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Q So from what I understand, you have no experience coding. How did you build and launch something like this?
A I'm not a coder by any means. If I see it, I kind of know, okay, that's JavaScript. That's HTML. And I knew for what I wanted to build as an MVP, it would take a pretty significant time to build it with code. And I, at that time, wasn't making any money. I didn't want to hire anyone because I just had an idea. And so that's where I was really exposed to, uh, the, the no code industry. I was exposed to bubble.io. That was really The only application that I really dove into to, to build, because it was the most well-known, and based on the research that I had done, that the easiest of all the no-code solutions. The first place I went was the Bubble official website for just kind of reading some documentation, but there's so much documentation out there, which is a good thing. Kind of where I got hung up was very isolated issues that I was trying to solve, but that's really where YouTube University came in. There are some awesome Bubble developers out there that Produce such high quality content on YouTube, and it's all free. At that time, the whole app was in bubble. It was a hundred percent no code. Probably up until maybe four or five months ago, it went from a hundred percent no code to now it's about, I would say, like five or 10%. As you get more experience with no code, you start to understand some of the limitations. There's not a lot, but there are some limitations.
AI assessment note: “I was exposed to bubble.io. That was really The only application that I really dove into”
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Q founders, head to the first link in the description, and we're going to give you 52 micro SaaS ideas, just like David's, so you can get started on your journey. Much love. Enjoy the rest of the video. Peace. All right, so you have this MVP that you built from scratch. How do you get your first customer, and how do you get a ton of people to use it?
A The first people I told were the people that were at my full-time job at that time, and they're like, oh my god, this is amazing. They thought it took me months to build this thing. It really took me just a Couple of weeks. And that really kind of speaks to the power of no code. Um, I guess if you were to code it, it didn't take much longer. And so my next step was I need to tell more people about this tool. And so naturally the next place I liked was Reddit. Went to the Excel subreddit, where there's probably several hundred people that follow it. Reddit title was AI Excel formula generator. And I think I mentioned it was free and it was just a title and the description was just the link minutes later. It was like the top post of the day, turned into the top post of the week. It blew up as much as, like, something can blow up within the Excel community. A couple of days after that, someone in the comment section said, you should post this on the Internet is Beautiful subreddit, and so I posted it there. That was like the thing that put the app over the edge and made it go viral for months, and so I had posted it there. It got some 10,000 upvotes, Thousands of comments. You know, I got thousands and thousands of people visiting the site, using the app.
AI assessment note: “Went to the Excel subreddit... someone in the comment section said, you should post this”
