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ToneAdapt

AI guitar-tone assistant: tells guitarists how to set their rig to sound like any song.

$25,000

monthly revenue (founder-stated) · as of Jun 14, 2026 · more than 90 days old

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Facts

Founders
Kayan
Website
toneadapt.com ↗
Main growth channel
Daily short-form videos; the first one went viral (founder on Starter Story) (Jun 14, 2026, source)
Pricing
$10/week or about $60/year (founder on Starter Story (YouTube), Jun 14, 2026, source)
How it earns
Weekly ($10) and annual (about $60) subscriptions on web and iOS (per the founder).
Audience
B2C
Stack
Cursor, Supabase, Vercel, Mailgun, Stripe, OpenAI, Tavily, Claude Code, RevenueCat, Superwall, Swift
Founded
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Last checked
Oct 16, 2026

How they did it

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What they built

What
AI guitar-tone assistant: tells guitarists how to set their rig to sound like any song.
AI role
AI-native product: AI is the product, people run the business
Sells to
Consumers (B2C)
How it earns
Weekly ($10) and annual (about $60) subscriptions on web and iOS (per the founder).

Traffic and distribution

  • Daily short-form videos; the first one went viral (founder on Starter Story) (Jun 14, 2026, source ↗)

Pricing

  • Now: $10/week or about $60/year (founder on Starter Story (YouTube), Jun 14, 2026, source ↗)
  • Model: weekly app subscription, subscription

The AI under the hood

Stack and tools

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Built with

The tools Kayan named on camera in The First App I Ever Built Makes $25K/Month (Starter Story, Jun 14, 2026; YouTube video Q4k8JNYKJT0).

AI modelsOpenAI “I use the OpenAI API”
Tavily “the tably web search API”
AI codingCursor “I used the cursor to build the entire project”
Claude Code “I use Cloud Code to do all of my code writing”
HostingVercel “Versel for hosting and analytics”
DatabaseSupabase “I use Superbase for my database”
PaymentsStripe “Stripe for payment processing”
RevenueCat “I use Revenue Cat to track all my payments and subscriptions”
Superwall “I use Superwall for paywalls”
EmailMailgun “Mailgun for emails”
Frameworks and languagesSwift “it is built in Swift natively”

Quotes are from the episode's auto-generated transcript, so spellings in quotes can be off; tool names are normalized. Only tools the founder named are listed, so this is not a complete stack, and it reflects the episode date. What AI founders build with →

Sources, history and all figures2 sources linked

Sources · 1 independent source with figures

All revenue figures

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Monthly revenue (founder-stated) · Jun 14, 2026$25,000
Total revenue—
Profit—

Founder-reported figures from the linked Starter Story interview (stated on camera); not independently verified.

What the founder and others report

  • Founder interview: "over $25,000 in the past four weeks" (about $11.5K web, $14K app); 397 active app subscribers Jun 14, 2026 · Starter Story (YouTube) · founder statement, unverified · source ↗

Founder posts are self-reported and labelled. A figure counts as verified only when the company publishes it on its own open revenue dashboard.

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