He cloned Cal AI for Finance and makes $40K MRR with TikTok

Hey, in this case study, I'm going to

break down exactly how this solo

developer cloned Cali for the trading

and finance niche and is now scaling

this basic Chad GPT rapper to over

$40,000 per month in reoccurring revenue

in less than 4 months. I also show you

how he was able to do this without ever

paying any influencers thousands of

dollars to promote his app, without ever

running any paid advertising on Tik Tok

or Meta Ads, as well as never even

showing his face on any of the content.

and of course how you can copy all these

scaling and marketing strategies into

your own business and help scale your

app. Now, a little about myself. My name

is Sebastian Stef and I'm basically just

a growth marketer and strategist for a

bunch of different companies like Clear

30, Vidi, so Brief Glassy, Dice AI,

Reacted, Ad Revival, and many, many

other ones. We've had pretty great

success just growing these companies

out. Uh, so if you're developing any

type of SAS or app, feel free to book a

call. First link in description, and

hopefully you can work together. And

here's a couple, you know, highlights of

my own life just to kind of get to know

me. You know, I love traveling. uh

sports, everything like that. Here is me

with some of my clients that we met up

in New York uh last month. So, that was

pretty sick. And let's get into the

breakdown of Profit AI and how, you

know, this guy was able to scale it from

zero to over 40K per month in less than

4 months. Now, the app Profit AI, like I

said, was made by one single solo

founder called Sakira Osman, and it's

only 4 months old as of recording this

video. And yeah, like I said, very, very

basic app. You know the basic app

functionality is that you or take a

photo of a stock chart and then it gives

you an analysis with the AI and

literally I'll expose the whole app.

This is literally it. You know it's just

a chat GP API. You upload the image and

you ask for the prompt and then it gives

you the breakdown. It's literally the

exact same information as chat will give

you. The only thing it does it just

makes it a little bit fancier.

Obviously, you can play around with the

prompt, make it more detailed, more

advanced, whatever else. But the basic

in a nutshell is that this is this is

the whole app. This is it's pretty

pretty simple. And like I said, it's a

basically a clone of Cali, which is, you

know, the same thing, but for nutrition

tracking and tracking your uh macros,

stuff like that, which is again the same

thing is that you take a photo of food

and give you the calories and breakdowns

and proteins, etc. of the food that you

took a photo of. And like I said, the

same thing is happening here is that

it's basically just the chat GBT API.

You upload a photo, you ask a prompt to

analyze the photo, give the full macros

breakdown, and it'll give you the exact

information that the app will give you.

It's that's that's it. The only thing

it's doing is making it a nice uh

environment for to be able to track it.

You know, add some extra features

because obviously you don't want to

track this through a chat GPT. So,

that's kind of the main benefits that's

being sold here is it's a nice

interface. It's makes it more convenient

and easier to track. And yeah, like I

said, right now through the trackable

estimates, he's doing about 20K per

month, which is through the inapp

purchases, but uh I can guarantee you

he's doing another 20 to 40K in

additional revenue because he is using a

third party checkout on Stripe beyond

just the default uh inapp purchase uh

window that Apple gives you. And he

offers a 30% discount because usually,

you know, that 30% would go to Apple,

but if you just use the third party

checkout, he'll give you the discount to

the customer basically. Uh, and yeah, I

can guarantee because you can't really

track the Stripe, uh, revenue, I can

guarantee about like 70% of customers

choose this option. So, uh, he's making

a lot more money than, uh, the estimate

is is telling us, I would say. And of

course, he's not the only one because a

lot of other people, you know, notice

this trend are now hopping onto it. So,

if you look up, you know, chart AI or

anything to do with like AI with

trading, you'll see a huge list of

competitors trying to hop on this market

because again, there's no brand loyalty

here, right? It's a very very simple

app. and the more competitors that are

actually trying to enter a field is more

of a good sign because that just proves

the validity of the market. Now, beyond

that, I also do want to do a trend

analysis in general of the whole stock

analysis and trading and day trading

type of industry as a whole because

right now it's the highest it's ever

been. Basically, if you look up on

Google Trends, every single search term

is right now just blowing up. Anything

to do with stock analysis, day trading,

stock and market trading, uh forex,

crypto, anything else you look up, it's

really the highest it's ever been peaked

at, even higher back when the GME and

AMC and the whole Wall Street bets

scenarios blowing up back in CO. And

then beyond that, I also want to talk

about the fact that people have always

made money in this whole trading

industry selling methods in the forms of

you know books, courses, seminars,

programs, newsletters, softwares, etc.

All this stuff has existed since

forever. Literally, even back in, you

know, the 80s and 70s back on TV, people

used to run ads about, you know, trading

seminars, right? There's always going to

be some new scheme or method to make uh

to exploit the market and and trading

and investing and everything else

basically, you know. But for the longest

time, the target demographic for this

whole industry was like older 30, 40

plus year old guys because, you know,

you need a bunch of money to really

invest in it and you kind of just bank

on the high ticket clients. But now,

ever since I say like the Wall Street

bets boom took off back in COVID, it's

when like a lot of the younger

generation Gen Z and millennials got

into the whole industry. And now after

that is when the new like wave of

influencers who do trading kind of

started to uh come up especially in the

forms of TGR if you guys are familiar

with this guy and I would say he he

single-handedly got like the whole of

Gen Z addicted to trading basically

because this guy basically started live

streaming uh himself trading became

successful and then he's just flooded

the short form algorithm on Tik Tok and

Instagram etc uh with clips and things

of that nature of just him trading stuff

like that. As you can see here, this is

just his own personal page. This is not

even counting his like giant army of

clippers and reposters who are mass

sharing all his content across all the

social media channels and he's getting

insane views basically. And this guy

basically kind of is spearheading the

whole trend out. Now I'm using like a

TGR kind of like a prime golden boy

example because he's like I would say

the most popular influence in the space.

But you know with whenever there's a

peak guy at the top there's going to be

smaller guys underneath him who are

trying to get to the top spot basically

right and like I said the app and TGR

and you know everything else is always

just an evolution of what already works

right besides TGR there are thousands of

smaller influencers communities niche

groups telegram channels etc etc which

are all you know trying to make and bank

off this like educational content around

trading and making money online and

forex etc etc etc uh and I want to list

through a couple of the biggest ones you

can take a look at. Right? So, if you go