Air Fryer Genius: Revenue, team and how it was built

Team of 2 to 10 · 45 months after launch, revenue falling

Said US$19K a monthRecords US$9.6K in JulyDid not hold

It appeared in January 2023 inside Google Slides, a program where people already work, when writing slides from one sentence was new, and users showed it to each other without paid advertising. A blog about presentation topics then brought about 80% of new users from Google search, by the founder's account. Both channels weakened: search traffic fell, and Google added the same function to Slides. The verified total is real, and so is the fall: monthly revenue fell by half between February and July 2026.

Solo founder · 29 months after launch, revenue falling

It is run by a search marketer: its pages target what people type into Google, and its best month came from a list article on another company's blog that ranked there. A US$1 trial that needs a card turns visitors directly into subscribers at US$25 a month or US$99 a year.

Solo founder · 36 months after launch, revenue flat

The first customers came from a lifetime-deal sale on AppSumo, at a time when the product had no AI at all. That gave about a thousand users, word of mouth and a Powered by Guidejar link on every free guide. From April 2024 the founder sold subscriptions instead, and added AI writing, voiceover and translation to the paid plans, metered in credits.

Team of 2 to 10 · 24 months after launch, revenue falling

It sold a simple promise, a finished PowerPoint file from one sentence, at a low price: in 2024 and the first half of 2025 the archived pricing showed unlimited decks for US$9.99 a month. Stripe payments read by TrustMRR add up to US$60,120 since the start. The verified monthly figures also show a steady fall after November 2025, when the plans had moved from unlimited use to slide credits, and the founder put the business up for sale.

Team of 2 to 10 · 47 months after launch, revenue falling

It put a language model inside Google Sheets from November 2022, and Google's marketplace brought more than 201,000 installs. Few installs paid: US$52,136 of verified revenue in 47 months is about US$0.26 per install. Its most important result may be indirect: a request for a pitch deck for SheetAI led the founder to build MagicSlides, which by its own verified data earned about 14 times as much. SheetAI's own revenue is now falling, and Google has offered a similar AI function inside Sheets since June 2025.

Solo founder · 15 months after launch, revenue falling

It does the work in the cells instead of explaining what to paste, and it works in the Excel that people already have, without a Microsoft Copilot license. The founder already taught Excel to a large French audience. The AI models are bought by the request from OpenAI and Anthropic, so one person could build and run it.

Solo founder · 9 months after launch, revenue falling

One person in Paris built an AI research product that sells a one-time report instead of a subscription, and TrustMRR reads US$30,168 of revenue from its payment accounts between December 2025 and 12 October 2026. The page shows how a crowded AI category can still pay a solo founder, how revenue behaved after the first three months, and what is still unclear about the first month.

Solo founder · 15 months after launch, revenue falling

Many recipes now live in short videos, where the ingredients are spoken or shown and never written down. A model that can watch a video and write out a structured recipe turned an old app category, the recipe keeper, into something that works for these videos. One developer built it on rented models and sells it through the app stores as a subscription.

Team of 2 to 10 · 50 months after launch, revenue falling

It was online in August 2022, months before ChatGPT made chat with language models common, so it was early to a simple and frequent need: remembering spreadsheet formula syntax. The same need is now served free by general chat assistants, and Sheeter's Stripe revenue has fallen every month for a year.

Team of 2 to 10 · 32 months after launch, revenue growing

For its first 20 months the product brought in about US$3,500 a month. Then three things came together: phone apps with weekly plans from August 2025, web plans with unlimited use at US$4 a month billed yearly, and a new group of customers, people who make songs with AI generators such as Suno and need the last step done for them. Monthly revenue rose 7.2 times between January and July 2026. No source states which of the changes caused the rise.

Team of 2 to 10 · 26 months after launch, revenue falling

Many people own enough clothes and still do not know what to wear, and a screenshot of a look they like does not tell them how it would look on them or what in their closet goes with it. Aesty answers both questions with image models from OpenAI and Google, and sells the answer by the week, the month or the year. TrustMRR, reading the company's RevenueCat account, showed US$67,971 of revenue in total and US$10,064 of monthly recurring revenue from 688 subscriptions at the last sync on 22 September 2026.

Team of 2 to 10 · 13 months after launch, revenue falling

A redesign picture of one's own room used to need an interior designer or hours of 3D software. Image-editing models offered as hosted services now make one in seconds, so a single developer could wrap such a model in a simple app and sell it as a subscription. The RevenueCat account that TrustMRR reads shows US$63,524 in the twelve months to 25 October 2026, with a best month in April 2026 and a steady fall since.

Solo founder · 45 months after launch, revenue falling

It launched in January 2023 with a name that people were already typing into search engines, and the company wrote that more than 35,000 people used it in its first two weeks. One person then kept adding features, languages and more than 2,000 recipe articles for search, and moved the app from recipe ideas toward calorie tracking, which people pay for every month.

Team of 2 to 10 · sold 17 months after launch

Four founders, two of whom had built the drinks-delivery start-up Winelivery, looked for a profession that works with a large, fast-changing body of rules and had not yet adopted AI, and chose Italian accountants and labour consultants. They tested a first version with practitioners and sold monthly subscriptions. In October 2025 TeamSystem, an Italian maker of software for accountants, bought the majority of the company; its press release said Normo.ai had €1.3 million of revenue in 2025.

Solo founder · 44 months after launch, revenue falling

A studio portrait needs a photographer, a booking and days of waiting. AI SuitUp sold the same result, a photo for LinkedIn or a résumé, for a one-time price from early 2023, with a money-back guarantee on the larger packs. It narrowed the offer to one use, professional headshots, and then built a landing page for almost every profession and a version for company teams. Stripe records US$648,649 of payments in total, but only US$35,743 of it in the last 12 months, so most of the money came in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Team of 2 to 10 · 10 months after launch, revenue flat

The founder had worked as a screenwriter and knew which part of the job is tool work: the page format, and keeping characters and scenes consistent across a long draft. He built the editor around that work and kept the AI in the role of a helper. He says Claude Code wrote all the code. The beta grew through invite codes that users earned by posting about it, and monthly revenue rose from US$5,136 in May 2026 to about US$46,000 in August and in September.

Team of 2 to 10 · 11 months after launch, revenue falling

It took a narrower job than the general AI design tools, mobile apps only, for people who build apps without design skills. The three founders reused what they had learned from four earlier design tools, built it in three weeks, and showed finished designs on X before the launch. Each new Gemini model gave them a better result and a new demo to post.

Started small, grew after funding · 26 months after launch, revenue growing

Three founders treated each app as an experiment in pricing and paywalls. Lessons from Pixi, the first app, went into Cue. The studio rents the models, does not train them, and spends its effort on design, data and paid user acquisition, which its founders call the three Ds.

Solo founder · 16 months after launch, revenue flat

It reached the App Store early, in July 2023, with the simplest form of the idea: press one button, get a transcript and a summary. The founder paid for Meta ads while they still worked for a new kind of app, tested paywalls constantly and moved buyers to annual plans. He works alone with AI coding tools, so in his own 2026 account about US$3 million of about US$7 million a year stays as profit.

Team of 2 to 10 · 29 months after launch, revenue flat

The first apps that combined OpenAI's Whisper and ChatGPT for voice notes appeared in 2023, and the founder found them "not implemented well enough". His team built a simpler one, collected early users and feature requests through lifetime deals on AppSumo in 2024, and in 2025 grew with advertising and paywall tests measured in Adapty's subscription data.