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Alex Slater's quit-vaping / addiction app, name-checked as the proof case for “the same mass short-form UGC play” — roughly $500K/mo off that one playbook.
Quitter gets listed right next to Cali ($30M ARR) and Cluely ($6M ARR) as hard evidence that mass short-form UGC is the single most effective marketing strategy available to app founders right now — the same “young creator army + pay per view” distribution play pushed a quit-vaping app to $500K/mo.
Fewer bars = easier, cheaper, or faster for an AI-assisted solo builder. Editorial judgments based on the case details.
Quitter is a quit-vaping / addiction app built by Alex Slater. On Cluely founder Roy Lee's podcast interview it gets name-checked as the specimen for “mass short-form UGC is the most effective marketing strategy for app founders right now”: “It's exactly how Alex Slater scaled Quitter to $500,000 per month,” listed alongside Zach Yadagari's Cali ($30M ARR) and Cluely ($6M ARR). Note that this is a third party's retelling — not Alex himself, and not the video's deep-dive subject. Team, tech, and unit economics were never disclosed.
Roy Lee names this case as proof of one channel: mass short-form UGC, the same engine he credits for Cali at $30M ARR and Cluely at $6M ARR, and the reason he says Quitter reached $500,000 a month. The mechanics are unusually legible.
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Data credibility: The number comes from the Cluely interview, where Quitter is retold as a specimen of the mass short-form UGC play: “Alex Slater scaled Quitter to $500,000 per month.” It is not Alex speaking for himself and not the video's deep-dive subject, so the strength of the retelling is limited and nothing is independently verified ⚠️. All revenue figures are founder-reported or estimated by the video creator — unaudited.
Money in this category arrives fast because the buying decision is made before the app opens.
Two loops make this play compound rather than merely spend. The first is hook discovery.
The dead stretch here is the first few hundred posted videos, when most die at four thousand views and the campaign looks like money poured into a feed. Judging any single creator or clip during that window produces the wrong conclusion.
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