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I made $100K in 3 months with this AI wrapper

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Nov 11, 2026

Bogdan turned his own eBook side hustle into GetEbook, an AI tool that writes a full eBook in under 10 minutes. Over the past few months, he's made over $100K with this app. This video is a playbook for turning a simple idea into an app that makes money.

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This video is an educational case study of this founder’s experience. It is not financial advice and does not guarantee any income or results. Every business is different and your results may vary.

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Just the other day I was scrolling through app ideas

when I came across this simple website

When I checked it out

I thought there's no way this thing actually makes money

So I reached out to the guy who built it

And when he told me more about it I was genuinely shocked

I built a SaaS called Gettybook ai

that made me 130 000 in less than four months

This is Bogdan

He built this really simple AI wrapper

And in just a few months

he has made over 100 000 from it

The biggest growth channel for us was

So I asked Bogdan to come onto the channel

and reveal the app and break everything down for us

And in this episode

we're gonna dive into the simple AI wrapper that he built

that has made him over 100 000 on the side

his simple approach to finding ideas like this

and his exact method that took it

from zero to 100K in revenue really really fast

I think this one's gonna be fun

Let's dive in

I'm Gus and this is Starter Story

All right Bogdan welcome to Starter Story man

Super excited to have you on the channel

Could you share with us who you are

what you built and what's your story

Hi I'm Bogdan

I'm 28 years old

and I built a SaaS called Gettybook ai

that made me 130 000 in less than four months

About two years ago I started building Gettybook ai

a platform that helps people

create complete eBooks using AI

My first version of the app was built using Glovable

but it was a complete mess

So then I started rebuilding it using Cloud Code

All right Bogdan this is really awesome

Over 100 000 in just a few months

Let's get into what your business is

So could you just tell us in a few sentences

what is Gettybook ai

How does it work

Who are some of your users

So basically Gettybook ai helps you

turn any idea into a complete eBook

whether it's a lead magnet or a course

or a workbook anything

without using any other softwares

like Canva or other formatting softwares

Our customers are mainly digital product sellers

marketers creators affiliates and business owners

who either wants to sell eBooks

or use them as lead magnets

This is the landing page of Gettybook ai

It helps you create any sorts of eBooks

just typing here an idea for example like this one

So we have a subscription in place

that's starting from 29 a month

but we also offer credits as an upsell to the people

And we also have in our funnel

some other tutorials that we are selling

and other digital products

that might help them sell their eBooks

I think this type of app is really really smart

And it really got me thinking

are there other successful AI wrapper ideas just like this

Well our team at Star Story did some research

and we put together this list of over 50 AI app ideas

just like this one

Each of these ideas is proven and backed by data

stuff like cost to start revenue growth tactics

It's basically everything that you need

to validate an idea and start building it yourself

If you're interested in this list

just head to the link in the description

description and grab it 100 for free

All right let's get back to the episode

Okay Bogdan this is really one of the reasons

I wanted to have you on the channel

is because you know Get eBook

helps people create these eBooks easily

Someone watching might just say

you know isn't this just like a chat GPT AI wrapper

And I think the answer is like of course yes

But clearly it's valuable to some people

and it's making some money

So could you pull up your Stripe or revenue dashboards

just to show to the audience that this thing is legit

Sure thing

We got over 130 000 in revenue over the four months

and we got over 1 700 paying customers

and around 5 000 signups

So we are basically having around 704 000 MRR

but revenue is much higher

because usually some people are buying credits

as a one time payment

And we are also offering other digital products

like tutorials and stuff

Bogdan this is crazy

Four months 132 000 from a little tool

that helps you make eBooks

It sounds pretty wild

but obviously the Stripe revenue is there

for anyone who could feel a little bit doubtful about it

That's really really cool

Before we get into how you did it

because I'm very interested to understand

what's your background

How do you get to a point where you're building this tool

that's making over 100 000 a month

So basically I graduated computer science

for business management but I never knew how to code

I never liked it

So when vibe coding came in it was a perfect match for it

Today I run a small social media marketing agency

with my wife

So most of my experience has been around advertising

customer acquisition and digital products

Before GetEbook ai I was already selling eBooks online

by myself either creating them with ChatGBT and Canva

and promoting other people's products as an affiliate

Okay so that makes a lot of sense

I imagine your background in marketing is gonna be huge

when we get to the marketing section of this interview

interview in terms of how you grew really really fast

And then yeah you already started to mention

you had a background in creating online eBooks

Tell us about how you found this idea for GetEbook ai

So basically GetEbook ai was a tool that I needed

because I was selling eBooks by myself

and I was creating them manually

So after doing that repeatedly I thought

why isn't there one tool that handles this entire workflow

just with a few clicks

And because I was already selling eBooks

I also knew there was demand for the end product

The real validation came when we launched ads

and strangers starting paying for our software

Okay cool

Yeah I think some of the best business ideas

that we see on the channel

are from people who are doing something manually

or are doing something and thinking to themselves

why can't this be easier

Or why can't this be cleaner or better

And that's kind of exactly what you did with GetEbook ai

One of the questions I wanna ask is

and I know someone in the comments might be wondering

okay is this just like an AI slot machine

What I mean by that is like

are you just helping people churn out a bunch of content

that's 100 AI and not really good

or not really valuable

What would you say to someone who has that doubt

in their minds about your product

or about the idea of like one click

create a whole thing type of products

Okay I think AI slop is real

but the problem isn't AI itself

It's AI using without any judgment

If someone generates 100 generic eBooks

and uploads them without even reviewing

or improving anything that's slop

GetEbook is meant to remove the repetitive work

around creating an eBook

Research structure writing formatting and packaging

You still need a good idea

and a real audience and the quality control

The way I see it AI should replace repetitive work

not original thinking

Yeah I keep coming back to that phrase you're saying

like replacing repetitive work

And I can think of 10 things that I do every single day

that I wish I could do in just a couple of clicks

So there's something there

and I'm sure people watching

can think of that for themselves

Let's talk about how you built this

So you said that you had a CS degree but weren't technical

How did you build this

Tell us a little bit about the timeline

and how you put this together

The first version of getebook ai

was my first real experience with live coding

I built it using Lovable

And initially it felt amazing

because I could build things incredibly quickly

without really knowing how to code

The problem was that as the app became more complex

I started realizing I didn't really understand

what I had built

The code base became harder and harder to manage

So I decided to rebuild it using Cloud Code

And that's when things changed for me

But still honestly it's not perfect

There are already parts where I'm thinking

I should probably rebuild this again for my own sanity

And that's probably my biggest lesson from vibe coding

AI lets you build incredibly fast

But if you don't understand what you're building

it also lets you create a mess incredibly fast

Totally

I appreciate you kind of saying that

because I think a lot of people think

at the beginning you're kind of just like

so excited that it works

You're just happy that you can type some words

and it creates a product

And now that I've done it a bunch of times

I'm much more methodical

like kind of like you're saying

You can kind of figure out

okay if I do it this way

I know kind of the end result's gonna suck

So let me set up some basic structure

or basic rules at the beginning

So I think that's really really smart

And honestly really incredible

that you built this 100 with AI

On that note what's the tech stack behind GetEbook

So I'm using Cloud Code for coding

ChadGBT for research

Superbase for authentication and database

Vercel for hosting

Resend API for the email marketing

and I'm also using OpenAI and Gemini APIs

to basically generate everything inside

All right let's get into the growth

because this is what I really am interested in

You went from zero to over 130K in revenue

in just a couple months

When you showed us your Stripe dashboard

clearly it's still slowly growing

So let's break down how you did that

How did you go from zero to over 100K in revenue so fast

The biggest growth channel for us was meta ads

If I had to summarize how to go past 100 000

it would be first test a huge amount of creatives

I didn't really approach GetEbook like a traditional SaaS

Instead of just building one homepage

and sending everybody there

we were testing creatives angles offers audiences

landing pages and funnels

funnels because different customers want GetEbook

for completely different reasons

Some might want to create an e book and sell it

Someone else might just want a lead magnet

Basically this landing page is for people

that might wanna sell their e books using Amazon KDP

and basically we are giving them a little tool

that might help them

So in the end we are trying to sell them our product

And when something works

we don't just leave it running forever

We create variations around the idea

idea because eventually the creatives gets fatigued

Actually learn that the hard way

There was a period when I stopped producing

new creatives constantly

and even though the campaigns were still running

the performance started to drop

The other major part of the growth strategy

is build a funnel that increases

what each customer is worth

I don't only look at whether someone bought the subscription

After someone becomes a customer

they can also buy more credits tutorials smaller tools

That means I can potentially afford to spend more

to acquire a customer upfront

because their value isn't limited

to their first subscription

Once we found creatives and funnels that were profitable

the strategy became pretty simple

Spend more

Today we're spending around 20 000 to 30 000 a month

on meta ads

That's really been the growth engine of Gettybook ai

Awesome

My last question before I move on is

you said you're spending 20 000 to 30 000 a month

month on meta ads

So someone's gonna be watching and say

he's not profitable at all

He's spending more than he's making

Tell us more about your approach

with spending that much on meta ads

and maybe talk a little bit about your profitability

for this business

Okay so basically I've started with a smaller budget

with around 200 a day

and then I've just keep adding on top

top because I've saw that we were profitable

And these days we are doing 20 000 to 30 000 a month

in ad spend and we are profitable

We are doing around 40 to 50 profit margins

every single month

Awesome Bogdan

Thanks so much for breaking down your process

for growing Gettybook ai

And I think it makes total sense

You mentioned at the top of the interview

that you run this marketing agency with your wife

and so Gettybook is sort of this side project for you

And sounds like you're totally using

your experience in marketing to help grow Gettybook ai

And I think that's a really really smart approach

Now I wanna see it in action

Could you show us like a demo of how Gettybook ai works

Sure thing

Do you have an idea in mind

Do I have an idea

Shoot

Yeah

That's a good question

Okay I have a one year old baby who's not coloring yet

but one day will be coloring

And I want him to color like a city landscape or something

I live in Los Angeles so like do Los Angeles

Let's try it

I never tried that

We can also pick different styles

I like the kawaii chibi ones

They are quite a thing now on Amazon

So we'd make it fast

We'll select 16 pages for kids with everything

And also the cast that will show into the coloring book

So it's Luna the pup Milo the cat and others

And after we approve we just click on start drawing

So here's your cast

So this is a little preview for the user

Look it's a Venice beach

Santa Monica yeah

Basically this is the preview

and let me download it in full

And I will send it to you for your kid

Sure

I'll take it

That's awesome

Yeah super cool

I think it's just a really smart and simple idea

I imagine that a lot of people who use this or buy this

like how fast and how simple it is to use

Okay let's get to the last question Bogdan

The question we ask all people who come on Starter Story

If you were standing on your shoulders a few months ago

before you launched this

or for someone watching who is just getting started

and wants to build their own first thing

what would be your final piece of advice to them

or a big lesson from your journey that you'd want to share

So I would say don't you dare give up

There were so many moments

where getebook ai felt like a complete mess

where things weren't working

But every time something failed

I learned something that helped me build the next version

So if I could go back and tell myself one thing

it would be don't quit just because it's taking longer

or looks harder than you expect

Keep going

Bogdan that's great advice man

Thanks so much for coming on Starter Story

and sharing getebook and how you did it

This is a really awesome story

Congrats and we'll talk again soon man

Thank you

Have a good one

All right I just wrapped up with Bogdan

I thought it was really cool

A simple AI rapper that's made well over 100 grand

is just really really impressive to me

My biggest takeaway

and that's probably should be my big stick

with every one of these businesses that we talk about

is that it's all about the marketing right

He has a marketing background

that was probably his a little bit unfair advantage

He took that marketing background on a simple idea

make eBooks make coloring books

and was able to funnel into meta ads and other creatives

that helped him generate this revenue

revenue Almost any idea can work

as long as you have a good and the right marketing approach

I myself am still learning that

I appreciated his advice at the end

when he said like don't give up

when it feels like some things are not working

In my own app journey right now

I'm in the process of hitting a wall a little bit

and trying to figure out what to do next

and so that advice is timely

Yeah I hope you enjoyed that interview

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