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This unbelievable app idea makes $50K/month
Starter Story
Oct 4, 2026
6 months ago, Lino had never built an app in his life. Then he stumbled upon the app community on X, made some connections, and started building. Just 6 months later, he's grown his first app to over $50K per month and changed his life forever. In this video, he will break down his unbelievable app idea and how he grew it so fast.
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What
if
you
could
change
your
life
in
just
six
months
and
what
if
all
it
took
was
a
simple
idea
and
the
willingness
to
put
in
the
work
Well
I
want
you
to
meet
Lino
I
launched
my
first
app
AppMax
about
five
months
ago
and
now
we're
on
pace
to
hit
60k
this
month
And
I
didn't
even
know
how
to
vibe
code
I
didn't
even
know
how
to
prompt
Six
months
ago
he
had
never
built
an
app
before
in
his
life
and
in
fact
he'd
never
even
written
a
single
line
of
code
he
just
started
learning
from
people
in
the
app
space
shipped
his
first
app
and
today
that
app
that
he
built
is
about
to
hit
60
000
a
month
Our
product
is
super
niche
which
is
why
I
think
we're
performing
extremely
extremely
extremely
well
So
I
asked
Lino
to
come
onto
the
channel
and
break
down
exactly
what
he
built
and
how
he
did
this
In
this
episode
we're
going
to
dive
into
his
dead
simple
app
that
now
makes
60
000
a
month
how
he
went
from
zero
users
and
no
distribution
to
thousands
of
downloads
and
his
very
simple
advice
for
how
to
build
a
successful
app
in
2026
Guys
this
one
you
are
not
going
to
want
to
miss
it
Let's
dive
in
This
is
Starter
Story
All
right
Lino
welcome
to
the
channel
I'm
pumped
to
have
you
on
here
Let's
get
into
it
Tell
me
about
who
you
are
what
you
built
and
what's
your
story
So
I'm
Lino
Leiden
I
launched
my
first
app
AppMax
about
five
months
ago
and
now
we're
on
pace
to
hit
60
000
000
this
month
Today
I'm
excited
to
share
more
about
the
process
of
how
I
was
able
to
scale
these
kind
of
of
numbers
in
such
a
short
amount
of
time
with
literally
zero
coding
experience
and
absolutely
not
technical
at
all
Let's
get
into
the
business
and
the
app
itself
So
just
explain
what
AppMax
is
in
a
few
sentences
and
then
pull
up
your
Revenue
Cat
dashboards
to
show
off
the
revenue
and
show
us
that
this
thing
is
legit
So
AppMax
is
basically
an
app
to
help
people
achieve
their
best
abs
And
basically
what
we
do
is
we
have
users
fill
out
some
basic
info
about
their
fitness
journey
and
we
tailor
them
a
custom
abs
plan
specifically
for
each
user
alongside
pre
made
training
programs
and
workout
programs
specifically
targeting
their
abs
Okay
so
our
monthly
revenue
is
just
about
55
000
this
month
and
we
currently
have
16
000
downloads
in
the
past
28
days
and
we
have
just
over
3
000
active
paying
customers
Cool
So
how
do
you
come
up
with
this
app
idea
Yeah
so
actually
I
was
back
in
back
in
February
and
I
went
to
the
gym
with
all
my
friends
Everyone
kept
comparing
about
who
has
better
abs
like
oh
I
have
better
abs
than
you
I
have
better
abs
than
you
And
I
just
kept
that
kept
thinking
like
everyone
cares
about
their
abs
And
then
I
started
to
do
a
little
research
and
I
found
out
that
if
someone
wanted
to
get
abs
in
2026
there
was
absolutely
no
place
for
them
to
go
So
I
thought
of
a
good
solution
where
why
don't
I
make
an
app
that
helps
people
achieve
abs
and
help
them
get
visible
abs
Yeah
And
that's
basically
how
I
came
up
with
AppMax
What
I
love
about
Lino's
story
is
that
he
changed
his
life
in
just
six
months
He
found
a
really
smart
category
built
his
simple
app
and
now
today
that
app
makes
60
000
a
month
And
the
way
he
found
his
app
idea
was
really
simple
He
looked
at
stuff
that
was
already
working
and
kind
of
remixed
it
for
2026
And
that's
exactly
why
we
put
together
this
free
database
of
iOS
app
ideas
that
are
already
making
money
Every
idea
in
this
database
comes
with
real
numbers
revenue
pricing
models
growth
tactics
all
from
real
app
founders
that
have
built
successful
app
businesses
So
if
you're
looking
for
your
next
app
idea
it
might
be
hiding
right
here
in
this
database
Just
head
to
the
link
in
the
description
and
grab
it
100
for
free
All
right
let's
get
back
to
Lino
100
This
is
what
I
love
about
what
you
built
And
I
remember
20
10
20
years
ago
when
I
was
a
kid
just
like
watching
TV
they
would
have
these
ads
for
like
five
minute
abs
and
you'd
buy
some
sort
of
device
or
some
sort
of
workout
thing
Back
then
it
was
like
Bowflex
or
something
like
that
but
they
would
market
it
specifically
for
if
you
want
abs
for
the
summer
You're
essentially
doing
this
in
a
modern
social
media
way
So
I
think
that's
amazing
That's
actually
a
super
super
smart
insight
If
you
went
and
just
built
the
total
workout
tracker
yes
there
are
successful
versions
of
those
but
it's
way
better
to
niche
down
The
next
thing
I
want
to
ask
you
about
is
how
you
built
this
because
we
were
chatting
earlier
You're
18
years
old
You
have
no
technical
background
You
told
me
you
don't
know
anything
about
how
to
build
apps
for
the
people
that
are
watching
this
on
here
I
want
to
hear
in
just
the
five
six
months
that
this
app
has
grown
and
become
successful
How
did
you
actually
build
this
What
was
the
actual
build
journey
How
did
you
originally
build
it
What
tools
did
you
use
and
how'd
you
build
this
thing
Yeah
So
I
originally
built
this
in
lovable
back
in
February
and
this
is
when
I
didn't
even
know
anything
about
apps
I
didn't
even
know
what
revenue
cat
was
I
didn't
even
know
what
an
onboarding
was
and
I
spent
two
months
manually
prompting
this
old
project
in
lovable
After
two
months
I
was
ready
to
launch
and
just
before
launch
I
was
like
there's
absolutely
no
way
I
can
release
this
This
is
this
is
terrible
So
I
decided
to
rebuild
the
entire
thing
back
in
work
and
this
is
when
I
started
to
get
onto
X
and
starting
to
follow
all
these
other
successful
app
founders
and
I
picked
up
a
I
I
only
had
a
five
code
but
also
some
like
onboarding
tactics
how
to
market
all
like
the
insider
advice
you
need
that
is
working
for
their
apps
I
put
that
advice
and
put
it
towards
my
app
and
I
was
able
to
build
app
max
V2
basically
in
work
in
one
month
and
I
was
ready
to
ship
and
then
after
the
first
month
we
did
just
over
7
000
in
revenue
Could
you
walk
through
like
what
your
actual
tech
stack
looks
like
right
now
Like
if
you
had
to
start
over
what's
the
tech
that
you're
using
What
tools
I
keep
it
super
simple
I
have
super
base
for
authentication
I
use
work
max
for
the
development
I
use
sensor
tower
basically
for
competitor
and
idea
research
I
use
sign
com
for
creator
contracts
and
agreements
and
I
use
post
hog
for
internal
analytics
Okay
So
you
mentioned
something
earlier
you
use
sign
com
for
creator
contracts
I'm
guessing
that
may
be
how
you've
grown
this
thing
cause
you
know
anybody
can
build
an
ad
maxing
app
but
is
it
going
to
get
any
downloads
if
you
don't
do
any
marketing
advertising
Probably
not
So
let's
talk
about
this
first
I
want
to
hear
from
you
when
you
just
created
the
app
How
did
you
go
from
zero
to
the
first
10
K
per
month
What
was
the
overall
marketing
strategy
and
what
really
like
worked
for
your
app
I
started
running
UGC
with
these
big
influencers
in
the
fitness
niche
which
was
probably
one
of
the
biggest
mistakes
I've
ever
made
We
were
blindly
going
into
this
We
didn't
even
have
a
winning
format
or
a
winning
content
strategy
to
give
these
influencers
before
spending
thousands
of
dollars
for
each
video
So
that's
probably
the
biggest
mistake
And
so
alongside
that
we
were
also
running
faceless
TikTok
slideshows
which
I
was
manually
posting
on
my
own
The
big
UGC
deals
alongside
these
TikTok
slideshows
helped
us
get
up
to
three
to
four
K
in
revenue
But
the
problem
was
our
margins
were
terrible
We
were
running
at
like
five
to
10
which
is
why
I
came
up
with
the
idea
idea
And
we
partnered
up
with
a
big
fitness
influencer
on
social
media
in
return
for
some
equity
which
helped
us
get
the
ground
running
off
to
start
which
I
would
recommend
to
any
inexperienced
founders
who
are
looking
to
get
the
ground
running
off
launch
I
think
that's
actually
really
smart
Instead
of
going
to
all
these
little
creators
and
making
these
small
deals
and
maybe
one
of
them
works
but
most
of
them
don't
You
just
said
screw
that
Instead
I'm
just
going
to
find
an
equity
partner
who
has
some
skin
in
the
game
And
then
all
the
ads
are
essentially
free
and
they
have
like
more
incentive
to
actually
make
this
thing
work
So
that's
pretty
much
the
secret
to
how
you
got
to
10K
Go
find
someone
with
distribution
who
is
good
at
social
media
content
Then
how
do
you
take
it
from
10K
a
month
to
60K
a
month
Were
you
just
doubling
down
on
that
or
like
what
was
working
Yeah
so
basically
we
cut
out
every
single
UGC
deal
every
influencer
deal
and
we
started
to
double
down
on
what
was
working
for
us
And
we
found
out
that
our
meta
ads
were
running
at
like
a
two
two
to
two
point
five
XROAS
and
are
extremely
profitable
So
we
just
started
doubling
down
on
meta
ads
And
we
only
stuck
with
our
one
big
creator
that
we
gave
equity
to
And
he
would
just
create
content
for
us
and
we
would
just
run
paid
ads
behind
it
strictly
through
meta
As
well
during
that
process
we
decided
to
take
all
of
our
creatives
from
meta
and
move
them
over
to
TikTok
ads
alongside
that
And
for
some
reason
they
performed
five
to
six
X
better
The
same
exact
creatives
were
able
to
we
were
able
to
get
four
to
five
XROAS
on
the
same
creatives
mainly
because
on
TikTok
it
targets
a
younger
audience
and
meta
is
more
of
an
older
audience
So
our
target
user
it's
anywhere
from
15
to
30
years
old
And
with
TikTok
we
were
able
to
resonate
and
target
with
that
specific
user
extremely
well
But
what
I
want
to
ask
you
is
you
know
you've
done
this
so
fast
in
the
past
six
seven
months
you
went
from
zero
to
almost
60K
per
month
and
obviously
growing
more
There's
lots
of
people
who
watch
this
channel
who
you
know
want
to
change
their
lives
lives
as
fast
as
you
did
If
you
were
starting
over
trying
to
find
an
idea
build
it
what
steps
would
you
take
to
to
make
that
happen
all
over
again
Yeah
So
first
thing
hands
down
is
to
get
inside
of
the
X
app
community
and
start
following
these
top
founders
there
All
these
founders
give
out
so
much
sauce
and
advice
there
for
literally
free
Then
I
would
go
on
to
SensorTower
and
start
looking
up
some
ideas
you
have
for
apps
and
start
trying
to
find
the
hot
niche
right
now
The
way
to
find
this
is
by
looking
up
potential
app
ideas
in
there
And
if
there
are
a
ton
of
apps
in
that
niche
consistently
doing
over
10K
a
month
then
that's
a
niche
you
want
to
build
in
Yeah
So
step
two
is
post
before
building
Once
you
have
your
app
idea
if
you
want
to
validate
it
even
more
before
you
even
start
building
it
I
would
make
a
faceless
TikTok
page
and
start
promoting
your
app
through
organic
TikTok
slideshows
and
start
posting
three
to
four
times
a
day
However
since
your
app
is
not
built
instead
of
giving
them
a
CTA
on
a
specific
slide
I
would
replace
the
CTA
with
comment
app
and
I
will
send
it
to
you
Like
for
example
if
you're
building
a
calorie
tracking
app
the
first
slide
would
be
five
ways
to
improve
your
life
let's
just
say
Slide
one
walk
10
000
steps
a
day
Slide
two
workout
seven
times
a
week
Slide
three
eat
extremely
clean
Slide
four
use
this
app
blank
to
help
you
blah
blah
blah
comment
app
and
I'll
send
you
it
And
if
you're
posting
three
or
four
three
or
four
of
these
a
day
and
after
seven
days
you
start
seeing
a
bunch
of
comments
people
commenting
app
that
means
there's
serious
demand
for
this
product
and
now
you're
able
to
spend
the
time
and
build
the
product
and
go
all
in
because
the
idea
is
100
validated
Step
three
ship
in
seven
days
I
would
build
out
the
product
in
Rourke
or
whatever
tool
you
prefer
and
I
would
try
to
ship
in
seven
days
or
less
The
biggest
mistake
I
see
is
founders
overly
obsessing
over
the
product
and
spending
two
to
three
months
to
launch
which
I
personally
experienced
myself
You
can
always
improve
the
product
later
after
launch
Just
try
to
get
it
out
there
and
start
optimizing
for
your
metrics
and
start
marketing
and
start
bringing
in
revenue
before
you
start
adding
that
extra
leaderboard
feature
or
the
extra
sound
app
Yeah
So
step
four
I
would
look
for
micro
influencers
Now
once
you're
in
the
app
store
now
what
I
would
do
is
look
up
keywords
in
your
niche
on
Instagram
and
TikTok
and
try
to
find
smaller
creators
who
have
500
to
a
thousand
followers
who
post
consistently
I
would
reach
out
to
them
and
pay
them
like
a
hundred
dollars
for
10
videos
and
have
them
test
out
a
bunch
of
different
hooks
formats
and
CTAs
for
my
app
The
goal
would
be
for
this
is
just
to
find
your
winning
content
style
before
putting
any
serious
money
behind
it
Step
five
would
be
scale
marketing
Now
once
you
found
out
which
style
performs
the
best
I
would
start
running
a
UGC
campaign
either
through
SideShift
Tribe
or
you
can
even
manually
source
creators
and
manage
them
separately
which
I
would
highly
recommend
For
UGC
I
would
highly
recommend
hiring
a
VA
on
Fiverr
which
is
extremely
inexpensive
and
have
him
cold
DM
hundreds
of
creators
in
your
niche
who
fit
your
criteria
And
for
me
my
criteria
was
anywhere
from
five
to
50
000
followers
They
post
consistently
they
show
their
face
and
they
have
an
active
comment
section
Those
are
all
like
the
checklist
Now
once
you're
sitting
at
around
10
to
15
creators
posting
consistently
and
you
have
a
bunch
of
creatives
now
you
can
start
running
paid
ads
behind
those
creatives
So
once
your
UGC
and
paid
ads
are
stable
and
profitable
I
would
go
back
and
completely
revamp
the
product
and
try
to
make
it
correct
where
you
can
hire
a
developer
or
a
product
engineer
or
something
along
those
lines
Now
you
can
obsess
over
the
product
once
your
marketing
is
stable
and
you're
at
five
to
10K
per
month
Okay
cool
Lino
thanks
for
sharing
that
playbook
What
I'm
curious
to
see
is
the
actual
app
that
you
built
I'd
love
to
see
the
AppMax
app
how
it
works
what
it
does
how
fancy
it
is
Would
you
be
able
to
show
me
the
app
that
made
over
50
000
a
month
Yeah
So
if
you
go
over
here
you're
actually
able
to
scan
your
ads
and
get
a
whole
breakdown
of
your
lower
app
score
your
body
fat
percentage
and
find
out
exactly
what's
holding
back
your
abs
whether
it's
body
fat
percentage
whether
it's
your
lack
of
muscle
And
then
from
here
we
have
a
bunch
of
pre
made
workout
plans
and
training
programs
you
can
follow
Me
personally
I've
been
following
the
Summer
App
Shredder
which
is
like
a
30
day
plan
that
you
can
follow
to
help
you
get
shredded
for
the
summer
Yeah
so
that's
pretty
much
AppMax
Super
simple
And
I
was
actually
the
first
one
to
come
up
with
this
idea
believe
it
or
not
And
there's
zero
competitors
in
this
niche
which
is
kind
of
crazy
You
mentioned
that
you
were
the
first
to
come
up
with
this
app
idea
Here's
the
thing
Anybody
can
build
an
AppMax
app
right
Building
it
is
not
the
hard
part
Hopefully
if
you're
watching
this
video
right
now
you're
on
YouTube
watching
this
and
you've
made
it
this
far
and
you
understand
that
the
secret
sauce
has
nothing
really
to
do
with
how
you
built
it
It's
the
marketing
strategy
It's
the
distribution
It's
everything
that
you
figured
out
at
such
a
young
age
So
my
last
question
for
you
if
you
could
give
some
advice
to
the
people
watching
this
right
now
trying
to
figure
out
how
to
not
only
just
build
apps
but
actually
build
an
app
that
is
crushing
it
and
making
a
lot
of
money
like
yours
what
would
that
advice
be
This
kind
of
goes
for
any
business
It's
simply
just
do
not
give
up
and
stop
comparing
yourself
to
all
these
people
you
see
on
social
media
who
are
doing
six
figures
seven
figures
Don't
compare
your
level
two
or
your
level
three
to
someone
else's
level
and
just
focus
on
your
path
and
what's
ahead
and
what's
the
next
step
for
you
You're
going
to
go
through
some
tough
times
where
you
literally
think
your
life
is
over
Like
I
experienced
I
thought
my
life
is
over
Looking
back
on
it
now
it
was
no
big
deal
but
you
just
have
to
keep
going
As
long
as
you
never
give
up
and
you
show
up
every
day
and
you
continue
getting
better
it's
physically
impossible
for
you
to
lose
It's
physically
impossible
for
you
to
lose
as
long
as
you
simply
just
never
give
up
and
get
better
every
day
and
keep
on
showing
up
Well
that's
great
advice
Lino
you're
crushing
it
You're
not
even
in
college
or
you
decided
not
to
go
to
college
I
dropped
out
after
my
first
semester
of
freshman
year
actually
You
realize
that
you
can
do
this
watch
a
YouTube
video
go
on
X
meet
with
founders
and
you
can
build
stuff
that
changes
your
life
in
six
months
which
is
what
you
did
Hopefully
people
watching
this
are
still
watching
this
by
now
to
show
that
this
is
possible
Lino
what
you
built
is
awesome
Thanks
for
coming
on
Thanks
for
sharing
everything
so
openly
even
though
you
probably
have
a
few
copycats
Thanks
for
coming
on
Thank
you
for
having
me
All
right
Gus
producer
and
co
host
of
Starter
Story
What
do
you
think
about
Lino
and
the
app
MaxApp
I
hope
people
can
really
start
to
understand
through
all
of
our
interviews
There's
so
many
app
ideas
out
there
that
are
making
money
It's
so
crazy
to
me
It's
just
like
an
app
Max's
idea
seems
just
so
almost
unbelievable
and
yet
he's
still
very
successful
And
he's
so
young
So
those
are
some
of
the
things
I'm
thinking
about
It's
like
man
you
can
really
make
money
with
anything
No
I
agree
It's
not
that
complicated
There's
not
some
crazy
marketing
strategy
to
take
away
from
this
It's
just
like
take
action
move
forward
If
someone
like
Lino
who's
18
19
years
old
didn't
go
to
college
not
technical
he
can
do
it
Going
online
and
learning
watching
videos
like
Starter
Story
and
going
on
X
and
connecting
with
founders
and
building
an
app
that
maxes
your
abs
out
There's
nothing
complicated
here
other
than
this
guy
just
isn't
scared
to
take
action
and
put
himself
out
there
and
fail
Yeah
that's
what
he
said
to
me
on
the
phone
when
I
talked
to
him
and
I
asked
him
a
little
bit
more
about
his
background
He
was
just
like
yeah
I
thought
this
was
cool
I
saw
these
people
sharing
these
apps
on
X
and
I
thought
man
this
is
really
cool
I
want
to
do
that
too
And
he
just
kind
of
went
for
it
I
was
really
impressed
with
that
The
other
thing
that
I
think
is
kind
of
cool
about
his
app
is
that
it
is
like
a
recreation
of
a
marketing
concept
that's
as
old
as
time
which
is
to
get
overnight
abs
right
Everyone
wants
abs
Everyone
wants
abs
for
the
summer
There's
going
to
be
a
summer
every
year
and
everyone
wants
to
go
look
good
at
the
beach
And
whether
it's
a
VHS
that
you
buy
online
or
an
app
that
solves
that
problem
that
problem
will
never
go
out
of
style
So
I
think
that's
cool
There's
tons
of
more
ideas
like
this
As
I
mentioned
earlier
we
have
our
iOS
app
ideas
database
which
you
can
click
through
right
now
If
you'll
click
that
link
in
the
description
and
you
can
see
a
bunch
of
iOS
app
ideas
that
are
making
money
or
could
potentially
make
a
bunch
of
money
You
go
and
execute
just
like
Lino
did
So
I'll
put
that
in
the
description
Thank
you
guys
for
watching
We'll
see
you
in
the
next
one
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