How I got clavicular's number and made ~120k+ last year with mobile apps

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I was looking through some of Clavicular's old threads and came across one where he was asking about getting lowballed on an ad for an AI app, inspiring me to make this thread on how my friends and I made ~120k borderline "scamming" retards online.

background:
My friends from high school and I went to the same college, was an Ivy but school name is fucking cope nowadays especially if you're studying some bullshit these foids study. We hated studying, hated school, saw the Umax founders print and decided to copy them, ended up building and scaling 4 apps in just under a year

all apps were vibecoded with Cursor. after the first app, we were shipping apps literally in 3-4 weeks max

App 1: AI Skin quality scanner & routine planner
> literally a gpt wrapper (API keys hardcoded JFL) that prompted chat to give ratings of a person's skin quality
> copied the name of a similar company in europe that didn't have an app -> all traffic came to ours and eventually grew to ~5k month with 0 advertising
> 99% of users were foids, these bitches are so brainless they literally buy anything, I charged like 10 bucks a week and to this day many of them haven't cancelled

App 2: Physique scanner
> same concept as the first one but for your physique, complete dogshit app
> this is the app we got @Clavicular to run a ad on around this time last year. Honestly crazy how far clav grew in just an year, was legit at 18k followers at the time (also the ad lowkey converted, i guess the avg org user is dumber than i thought)
> we actually tried to run this by hiring influencers, etc. but product was shit so we had no retention, shit cpa, shit ltv. users were mostly insecure gymcels who canceled after one scan
> got shut down because we fucked up the firebase backend and everyone could see each other's uploads :ROFLMAO:
> revenue was good, profit not as much

App 3: Can't say the name
> the name of the app was extremely similar to a popular company that didn't have an app yet so people thought our app was the official one. but apple approved it so game is game
> Made us the most but got shut down almost within a week though.

App 4: Meeting note taking app
> basically a copy of existing apps like wave, fireflies
> great retention, great profitability since we were essentially a 3 person company that did everything 30+ employee companies were doing

Proof (highest month)
Screenshot 2025 11 06 at 113647PM




Doing this has opened so many doors for us. The two friends I worked with got into contact with a VC from a popular pre seed accelerator, dropped out, and recently raised their seed round for a new venture valued at low 8 figs. I got a summer tech internship without any interviews by building in public, and made so many connectoins with cracked people in tech/finance. I plan on applying to a pre-seed accelerator with some friends at Princeton and Stanford with a new venture.

I wanted to share because there are infinite ways of making money online. Lookism plays less of a role behind a screen and especially in tech, richest people are deformed & autistic in sf.
If anyone is building or wants to, I'm always open to giving advice as well.
 
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Yo you study CS ? n also how long did it take you to make the app ?
and what inspired you to make it ?
and have you seen the app FaceIQ is coming out with ? its suppose to be the best lookmaxing app ever tho I lowkey want to copy it and change it up and launch it for less :lul:
 
Yo you study CS ? n also how long did it take you to make the app ?
and what inspired you to make it ?
and have you seen the app FaceIQ is coming out with ? its suppose to be the best lookmaxing app ever tho I lowkey want to copy it and change it up and launch it for less :lul:
Yes, but honestly studying cs != swe work. Making app was easy and quick

It's funny because me and faceiq actually exchanged messages about his software when he was looking for a dev, but he went with another team. At first I thought he'd need to train his own model with labeled ratings but I think the tech stack is just an open source facial landmark detector or paid api -> function to calculate measurements. I'm 100% certain its vibecoded, you can tell from the gradients and UI.
 
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ik this sounds stupid but if I wanted to do this, could I use ai then tweak it? also how'd you make and realease the apps?
 
ik this sounds stupid but if I wanted to do this, could I use ai then tweak it? also how'd you make and realease the apps?
Apps were made using Cursor, releasing apps is a headache because you need to deal with apple approvals and set up everything through the portal. Also you need a mac.
 
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not a single word
 
Apps were made using Cursor, releasing apps is a headache because you need to deal with apple approvals and set up everything through the portal. Also you need a mac.
alr cheers would windows work for google play?
 
This thread is great, miring hard bro.
 
give me 10 bucks i want to open cs cases

mirin btw ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹
 

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