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A phone app for iPhone and Android. The user picks a look, such as digicam flash, golden hour or vintage photobooth, and takes or uploads a selfie. The app sends the photo to Google's Gemini image model and returns the same person in that look within seconds. A free editor with film filters runs on the phone without AI. AI pictures cost credits, which come with a weekly subscription or in packs.

The demand existed before the app: photos that look as if a compact digital camera from the 2000s took them have been a trend on TikTok since at least 2022. Boothie sells that look without the camera, for a small weekly price, to the people who already post such photos. The founder says every user came from TikTok picture posts made by about a dozen accounts in three countries, with no paid advertising. One person could build it because the image model is rented from Google and paid for by the picture.

A web studio that turns one photo of each person and one photo of each pet into a single AI-generated portrait of them together, in a chosen scene. The first three previews are free and watermarked. The first portrait costs US$19 and each additional one US$10, as a one-time purchase, and a portrait can be sent as a gift or printed on a framed print, mug, ornament or blanket.

It sells a picture that most pet owners do not have and cannot easily take: a good photo of themselves together with their pet. The customer sees a free preview before paying, so an ad only has to bring a person to the upload page. The founder says the sales come from ads, and the site says it advertises on Facebook and Instagram. Verified daily revenue rose from US$76 on 15 September 2026 to US$1,099 on 22 September.

You upload a photo. In about five seconds remove.bg returns the same photo with the background cut away, so the person or product in front stands on a transparent layer. A small preview is free; full-resolution results, the API and the Photoshop plugin cost credits.

It took one task that every designer does by hand in Photoshop, made it one click and free, and let Product Hunt, Twitter and TechCrunch spread it. Then it charged professionals for resolution and for an API, stayed profitable with no investors, and sold to Canva, which had already built the tool into its own product a year earlier.

A web application that turns an idea, a link or an existing viral video into a finished short video for TikTok, Instagram and YouTube: script, generated images or video, voice, captions, music and posting. Customers pay a subscription that includes credits, and each second of generated video costs credits.

It began as a tool for product launch videos, which a customer needs once. The founder saw customers use it for social videos, which they need every week, and built a second product for that use from the same code. Free tools that rank on Google and his audience on X brought the customers. Credits priced per second kept the price of each video above the cost of the model that made it.

A calendar that publishes posts to more than 30 social networks: X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Bluesky, Discord and others. The whole code is open source, so anyone can run it on their own server for free; the company sells the hosted version from US$29 a month. Since 2025 AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT and OpenClaw can connect to it through an MCP server, a command-line tool and a public API, so an agent drafts and schedules the posts and a person approves them in the calendar.

The founder took a twenty-year-old product category with no open-source entry and open-sourced all of it, which gave him millions of Docker downloads and 37,000 GitHub stars without a marketing budget. Revenue stayed small for a year. It multiplied when he turned the product toward people who automate their posting with n8n workflows and, from late 2025, with AI agents, which need an API-first scheduler and keep paying because they post without human effort.

A customer enters a website address. SEObot reads the site, chooses search phrases, makes a plan of articles, writes the articles with language models and publishes them to the customer's blog every week. The customer pays a monthly plan of article credits and can approve, edit or decline each article.

The founder had about 117,000 followers on X and more than 20 other products for the same customers, so the tool had buyers before it had a public launch. It sold a finished result, a published article, for about US$3.50 to US$5.44. Payment records show about US$100,000 a month at the end of 2025 and a fall in every month since January 2026.

You describe an app in plain language. Base44 generates a working web app with its own database, user login and hosting, so you never touch a server.

It launched in the month that AI models became good enough to write a whole app. It sold to people who cannot program, it charged from day one, and it was sold to a company that already had millions of customers.

An iPhone app for makeup. The user uploads a selfie without makeup and a photo of a makeup look, for example from TikTok or Instagram. The app's AI applies that look to the user's own face, then gives a step-by-step routine and a list of products to buy. It is free to download and paid for with subscriptions through the App Store.

Its result is a before-and-after picture of the user's own face, which a short video shows in seconds. The founder chose TikTok as the channel before he built the app, then tripled revenue from almost the same installs by moving and testing the paywall with Adapty.

A web app for real estate agents and photographers. The agent uploads a photo of a room, chooses the room type and a furniture style, and gets back the same room with furniture in about 10 to 15 seconds. It can also remove existing furniture. Plans are monthly subscriptions sized by the number of photos, and the top plan includes an API.

In 2023, general image generators that were asked to furnish a room also changed the room: the founder said DALL-E might turn a window into a wall painting or add a door, which misrepresents a property. VSAI's own model finds the floor, the ceiling, the mirrors and the doors first and only then adds furniture. It cost US$12 to US$69 a month in early 2024, while VSAI's comparison page lists other staging services at US$16 to US$29 per photo with 12 to 48 hours of waiting. Zillow, the listing portal where such photos end up, bought it.