College student found a $50K idea in an afternoon

June 5th, 2026· 0:42

Cedric is a college student who built an app called PepAI and hit $50,000 in revenue seven weeks after launch. How he found it: His roommate mentioned peptides A week later TikTok served him the same topic He searched the App Store and saw no real winner yet So he built it in ~2 weeks using Repl.it + Claude as his “senior developer,” Firebase for the backend, RevenueCat for subs ($10/mo or $45/yr).