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An AI social-media marketing tool that got to $100K ARR in six months by marketing itself with a fake AI creator — then tripled its price by going B2B
$100K ARR on Stripe · 6 months from launch · premium tier at $300/mo
"The make more money angle is a lot more compelling than the cost-saving angle." $300 in, potentially $1,000-3,000 of extra MRR out — that framing is the whole reason a B2C tool survived moving upmarket.
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The founder is blunt about his track record: fourteen apps over five years, the first eight made exactly $0, and apps nine through fourteen peaked at maybe $2,000 MRR. Before Yorbi he and his cofounder had built Perfect Interview (AI interview prep) and Monty (an AI meeting recorder), neither of which went anywhere. "I've been out here slogging away doing this for years and this is a huge milestone that I never thought I would hit." The difference this time was that they built inside their own expertise. Both are social media creators — between them, cumulatively over a million followers — and both had done social media marketing for other tech startups as a service. Yorbi is that service turned into software. The timeline is unusually clean. They started building in October, and spent October through early December heads-down with no attempt to get customers. In December, while both cofounders were separately travelling in Asia, the growth cofounder decided to "warm up the accounts, play around with some experiments and marketing formats" ahead of a planned January push. Stripe notifications started arriving mid-holiday. By January 1st, 2026 they were at $640 MRR. From there: a fast climb to about $5K MRR by February-March, then a hard plateau in the $5-7K range for two to three months, then a jump in early June to $8,400 MRR — which is $100K ARR, and which Stripe's own dashboard confirms on screen during the video. The plateau break is the interesting part of the story and it came from a pricing change, not a marketing one.
They spent October through early December building with no attempt to sell, then acquired their first customers through a person who does not exist.
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Data credibility: Founder's own YouTube channel, with the Stripe dashboard shown on screen reading $8,400 MRR and Stripe's own ARR calculation at $100K. Self-reported and unaudited. Growth milestones ($640 MRR on Jan 1, ~$5K by Feb-March, plateau at $5-7K, $8,400 in June) come from the founder narrating over his own dashboard. The claim that removing the free tier added ~$1K MRR in 2-3 weeks is an unverified before/after with no control. Customer count, churn, CAC, gross margin and AI generation costs are never disclosed. The named third party (Magic Patterns, a YC company) is cited as the first $300/mo customer but does not appear in the video to confirm it. No tech stack or cost breakdown is given anywhere.
The product that earned the first dollars was the AI content script writer: upload any TikTok or Instagram video, remix the content to fit your brand and your niche, and keep the original's viral structure intact.
The turn came when they noticed the demo and the acquisition channel were the same artefact. The AI creator account both proved the product worked and was the product working, so showing it to a buyer was the entire sales call.
The long stretch here runs in years rather than months. He counts fourteen apps over five years: the first eight made exactly $0, and numbers nine through fourteen peaked at maybe $2,000 MRR.
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