Four friends built one of the most successful iOS apps ever, sold it for millions, but the real story changes everything you think about building apps in 2026. Meet Blake (25), Zach (19), Henry (18), and Jake (31). The team behind Cal AI. Month 1: $30K Month 2: $100K+ Month 8: $1M/month On track for ~$50M this year Sold for multiple millions
Frederick is an indie app builder who went from $0 to $10,000 a month with a health and fitness app. He believes the specific app barely matters… what actually moves the needle is the repeatable marke
Bro went from a 700-person village in Slovakia to Google, then built a startup that got bought by Amazon. Meet Rasty. After high school he moved to Boston to work for a security company that got acqui
Bro built a fun tool for his dad, now it makes $16K-$20K per month. Kourosh launched Voicy, a speech-to-text app, as a Chrome extension two years ago. “Originally, I just built it as a fun tool for my
Bro got 300 users from Reddit, then grew to 12K YouTube subs with one series. Meet Kourosh. He built Voicy, a speech-to-text app doing $18K/month as a side project. Reddit got him his first few hundre
Vadim is 19 and had never shipped an app before this year. His AI clipping tool Vugola now does $11K/month, and the growth came from one brand new Instagram account.
Charlie bootstrapped his micro-saas, Links, to over $30K/month, which allowed him to quit his job... twice! In this episode, he shares exactly how he grew Liinks to $30K/month (even in a saturated mar
Dude built an app with zero iOS experience and it went from $66 to $41,000 in a month. Meet Rasty. A few months ago he had never built an iOS app in his life. Built Vaultaire, an encrypted vault for y
Founder made nearly $600K building a newsletter, community, job board, summer school, and her own holiday. Meet Milly. She runs Generalist World from a tiny Scottish island with 191 people on it. When
Bro hit 1 million players in under a month with zero email campaigns. Frank has 4M followers as a sports creator. But GeoSports didn’t grow from his audience. Only 2% of daily traffic comes from his o
Rasty built and launched his first iOS app in 3 weeks. And today, that simple idea makes $41,000 per month. The secret? Well, he didn't dance on TikTok or spam Instagram. No, his old school approach i
Bro built his first app with zero coding in 5 months and now makes $11,000 per month? Meet Vadim. He’s 19. 5 months ago he launched his very first app, Vugola, an AI video editing tool. Today it’s mak
Max built Maxed.ai, a lifting app, with zero coding experience. Here’s where he says to put your effort right now: Early on, skip hiring UGC creators until you know which angles actually drive downloa
