Forget Dropshipping. I Found a $100K/Month AI App… Then Built One with Claude AI

[00:02] Code, copying an app that's making over $400,000 every month on the app stores. And this isn't some app mock-up. This is a full functional app that can run on the app store and on the Play Store. If you guys

[00:16] really want to, you can use my app right now by scanning this QR code. Now, what I've also done to make your life easier is I built a step-by-step canvas, as you can see on the screen, to help you with everything. Now, you guys are going to

[00:29] be able to get access to that canvas once we've hit 500 likes on this video. So, the first thing that I want to do is show you guys the trick on how you can find apps that are generating hundreds of thousands of dollars a month so that

[00:41] you can clone them with Claude Code and make a better version. Now, obviously, we're not going to just completely copy and paste the app. We're going to make changes, but I'm going to be showing you how to do it all with Claude. Now, the

[00:54] are making money right now, and it's completely free, it's called sensortower.com or app.sensortower.com, as you can see on my screen. I'm in the UI. Now, once you come over to Sensor

[01:07] says mobile apps insights, and then you're going to see 7-day trending apps. can change it from App Store to Play Store, and you can also change it to the

[01:19] location. Now, I just leave these on overall App Store in US, and then you're going to see the seven different apps. So, we can see here this one's called Peacock TV, this one's called Netflix Game Controller. Then we've got another

[01:32] game, and then we've got Incredible Box. Now, I'm going to be honest with you guys, you're going to want to stay away from apps that are like TV streaming, movies, games, because those are a lot

[01:44] recommend staying away from them. Now, if you're ambitious, you can do it, but watching this and you have a little bit of technical background, you can do it. So, this one here called incredible box, we can click view app details. Now, this

[02:00] app here has generated $100,000 in the last month, and you can see how many downloads it's got. Now, if I scroll down, you can see here it's some form of from it. Then you've got another app called last war survival, and then

[02:15] you've got here some other ones. Now, I'm really struggling to find apps that meet my criteria, so we can go from overall to maybe education, now the best niches that you can filter this by, if you want to make sure that you can

[02:29] easily remake them, is education, health and fitness, kids, books, and entertainment. Those are usually the best niches to go for to build simple apps. Now, after doing all of this, guys, I was able to find one

[02:44] called Monkey Taps LLC. Now, this is a company that builds these apps, and you can see here on the left-hand side, these guys have built many of apps. So, if I was to guess, these guys have vibe coded all of these apps because the apps

[02:57] they're making are what we call simple apps, but you can see that they're generating $300,000 a month with these apps. So, these are most money. So, let's have a look at

[03:10] you can see now this one's generating $100,000, and then I get a screenshot of what the app looks like, and you can see this is very simple and easy to build based on what I can see. Then you're going to see a description here of what

[03:24] the app is and what it does. Now, based on that information, I know that this app is going to be very easy for me to replicate. So, now I found the app that I personally want to remake, but make it different and better. And I've got the

[03:39] proof that it's making money, and I've also got the proof by looking at the imagery and the description that this is very simple to build. So, now what we can do is we can now get a prompt made to give to our Claude to build it. Now,

[03:53] the platform that you're going to want to use to get your prompts, now I'm using an agentic agent, which basically means it can go onto the web, it can do GenSpark in this video. You can use Minus AI, you can use Abacus AI. It

[04:07] long as it's agentic. Basically, it can do more research than LLMs. Now, once mode is turned on or you've got the best power mode on. You're going to want to copy the link to this. So, you can see here the link. You're going to want to

[04:21] copy it. You're then going to want to go back to GenSpark or whatever agent you're using, paste it in. Then, you're also going to want to go back here and here viewing Google Play. You're also going to want to copy this link as well.

[04:34] Then, you're going to want to write a simple prompt that you'll find in the The prompt basically says, "I want to remake this app, but make it better." I'm going to be using a vibe coding platform to build it, X, Y, and Z. Now,

[04:48] that GenSpark has gone out there and created me an MVP. Now, the MVP something, and you can see here it's gone over the full MVP for me. It's been able to find all this out by actually going to their Play Store and looking at

[05:04] what the app does, and you can see now Claude, which is right here, on what type of app to build me. So, you can see the prompt is right here, and it's also given me the five different phases of

[05:18] what I should do. So, the next thing that I want to go over is how do AI apps actually make money and what can you realistically expect from this? Because the way that these make money is completely different to anything else

[05:32] like drop shipping. Now, you've got something called model A, which is something called model A, which is one-time IAP, pay-per-use. $19 for one photo if you're doing a photo AI app, where somebody can do like photo

[05:45] generation or illustrations, they pay a fee for each time they use it. Then you got model B, which is auto renewing subscriptions. charging somebody $29 a month, it's reoccurring after Apple or Google take

[05:59] 15% after the 1 year. So you're looking at around about 15% off after they've take the fees. Then you've got freemium plus pro. So you got a free tier, which could be one to three generations of

[06:12] then you got the pro tier where they get unlimited. So these are the three most common models. Now the way the economics work is revenue per customer, if you're doing the IAP method could be $19 per use. Then on auto renewing, your

[06:27] use. Then on auto renewing, your subscriptions can go from $29 up to $100 to $200 depending on what you're selling. But for you guys, keep the monthly subscription to around about $29 to $100.

[06:39] So let's put it at the midpoint and say that your monthly recurring revenue can be $49.99. Now the cost per customer, which means how much does it cost for you to get the customer? Now the cost per customer can

[06:52] be between 10 to 20 to 30 dollars. It can even go higher than that. But what you got to remember is with AI apps, especially monthly recurring on subscriptions, you might make your money

[07:04] on the second month and that's where you become super profitable. So that's why with AI apps, you can't judge it based on the first purchase. Because on the second purchase, that's where you might make full profit or

[07:17] break even. Then remember you got Apple cut, so Apple and Google cut is around about 30% for the first year. So between both of them, you're looking at around about 30%. Now you can get your AI agent like Gen Spark to help explain based on

[07:29] what you're doing, their true calculations of what you can expect. I'm just giving you rough numbers. Now the thing is, the path to $10,000 a month is around about 700 paying customers. Now the path to around about $100,000 a

[07:43] month could be between 5,000 and 7,000 paying customers. Now, the thing is AI apps, you don't make life-changing money just off the monthly recurring revenue. You can make life-changing money when you sell the app the AI app or the app

[07:57] becomes a highly desired asset. People are always looking to buy apps. You always hear about it, apps being acquired all the time. Now, what I've also done is I've given you guys a realistic 1-month to 6-month forecast on

[08:10] the potential income that you can do. Now guys, remember that you're doing this to build something that you can sell at the end. Now, you are going to going to be spending money on advertising to actually get your

[08:23] for free. It's going to be very, very hard. So, you will need to run ads to acquire your customers. Now, this is where things get interesting. I'm going to give you guys two options, and the two options will depend on how easy you

[08:37] want it to be. Now, option one, and by the way, option one doesn't mean it's the best, so really do listen carefully, is you can come to Claude desktop, as for $20 a month. So, you will have to pay $20 somewhere. You can either use

[08:51] Claude desktop and then use their feature called Claude co-work, which you can see here. This option is you're going to paste the prompt to Claude co-work. Make sure that you're using Opus 4.7, which is the most intelligent

[09:05] model from Claude. And then what it will do is it will build you the app. Now, the only issue with using Claude co-work like this is it's a little bit more technical to build the app, get the preview, publish the app to the Play

[09:18] Store. It will be a lot more technical. Now, there is the second option, which is for the same money, it's $20, and you actually get your first few prompts for free. So, technically you can build your first app for free, or at least half of

[09:31] it and see it, is by using a platform that allows you to use Claude in it, but it just makes mobile apps so easy to build. Now I actually think option two, which is using Rock or Rock, I don't know how to pronounce them, is probably

[09:44] the best option for 90% of you guys. Now I will show you guys both methods, but let me start with option two because it is the one that I'm sure most of you will use. So this is Rock or Rock, I don't know how to pronounce it, but this

[09:57] is the platform that is designed purely to build apps. So it's literally a live coding platform that will allow you to build apps on the Play Store, the Apple Store, and publish it to both platforms. All you've got to do is create an

[10:12] account, and like I said, you can use Rock for the first five prompts for completely free. So you need to go to Rock Max. Make sure you're using the Max allow you to build crazy stuff. You can actually build games using this one as

[10:25] link to this in the description. It is an affiliate link. I'm not sponsored by them, and the affiliate commission is really, really small, by the way, guys, but helps the channel out. And if Rock is watching this video, sponsor your boy

[10:38] you're going to want to do is you're drop-down menu which platform you want, iPhone, for Android, or for both. Now if you're using both, it's going to be Expo. Now in my opinion, guys, I think

[10:52] you're going to put in the describe the prompt. So this is where you're going to paste the prompt from GenSpark, and you're going to add it here. Then once you've done that, you're going to see on the right-hand side a mobile phone UI

[11:06] mock-up display. So it's going to build your app, and you can preview it on the right-hand side once it's built. Now the crazy thing is whilst it's building you your app, it even designs the icon for your platform. So obviously you need an

[11:19] icon for the Play Store, the App Store, and it even builds you one, which is got this built because it does take about 10 minutes, 15 minutes for the AI platform to build it. Now you can actually see that in the bottom left, in

[11:32] the bottom of the chat, we are still using Claude. We're using Claude Opus 4.7. So, even though we're using Rock, we're still using Claude. What Rock does is it just makes it really easy to use. And like I said, when I show you option

[11:45] going to see how much more complicated it is. But, it depends on who you are and which option you want to use. Now, when you do upgrade to Rock, it is still $20. So, you're going to be paying $20 to either Opus or Rock. So, it's the

[11:58] same same in my opinion. So, once you've done this, guys, you can see on the right-hand side my mobile app is now functioning. You can see here I can scroll and I can see what my app would look like. I can even scan the QR code,

[12:11] and as long as I've got an app downloaded, which is the Expo app, which allows you to preview apps on your phone, I can see what this looks like. Now, I can even click on this, and I can see it in live view how it would work. I

[12:24] can interact with the app, I can see the categories, I can see the quiz, I can progression. I can even click the settings icon, and I can play around with it. Now, what I would say is you're definitely going to want to download the

[12:37] mobile app that you're cloning or making a better version of. So, for example, this is the one that I'm trying to compete with, I would actually download this and see what theirs is like on your phone. So, that when you're using an app

[12:50] builder to build this, at least you know if yours is getting good enough to back and forth with Rock around about six, seven times till the app is fully polished and you can use it and publish it. But, you can see here it's all

[13:04] functioning. I can play the sounds, and you can see it all works. Now, this was built this, and it's really, really impressive. And like I said, in the top view it on both platforms, specifically Apple and specifically Android. And you

[13:20] like on a tablet. Then, in the right-hand side, you're going to see publish. You can apply to publish to this to the App Store by clicking this button and then you can click new submission. You can see already creates

[13:32] the icon for you. You can then add the name of your company or the app. Then what you can do is you can then click continue and then you can sign up to Apple developer. Now you have to have an Apple developer account to add any app

[13:46] to the App Store. So you do need to sign up to create this and then you can click submit once you've got your Apple developer account. Then if you click you're going to see that takes you directly here to basically submit it.

[13:59] Now there are a few things that you need to do to be able to do this, but all the steps are here for you to follow. And then you can also see here in the left you've got preview, you've got assets, you've got analytics and you've got Rock

[14:11] Cloud. So everything is stored within the cloud. And then you can also see the built. And then in the top right what you can do is you've got your environment variables, you can clone the project, you can connect it to GitHub so

[14:23] that way if you want to go back if it's made a mistake, you can easily revert back. And then you've got other features. Now a few other important is in the bottom left where the plus symbol is, you're going to see here

[14:36] where it says payments. Now you can see you can use RevenueCat to integrate payments to your app. So straight away you can start receiving payments. You RevenueCat and you can start accepting payments in your app. So like I said,

[14:49] Rock makes it so so easy for you to do all of this. Now I've built another app on all the apps that these guys are making money. So they've got Bible Widgets which is their second biggest. They're pulling in $90,000 a month with

[15:04] this app. So I was able to rebuild this app just to show you what this also looks like. Now just to quickly show you their app, you can see the screenshots here of what it looks like and what they offer. Again, a very very simple app and

[15:18] UI design. And by the way, we can take screenshots of this and upload it to Rock. So for example, you click this button here, you can upload images, and a reference for the UI design. Now, you

[15:30] your personal companion with a deeper walk with God. Begin your journey. You type in your name here, and then you can see here it says deepen my faith. We're "What speaks to your heart?" Let's say

[15:43] are you on your journey?" Growing deeper. And just like that, you can see the UI design right there about today's reflection. Then you've got prayer on the bottom. You can actually speak to the assistant. Then you've got your

[15:57] journal. Then you've got growth. Now, again, I've actually only one shot of this. You can see this is a one-shot prompt, and it was able to build this, which, in my opinion, is absolutely crazy. Now, I think after about three

[16:10] because it's so good. And you can see the settings cogwheel in the top, and it shows you here if I was to add a yearly subscription, this is what the design would look like. I can do my 14-day free trial, and you can see the app looks

[16:24] really, really good. So, that is option two to build your apps using Claude. Remember, even though we're using Rock, we're still using Claude within it to do all of the heavy lifting and writing the code. Now, option one is for you to do

[16:37] it all yourself. Now, the only benefits of this is you get full control, but with full control comes responsibility and a higher level of knowledge. But, I did say I'd show it you guys. So, how option two would work is you'd have to

[16:51] go back to Claude on your desktop. I'm on Claude Co-work here. I've given it all the information, and now you can see that it's built me three packages: a readme document, a words code JSON document, and a package document. So,

[17:04] essentially, I've got to make sure that all three of these are on my desktop in a documentation, so that when I run a command on my terminal, it will run on Windows or you're on Apple, will depend on how you activate these. Now,

[17:19] on I'm on Apple, so I'm going to be using terminal to actually get these given it the prompt, you are going to get three packages back. You're not going to see a mobile preview just yet because you have to manually get it to

[17:32] done, you can see it says here, "Run this command in your terminal to basically get it started." And then it tells you where your project lives. So, your project lives in a certain library, so you have to make sure you run this in

[17:45] terminal, I now add this into my terminal and click enter, you can see now it's loading up the project. Now, for this to work, there are a few apps that you need to have on your computer. Now, for me, I'm a Mac, I actually

[17:59] Now, for me, I'm a Mac, I actually actually download loads of packages on see here it says now which options you want. I want I for iPhone, so I'm going to click enter, and you can see now it is starting up the iOS version. It's

[18:12] just opened up simulator. Now, simulator allows me to view the app on the mobile. So, on Mac, we're going to use simulator, and you can see now it's loading it up. And you can see straight away it's loaded up the app. So, you can

[18:26] away it's loaded up the app. So, you can see here categories, quiz, saved, and progress. So, this is an example of how the app would look like if I was to do the app would look like if I was to do it using Claude code on my own device.

[18:39] But again, there are some downsides of this because it means I'd have to use simulator. I had to download loads of packages, as you can see from this chat, to get it to work. So, if I just show you guys my chat with Claude code work,

[18:52] with it a lot because I didn't have the packages on my computer to run it. For example, you need Xcode, you need simulator, you need other packages to be honest, if you're a complete beginner, that's going to really put you off, and

[19:06] it's going to scare you away. Although it works and it's completely fine and I'm really happy with this, I'm just saying as a complete beginner, I think other crazy part is to submit this to the App Store and to have submit this to

[19:19] the Play Store, it's going to be a little bit more harder than it would be with using it on Rock. And also, if you were to make changes to this, so for example, if I go over to categories, you can see here it looks terrible. The

[19:31] actual layout of this just doesn't look good. So, this is clearly a UI design issue. So, for me to then get it to fix this, I have to go back to Claude Code. I'd have to say in the Claude Code chat, these are the issues with the app. Give

[19:46] it some print screens. I need you to now fix these issues. And then it would fix terminal again and then it would show you the up-to-date version. Whereas with Rock, you add it in the chat window, it updates in live time, you don't need to

[19:59] see with the two comparisons, they both work, they're both amazing, but for a beginner, again, I think the Rock method is the best. So, now I've shown you guys both methods, you know which one you're going to want to use. But as I promised

[20:12] in the whiteboard canvas, I have left the step-by-step guide to using both methods. Now, once you've successfully built your app using either option of the shown you and you're happy with it and you've tested it and it works right

[20:25] and you've submitted it to the Google Play Store and the App Store and your around about 1 to 3 days, guys, but usually you should have no issues. And Play Store or the App Store will tell you what you need to fix before it can

[20:39] be approved, but usually it's very, very easy. Now, once your app is approved and it's ready to start promoting, you now need to build a website that you're going to use to promote your app. So, all the traffic that you're going to

[20:51] drive to your app is going to be from your website. So, the user comes to your website and then they can click download and it downloads it to their phone. Now, to build the website, we're going to use Hostinger Horizon because we're not

[21:04] going to be using anything technical to build these websites. Now, Hostinger Horizon is by far the best if you want to build websites for your apps, for Because again, it's just straight prompts and it will build you a website.

[21:18] built me, guys. You can see here for WordWise, it's built me this website, learn a beautiful word every day, and you can see it's built this full nice. And then when the user clicks download, it will take them to the iOS

[21:32] which one they click on, and they can then get the app. You're definitely the one that I've just built myself with Hostinger Horizon. So, what you're going to want to do, guys, is come over to my link in the description for Hostinger.

[21:46] top, and you're going to want to go to where it says pricing, and then you're going to want to choose the most popular option, which is around about $10. And to get a free domain name, which you're going to need, which is usually $20, and

[21:59] you're going to get two free mailboxes, which means people can email you at need those, and they're also around about $20 a year as well. And you're also going to be able to create 25 websites. So, if you guys want to build

[22:12] 10 apps or 20 apps, at least you can build 25 websites and not have any that you're getting for this for just $10 a month, it's going to be insane. going to click select plan. You're then going to go to the 12-month option,

[22:27] to get. You're then going to go to where it says, "Have you got a coupon code?" and you're going to type in Ecom King. And just like that, guys, to get And just like that, guys, to get yourself a 10% discount using my code.

[22:39] And then you can click continue and get your subscription. Then once you've done GenSpark or whatever agent that you've got to build you your original prompt for building the MVP. And then you're going to go back to that chat, and

[22:53] you're going to say to it that I'm now going to build a website for the app to promote it. So, I need you to come up with a prompt to give to you Hostinger Horizon to build me the website. Then it will give you the prompt. You're going

[23:05] to go back to Hostinger Horizon and you're going to start by sending it that added in here. And you can see it's added everything in and then you're going to get your website which looks just like this. Now,

[23:19] prompt that I gave it. Now, there are like add a custom logo, add some images here of what the app looks like, and a few other things. But, most of the website is done just off one prompt.

[23:33] in full screen, guys, you can see it just like this. Now, the other great thing with Hostinger Horizon is you've got all the data here. So, all the data that comes through you own and control. You can see the whole code base and you

[23:46] click on things that you want to change like the text, like the words, and you got the publish option. Now, when you temporary domain name. You can see here it's put on a temporary domain name and

[24:00] domain. Now, as long as you've got the 12-month option, you're going to get a and you just enter the name of the domain name. Mine's going to be wordwise.app. So, that's going to be the actual domain

[24:13] name that I'm going to want to use. And then you connect it and then the next time you publish it, guys, it will be on your private domain. And then once your to promote and I can look at what this would look like on the mobile version.

[24:27] Once your website is ready to go and ready to promote your app, you're then ready to start running traffic. So, once you've successfully got your app, you've built your website using Hostinger Horizon, you can now advertise your app

[24:41] to people to start getting them to download and buy it. Now, talking about ads, this is how you're going to create content to run on Facebook ads, Google ads, or TikTok ads. Now, Higgsfield is an AI platform that

[24:55] creates AI content. Now, they came up with a platform called Marketing Studio, which is a game-changer. You can go over to where it says app. So, instead of a You're then going to go to where it says

[25:09] app, and then you can add your app's URL in here. It will pull the URL from the app, and then it will create mock-ups and examples of people that can promote your app. And then you can choose mobile or desktop. Obviously, it's going to be

[25:23] mobile. 9 by 16 15 seconds. And then the only one you can choose for now is UGC. You can describe what the ad happens. Now, you can go back to GenSpark, the agent that I use, and I can say, "Come up with some marketing ideas for UGC ads

[25:38] Say you're going to be using the Marketing Studio from Higgsfield, and can add. And then just like that, you're going to have UGC-style ads like these

[25:50] ones that you can see of people using your platform. And then you can run your platform. And then you can run those ads from Higgsfield on TikTok or to a landing page for a physical product, you're running ads to a landing

[26:03] page for a app. That is literally going to be the difference. And it's so easily done now using Higgsfield Marketing Studio. Now, back before you used to have to pay an actor, tell them how to do it, and it was really, really hard.

[26:17] Now, you're going to use this platform, and it's going to be so easy. So, guys, that is essentially how you can clone apps that are making $100,000, $400,000, build them using Claude, then create a website using Hostinger Horizon, and

[26:31] then create content using Higgsfield Marketing Studio, and then run them on Facebook or TikTok as ads. Now, if you guys want to learn how to run ads to explaining how to do it. But that's essentially how you're going to do the

[26:45] structure. If you guys have enjoyed this video and got a lot of value from it, below. And if you want to see more videos like this, also let me know.