πΈ A Turkish Developer Grew His AI Photo App to $52K a Month in Just 4 Months
Boothie, an AI photo app that makes your selfies look like they were shot on a 2000s digital camera, reached about $52K in MRR just four months after launch. Its growth engine: slideshow posts across roughly 12 TikTok accounts.
November 4, 2026
Today's subject: Keremcan Εeker!
I was recently browsing TrustMRR (a product run by Marc Lou, one of my favorite developers), and one app made me go, "Wait, what is this?!" It's an AI photo app called Boothie: AI Photo Editor.
You upload a single selfie, pick a look, and it turns your photo into something that looks like it was taken on a 2000s digital camera.
It launched on June 23, 2026. Only four months later, its MRR is a whopping $51,776.
And here's the crazy part: apparently all he does is run about 12 TikTok accounts he created himself, each set up to look like a specific "person," and post slideshows on them.
But Keremcan has only 43 followers on X, and I couldn't find a single interview with him.
So this time, I dug into everything from Boothie's launch to its growth to figure out:
Why did the very first app he shipped jump straight to $52K a month?
How does he turn TikTok slideshows alone into downloads?
I hope you'll stick with me to the end!
πΉπ· The First App From a Web Developer in Ankara
Keremcan is a developer based in Ankara, the capital of Turkey.
His GitHub profile says "Full Stack Web Developer."
Going back through his GitHub, you can see him diligently uploading freeCodeCamp and Frontend Mentor challenges in spring 2023, and from there, signs that he built web apps with React and Next.js.
In October 2025, he was experimenting with an AI agent framework, and his recent repositories include CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files. It looks like he's building fast with AI coding agents.
His first repository in Swift, the language for iPhone apps, shows up in November 2025. That's just seven months before Boothie launched.
Boothie is the only app under his name on either the App Store or Google Play.
In other words, the very first app this web developer shipped went straight to $52K a month. Insane.
By the way, it isn't public whether he builds alone or with a team.
His age and background aren't listed anywhere, and although his X account dates back to 2021, he barely posts.
He's the exact opposite of the "build in public" type who grows by sharing everything as they go.
And yet, among the 118 Turkish startups listed on TrustMRR, Boothie ranks #1 in both MRR and revenue over the past 30 days.
With 43 followers on X. I was like, "Seriously?!" lol
π· Gen Z's Digicam Boom
Behind Boothie's growth is Gen Z's obsession with digital cameras.
The compact digital cameras that were popular in the 2000s are now hugely trendy, especially on TikTok.
According to NPR, sales of Canon's PowerShot cameras grew about 7x between 2022 and 2025.
The most popular of all is the Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III. It came out in 2019, yet in 2025 orders came in so far beyond expectations that Canon temporarily stopped taking them.
People want one, but it's expensive and hard to get.
Enter apps that make your phone photos look like they came from a G7X.
There's WayShot, released in August 2025, and Pecra: G7X Digital Camera, released in January 2026. Some even put "G7X" right in the app name. It has basically become its own genre.
Boothie entered this space fairly late, in June 2026.
By the way, I previously covered Brian Shin, who grew Once, a disposable-camera-style app, to $35K a month within five months of launch π
πΈ Genius Brian Shin: From Launch to $35K Monthly Revenue in 5 Months With a Disposable Camera App
Once's onboarding also includes a screen that asks you to choose which kind of camera to shoot with π
It's saved on OnboHub, so take a look if you're curious π
It really drives home how powerful "photos that look like they came from an old camera" is as a theme for Gen Z.
π $4.7K in 8 Days, $27K in Month Two
Here's the tagline on Boothie's official site:
"Turn one selfie into the photos you keep saving"
It's incredibly simple to use: pick a look, take a selfie (or use a photo from your camera roll), and save or share the photo it generates a few seconds later.
Here's what the App Store screenshots look like π
Looks include "Canon G7X," "Nikon Coolpix," "Cybershot," "Powershot," "Night flash," "Crimson glow," "Sunkissed," and more.
The selling point is that your face stays exactly the same; only the lighting and the camera's vibe change.
Here's the verified monthly revenue on TrustMRR π
June 2026 (8 days, June 23β30): $4,727
July 2026: $27,329
August 2026: $43,734
September 2026: $43,593
October 2026 (through the morning of the 25th): $43,204
Nearly $5K in the first eight days after launch.
In month two, July, it passed $27K. By month three, August, it hit about $44K. And as of October 25, October had already almost matched September.
Man, that's wild.
So where is this revenue coming from?
According to Keremcan, all of it comes from TikTok account slideshows.
We'll take a detailed look at what those accounts are later on.
πΉπ· Its Top Market Wasn't the US
Here's what's interesting: the country where Boothie sells the most.
Apparently he runs separate TikTok accounts aimed at the US, Germany, and Turkey. But when you look at App Store ratings by country...
Turkey: 158
US: 29
Germany: 13
Even counting all countries, about 65% of its ratings come from Turkey.
On Sensor Tower, too, the top countries are Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Germany.
Azerbaijan is close to Turkey in both language and culture, so it looks like Boothie spread there from Turkey. As of October 25, it had climbed to #8 in the Photo & Video category on Turkey's App Store.
And its App Store description is English-only. It isn't translated into Turkish or German. Even so, Turkey is its biggest market.
Keremcan himself wrote on TrustMRR that "with stronger US-focused content and better retention, six figures a month is just the next milestone," so it seems he hasn't fully cracked the US yet.
Most of Boothie's digicam-style competitors have the US or the UK as their top countries.
Same genre, but Boothie alone is winning somewhere completely different.
I found this really interesting.
Even if you can't win in the US, landing a hit on TikTok in your home country can take you this far!
And in October, revenue started accelerating again.
MRR grew 31% over the last 30 days to about $52K. Active subscriptions also rose from 1,400 as of September 23 to 2,191.
So far, we've taken a quick look at Keremcan and Boothie's trajectory. But if we stop here, the takeaway is just "it went viral on TikTok."
What I really want to know is: which TikTok accounts, with what kinds of posts, are turning views into downloads and subscriptions?
He hasn't shared a single thing about how he does it.
I run social media for my own apps too, and turning views into downloads is harder than you'd think.
That's why Boothie's case was so educational for me.
So in the rest of this piece, I tracked down the TikTok accounts that mention Boothie, went through every one of their posts, and pieced the system together with publicly available information!!! Specifically:
I identified four TikTok accounts that mention Boothie, including one with about 15 million total views
The account numbers make it clear why Turkey, not the US, became its top market
The "on-screen text + screen recording of the app" format shared by posts with over 1 million views
A "weekend spike" pattern in its verified daily revenue
A small landing page trick that keeps TikTok visitors from bouncing, and a pricing design that sells even though the app is usable for free
If you want to copy this in your own market (plus a note on undisclosed-advertising rules)
If you want to grow an app on TikTok, I hope you'll read on!