App Masters · Jan 20Watch This Before Building Your App (Build a Profitable MVP)
It has made over $27,000 in lifetime sales and about $3,000 a month, a small example showing a niche paid app can still be profitable.
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Paraphrase AI
An AI paraphrasing app built by Steve P. Young's team.
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Paraphrase AI, a niche paid app, has made over $27,000 in lifetime sales and about $3,000 a month, showing a small app can be profitable. Its team is now testing a 15-second AI UGC ad for a new speak-in-your-language feature, with man and woman avatars on one script; results are unknown. Lesson: test presenters against a fixed script and write ads around feature benefits.
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App Masters · Jan 20App Masters · Apr 14How to Create High-Converting AI UGC Ads in Minutes (No Creators Needed)
Used as the demo app, with a new speak-in-your-language feature promoted through a 15-second AI UGC ad. The same script was generated with a man and a woman avatar, and the ads are being run live with results not yet known.
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- Keep the script fixed and swap the avatar to find the best presenter▶ 4:59The host generated the same Paraphrase AI script with a man, then a woman, and said he can repeat this over and over.
- Describe the new feature and upload a screenshot to generate a benefit-focused script▶ 5:49For Paraphrase AI, a speak-in-your-language feature, the generated script hit the feature and benefits the host wanted.
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