What are past projects, failures, or successes you’ve had in your career?
I'm a serial entrepreneur with 25 years experience developing software. From 2005-2014 I worked side-by-side with Seth Godin as the cofounder of Squidoo, a social publishing platform that achieved $10M in revenue and over 1M visitors per day at its peak. I've raised over $7M in venture funding and achieved multiple exits. Now with Subscribr I'm well on my way to achieving my next goal of $1M in annual revenue as a solo bootstrapped founder.
What 3rd party tools is your product critically dependent on?
OpenAI, Claude, YouTube
Where is your customer data stored?
United States
What’s the origin of the idea for your product?
My last company was a venture-backed B2B startup. I saw first-hand the power of video marketing and first became interested in YouTube. After that company was acquired in 2023, I dove head first into YouTube. I started by setting up my own "faceless" documentary channel - hiring a team to help me produce the videos. But I quickly realized how difficult it was to find quality scriptwriters. With the growing capabilities of AI, I decided to make a big bet: that by focusing all my efforts, I could develop an AI scriptwriter that rivals professional scriptwriters, all while being more reliable and cost efficient.
What problem is your product solving and how?
Subscribr takes you from a video idea to a finished long-form video script in minutes. Unlike most tools that offer AI scripts, Subscribr is built around YouTube scriptwriting best practices including storytelling structures, hooks, and curiosity gaps to keep viewers engaged. There simply are no other tools capable of writing long form YouTube scripts like Subscribr. In addition, Subscribr's Ideation Chat is a completely new take on AI chatbots. It features a direct integration with YouTube, making it possible to pull channel and video data directly into a chat thread. This superpower--along with a series of AI tools built into the chatbot--make it a fascinating and effective way to ideate new video topics.
What’s the #1 thing you’re looking to gain from the AppSumo campaign?
Word of mouth marketing and funding so I can re-invest in the next major version of Subscribr
What are your plans with the customers, cash, and learnings from the AppSumo campaign?
In 2025 I will transform Subscribr into a platform for YouTube AI agents. Instead of asking Subscribr to help with a script or an ideation task, Subscribr will go to work growing your channel. At points it will ask you for feedback. But the goal is to do more and more of the heavy lifting of operating a YouTube channel, upgrading Subscribr's capabilities as AI technology improves to support new use cases.
Any details to clarify about the deal?
Subscribr is an English-only app but is capable of writing scripts in the following languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese Please visit the credit calculator at https://subscribr.ai/pricing#calculator to determine your credit needs.