Building ChadMe in public
Last updated: August 2026
ChadMe is an AI face-rating app built by a tiny team. This section publishes the numbers most apps keep private - revenue, funnels, pricing mistakes - as they happen. No "$40k MRR in 60 days" theater; the middle of the distribution, documented.
Posts
- What a face-rating app really earns - ~6,000 monthly users, the offer that outsold our whole credits system 4:1, and the 5 findings that now run the roadmap.
- The India paywall experiment - 69% of Indian users tap buy and 3% get through. The parity-pricing mistake behind it and what we shipped.
Revenue figures are independently verifiable: verified.revenuecat.com/chadme pulls straight from our RevenueCat account - no self-reported screenshots.
Why publish this
Two reasons. Selfishly: writing forces honest analysis - half the findings in these posts were found while writing them. Usefully: indie app economics are opaque because only outliers publish. If you are building something similar, these are the base rates nobody shows you.
Try the app behind the numbers
AI face rating with per-trait scores - jawline, eyes, skin, hair, symmetry. First rating is free.
FAQ
Are the numbers real?
Yes - lightly rounded for readability, never reshaped. Publishing fake numbers in public would defeat the only purpose this section has.
How often do new posts land?
When there is a real result to report - roughly monthly. Milestones and experiment outcomes, not filler.