CodeGuide
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CJ: CodeGuide spends $3,500 monthly on operations, including $2,800 for OpenAI
“The biggest bill is OpenAI API, which is 2800 dollars. Then we also use Cloud API, and that costs us 300 plus dollars. Gemini Flash API is free right now. Cleric Dev is for user authentication. That's a very good tool. And then we use ConvertKit to send emails…”
CJ: CodeGuide holds official partnerships with Cursor, Windsurf, Bolt, and Lovable
“We have official partnership with Cursor AI Windsurf, Bolt, Lovable, and all the top AI coding tools.”
CJ: CodeGuide will raise its monthly price to $39-$49 within six months
“They can sign up either for a monthly membership, which is right now at 29 dollars. That will be 39 to 49 dollars in next six months.”
CJ built CodeGuide in two weeks, gaining 100 users on launch day
“It took us just two weeks to actually from, that's just a raw UI, to have a proper responsive web app launched for our users, and we got a hundred users the first day of launch, that was on the 24th of December, twenty-twenty-four.”
CJ: CodeGuide gained 1,800 waitlist signups in two weeks
“And then I created a landing page in like 30 minutes using bold. And within two weeks, we got 1800 waitlists. Signups.”
CJ built 11 failed products before finding success with CodeGuide
“And I just, you know, publicly announced that I'll be doing 12 startups. And I ended up building 11 products of my own. Unfortunately, 10 collapsed. They didn't perform well, but one of them grew really fast, which is CodeGuide.”
CJ: Piggybacking on existing AI tool audiences accelerates startup growth
“That's why it is growing really fast because I'm not reinventing my own audience. I'm just utilizing the AI coding tools audience, and we're just making that AI coding workflow better.”