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Jack Friks

Canadian entrepreneur, software developer, author and content creator

Jack Friks (born c. 2000)[11:0:07][7] is a Canadian entrepreneur, software developer, author and content creator. He is the founder and sole developer of Post Bridge, a social media scheduling service launched in October 2024 that publishes to ten platforms from one interface and exposes an API, a command-line tool and an MCP server so that AI agents can post on a user's behalf.[6][39][41] By mid-2026 the business was reported at about US$35,000 in monthly recurring revenue.[1] He previously built Curiosity Quench, a consumer app that passed 100,000 downloads,[3:2:15] and in 2025 released Lovelee, a couples app that passed 100,000 downloads in its first six weeks.[27][49]

Before software, Friks spent four years on YouTube channels, print-on-demand merchandise and cryptocurrency content under his earlier name, Jack Ingram, and has described that period as a sequence of failures that funded what came after.[1][11] He is self-taught as a programmer, has been profiled by Starter Story twice and by Indie Hackers,[3][4][1] and publishes a running ledger of every project he has launched since 2019, including the failures.[27]

Early life and education

Friks grew up in Ontario, Canada, and worked at McDonald's for three years while studying computer programming at Durham College.[8][28] He has written that he was "at the top of my class, but at the bottom of filling my soul's intuitive needs," and left in his third and final year with a two-year diploma rather than the advanced diploma, having never worked in the field.[8] He quit McDonald's the same season, around 2020, against the wishes of his family, with the stated aim of earning a living online on his own hours.[10][1] He later told Starter Story he "would rather be homeless than work a job."[3:2:44]

First ventures as Jack Ingram (2019 to 2021)

Friks's first online projects, published under the name Jack Ingram, were affiliate-marketing blogs in 2019 and print-on-demand t-shirt designs from 2020, the latter on Redbubble, Teespring and TeePublic.[27][33] He documented both on the YouTube channel Jack Ingram Online, which ran from September 2020 to May 2023 and accumulated 266 videos and about 470,000 views, including a period of daily uploads for 162 consecutive days.[33][35] A second channel, Jack Ingram Finance, published 36 videos on Canadian personal investing in spring 2021.[34] His ledger records the t-shirt business as having earned "a few thousand dollars" for four or more hours a day over a year and a half, and the first channel as producing about US$1,000 a month for around a year.[27]

Cryptocurrency period (2021 to 2023)

In early 2021 Friks began a third channel devoted to cryptocurrency, later named crypto friks, focused on Cardano. Its third video reached about 60,000 views and its fourth 120,000, and the channel earned over US$3,000 in advertising revenue in its first month.[11:1:30] Over roughly two years it published 769 videos and 98 Shorts, drew about 3.5 million views and 22,500 subscribers, and its most-viewed video, "What If You Invested $1000 In Cardano TODAY?", passed 180,000 views.[32][36] That summer, days after the first videos took off, he started a job at Walmart and quit on the third day, saying he would not give up control of his time.[11:2:05]

Later in 2021 he operated a Cardano stake pool and a mining operation, and launched a collection of 6,969 hand-drawn stick-figure NFTs with a developer hired on a 40 percent commission; the collection sold out within a week.[11:3:40][27] By his own accounts the ventures grossed US$400,000 to 500,000, most of which went to the developer, to a tax bill on income that had been received and taxed in cryptocurrency before losing most of its value, and to the market decline, leaving roughly US$30,000 to 50,000 in profit.[11:4:30][8]

In mid-2023 he stopped making cryptocurrency content, started a newsletter and blog called Frikit Philosophy, and rebranded the channel, which by then had about 25,000 subscribers, under the name Jack Friks. The first video under the new name, "How I lost $500,000 last year at 22 years old," was published on 14 August 2023.[11][27] The X account @jackfriks dates from the same year and passed 166,000 followers by 2026.[27][29]

Writing and books

Friks's newsletter essays became his first book, You Were Built to Create Cool Sh*t: a friendly guide to exploring your curiosity and crafting a better world, written in four months and finished in November 2023 and sold in print and ebook editions.[12][8][9] It is dedicated to his mother, father and "my future wife."[8]

A second book, Consumption Control: how to stop scrolling and start living, was published in 2025. It argues for replacing passive consumption with creation and closes with a Reddit post he wrote about the first year of Curiosity Quench.[10] He has been candid that neither book sold widely; his ledger records the first at under 100 copies, "80% being family," and the second at about 20.[27]

Learning to code and Curiosity Quench (2023 to 2024)

Friks has said he tried and abandoned learning to code three or four times before it stuck, and that it only worked once he was building something he wanted to exist.[17:0:20] In October 2023 he began Curiosity Quench, an app intended to reduce phone scrolling by giving users action plans for hobbies, with curated content for each step, and posted a numbered daily build log on YouTube for over a year.[14][37] He validated the idea with a 60-second TikTok that drew comments asking for the product,[3:5:20] built the first version in about four months while learning, and has described the process as feeding error messages into ChatGPT until it worked.[3:1:34][3:3:22]

The app ran first on the web, reached the App Store in early 2024, and was launched on Product Hunt on 28 April 2024, day 196 of the log, after which the web version was shut down.[13] Growth came from six-second Instagram and TikTok videos about hobbies, several of which passed a million views. By September 2024 the app was taking 26,000 downloads a month;[14] in the following 30 days it drew about 15 million views, 40,000 installs and US$12,000 in revenue,[15] and it passed 100,000 downloads on 27 October 2024.[16] Priced at about US$30 a year with a seven-day trial, it was producing about US$3,000 a month by March 2025 and had earned about US$60,000 in its first year.[3:1:39][10] Revenue later fell as Friks stopped marketing it.[27]

In December 2024, one year after he began coding, he reported over US$50,000 in net income and US$7,000 in monthly recurring revenue across his apps.[17:1:20]

Post Bridge (2024 to present)

Post Bridge began as an internal tool. Marketing Curiosity Quench took Friks an hour a day, half of it posting the same video to each platform by hand, and the existing schedulers cost "like 10 times more than I want to pay."[3:4:36][6] He first mentioned building "a tool that helps me post all of the videos I'm making to Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube all at once" in a build log on 28 September 2024,[14:4:20] validated the idea with mockups on TikTok before writing code, built it in about a month starting in September 2024, and launched in October 2024 with a hard paywall and no free tier.[1][6][2]

The service publishes and schedules posts to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky and Google Business, with per-platform caption overrides, a calendar, and a bulk upload tool.[23][39] Pricing is set by the number of connected accounts rather than per channel, and existing customers are grandfathered through price changes.[39][40] The operating company is Jack Ingram Media Inc., the developer of record on the ChatGPT app listing.[45] It is built on Next.js and Supabase, and Friks runs it alone, answering support himself each morning before other work.[3:15:14][4:0:44][39]

Growth. Friks reported US$7,000 in monthly recurring revenue after four and a half months.[3:1:49] In spring 2025 he received a public offer of US$1 million for the company and declined it, saying the business was "probably worth about half of that" and that the publicity of refusing had added over US$100,000 in annual recurring revenue within a month.[18] In June 2025 he began a filmed challenge to reach US$30,000 a month without working past dinner, reporting US$12,000 on day 15, US$16,416 on day 21 and US$17,163 on day 24, the last alongside a rejection from Y Combinator.[19][20][21] The Bootstrapped Founder and Marketer Gems cited US$18,000 and US$11,000 a month that summer.[5][6] After what Indie Hackers described as an eight-month plateau, revenue doubled in the first half of 2026 to about US$35,000 (CA$50,000) a month, roughly eighteen months after launch.[1][27] Post Bridge publishes its revenue in real time through TrustMRR, which reads it from Stripe; as of 6 September 2026 it showed about US$40,500 in revenue over the trailing 30 days and 1,725 active subscriptions, consistent with the Indie Hackers and Starter Story figures.[2]

Agents. From 2026 Post Bridge positioned itself as a publishing layer for AI agents. A GitHub organisation and an "agent-mode" skill repository appeared in March 2026,[42] the postbridge-cli command-line tool was published to npm in June 2026,[43] and the service ships an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server and REST API through which assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT can list accounts, schedule and delete posts, and read analytics.[41][24] It is listed in Anthropic's Claude connector directory and as an app inside ChatGPT.[44][45] The product page on Product Hunt carries the tagline "Grow your social reach the easy way."[46]

Lovelee and later apps

Friks has described each product as an answer to his own need, with Post Bridge built to grow Curiosity Quench and his next app built to be "my own case study" for Post Bridge.[4:4:44] That app, Lovelee, lets couples send hand-drawn notes to a partner's home screen and was built for Friks and his fiancée.[48][49][27] He has said he launched it in five days as a filmed two-month challenge to reach US$10,000 a month.[22:0:20] A post on X on 31 October 2025 showing the app in use as a shared grocery list reached 14.3 million views and more than 300,000 likes;[25] Friks said the launch tweet was "picked up by Russian news," that a quote-tweet brought 40,000 downloads in a week and a half, and that the app stood at 56,000 downloads and US$3,194 in monthly recurring revenue at week six, with a further 11,000 downloads in 48 hours from a TikTok and Instagram format he had found.[22:0:25][22:6:30] His ledger records more than 100,000 downloads and about US$40,000 in revenue in the first six weeks.[27] The app is marketed through its own Instagram and TikTok accounts.[50][51]

Other released projects include yearpix (2025), a yearly photo-collage tool,[52] doof (2025), a food diary app,[53] deep work depot (2024), a focus timer,[54] ship or die (2026),[55] the keep going merchandise club,[56] and several apps he has publicly listed as abandoned.[27] In August 2026 Starter Story described him as earning about US$40,000 a month across his products.[4:0:15]

Working method and views

Friks works alone and has said he runs his week in sprints rather than fixed hours, from one or two hours a day in quiet periods to ten around a launch, focusing on one project per day beyond customer support and stopping at dinner time.[4:1:47][4:3:05][4:7:00] His marketing is entirely organic: one hour a day, short videos built from formats that have already worked, re-posted until they stop working, with a repeatable "2x2" template that he posted more than 300 times and credits with 60,000 to 70,000 signups.[3:8:00][3:8:46] Starter Story reported in 2025 that his short-form videos had passed 300 million views, and Indie Hackers counted over 2,000 videos in under two years during his YouTube period.[3:0:16][1]

He has said the "easiest way to make a successful business is really just to solve your own problems,"[3:17:15] that he asks whether he would pay to solve a problem before building for it, and that a landing page or a short video tells him whether others would: "if they don't click buy and a thousand people come, clearly the idea is probably not that good."[4:6:25] On audiences: "to not grow a personal brand at all. It's just to build cool things, do cool things, and then like share them."[3:11:54] He has described a turning point when his first app appeared to have peaked at US$3,000 a month, followed two months later by a US$15,000 month, and a period of headaches and anxiety before that which ended with him "crying with my fiancé on a walk."[4:4:09][1] He keeps a folder of images captioned "keep going" that became a merchandise line and a public page.[4:8:50][56]

Public project ledger

Since 2025 Friks has maintained a public, spreadsheet-backed page listing every project he has launched, the year it started, and whether it succeeded, was "okay", or failed, together with a computed hit rate. As of September 2026 it lists more than twenty projects, the majority marked as failures.[27][26]

DateEventRef
2019First online ventures: affiliate blogs, then print-on-demand designs[27]
Sep 2020First video on the Jack Ingram Online YouTube channel[33]
c. 2020Leaves college in his final year; quits McDonald's the same season[8]
May 2021Starts a Cardano-focused crypto channel; first videos reach 60,000 to 120,000 views[11]
late 2021Sells out a 6,969-piece NFT collection in a week[11]
Aug 2023Rebrands the channel to jack friks with "How I lost $500,000 last year at 22"[11]
Oct 2023Starts building Curiosity Quench while learning to code[13]
Nov 2023Finishes first book after four months of writing[12]
28 Apr 2024Curiosity Quench launches on Product Hunt[13]
Sep 2024Curiosity Quench: 26,000 downloads in a month; first mention of a tool to post everywhere at once[14]
Oct 2024Curiosity Quench passes $10,000 a month and 100,000 downloads; Post Bridge launches[15]
Dec 2024One year of coding: over $50,000 net and $7,000 MRR across both apps[17]
Mar 2025First Starter Story interview[3]
Apr to May 2025Declines a public US$1 million offer for Post Bridge[18]
Jun 2025Post Bridge at $16,000 to 17,000 MRR; Y Combinator application rejected[21]
31 Oct 2025Lovelee post on X reaches 14.3 million views[25]
Nov 2025Lovelee at 56,000 downloads and $3,194 MRR six weeks after launch[22]
Mar 2026post-bridge-hq organisation and agent-mode repository on GitHub[42]
Jun 2026postbridge-cli published on npm; Indie Hackers profile at $35,000 MRR[1]
Aug 2026Second Starter Story profile at about $40,000 a month[4]

Media coverage

DateOutletTitleFormatRef
25 Mar 2025Starter Story (Pat Walls)I Built a $10K/Month App from My Mom's Basementvideo interview[3]
23 May 2025Mike Strives on SaaSThis 25 y/old Built an AI making $19K/Month in SaaSvideo interview[7]
18 Jun 2025The Bootstrapped Founder (Arvid Kahl)Episode 396: Building Tools That Empower Without Overwhelmingpodcast[5]
3 Jul 2025Marketer Gems (Tom Snyder)From 0 to $11K MRR: How Jack Friks Built Post Bridgearticle[6]
17 Jun 2026Indie Hackers (James Fleischmann)Hitting $35k MRR after struggling to make money online for four yearsarticle[1]
2 Aug 2026Starter StoryHow I Work: $40K/Month Solo App Buildervideo profile[4]

Personal life

Friks is Canadian and built his first companies from his mother's basement, which he moved out of in 2025.[3:0:00][26] He became engaged in 2025; several of his apps, including Lovelee and yearpix, began as tools for himself and his fiancée.[26][27] He has spoken about setting a hard stop at dinner time after the first two years of the relationship.[4:7:28]

References

Citations of the form [n:m:ss] point to a timestamp in a video or podcast. Figures are as reported at the cited date. Where the subject's own accounts differ, both are given.

  1. Fleischmann, James. "Hitting $35k MRR after struggling to make money online for four years". Indie Hackers, 17 June 2026. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  2. Post Bridge on TrustMRR: Stripe-verified revenue, updated continuously (US$40,559 in the trailing 30 days, 1,725 active subscriptions, as of 6 September 2026). Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  3. Walls, Pat. "I Built a $10K/Month App from My Mom's Basement" (video interview with Jack Friks). Starter Story, YouTube, 25 March 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  4. "How I Work: $40K/Month Solo App Builder" (video profile of Jack Friks). Starter Story, YouTube, 2 August 2026. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  5. Kahl, Arvid. "396: Jack Friks — Building Tools That Empower Without Overwhelming". The Bootstrapped Founder (podcast), 18 June 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  6. Snyder, Tom. "From 0 to $11K MRR: How Jack Friks Built Post Bridge". Marketer Gems, 3 July 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  7. "This 25 y/old Built an AI making $19K/Month in SaaS (Jack Friks, Post Bridge)" (video interview). Mike Strives on SaaS, YouTube, 23 May 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  8. Friks, Jack. You Were Built to Create Cool Sh*t: a friendly guide to exploring your curiosity and crafting a better world. Self-published, 2023. Ebook, Amazon. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  9. Friks, Jack. You Were Built to Create Cool Sh*t, print edition, ISBN 978-1-7381818-0-3. Amazon. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  10. Friks, Jack. Consumption Control: how to stop scrolling and start living. Self-published, 2025. Amazon. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  11. Friks, Jack. "How I lost $500,000 last year at 22 years old." YouTube, 14 August 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  12. Friks, Jack. "i wrote my first book!! (in 4 months)". YouTube, 10 November 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  13. Friks, Jack. "I just launched an app to END doomscrolling (day 196)". YouTube, 28 April 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  14. Friks, Jack. "I'm making an app to END doomscrolling (day 347) - 4 MILLION VIEWS!! 25k downloads this month". YouTube, 28 September 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  15. Friks, Jack. "$10,000/month! making an app to end doomscrolling day 356". YouTube, 7 October 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  16. Friks, Jack. "day 376 of making an app to cure brainr0t - 100k downloads!!". YouTube Shorts, 27 October 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  17. Friks, Jack. "How I learned to code in 1 year and built 2 profitable startups (as a solo founder)". YouTube, 18 December 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  18. Friks, Jack. "last month i got a casual $1,000,000 offer for my company @ post-bridge.com. i turned it down." YouTube Shorts, 23 May 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  19. Friks, Jack. "day 15 of trying to build a $1M/year business solo @ post-bridge.com, currently at $12k MRR". YouTube Shorts, 2 June 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  20. Friks, Jack. "day 21 of making a $30,000/month business - current progress: $16,416/month". YouTube Shorts, 8 June 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  21. Friks, Jack. "day 24 of making a $30,000/month business - current progress: $17,163/month. got rejected from YC". YouTube Shorts, 11 June 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  22. Friks, Jack. "making a $10k/month app in 2 months (week 6 update)". YouTube, 28 November 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  23. Friks, Jack. "how to use post bridge! (social media scheduler demo)". YouTube, 30 January 2026. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  24. Friks, Jack. "how to schedule all your social media posts from claude/chatgpt/openclaw or any AI agent". YouTube, 6 August 2026. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  25. Friks, Jack. Post on X showing Lovelee in use, 31 October 2025 (14.3 million views, 315,000 likes as of September 2026). Retrieved 6 September 2026.
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  27. "how many times have i failed so far", public project ledger with outcomes, jackfriks.com. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
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  32. crypto friks, YouTube channel (@cryptojackfriks). 769 videos and 98 Shorts, 3.5 million views as of September 2026. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  33. Jack Ingram Online, YouTube channel. 266 videos, 470,000 views, September 2020 to May 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  34. Jack Ingram Finance, YouTube channel (@jackingramfinance5771). 36 videos, March to May 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  35. "How Uploading DAILY For 162 Days Grew My YouTube Channel". Jack Ingram Online, YouTube, 12 March 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  36. "What If You Invested $1000 In Cardano TODAY?". crypto friks, YouTube, 17 May 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
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  41. Post Bridge MCP server documentation. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  42. post-bridge-hq/agent-mode on GitHub (organisation created 4 March 2026). Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  43. postbridge-cli on npm (first published 14 June 2026). Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  44. Post Bridge Scheduler, Claude connector directory (Anthropic). Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  45. Post Bridge app in ChatGPT (OpenAI). Retrieved 6 September 2026.
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  47. Post Bridge on AlternativeTo. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
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  49. Lovelee: couples love note app. Apple App Store. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  50. Lovelee (@lovelee_app) on Instagram. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  51. Lovelee (@lovelee_app) on TikTok. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  52. yearpix, official site. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  53. doof, official site. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  54. deep work depot. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  55. ship or die, official site. Retrieved 6 September 2026.
  56. keep going club. Retrieved 6 September 2026.

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