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Dumb, simple, viral apps built on open-source AI models: lip-sync and AI art, 250M cumulative downloads and an Nvidia investment

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.

A paid translation app competing head-on with free Google Translate — and clearing $50K a month by being better at the parts Google stopped caring about.

A day counter with motivational reminders reportedly pulled $200K in a single month — and the whole feature set gets rebuilt on camera from a phone, no code written

A screen-time blocker that makes you pray before Instagram opens — one gimmick feature, one religious community, $40K a month.

A sub-niche of the accounting category where several apps do one thing — photograph a receipt — and the App Store estimates put three of them at $60K, $60K and $80K a month.

A former personal trainer built a calorie tracker you talk to, posted two TikToks a day for a few weeks, and hit $1,000 MRR with no ads, no ASO, and no launch.

A dating app that changed nothing about dating apps except who it's for — and does $400K a month in the most 'saturated' category on the App Store.

A non-developer prompted ChatGPT chunk by chunk into a cross-platform meeting transcriber and reportedly took it to around $7 million in revenue, entirely solo, on rented infrastructure.

Screenshot your chat with a girl, and an AI tells you what to text back — a 23-year-old who could not code shipped it by asking ChatGPT how, then spent $100 on one video and went to ₩100M a month