A simple app that helps people find money they are owed, built with AI in two weeks.
Vibe code a money-finding app with Claude Code and Cursor: Payout, $80K MRR in 4 months
A plain utility that puts money back in people's pockets is easy to explain in short influencer videos.
Figures as shared by the creator on X (Sep 2025 to Jul 2026), with revenue screenshots, and on his Devpost project page; post views as shown on X (checked Oct 20, 2026) · source
From @BusDownBonnor on X · Dec 2025
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The Short Version
- What: Connor Burd, a self-taught iOS developer, built Payout, an app that helps people find class-action settlements they may be able to claim.
- Result: He posted $10K MRR about a month in (Sep 7, 2025), $20K MRR in 50 days with no ad spend (Sep 24, 2025) and $80K MRR four months in (Dec 15, 2025), each with a screenshot.
- Made with: Claude Code, Cursor
The workflow
Made With
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What They Did
- 1The moveConnor Burd, a self-taught iOS developer, built Payout, an app that helps people find class-action settlements they may be able to claim.
- 2Step 2Pick a problem people will pay to solve
- 3Step 3Build the first version with AI coding tools
- 4ResultHe posted $10K MRR about a month in (Sep 7, 2025), $20K MRR in 50 days with no ad spend (Sep 24, 2025) and $80K MRR four months in (Dec 15, 2025), each with a screenshot; the December one shows $81,357 revenue in the last 28 days, 56,099 active users and 5,389 active subscriptions.
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$20K MRR in 50 days post
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Quick Answers
What tools do you need?
Claude Code (anthropic's agentic coding tool that edits files and runs commands in your codebase); Cursor (ai code editor: describe what you want and it writes and edits the code).
How much does it cost?
You can start for $0: Cursor has a free plan. Claude Code is paid or trial-based. Check each tool's site for current prices.
Is it allowed?
Follow the platform rules and disclose ads.
Watch out: MRR is not profit, and later growth used paid influencer deals. App Store review rules still apply to AI-built apps, and anything that touches legal claims needs accurate, clearly sourced information.
Try It Yourself
(Our template, not the creator's prompt.) Plan a simple iOS utility that helps people [get money or time back]: the core screen, a 5-step onboarding that ends at a paywall, 3 pricing options and 10 hooks for short influencer videos.
Starter tools
Your first step
Open Claude Code, paste the prompt above and swap the [brackets] for your own niche.
Full write-up & sources
More detail: He says it was built in 14 days without a line of code written by hand; his Shipaton project page says it was written entirely with Claude Code and Cursor, with a generated app icon and art. He entered it in RevenueCat's 2025 Shipaton hackathon. Early revenue came from organic posts only; later growth came from influencer marketing and data-driven decisions.
Results: In July 2026 he wrote that Payout won the $65,000 grand prize at Shipaton and passed $100K MRR by the end of 2025. His $20K post has 247,009 views on X (checked Oct 20, 2026).
Source: @BusDownBonnor on X · Dec 2025. Summarised in our own words; figures as shared by the creator on X (Sep 2025 to Jul 2026), with revenue screenshots, and on his Devpost project page; post views as shown on X (checked Oct 20, 2026). Updated .
