// mix weights are our estimate from detected signal volume
Founded Nov 2023 in Istanbul as Diktatorial Suite ("virtual sound engineer" via prompts). Product Hunt launch March 2024 (#4 of the day), a $249 lifetime offer in the Diktatorial era, then the pivot pattern: rebrand to SoundBoost.ai (the old name was reportedly hard to pronounce), unlimited-credit subscriptions replacing credit caps, and mobile apps (iOS Aug 2025, Android) with weekly pricing. ~$7.5/mo blended ARPU across 2,169 subs — a low-price, high-volume producer-community motion; the founder is himself an electronic-music producer.
The 2025 mobile push is the volume engine: "Audio Mastering - SoundBoost" on iOS (4.6★ from 117 ratings, weekly $9.99–$14.99 / annual $49.90–$71.90) plus an Android app — weekly and annual billing plausibly explaining the last-30-days-vs-MRR gap.
Free preview mastering with no signup, plus free stem splitter, vocal remover, LUFS meter and backing-track tools as acquisition surfaces — nearly a third of the sitemap is free utilities feeding the paid product.
Launched as DIKTATORIAL Suite on Product Hunt (Mar 2024): #4 of the day, 276 upvotes — and maintains wide AI-tool-directory presence (theresanaiforthat, toolify, alternativeto) for "AI mastering" category search.
The founder-maintained profile lists exactly one channel — word of mouth — notably sparse against the detected footprint, but consistent with a producer-community product at ~$7.5/mo blended ARPU and a founder embedded in that community.
One email a week on how SaaS actually gets users — the new teardowns, what changed, and the founder claims our crawl just caught out. No fluff, unsubscribe anytime.