Snipe the exact-match domain of a viral model and run a third-party image-gen site: 3M visits in launch month
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Google put its new image model up for anonymous blind testing on the LMArena platform. Image quality was so strong it shot to #1 on the text-to-image leaderboard, and insiders started buzzing. The developer noticed the leaderboard anomaly and registered nano-banana.ai on August 14, 2025; Google didn't officially launch Nano Banana until August 26 — he beat the official release by 12 days. Right after grabbing the domain, he shipped a bare-bones image-generation site built entirely around this model. How hot was the model? Google Labs' VP said it handled 200 million image edits within a week of launch and pulled in over 10 million new users for Gemini — Gemini app downloads briefly overtook ChatGPT.
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