they follow her for her workouts. He makes the same point with a hypothetical: you would not build Andrew Huberman a generalised dopamine-reset app. You would build Andrew Huberman's app. He has since repeated the pattern: a second app doing $10K MRR three months in (an AI accounting tool), apps built for a fishing creator, and an AI sales analytics product in the pipeline.
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Create free accountEmail code only. No password.Data credibility: Founder-reported inside what is plainly a module of the developer's own paid course, posted publicly and closing with a call-booking pitch. No dashboards, App Store Connect screenshots, or contracts were shown. The $65,000 figure has no stated timeframe and no gross-versus-net clarification, and the revenue share with the creator partner is never disclosed — so the developer's actual earnings from it are unknown. The '$10K MRR in three months' AI accounting tool is likewise a bare claim. The auto-captions garble several proper nouns, including the partner creator's name (rendered variously as Kenzie Vance, Ky Vance and Kenzie bands) and the competitor app; we have kept the transcript's own phrasing where the spelling is uncertain rather than guessing. What is verifiable independently: creator-owned fitness apps of this type (including the Buff Bunny app he studied) are a real and established category.