Solved His Own Problem & Made $3100 in 2.5 Months

Keep it Shot is a Mac app that “utilizes AI to automatically provide descriptive names for your images and videos” 🤖

Founder Vignesh Warar writes…

[Keep It Shot] went viral and reached $3,000 in revenue with over $220 in MRR

💡 How he came up with the idea…

I was building a video-based search engine for lecture videos… In the process of building it, I converted videos into images, renamed them using AI, extracted text, generated descriptions, and built a semantic index…

And I thought, wow, if I’m being honest with myself, this screenshot renaming thing provided more value than the video search engine.

So he quickly pivoted and built out the first version of Keep it Shot in only 10 days…

Once I finished the product, I quickly posted it on Reddit… my scheduled Product Hunt launch went live automatically the very next day…

the demo video was tweeted from [Product Hunt’s] Twitter account, which received 900+ likes, then was picked up by some big Telegram channels with millions of followers.

You could say Vignesh got lucky there, but really he put himself in a position to get lucky 😎

In particular, that slick 7-second demo video he created to showcase the app made it very easy for Product Hunt to tweet about it.

🤑 About 2.5 months after launch, Vignesh reported…

Users: 3000+
Revenue: $3,100+
MRR: $220

Last words from Vignesh…

Over the years, I have built numerous products, but if I have to choose the ones that truly made money, they would be the products designed to solve my own problems—something that did not exist in the market.

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