Art & Design
Drawing Desk hides its paywall's close button behind dark patterns
In 6 weeks you can make $900/month by building an honestly-priced drawing tutorial app.
ibis Paint's $16 paid version still gates most of its own premium features behind a second subscription
In 12 weeks you can make $5,000/month building an honestly-priced mobile drawing app (closing the double-pay gap ibis Paint's own buyers resent).
Ads and upsells bury a useful AR tracer
In 10 weeks you can make $1,500/month by building a better calmer AR drawing tracer.
Logo Maker hid value behind paywalls and coins
In 12 weeks you can make $1,200/month by building a better transparent AI logo maker with editable exports.
MePic’s trial is really a token paywall
In 12 weeks you can make $1,500/month by building a better transparent AI photo and video generator.
Sketches is deleting artists’ saved work
In 16 weeks you can make $1,800/month by building a better crash-safe Android sketchbook.
AI Hair Styler hides its paywall before proof
In 10 weeks you can make $1,200/month by building a better AI hairstyle try-on app.
Free AI video promise collapses into ads and paywalls
In 12 weeks you can make $900/month by building a better honest trial-first AI video generator.
Ads cracked a loved AR tracing app
In 9 weeks you can make $700/month by building a better privacy-first AR tracing app.
Daily-credit cuts broke Vidu’s free-user habit
In 12 weeks you can make $1,500/month by building a better fair-credit AI video generator.
AR Drawing buried tracing under nonstop ads
In 8 weeks you can make $1,800/month by building a better ad-light AR tracing app.
ImagineArt broke trust with credits and lifetime plans
In 14 weeks you can make $1,800/month by building a better transparent-credit AI image/video generator.
AI editor buried users in ads
In 12 weeks you can make $1,500/month by building a better honest AI hairstyle and face-swap editor.
Ads broke a beginner origami app
In 8 weeks you can make $700/month by building a better ad-light beginner origami guide.
Import/export paywall angered mobile 3D modelers
In 24 weeks you can make $1,200/month by building a better mobile 3D modeler with free OBJ import/export.
Infinite Painter’s crashes made artists distrust saves
In 24 weeks you can make $1,500/month by building a better stable Android sketchbook.
Sketch Pro loses art and forces AI
In 24 weeks you can make $1,200/month by building a better AI-free Android sketchpad.
Future Self buried aging behind ads and weak results
In 10 weeks you can make $750/month by building a better low-ad AI face aging photo app.
DaVinci’s paywall and credits turned users hostile
In 8 weeks you can make $1,200/month by building a better transparent AI image-and-signature generator.
HiPaint traded trust for subscriptions, ads, and bugs
In 18 weeks you can make $2,400/month by building a better stable Android sketchbook.
Cosmos is glitchy, flashy, and filter-leaky
In 16 weeks you can make $1,200/month by building a better accessible human-only moodboard saver.
Figma’s Android app left designers view-only
In 14 weeks you can make $600/month by building a better Android-first prototype review app.
Tattoo AI lost users at the paywall
In 9 weeks you can make $18,000/month by building a better AI tattoo design app.
Ads and surprise paywalls made prank videos unusable
In 10 weeks you can make $5,988/month by building a better AI prank video generator.
Paywalls broke trust before tattoos generate
In 8 weeks you can make $5,600/month by building a better AI tattoo concept generator.