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Self-reported by the founder. He states Flibbo sits around $55K MRR, with peaks above $90K MRR and roughly $1.2M ARR, plus 500K+ total users. Figures are not independently audited.
An all-in-one AI content creation mobile app that wraps top image, video, and music models into one subscription tool for creators.
How Sina acquired customers
Tools used to build Flibbo
A former Shopify dropshipper wrapped top AI models into one mobile app and grew it to around $55K MRR and 500K+ users, all without coding himself.
Sina Sinry is not a developer. Before Flibbo he ran a Shopify dropshipping operation and crossed $1M in revenue selling digital products in 2023. That gave him cash, an appetite for paid acquisition, and a clear lesson: he was good at marketing and distribution, not engineering. So when he decided to build an AI app, he leaned on that strength instead of trying to become a coder overnight.
Flibbo is an all-in-one AI content creation app for phones. Rather than train models, Sina packaged the strongest available ones, video tools like Veo 3 and Kling, plus image and music generation, into a single subscription product aimed at creators, influencers, and indie hackers who want to make shareable content fast. The bet was that most people do not want ten separate AI subscriptions and a learning curve; they want one app that just makes something postable.
Distribution is where the story gets interesting. Sina relied on paid ads combined with organic loops on TikTok, posting AI "remakes" that pulled curious viewers into the app. He treated the paywall like a product of its own, A/B testing offers to lift conversion. By his own account the app reached roughly $50K MRR within about four months and has peaked above $90K, settling around $55K MRR with 500K+ total users and a spot in the top 100 on the US App Store.
The most telling detail is what happened when he switched the ads off. He paused all paid spend to see how much revenue was real, and it held near $50K MRR on organic installs and subscription renewals alone. For a subscription app, renewals are the part that compounds, and proving the base held without ad fuel is a stronger signal than any single peak month.
These numbers are self-reported on his own X and LinkedIn and through a founder case study, so treat the precise figures as the founder's claim rather than audited revenue. What is verifiable is the approach: a non-technical operator who already knew how to buy attention, applied it to an AI wrapper, and made retention the thing he actually defended. His stated next target is $300K MRR by November 2026.
You do not have to build the models. Wrapping the best available AI tools into one focused app can be a real product if the packaging and distribution are strong.
Marketing skill transfers. Sina's Shopify paid-ads experience was the actual edge, more than any technical ability.
Treat the paywall as a product. A/B testing offers and pricing moved revenue as much as the features did.
Pause your ads to find your real floor. Killing paid spend showed how much MRR came from renewals and organic, which is the part that compounds.
For subscription apps, retention and renewals are the moat, not the launch spike.
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Sina achieved 4 milestones on the path to $100K ARR
$10,000
$100,000
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