@starterstory: Bro made an alarm clock app where you have to do push-ups to turn it off, and it pulled in $50K in just 28 days. Self-taught founder. No fancy tech background. The app: Early. It’s as simple as it sounds: wake up, do push-ups, and only then does the alarm shut off. Launched at the end of 2025, it hit over 50K downloads in one month and racked up more than $50,000 in revenue. Why did it work? Because almost everyone struggles with waking up, and Jake solved it with a dead-simple, viral twist. If you’ve ever wanted to build an app, let this be your sign: simple, painful problem, solved in a way that makes people stop scrolling.

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