A 17-year-old built CaliEye, a GPT-based calorie counter app, and made $1.8 million in one month through influencer videos. The lesson: GPT wrappers with custom interfaces can be built fast and sell well if you market them right on social media.
What type of software will be successful in the future? When millions of people are creating things, what are the things that might stand out? What's crushing right now? A lot of these ChatGPT wrappers are honestly just cleaning up. You're taking ChatGPT, slapping your own interface on it, and just selling it as standalone software product. You could build these super, super fast. There's example, there's one called like CaliEye, and he's 17. It did $1.8 million last month. It's an app on your phone where you can scan your food and it tells you how many calories it is. And they figured out how to do the content to where it works, to where the videos are naturally integrated into the person's life. It'll be like a fitness influencer is like, here's a day in my life and it's like 5-second B-roll, them scanning their food. Someone comments, what app is that? They make another video or they drive conversions that way.
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