18岁无代码经验，用Vibe Coding在5个月内做到月入6万美金

What if you could change your life in just 6 months? And what if all it took was a simple idea and the willingness to put in the work? Well, I want you to meet Lino.

I launched my first app AbMax about 5 months ago, and now we're on pace to hit 60K this month. And I didn't even know how to write code. I didn't even know how to prompt.

6 months ago, he had never built an app before in his life. And in fact, he'd never even written a single line of code. But, he just started learning from people in the app space, shipped his first app, and today that app that he built is about to hit $60,000 a month. [music]

Our product is super niche, which is why I think we're performing extremely, extremely well.

So, I asked Lino to come on to the channel and break down exactly what he built and how he did this. In this episode, we're going to dive into his dead simple app that now makes $60,000 a month, how he went from zero users and no distribution to thousands of downloads, and his very simple advice for how to build a successful app in 2026. Guys, this one you are not going to want to miss it. Let's dive in. This is Starter Story.

All right, Lino. Welcome to the channel. I'm pumped to have you on here. Let's get into it. Tell me about who you are, what you built, and what's your story.

So, I'm Lino Leiden. I launched my first app AbMax about 5 months ago, and now we're on pace to hit 60K this month. Today, I'm excited to share more about the process of how I was able to scale to these kind of numbers in such a short amount of time with literally zero coding experience and absolutely not technical at all.

Let's get into the business and the app itself. So, just explain what AbMax is in a few sentences and then pull up your RevenueCat dashboards to show off the revenue and show us that this thing is legit.

So, AbMax is basically an app to help people achieve their best abs. And basically, what we do is we have users fill out some basic info about their fitness journey, and we tailor them a custom abs plan specifically for each user, alongside pre-made training programs and workout program specifically targeting their abs. Okay, yeah, so our monthly revenue is just about $55,000 this month, and we are currently have 16,000 downloads in the past 28 days, and we have just over 3,000 active paying customers.

Cool, so how do you come up with this app idea?

Yeah, so actually I was back in back in February, and I went to the gym with all my friends. Everyone kept comparing about who has better abs. So like, oh, I have better abs than you. I have better abs than you. And I just kept that kept thinking like everyone cares about their abs. And then I started to do a little research, and then I found out that the if someone wanted to get abs in 2026, there was absolutely no place for them to go.

So I thought of a good solution where why don't I make an app that helps people achieve abs and help them get visible abs. Yeah, and that's basically how I came up with AbMax.

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100%. This is what I love about what you built. And I remember 20, 10, 20 years ago when I was a kid just like watching TV, they would have these ads for like 5-minute abs. And you'd buy some sort of device or some sort of workout thing. Back then it was like Bowflex or something like that, but they would market it specifically for if you want abs for the summer. You're essentially doing this in, you you a modern social media way.

So I think that's amazing. That's actually a super super smart insight. If you went and just built the total workout tracker, yes, there are successful versions of those, but it's way better to niche down. The next thing I want to ask you about is how you built this cuz we were chatting earlier. You're 18 years old. You have no technical background. You told me you don't know anything about how to build apps. For the people who are that are watching this on here, I want to hear in just the 5-6 months that this app has grown [music] and become successful, how did you actually build this?

What was the actual build journey? How did you originally build it? What tools did you use? And how did you build this thing?

Yeah, so I originally built this in Lovable back in February. And this is when I didn't even know anything about apps. I didn't even know what RevenueCat was. I didn't even know what an onboarding was. And I spent 2 months manually prompting this old project in Lovable. After 2 months, I was ready to launch. And just before launch, I was like, there's absolutely no way I can release this. This is This is terrible. So, I decided to rebuild the entire thing back in Vork.

And this is when I started to get onto X and starting to follow all these other successful app founders. And I picked up a lot of great advice about not only how to vibe code, but also some like onboarding tactics, how to market, all like the insider advice you need that is working for their apps. I put that advice and put it towards my app. And I I was able to build AppMax V2 basically in Vork in 1 month. And I was ready to ship.

And then after the first month, we did just over $7,000 in revenue.

Could you walk through like what your actual tech stack looks like right now? Like if you had to start over, what's the tech that you're using? What tools?

I keep it super simple. I have Supabase for authentication. I use VorkMax for the development. I use Sensor Tower basically for competitor and idea research. I use sign.com for creator contracts and agreements. And I use Posthog for internal analytics.

Okay, so you mentioned something earlier you use sign.com for creator contracts. I'm guessing that may be how you've grown this thing cuz, you know, anybody can build an ad maxing app, but is it going to get any downloads if you don't do any marketing or advertising? Probably not. So, let's talk about this. First, I want to hear from you, when you just created the app, how did you go from zero to the first 10K per month?

What was the overall marketing strategy and what really like worked for your app?

I started running UGC with these big influencers in the fitness niche, which is probably one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made. We were blindly going into this. We didn't even have a winning format or a winning content strategy to offer these influencers before spending thousands of dollars for each video. So, that's probably the biggest mistake. And so, alongside that, we were also running faces TikTok slideshows, which I was manually posting on my own.

The big UGC deals alongside these TikTok slideshows helped us get up to 3 to 4K in revenue, but the problem was our margins were terrible. We were running at like 5 to 10%, which is why I came up with the idea and we partnered up with a big fitness influencer on social media in return for some equity, which helped us get the ground running off the start, which I would recommend to any inexperienced founders who are looking to get the ground running off launch. [music]

I think that's actually really smart. Instead of going to all these little creators and making these small deals and maybe one of them works, but most of them d