Chris retweeted
here's how to build a consumer app with ai with a $100 budget using loops...
here's my system/structure:
nobody tells you this but the reason most AI-built apps feel like AI-built apps isn't the AI, it's that people skip straight to generating instead of looping through it properly. here's the actual process if you're building something people are actually gonna use, not a demo:
- start with the boring plan, not the fun part,before you touch anything, write out who this app is for and the one thing it needs to do well. consumer apps live or die on one core loop being addictive, not on having 15 features. tell the agent to map the structure first screens, flow, auth and don't skip this because it feels slow, it's the cheapest step you'll do all build.
- most people approve plans without reading them because they're excited to see something built. don't. check if the core action is dead simple, check if onboarding is short, check if there's a reason someone opens this app twice. if it reads like a spec doc instead of a product, send it back.
- build the tiniest version that could hook someone
not the full app. the one screen, one action loop that makes the whole thing worth using. if it's a habit app, that's log a habit and see it counted. everything else streaks, badges, reminders comes later.
- use it like you just downloaded it off the App Store
open it cold. no context. does it make sense in 10 seconds? this is the actual test for consumer stuff, way more than "does the code work." if you have to explain it to yourself, a stranger definitely won't get it.
- fix ugly before you fix missing,
weirdly for consumer apps this matters earlier than people think. spacing, colors, font weight people judge trust and quality off vibes in the first 3 seconds. one prompt, keep it specific: "soft background, more breathing room between cards" works, "make it look better" doesn't.
- add the addictive layer only after the core works
streaks, progress rings, little animations, notifications that pull people back. this is the difference between an app someone uses once and one they open daily. but if you add this before the core loop is solid you're just decorating something broken.
- biggest mistake stacking five asks into one message. "add streak tracking and change the colors and fix the login bug" gets you a mediocre version of all three. separate them, test after each one.
- money has to feel invisible, not like a wall
free tier limits should feel natural, not punishing, or people churn before they ever see the paid stuff. test the whole upgrade flow yourself, pretend you're a cheap user hitting the limit for the first time,does it annoy you or does it make sense.
- test payments live, not in preview, this is the one step people rush and regret. previews lie to you. publish it, use real test cards, go through checkout like an actual paying stranger would, confirm the unlock actually unlocks.
- don't publish on "it works," publish on "I'd use this"
that's the actual bar for consumer, not qa passing. if you wouldn't open it again tomorrow, neither will anyone else.
here are the some tools you can use within the $100 budget:
- base44: $20/mo starter (100 credits), cheapest way to get a full-stack app with auth + database + payments, good for non-coders.
- lovable: $20-25/mo for the entry tier, strong on frontend/UI polish, popular for landing pages and consumer-facing apps.
bolt new: pay-as-you-go tokens or ~$20/mo, fast for quick prototypes, good if you want to export code and keep building elsewhere.
replit: ~$25/mo (Core plan) includes agent credits, good middle ground since you also get hosting + a real dev environment if you want to go deeper later.
v0 by vercel: free tier is usable for UI-only work, cheap if you just need frontend and plan to wire backend yourself.
backend/infra add-ons: (often free at this scale)
- supabase or firebase: free tier covers auth + database for an MVP with low users.
- revenuecat or superwall: use this if you're shipping to the ios app store and monetizing with subscriptions, since apple requires iap for in-app digital purchases.
- stripe or whop: no monthly cost, just takes a cut per transaction, so free until you're making money. (only if your converting ur mobile app for website asw)
domain + deployment:
- domain name iroughly $10-15/year (namecheap, porkbun)
- hosting is usually bundled free with the builder (base44/lovable/replit all host for you)
the whole point of looping instead of one-shotting is that consumer apps aren't judged on function, they're judged on feel, and feel only shows up once you actually use the thing like a stranger would, not once you read the code.
how to start a faceless youtube channel in 2026 with affiliates that actually makes money
i've written 5,000+ scripts across 50+ niches. here's the exact process i'd follow if i had to start from $0 tomorrow
STEP 1 - pick a niche with money in it, not one you "like"
a million views from teenagers and a million views from 55-year-olds are not the same paycheck. finance, retirement, sleep, and world politics pay 5-10x what entertainment does because the advertisers are different.
boring + high CPM beats fun + broke. every time.
STEP 2 - steal what already works
don't reinvent anything. find 5 channels that went from 10k to 100k recently (not the giants the ones who just broke through) and study what they changed. their titles, their hooks, their first 30 seconds.
STEP 3 - the script is 70% of everything
a mediocre video with a great script beats a beautiful video with a boring one every single time. cold open on the most intense moment. new question every 30 seconds. never let them guess what's coming next.
if you can delete a sentence and lose nothing, delete it.
STEP 4 - package it or it dies
nobody sees the video. they see the title and thumbnail first. one visual, one emotion, 3 words max on the thumbnail. a title that makes NOT clicking feel like a mistake.
40 good videos die every day because of 40 bad titles.
STEP 5 - make money before youtube pays you
affiliate links in the description from video 1. an email freebie by week 2. a $19 guide by month 2. you should earn before adsense ever turns on.
waiting for monetization is the #1 beginner mistake.
STEP 6 - read the retention graph like scripture
it tells you the exact second people left and why. cliff in the first 30s = fix your intro. dip in the middle = that's the sentence that bored them. it's the only feedback that matters.
that's it. that's the whole game.
the niche is your ceiling. the script decides how close you get to it.
i post this stuff daily. follow so you don't have to learn it the slow, expensive way like i did.
Just generated this AI podcast-style UGC clip in 2 minutes.
Dropped in a short prompt and MakeUGC handled the rest.
AI generates a realistic podcast-style creator
AI matches the voice + delivery
Video renders ready to post
No filming.
No guests.
No editing.
Comment “Makeugc” and I’ll send you the link to try it yourself.
Chris retweeted
been playing with whop's new blueprints feature and a part of it changes the whole math on starting a business..
a blueprint is a full business ready to run. not a template you fill in. the actual site, the checkout, tracking, the whop pixel, analytics, all of it live from the first second.
you pick a bluepint, name it and deploy, that's it. you're on a .whop.app url taking real payments with nothing left to wire up. i deployed one in the time it takes to read this
and these aren't thin little landing pages. multi-page sites, customer accounts, carts, booking, subscriptions, reviews, checkout. full commercial sites out of the box, hosted on Whop for free.
the analytics sit in the same dashboard. traffic, conversions, revenue, MRR, churn, ad spend, all in one place,you deploy and you can already see everything.
but here's the part that actually that got me invested into it.
instead of just building and deploying blueprints, it has other features in-built which can make the whole process easier and every business that gets onboarded through a blueprint you built earns you 10% of whop's gross profit from that business. recurring, per business, for as long as they run.
so building a blueprint is its own business. you build one for a niche, put it out there, and every business that runs on it keeps paying you while you do nothing.
i spent years thinking distribution was the hard part. build a good blueprint and the distribution is the business.
Chris retweeted
if i wanted to be absolutely cracked with faceless tiktok shop slideshows as a beginner, i'd do this:
> post in photo mode, never video mode. the swipe is the whole cheat code.
> a manual swipe reads as intent to the algo, auto-play reads as a passive skip.
> open slide one on a pain point people see in the mirror, not a feature. "3 signs of bad gut health" beats "new gut supplement" every time.
> agitate with one symptom per slide, most relatable one first. they should be nodding before they hit the product.
> reveal the product as the mechanism, then kill the objections dead. sugar-free, no gelatin, halal, whatever the "but" is, answer it before they think it.
> hard cta on the last slide with the yellow cart. by then they've swiped to the end so they've already qualified themselves.
> keep it 5 to 7 slides, no more. the algo rewards people finishing, and everyone drops off after 7 anyway.
> get the order perfect before you post. sequence locks the second you hit publish, no editing it after.
> type your text in tiktok's native editor, never bake it into the image. that's how tiktok reads your words and ranks you in search. drop your keywords straight in there.
> keep every word in the middle 60% of the screen. the caption, the buttons, the cart all eat the edges.
> write it for someone with the sound off and their thumb not moving. each slide has to land in two seconds. if a line needs a second read, most people never read it.
> use the commercial sounds library on a business account or you'll get muted. grab something trending in the last 7 days, not last month.
> shoot for 9:16, 1080x1920. don't crop a square shot, outpaint the background so it fills the whole screen.
> run volume. 10 to 20 versions a week, swap the first slide, the sound, the order, let the winner tell you what to do next.
> watch saves and swipe-throughs, not views. a save is someone telling the algo to go push this.
one rule i wouldn't break: never fake a before/after or invent proof on a real product. that's the one thing that actually gets you nuked, not the faceless part.
everything else is cope. this is how you move fast and make money.
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Chris retweeted
10 steps to a $30k/mo consumer app right now:
> pick a niche where people already spend hours daily - dating, fitness, studying, journaling.
> find the top 5 apps in that niche, read their 1-star reviews, that's your roadmap.
> build the smallest possible version that fixes the #1 complaint -> 1 feature, not 10.
> don't touch paid ads yet, tiktok organic is free distribution nobody uses properly.
> make 3 slideshows a day from a burner account, hook in slide 1, app reveal in the last slide.
> post for 30 days straight before judging anything, the algorithm needs volume.
> once one format hits, clone it 20 times with small variations, never abandon a winning hook.
> add hard paywall after onboarding, soft paywalls kill consumer apps price at $6.99/week not $29.99/year, weekly converts 3x better on impulse installs.
> when organic proves the hook works, hire 5 clippers to run the same format at scale reinvest everything into content for 6 months before taking a dollar out enjoy
here's how you can scale to 10k/month on tiktok shop with slideshows
so most affiliates are stuck doing the same thing every day. film, edit, post, make like $60-80 in commissions. and the problem isn't effort, it's that your time is the bottleneck. you can't film 15 videos a day. so your output caps and your money caps with it.
meanwhile there's a guy in canada who made $18k in his first two weeks. never filmed anything. never showed his face. never even held a product. canada doesn't even support tiktok shop, he's running us tiktok from there. all slideshows.
and when i say slideshows i mean 4-7 images posted like a normal tiktok with a product link attached. that's it. someone buys off it, you get paid. making one takes maybe 5% of the skill of making a video.
now here's the catch. tiktok gated the feature. most accounts can't attach products to photo posts, you'll get a "product links not available in photo mode" error. some accounts randomly have it.
quick way to check: open tiktok studio on desktop (has to be desktop, mobile won't work), hit upload. if you see "videos or photos" you have access. click photos, upload your images, attach the link. if you only see video upload, you're not in yet. uk and europe are getting it randomly right now, us is only top gmv creators for the moment. check every day because tiktok doesn't tell you when you get it, the option just shows up.
worst case you build the system now and execute day one when your account unlocks. because the people getting random access with no clue what they're doing are posting random images and making nothing. the format is easy, that doesn't mean it's mindless.
the format itself is one thing repeated over and over: pain point first, product second.
slide one hits an insecurity. back acne from the gym. car turning into an oven all summer. makeup that never sits right. the person scrolling sees it and goes "wait that's literally me." middle slides twist the knife a bit more. then "so i tried this thing everyone's using," show it working, before and after, and the last slide is just the offer. sale, free shipping, link below. done.
that structure sells cold traffic. people who've never seen the product buy off one slideshow because you sold the problem, not the product.
and here's the part most people don't clock when they're scrolling past these: none of it is real. the guy holding the ceiling fan doesn't own a ceiling fan. the back acne was generated onto the model. the smoothies were never made. it's all ai images.
which kills every excuse at once. no face, no product in hand, no waiting on shipping, no country restrictions.
the workflow is dumb simple. screenshot a slideshow style you like, drop it in chatgpt, say "make me 3x4 images in this style." then describe your pain point scene. couple walking to a car that's been baking in the sun, whatever it is. then grab the product image off the tiktok listing, feed it in, "now show them using this." repeat per slide. no fancy prompts, the reference images do all the work.
two small things that matter more than they should. keep everything 3:4 or the mixed sizes make the whole post look off. and don't bake text into the images, add it inside tiktok. native text looks like a person posted it. baked text looks like an ad. people can feel the difference even if they can't explain it.
if you want it to look even more real, take a photo of your actual kitchen or desk and only generate the product into it. real room, ai product. nobody can tell.
for ideas, don't invent anything. steal structure, swap one variable.
the number one post in the uk right now is a simpsons style slideshow about linen trousers. take that exact skeleton and run it with a sports set or summer shorts instead. same format, different product, suddenly it's unsaturated again.
or take viral videos and turn them into slides. one guy took a viral video about a sink drainage thing, rebuilt it as images, and beat the original with 1.7m views. first week on the platform.
the biggest edge though is going backwards. pull products that went viral 2-3 months ago, take the exact hooks that already converted millions of views, and rerun them as slideshows. nobody's done them in this format because the format barely exists. you're not testing ideas, you're re-releasing proven hits.
then it just comes down to volume. no filming, no editing, no product costs means each post is basically free. so post 10-15 a day. most will flop, who cares. one will do 500k views in two days and when it does you remake it 50 times and drain it.
every gated feature on tiktok runs the same cycle. early access prints, wide rollout saturates, then it's just another format everyone does.
slideshows are still in the first part of that cycle.
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Chris retweeted
this is just fucking insane
three men. one workout. none of them are real
i cloned one viral gym video into all three. same lunge, same caption, same sweat. different guy, different country. one prompt each
seedance 2.5 rebuilds any viral video frame for frame now. keep the motion, the audio, the text. swap the person and the place. you cannot tell its ai
now do the math on money
a gym app needs a mountain of native ugc every month. the old way is hiring 10, 20 influencers, briefing them, waiting weeks, paying every single one
or one 16 year old with seedance 2.5 and claude code pumps out 100 videos in an afternoon from his bed if he wants to
claude code writes the clone prompts, seedance makes the videos, i just pick the winners. thats how you clear $10k a month easy. not because its hard, because you out-produce an entire agency alone
comment "clone" and ill dm you the exact seedance 2.5 clone process, the master prompt and the money model (must RT + follow so i can dm)
if you run an app or a brand and want ai ugc like this made for you, launch a campaign on affiliate network below
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YouTubers. This is great Thumbnail advice:
Your face means NOTHING to people who don’t know you yet
Sometimes it's better to use your face for your First Thumbnail when Subs are getting pushed the video
Then switch it to something else when it's pushed to a broader audience
The YouTube hack nobody talks about...
The 2-phase thumbnail
When you first post, YouTube pushes videos to your core audience. The people who already watch you
They know your face, they recognize you instantly
So put your face front and center. That familiarity is what earns the click
But once the video starts reaching a wider audience, those people have no clue who you are. Your face means nothing to them
That's when you pull it off and switch to a composition nobody else in your niche is running. Something that breaks the pattern on the home feed and stands out
Most creators A/B test and never touch the winning thumbnail again. But these two viral videos below show this exact process 👇
Chris retweeted
been messing with seedance 2.5 in 1080p on higgsfield since it dropped and motion is where it actually shows
ran a fast whip pan across a market street, usual res that shot turns to soup mid pan, edges smearing, faces losing definition for a frame or two. in 1080p the pan holds, background stays legible even while it's moving fast
tried a handheld tracking shot next, follow someone walking through a crowd. lower res that's where you get the warping, background elements melting into each other. this held shape through the whole move
higgsfield has it live right now, full hd seedance 2.5, and free generations for new users while it's open
🤝 Paid partnership
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Chris retweeted
1 year ago I asked chat GPT how to build an app
Today :
- 2 Million Users
- $1.3 Million MRR
- 1 Billion Views
answering all questions on distribution 🫡
Chris retweeted
i've spent over 100 hours creating with seedance 2.5
5 tips:
> prompt in 15s montages and use the best clips
> prompt diagetic sound only (sfx are great)
> midjourney -> gpt 2 -> seedance 2.5 is OP
> 4-6 shots per montage is sweet spot
> use same style block in every prompt
