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Czerny: Reddit Post on LinkedIn Influencers Brought 10-15 Clients
“This post is called, I paid five inferences on LinkedIn to promote my SaaS. Here's what's 1250 dollars got me, and it got 160 K views, 543 upvotes. In terms of visitors, it got something like 2000 visitors, and out of 2000 visitors, we probably got something l…”
Romàn Czerny Jan 25, 2026 ▶ 4:37 How I Used Reddit to Build a $34K/Month SaaS
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Czerny: Y Combinator Rejection Post Gained 179K Views and 15 Clients
“For example, I got rejected from the Y Combinator interview. So we got selected for the interview, but we failed the interview. Well, I said, okay, why not make it a post? And we got more than 179,000 views. We got maybe 15 clients out of this”
Romàn Czerny Jan 25, 2026 ▶ 5:21 How I Used Reddit to Build a $34K/Month SaaS
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Walls: Starter Story Acquired First 1,000 Users on Reddit
“You may not be aware, but I grew Starter Story on Reddit. That's how we got our first thousand users, monetized the business,”
Pat Walls Jan 25, 2026 ▶ 11:11 How I Used Reddit to Build a $34K/Month SaaS
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Baron: Prayer Lock Generated $21K in December and Grew Over 50% Monthly
“And in terms of monthly revenue, we closed December at 21,000 dollars in sales. A previous month was at 15 K dollars and October was at 10 K. We've been growing at over 50% a month in total downloads.”
Mal Baron Jan 18, 2026 ▶ 1:48 I Built a $20K/Month Mobile App: Here’s My Entire Playbook
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Baron: Prayer Lock Took Three Days to Code, Seven for Approval
“It took me three days to code the app and over a week to actually get it approved on the app store.”
Mal Baron Jan 18, 2026 ▶ 4:14 I Built a $20K/Month Mobile App: Here’s My Entire Playbook
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Baron: 10K Daily UGC Views Drove 200 to 300 App Downloads Daily
“In my case, 10 K views A day was getting me around two to 300 downloads a day, but this is because this specific format is very optimized for downloads.”
Mal Baron Jan 18, 2026 ▶ 8:38 I Built a $20K/Month Mobile App: Here’s My Entire Playbook
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Baron: Prayer Lock will probably close January at $40K monthly revenue
“And we're probably going to close January at 40 K a month.”
Mal Baron Jan 18, 2026 ▶ 11:35 I Built a $20K/Month Mobile App: Here’s My Entire Playbook
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Baron: Prayer Lock generated ~$20K revenue on ~$9K ad spend in December
“If we go to the last 30 days, for example, for the month of December, which I closed at pretty much 20 K, I spent around nine K”
Mal Baron Jan 18, 2026 ▶ 15:10 I Built a $20K/Month Mobile App: Here’s My Entire Playbook
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Baron: Current cost per app trial for Prayer Lock is $1.88
“Basically my cost Per trial right now is at 1.88 dollars.”
Mal Baron Jan 18, 2026 ▶ 15:20 I Built a $20K/Month Mobile App: Here’s My Entire Playbook
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Sam Adeniyi coded his initial SaaS MVP in a week using Notepad
“The initial MVP that you see, it was coded in about a week, and that is the version I did on Notepad.”
Sam Adeniyi Jan 14, 2026 ▶ 4:53 I built a $14K/month SaaS using Discord
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Rob Hallam: SuperX grew to over $13,000 MRR in four months
“I launched it publicly four months ago, and since then we've gone from 1000 to over 13,000 dollars in monthly recurring revenue, now growing at 25% month over month.”
Rob Hallam Dec 28, 2025 ▶ 1:29 How I Used Twitter to Hit $10K/Month
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Hallam: 100K daily X impressions drive 95% of SuperX's traffic
“Since I started using Super X properly back in about April, you can see the majority of my impressions have started to skyrocket, and since then I've been able to keep about 100,000 impressions a day, and this is where 95% of the traffic and most of our users …”
Rob Hallam Dec 28, 2025 ▶ 3:00 How I Used Twitter to Hit $10K/Month
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Hallam: A selfie post generated $1,000 MRR in 24 hours
“The funniest thing was that although that post wasn't advertising what SuperX was, that post drove way more signups than the initial launch post did. And thanks to that post, we added 1000 dollars in monthly recurring revenue in just 24 hours.”
Rob Hallam Dec 28, 2025 ▶ 8:28 How I Used Twitter to Hit $10K/Month
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Hallam: Switching from text to video yielded 10x reach on X
“For me, when I switched from text to video format, I got 10 times the reach of text posts.”
Rob Hallam Dec 28, 2025 ▶ 15:28 How I Used Twitter to Hit $10K/Month
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Lampropoulos: Wrestle AI generates $17,000 per month within six months
“I launched an app that makes 17 K per month. I launched within the last six months, and I'm excited to share how I did it today.”
George Lampropoulos Dec 14, 2025 ▶ 1:20 How I grew my mobile app to $17K per month
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Lampropoulos: Green App Received Only 100 Downloads From 1.8M Impressions
“While this app green that I launched got, I think a hundred downloads off like 1.8 million impressions solely because this app didn't follow the purple cow philosophy.”
George Lampropoulos Dec 14, 2025 ▶ 7:10 How I grew my mobile app to $17K per month
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Lampropoulos: Wrestle AI hit $13K monthly revenue on $500 ad spend
“From there, I took about 500 bucks and I'm like, all right, now that we've saturated Caden's audience and we're a little bit known in the wrestling industry, we took the money, threw it into marketing and generated so far. Now we're at like 13 K for this month…”
George Lampropoulos Dec 14, 2025 ▶ 11:59 How I grew my mobile app to $17K per month
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Lampropoulos: Wrestle AI hit App Store #19 and made $1,000 on launch
“We're number 19 on the App Store and we've made over a thousand bucks.”
George Lampropoulos Dec 14, 2025 ▶ 18:24 How I grew my mobile app to $17K per month
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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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Gravl's launch post on Reddit generated over 300,000 impressions
“I posted this thread on how I build gravel. Back in the day it was called Gains.ai, and I shared kind of the technical specs around it. It got over a couple hundred likes within the first couple hours and over 300,000 impressions. Yeah, we got our first couple…”
Julian Gargicevich Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 4:56 How I Built It: $400K/Month Mobile App (Gravl)
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Lotz has flipped four apps for over $500K since 2022
“I build apps to about 10 to 20 K MRR, and I'm flipping them. I've done this four times now, and racked up total sales of over half a million dollars since 2022.”
Lotz (Lots) Nov 9, 2025 ▶ 1:17 I flipped 4 apps and made $500,000
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WhatsApp conversation fees caused Lotz's app costs to balloon to $15K monthly
“And then I didn't realize WhatsApp charges an arm and a leg per conversation window. Then my costs would like balloon to like, 15 K a month.”
Lotz (Lots) Nov 9, 2025 ▶ 3:09 I flipped 4 apps and made $500,000
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Lotz has built an email list of 1.2 million Christian subscribers
“Over time I now have an email list of 1.2 million Christians.”
Lotz (Lots) Nov 9, 2025 ▶ 15:17 I flipped 4 apps and made $500,000
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Steven Cravotta Scaled Puff Count to $44K MRR Before European Acquisition
“I built puff count. My quit vaping app scaled it to 44,000 dollars in monthly recurring revenue before exiting the company and selling it to a larger mobile app studio in Europe.”
Steven Cravotta Sep 20, 2025 ▶ 1:27 The $1M Mobile App Playbook
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Steven Cravotta Gained 50 Million Organic TikTok Views With Zero Spend
“I grew the puff count account to a 120,000 followers, over fifty million views and hundreds of thousands of app store installs all for zero dollars.”
Steven Cravotta Sep 20, 2025 ▶ 8:46 The $1M Mobile App Playbook
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Steven Cravotta Had an 11.6 Million View Video Yield Zero Installs
“Yeah, so this video here got 11.6 million views. Close to a million likes. And it drove me close to no installs.”
Steven Cravotta Sep 20, 2025 ▶ 13:09 The $1M Mobile App Playbook
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Steven Cravotta Maintained a $20 CAC Against a $70 Customer LTV
“So with all of our content and all of our paid ads, our customer acquisition cost on puff count was anywhere around 20 to 24 dollars. And our lifetime value was anywhere from 55 to upwards of 70 dollars per conversion.”
Steven Cravotta Sep 20, 2025 ▶ 16:54 The $1M Mobile App Playbook
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Georgiou's software company reached $250K in monthly revenue in June 2025
“I mean, we hit 250 K in June a couple months ago. Now the business is on a growing and sustainable path.”
Sebastian Georgiou Sep 17, 2025 ▶ 5:51 I Quit YouTube & Built a $1M App (Without My Audience)
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Georgiou's app reached $10K monthly revenue organically before using paid ads
“We kept on listening to the customers and it grew to 10 K a month. Fairly organically as it got to a much better place and to a good place where we felt pretty confident.”
Sebastian Georgiou Sep 17, 2025 ▶ 11:44 I Quit YouTube & Built a $1M App (Without My Audience)
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Content and paid ads drive 60% to 65% of Georgiou's SaaS traffic
“So, YouTube videos, short form content, and paid ads makes up 60 to 65% of our total traffic.”
Sebastian Georgiou Sep 17, 2025 ▶ 12:30 I Quit YouTube & Built a $1M App (Without My Audience)
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Bhooshan: Supergrow generates $230,000 in annual recurring revenue
“Supergrove is a SaaS that helps professionals build their personal brand on LinkedIn, and now it makes two 30,000 dollars a year.”
Deven Bhooshan Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:00 How I Made $65K in 3 Days
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Bhooshan: Supergrow generated $65,000 in three days via a lifetime deal
“When we launched Lifetending, we generated 65,000 dollars in three days.”
Deven Bhooshan Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:20 How I Made $65K in 3 Days
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Wysocka: Rootd has achieved over 4M downloads and $1M in revenue
“Since launching in 2019, it's been downloaded over four million times and made over a million in revenue.”
Ania Wysocka Aug 31, 2025 ▶ 1:04 This app made over $1M
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Wysocka: Rootd hit 10k downloads year one and 100k year two
“I'd say in the first year we reached around 10,000 downloads. It wasn't until year two or so that we reached a 100,000 downloads. And I remember after that, I guess we just knew that there was a real demand for it and kept going. And I hit a million downloads,…”
Ania Wysocka Aug 31, 2025 ▶ 5:20 This app made over $1M
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Wysocka: Rootd Landed Time and Cosmopolitan Features Through Cold Emails
“So we were in cosmopolitan. We've been in woman's health. We were even in time magazine, which was the big one. All of that really happened from these organic Cold emails.”
Ania Wysocka Aug 31, 2025 ▶ 8:09 This app made over $1M
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Sync to Sheets Generates $9K per Month as Single-Feature Tool
“My name is Leandro and I built an app that does only one thing and makes nine gain per month.”
Leandro Zubrezki Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 0:48 How I Built It: $9K/Month Micro-SaaS
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Sync to Sheets Hits 70K Users, 450 Paying Customers, $120K Lifetime
“We have more than seventy-k users in the application, we have more than 450 paying customers, and we get kind of five-k visitors a month, and lifetime revenue probably around a hundred and twenty-k for the last four years.”
Leandro Zubrezki Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 1:17 How I Built It: $9K/Month Micro-SaaS
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France: Built a co-parenting app landing page in one hour using framework
“The landing page was created only with this framework A to Z. And if you have some knowledge in marketing, you can see that this is a really good marketing copy. And this landing page was created in an hour. And before starting the process, I had absolutely no…”
Steph France Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 1:26 How to Use AI to Find a $1M Idea [Reddit, Claude]
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John Rush generates $3M ARR across his apps with 1M B2B users
“All my businesses have combined around one million users in B to B and combined three million ARR, where seven products bring most of the revenue and the other products are bringing the audience And that channel to the paid products.”
John Rush May 31, 2025 ▶ 1:14 I Make $250K/Month From 20 Apps
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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 (Sajilah Mazafar) May 21, 2025 ▶ 5:37 From Zero to $42K/Month in 90 Days with AI
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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 (Sajilah Mazafar) May 21, 2025 ▶ 8:13 From Zero to $42K/Month in 90 Days with AI
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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 (Sajilah Mazafar) May 21, 2025 ▶ 13:12 From Zero to $42K/Month in 90 Days with AI
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CJ: 100% of CodeGuide's user acquisition traffic comes from X
“All my traffic is coming from X.”
CJ (Sajilah Mazafar) May 21, 2025 ▶ 14:46 From Zero to $42K/Month in 90 Days with AI
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Veed reached 30,000 monthly users in nine months
“We went from, like, zero users to 30,000 monthly users in, like, nine months.”
Saba Keynejad May 7, 2025 ▶ 6:32 I Got Rejected From YC, Then Built a $200M Startup
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Veed acquired 20 paid users over a weekend after YC rejection
“Bang on, nine a.m. Monday morning, we sent them an email like, hey guys, thank you so much for your feedback, we implemented it, We've got 20 paid users, would you reconsider?”
Saba Keynejad May 7, 2025 ▶ 10:11 I Got Rejected From YC, Then Built a $200M Startup
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