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Adam Lytle challenged himself to build and launch one app every month
“So I set myself a challenge to create one app every single month.”
Adam Lytle sold an early app generating $1K monthly for $24,000
“Starting this journey of building an app per month, one of the first apps that I built became hugely successful. It was generating around about a thousand dollars a month, which at the time was huge. And at this stage, I had someone reach out who wanted to buy…”
Ryan Chen cashed out his 401(k) to bootstrap Neuro
“I cashed out my four one K, which I highly don't recommend people doing, but that was the risk that we were willing to take.”
Anderson: Rizz GPT's most profitable creators were teenagers posting for fun
“With Riz GPT, the creator is making the most profitable content. Most of them are like 1819 years old. They're just doing it for fun.”
Krasun: ScreenshotOne operates at 40% to 60% profit margins
“It's around from 40 to 60% profit margins.”
Krasun: ScreenshotOne's total monthly expenses are around $4,500
“Total expenses should be around 4500 dollars, I think, like in total.”
Nahum has built projects using PHP and Laravel for ten years
“I've been using the exact same stack for the past 10 years, pretty much since I started coding. I'm actually using PHP, which a lot of developer likes to make fun of with this PHP framework called Laravel.”
Nahum: Noteforms labeled beta features 'Pro' before launching paid plans
“All of these features that I was adding, you know, a little pro tag. And when you clicked on it says, Hey, this is free for now because it's the beta, but whenever it will launch, it will become a paid feature.”
Julian Nahum: Raising Noteforms prices slightly did not reduce conversion rates
“I tried, you know, increasing the price slightly. I saw that it didn't really have any impact on the conversion. So I did it again.”
Noteforms spends just $5,000 monthly for a four-person team
“With three people full-time and one person that's part-time. So the total salary for them is five K. So that excludes me.”
Nick Buzz Initially Doubted the Market Needed Another Design Agency
“When she said we should start Baked, I said, no, I don't believe that the market needs one more design subscription agency.”
Marc Lou: ShipFast monthly revenue hit $135,000 following a YouTube feature
“And there's obviously the YouTube episode that came a little bit later. Added lots of revenue to the product, ShipFast. So it went from, like, 50,000 dollars a month to somewhere around 85,000 dollars on the first month, then 135 In the second month, a 135 in …”
StealthGPT Generates $10,000 to $30,000 in Monthly Profit
“Profit, we're doing about 10 to 30,000 dollars a month after all of our expenses and everything.”
StealthGPT Has 400,000 Signups and 8,500 Active Subscribers
“So in the lifespan of Stealth, we have had 400,000 signups, about 15 to 20,000 subscribers as a whole. Active subscribers, we're looking at about 8500.”
Giovanisci: Digital courses generate the bulk of Swim University's revenue
“Then we have courses where we make a bulk of our money. So we sell three different courses for pools, one course for hot tub.”
Stoddart reveals he was a founding investor in email platform Sparkloop
“I was one of the founding investors in a company called Sparkloop.”
Stoddart reveals he acquired legacy content marketing brand Copyblogger
“And then, of course, I bought Copyblogger.”
Stoddart says persistent anxiety is the hardest part of being an entrepreneur
“The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that I worry all the time. Most of my time is just spent like, what's about to go wrong? What's a fire that's about to happen? Like, where can I see something coming so that I'm not blindsided and my life doesn't…”
Frank: Ultimate Brain Launch Generated $90K From 3,200-Person Waitlist
“Then when we launched Ultimate Brain, I think that was 90 grand from a waitlist of 3200 people.”
Thomas Frank: Free YouTube tutorials drive his Notion template customer acquisition
“Thomas Frank explains is the main way that people find us right now, especially for notion templates, because we just have all of these videos teaching people how to use notion for free.”
FormulaBot shifted from 100% Bubble no-code to just 5-10% no-code
“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%.”
Bressler did free spreadsheet work on calls to get user feedback
“Even if they're not a paying customer, I'm going to Take this, but guess what? I'm going to do it with you on a phone call and I'll do your work for you. But every time I do it, they have to hop on a call with me and they have to ask questions about what they …”
Patis's syndicate allows LPs to co-invest with tier-one VCs for $1,000
“Part of my role is gaining that access, getting the allocation to participate in that round alongside these tier one, these institutional venture capital funds for as little as a thousand dollars per deal.”
Patis sources venture syndicate deals through five primary channels
“Really there's Five different ways that we typically source deals and access founders. The first is co-syndicating with other syndicate leads like myself, right? A lot of times there will be other syndicates that maybe have a larger allocation than they can fi…”
Lieberman targets $10M revenue and $3.5M profit for zero-capital StoryArb
“I put zero dollars into it, and our goal is to get to product market fit as quickly as possible, with the ultimate goal of having Storyarb be a ten million dollar business on its own, And profiting at least 3.5 million every year.”
Lieberman: StoryArb Generates Roughly $1 Million in Annualized Revenue
“So we have 12 clients that are paying 7000 dollars a month. So 84,000 dollars, top line a month. It's roughly a million dollars a year in annualized revenue.”
Lieberman: StoryArb targets 10-month average client retention for product-market fit
“And so our goal is when we hit true product market fit, our average customer will have worked with us for on average, 10 months.”
Glacer: Early's initial MVP was built in three weeks without an alarm
“The initial scope of the project was just an accountability app. So there was no alarm feature whatsoever. And I built the app in three weeks and then I realized I didn't know how to market.”
Mezzadra: Floga runs on Flutter, Firebase, RevenueCat, Vimeo, and OneSignal
“So we use Flutter for development Firebase, which costs us around 25 dollars a month then revenue cut to handle subscription, and we host the video on Vimeo. We already have Vimeo for our other business, so the videos are there, and one signal for push notific…”
Schmidlkoffer built the first version of DuckMath on Google Sites
“The first site was actually on Google sites, which is just this drag and drop. And I would just embed the games from online or wherever they were, frame it in the thing.”
ChartDB is built using React, Vite, Node.js, and React Flow
“Yeah, so everything is React. We're using React Byte and Node.js, Tailwind, and React Flow for the canvas and all the entities.”
ChartDB spends $600 per month on AWS for cloud hosting
“AWS is where we have the cloud hosting, so costs 600 a month.”
Florin Pop's Tech Stack: Next.js, Supabase, Vercel, and ChatGPT
“I use Next.js for development, Supabase for database and authentication. I use Cream for payment processing, Vercel for hosting, Beehive to send my newsletter, Datafest for analytics for my websites, and I use ChatGPT For AI. That's my main go-to AI tool.”
Czerny: Goji Berry AI Spends $800 Monthly on Instantly AI
“So we use Instantly AI, a great tool to do cold email. So that costs about 800 dollars per month to run it because we do very high volume.”
Czerny Uses ChatGPT and Nano Banana for All Graphics
“We use ChatGPT plus Nano Banana to create every post and every graphic design as well. So that's maybe about 40 dollars per month.”
Acosta lists Clio's operational stack: Slack, Loops, Calendly, and Fernand
“For the operations and monetization, we use Slack for communication. We use loops for emails, Calendly for onboarding calls, and then Fernand for managing those emails for support.”
Hallam: Five product launches over 2.5 years made zero dollars
“Over the next two and a half years, I built and launched five products that made in total a whopping zero dollars”
Lampropoulos: First App Lost All Capital After 18-Month Agency Development Delays
“Our app went viral on social media. We had 10 K followers waiting for our app. We had to hire like three development agencies. None of them got it right. It took us a year and a half to finally release the app. And at that point the hype died and we lost just …”
Lampropoulos: Took one month to build and launch Wrestle AI
“It took me around a month from The idea to being live on the app store from June to July first, that's when I launched.”
Lampropoulos: Paid a Fiverr developer $250 for app paywall integration
“So I paid someone on Fiverr like 250 bucks that took him about a week.”
Gargicevich: Building Gravl's initial MVP took two to three months
“Initial MVP took around two to three months, maybe.”
Gargicevich: Gravl runs on React Native, Expo, and .NET
“We use React Native and Expo. For the backend, I did .NET for most of the core functionality. I've also used Next and React to build some, like, internal admin dashboards.”
Bhooshan: Supergrow launched with three customers and under 1,200 social followers
“When I started Supergrove, I had 600 followers on Twitter and maybe like 500 followers on LinkedIn. I was always a struggling entrepreneur. I didn't know how to build distribution. So I only had like two, three customers back then, and I actually didn't know h…”
Bhooshan: Supergrow priced its lifetime deal tiers at $78 and $198
“So actually Lock It Up helped us with the pricing. So we launched three different tiers. So the basic pricing tier was 78 dollars, which basically translate to our basic plan right now. The second plan was one 98 dollars.”
Wysocka: Rootd revenue could sustain her for over a year before going full-time
“Revenue was there. It could sustain me comfortably for over a year.”