Nicole Cheung - she makes $400k/mo from ai apps (while in college)

About this episode

Nicole Cheung discusses her journey of building successful AI apps while in college.

Nicole Cheung built four apps before turning 25 with no engineering background. The last two pulled over $400K a month combined, including GlamUp hitting a million users in six months and Sprout reaching $250K MRR in eight months. In this episode of The Superwall Podcast, Joseph sits down with Nicole to unpack the exact systems behind her growth, from UGC creator pipelines to paywall sequencing. The 10-minute brainstorm that turned into GlamUp, a million-user appOne repeatable TikTok fo...

People in this episode

Host: Joseph

Guest: Nicole Cheung

Topics covered

• AI applications
• entrepreneurship
• app development
• user growth
• college entrepreneurship

Keywords

• AI apps
• entrepreneurship
• GlamUp
• Sprout
• user growth
• monthly revenue
• college

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GlamUp, Sprout

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