How I got 10,000 users in 2 months – and what it taught me

I built FIP.AI, an AI-powered investing app that helps retail investors find undervalued stocks — fast.

At 19 (now 22), after years of manual stock picking and painful analysis, I decided to automate the process. The result:

• A feed that works like Instagram for stocks

• AI that explains financial statements in plain language

• Smart valuation models combining fundamentals, sentiment, and machine learning

Launched with $0 in marketing — just organic sharing. Users could share stock cards with blurred data and “Download on App Store” links. Within 2 months, over 10,000 people joined.

Today, FIP.AI charges $7/month and is preparing for a czk 500k (20k usd) seed round.

Lesson learned: Great marketing can’t fix a bad product. Build something people actually need, then make it go viral.