How an 18-year-old built a wrestling app to $17K/month with zero coding experience

George Lamproblis is an 18-year-old college freshman who built and launched WrestleAI, an AI wrestling coach app, in about a month — without knowing how to code. Six months later, the app generates over $17,000 per month in revenue, with roughly $8,000 coming from monthly subscriptions at $9.99/month and the rest from annual plans at $59.99/year. The app has accumulated around 17,000 downloads and over two million social media impressions.

This is not George's first attempt. At 15, he and a friend tried to build a social self-improvement app. They raised money, built a following of 10,000 people waiting for the launch, and hired three development agencies — none of which delivered. After a year and a half, the hype died, they lost all their money, and George ended up working at TJ Maxx. That failure, he says, became the catalyst for his obsession with startups. "I always walked around with a chip on my shoulder that I was kind of meant to succeed," he says. "When I saw that my brains won't work, I was like, all right, I just have to be absolutely relentless."

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