I Built a Template to Ship AI Apps Fast
Beto, April 2, 2026 · 4,081 views
My AI tattoo app brings in around $500 in passive income, and a community member's hairstyle app makes $8,000 a month. The gap between you and results like that usually isn't skill. It's the setup friction before you write a single interesting line, so I built Platano to delete that part.
I walk through the whole template in the video.
What's inside
- Why setup overhead kills more apps than bad ideas do
- The AI app market outside the tech bubble is barely touched
- Onboarding, paywalls, camera, and RevenueCat wired from minute one
- English and Spanish support out of the box
- Three built-in API routes for AI image generation, plus local caching
- How pro member feedback shaped Android support and iOS 18 fixes
Resources

PlatanoShip a revenue-ready AI image app this weekend
The exact template from this video. Rebrand it around your niche and start building from day one.
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