Art Room, a one-person startup company, announced on the 14th that its AI short-form production platform 'Easy Cut,' developed by the company, has recorded cumulative sales of 100 million won just seven weeks after its launch on July 25.
Art Room's founder and CEO Kim Dong-min is handling the entire business process alone, from product planning to development, operations, and marketing, utilizing AI.
Easy Cut is a service that allows users to input video links or files, after which AI selects key scenes and applies titles and subtitles to create short-form drafts. It also supports features such as AI comment templates that generate and place reaction phrases suitable for the context, and CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licensed video material search that utilizes re-editing and commercial permissions.
Last month, the company signed a contract with domestic broadcasting stations and began offering B2B (business-to-business) services.
Art Room recorded cumulative sales of 100 million won, along with 15,000 members. Among users with video production experience, 40.6% made paid subscriptions, and the '30-day re-creation rate' among users one month after their first creation was 54.2%. This indicates that more than half of the users have proceeded with recurring payments.
Kim Dong-min, CEO of Art Room, stated, "We aim to reduce the burden on creators in finding materials and completing them as short-form videos," adding, "Based on user feedback, we will respond to the demand for repeated creation by individuals and companies."
Meanwhile, with advancements in AI technology, 'solopreneurs' who start and operate startups alone using AI are rapidly increasing. Globally, startups such as Medbi and Base44 have emerged, recording monthly sales of tens of billions of won alone.
The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced last April that the number of one-person creative enterprises in Korea reached 1,162,529 as of 2023, a 15.4% increase year-on-year.
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