He was a sophomore studying marketing. Eight months later his app has 200,000 downloads and is closing in on $1 million in total revenue. 📈 FULL INTERVIEW Cedric Roberge (@Cedric_Roberge), founder of Pep AI Cedric is 23. He studies marketing, not computer science. He has never written a line of code. He launched Pep AI in February. Still bootstrapped. Team of five. He built it in a week and a half, on a Chromebook. "I was able to do all of it with nothing from Apple, no MacBook." I grabbed Cedric for a walk through Times Square at the RevenueCat Shipaton demo day to get the whole story. We cover: › Why peptides: he watched the category boom online and bet he could market it › 20,000 downloads in month one, 80,000 by month three, almost entirely creator codes and UGC › The "push to App Store" button that turned a two-year dream into a two-week build › Why he is keeping the team at five, and the $500 Mac Mini that works like a sixth employee › Two founders who took his advice and are now doing $80K and $50K a month › One year ago he was pitching his first app from a folding table on campus. Now he is demoing his second in Times Square. 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Highlights (00:30) Meet Cedric in Times Square (00:54) Cedric Roberge, 23, founder of Pep AI (01:22) Peptides were booming. He bet he could market it. (01:49) 20,000 downloads in month one. 80,000 by month three. (02:18) Creator codes: pay influencers only when they convert (02:52) A marketing sophomore building a mobile app (03:07) UniYard, and the teacher who told him about Replit (04:24) Push to App Store. Pep AI built in two weeks. (05:29) "I was just on a Chromebook" (05:58) Where Pep AI is today (08:04) Inside the app, and the private community in it (09:32) The next bet: doctor consults inside the app (12:00) The viral feature: scoring your food from a photo (13:02) Why he is keeping the team at five (14:50) The $500 Mac Mini that works like an employee (15:18) Two founders who took his advice. $80K and $50K a month. (17:08) What separates the people who actually execute (18:02) One year from a campus table to Times Square