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Gil Hildebrand

Founder, Subscribr. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Gil Hildebrand is a software engineer and serial entrepreneur who built Subscribr, an AI-powered scripting platform for YouTube creators. He previously served as CTO of Seth Godin's publishing platform Squidoo and founded venture-backed crypto accounting platform Gilded.

What they said10 Shows1

Everything Gil Hildebrand said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Hildebrand: Default ChatGPT "Nowhere Near Good Enough" for YouTube Scripts

“I tried using ChatGPT and I saw that it was nowhere near good enough to, you know, write the kind of script that I wanted to see.”

Gil Hildebrand Dec 2, 2025 ▶ 3:35 How I Built It: $30K/month Micro-SaaS (Subscribr Breakdown)

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Hildebrand: 90% of Subscribr's Code Was Written Using Claude

“Probably 90% of my code is written with cloud code.”

Gil Hildebrand Dec 2, 2025 ▶ 13:18 How I Built It: $30K/month Micro-SaaS (Subscribr Breakdown)

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Hildebrand: Subscribr Was Profitable Day One, Hit 4,000 Customers in 18 Months

“It was profitable from day one, and 18 months later, I have over 4000 customers.”

Gil Hildebrand Dec 2, 2025 ▶ 1:05 How I Built It: $30K/month Micro-SaaS (Subscribr Breakdown)

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Hildebrand: Subscribr Generated Over $700K in Sales Last Year

“And in total, in the past year, I've done over 700,000 dollars in sales.”

Gil Hildebrand Dec 2, 2025 ▶ 1:27 How I Built It: $30K/month Micro-SaaS (Subscribr Breakdown)

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Hildebrand: Co-founded Squidoo, Grew it to Over $10M Revenue

“I co-founded a company called Squidoo, which was a social publishing platform. We grew that to over Ten million dollars in revenue.”

Gil Hildebrand Dec 2, 2025 ▶ 2:17 How I Built It: $30K/month Micro-SaaS (Subscribr Breakdown)

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Hildebrand Made $20,000 in Subscribr Pre-Sales Before Writing Any Code

“Pretty quickly it sold out, I think within two or three days. And I made my first 20,000 dollars before the idea was even built.”

Gil Hildebrand Dec 2, 2025 ▶ 5:31 How I Built It: $30K/month Micro-SaaS (Subscribr Breakdown)

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Hildebrand Pre-Sold Subscribr by Offering a Full Money-Back Guarantee

“So the way that I did that was by offering a Money back guarantee. So the entire time in between when the presale happened and when the product was delivered, they could ask for their money back.”

Gil Hildebrand Dec 2, 2025 ▶ 12:39 How I Built It: $30K/month Micro-SaaS (Subscribr Breakdown)

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Hildebrand Spends $3,500 per Month on AI Compute for Subscribr

“Today I'm probably spending about 3500 dollars a month just on the AI compute, and that's coming from a bunch of different model providers.”

Gil Hildebrand Dec 2, 2025 ▶ 13:51 How I Built It: $30K/month Micro-SaaS (Subscribr Breakdown)

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Hildebrand: Subscribr Spends $2K Monthly on Ads, $1.5K on Tooling

“I'm spending about 2000 dollars a month on ads, and I have another 1500 dollars a month. And other things like web scraping, hosting, and sending emails to my users.”

Gil Hildebrand Dec 2, 2025 ▶ 13:59 How I Built It: $30K/month Micro-SaaS (Subscribr Breakdown)

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Hildebrand: Programmatic SEO Drives 30,000 Monthly Google Views for Subscribr

“A big part of that is actually our programmatic SEO campaigns where we bring in over 30,000 views a month just from Google.”

Gil Hildebrand Dec 2, 2025 ▶ 1:34 How I Built It: $30K/month Micro-SaaS (Subscribr Breakdown)

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Gil's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
STARTER STORYLEDGER	Founder, Subscribr	1	10	—	full record on Starter Story →