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10 Secrets Behind App Mafia's $36M Empire (Scraped From Their Course)
I scraped App Mafia's course and created a custom AI to find their brutal secrets

Here Are the 10 Secrets Behind Bootsrapped Apps That Make Millions.
A group of 20-somethings cracked the code on $100,000+ daily revenue. And while the internet argued about their "cringeworthy" marketing tactics, I scraped, transcribed, and built an AI trained on their actual playbook.
What I discovered wasn't guru nonsense, these guys had a systematic blueprint for building profitable apps faster than anyone thought possible.
WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER IN THIS DEEP-DIVE:
✅ Who App Mafia really is - The 4 founders behind $36M in annual revenue (and why their age matters)
✅ 10 battle-tested secrets that built their empire, from comment section mining to paywall optimization
✅ The "timing hack" that beats funded competitors to market every time
✅ Why studying old apps like MyFitnessPal will destroy your startup (and what to study instead)
✅ The "companion strategy" that got NGL to 300 million downloads without building a social network
✅ How to design for virality from day one (not as an afterthought)
✅ The ad creative framework responsible for their explosive growth
So let’s break down the exact strategies powering $3 million in monthly revenue.