> 1-week-old account
> First video got 8.6M views
> 28.6M total views
> ASMR Yeti Vlogger
full AI video creative storytelling is going to boom real soon.
Video below:
POV Camera does $150k mrr.
11 TikTok accounts. 67M views. 3 hooks.
Repeating the exact same format scheme (full AI avatars).
Never seen anything like this:
Crazy...
this bootstrapped app was only released 90 days ago and already made:
> 35M views
> 65K downloads
> $40K mrr
...find an untapped sub-niche you love, build an AI app, make your first million 🧵
"If you're running a business today, you have to be a creator…" - Garry Tan:
- CEO of YC
- Employee #10 at Palantir
- Startup acquired by Twitter
- 250k subs on YouTube / 500k on X
The goat himself says it...
Either become a creator or pay your dues to Mark, Larry & Sergei:
Wait, so there's a startup studio in L.A. full of the top growth hackers churning out AI apps built specifically for the TikTok algorithm, and a bunch of them are making $50K MRR!!
Another college student launched an AI app.
$25k and 50k users within 5 months of TikTok mktg...
...in one of the most saturated AI niches (they just got accepted into YC S25):
Cal AI is now famously doing $400K+ MRR.
They’re running a mix channel acquisition strategy (ads + influencers + other).
I went to check their influencer marketing strategies.
They’re running targeted influencer marketing with crafted videos aiming for ≈$5 CPM:
There’s a new trend of 17-year-old (Gen Z) AI/cursor founders launching startup vlog YouTube channels.
YouTube (as it has done with other verticals) will capture the largest % of the TAM for startup-media content.
It’s Day 1 of being a vlogging startup founder on YouTube:
This app is making $80,000 a month.
They generated 671,171,933 views by posting 6,535 slideshows on TikTok over ≈365 days.
With some accounts posting 7+ times a day.
The complete breakdown of their winning strategy: