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Keynejad built 500 landing pages and YouTube videos for SEO
“There's actually about 500 of these search terms. So I built a landing page for every single one of those things, and then I'd record YouTube videos for every single landing page.”
Pat Walls: Pieter Levels is making $50K from his flight simulator
“And my buddy Peter Levels is making 50,000 dollars with his plain game simulator.”
Fricks: CuriosityQuench was built by repeatedly debugging errors through ChatGPT
“The first thing I went to build was actually curiosity quench. Everything broke almost every single time I built it. I just kept putting errors after errors into ChatGPT and eventually had a working product”
Fricks: 2x2 Video Template Drove 60K-70K Signups and Hundreds of Millions of Views
“I posted the two by two template over now, 300 times on two different accounts, and they've driven 60 to 70,000 signups just through these simple templates that have brought in like hundreds of millions of views.”
Park: Meme accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers charge $50–$100
“They'll have ridiculously low sponsorship fees. So you could pay 50 dollars, even sometimes a hundred dollars, and then you could post it on an account that has hundreds of thousands of followers.”
Park: Jenni AI operated five accounts posting 15 videos daily
“In the past, we at one point had five different Genie accounts, all posting similar content. Five accounts across three platforms. So 15 videos going out every single day.”
Myers: Oceans Reached Roughly $15M in Annual Revenue
“Last year we closed at about fifteen million in revenue, so it's just been up, up, up, and it's very profitable.”
New onboarding and paywalls boosted Adam Lytle's app revenue to $50K monthly
“I created a new paywall, and I created a new onboarding flow, and that turned my revenue from generating 10,000 dollars a month to 50,000 dollars per month, pretty much overnight.”
Neuro generated $100K in year one and $750K in year two
“The first year, I think we did, like, a little over a hundred K, and then year two, it was like 750 K”
McIntosh: SheetsResume Did $20K at Near 100% Margin in Month Two
“In our second month of business, we did 20,000 dollars of sales. That's nearly 100% margin as well.”
McIntosh: Reddit resume guide ranks first on Google for 'resume advice Reddit'
“I just sat down and I wrote out a whole long resume guide of do's and don'ts, and that post on Reddit blew up so much that it is now the first result on Google for resume advice Reddit.”
Anderson: Rizz GPT generates $2.5M in annual revenue
“The first app that I built was called Riz GPT. It's at two and a half million dollars in annual revenue.”
Anderson: UMax generated nearly $5M in revenue over the past year
“The second app that I built was called UMax. Once again, came up with the idea, designed and built the application and led the majority of the marketing. In the past year, we've done almost five million dollars in revenue.”
Lemlist built its MVP in two weeks and closed 100 outbound customers
“Our first MVP, it was just two weeks of work. I closed, basically, the first 100 customers doing live demos and outbound. I did only this.”
Lemlist redesign paused growth but more than doubled user activation to 35%
“During that time, it was the month where we went from 40% month-over-month gross rate to zero percent, but at the end of the month, our activation rate was at, like, 35% instead of 15.”
Moubeche: Lemlist Grew by 60% Month-Over-Month After Redesign Fixes
“So the next month, we grew, I think, this time by, like, 60% because all the unhappy people wanted to churn insurance, but eventually, like, the new one converted at a much higher pace.”
Moubeche: Lemlist grew from $0 to $10M ARR in 3.5 years
“I think it took us one year to go from zero to 250,000 dollar ARR, annual recurring revenue. Year two, it was we reached one million. Year three, we were like at eight-ish, and then three and a half years, we were at 10.”
Pessagno: ResumeMaker and AICarousels generate about $15K MRR combined
“Together, they bring in about 15 KMR, which allow me to finally step away from the nine to five, and let's hope it stays that way.”
Pessagno: Operating Costs Are ~$1K/Month With Profit Margins Above 90%
“The costs are around, like, 1000 per month. So the project margins are above 90, 90%.”
Krasun: ScreenshotOne has 280 customers and $12K monthly revenue
“So currently I am at 280 customers making around 12,000 dollars of monthly revenue.”
Krasun: ScreenshotOne monthly churn dropped from 11% to 7%
“For me, it was like, let's 11 person per month. Now it's close to seven.”
Nahum: Noteforms reaches nearly 100K users and $37K MRR
“We have close to a hundred K registered users, and now we are close to 37 K of monthly recurring revenue.”
Nahum: Built the initial Noteforms MVP in six days
“I just spent six days working on it, creating like a small MVP.”
Cravotta: Over 12M total app downloads amassed across portfolio
“I've amassed over twelve million downloads on my apps in total.”
Cravotta: Puff Count generates $40K monthly recurring revenue
“I'm working on an app right now called Puff Count that is currently doing 40,000 dollars in monthly recurring revenue. So this is the last 30 days of sales for Puff Count. As you can see, we did 43,000 dollars in sales, and if we look at the last 90, we have d…”
Cravotta: 8.3M-view TikTok drove tens of thousands of Puff Count downloads
“For example, this one that got 8.3 million views drove tens of thousands of downloads for puff count.”
Cravotta: Puff Count took over three years to generate decent revenue
“Puff count has been live for four years, but only last six or seven months have I really made decent revenue per month.”
Nick Buzz Made $90,000 Annually From a Single Freelance Client
“Little did I know that the client stayed with me for the next three and a half years. So I was making around like 80 or 90,000 dollars a year just doing freelancing.”
Marc Lou: Viral marketing skits boosted monthly revenue from $1K to $4K
“And I started to make those, like, skits where I would go on a podcast with Joe Rogan, or I would be on a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and this did really well. Like, people felt that I was having fun, and that's where my revenue went from, like, around a tho…”
Marc Lou states he failed approximately 30 startups before succeeding
“I failed 30 startups around that”
StealthGPT's Early Google Ads Cost Per Conversion Was $10 to $20
“They were converting like insanely low cost per conversion, 10 dollars, 15 dollars, 20 dollars in the early days, and that allowed us to scale a ton.”
All StealthGPT Developer Hires Were Sourced Through Twitter
“All of our developer hires have come through Twitter posts.”
Andre Heckel Jr.: ListKit gained 1,500 paying customers in its first year
“Just within the first six months, we had our first 1000 paying customers, and as of right now, almost a year into the business, we have over 1500
Paying customers.”
Andre Heckel Jr.: ListKit nears $200,000 in monthly recurring revenue
“So yeah, we started the business last July. Right now is June, 2024, and we're about to just surpass 200,000 dollars in MRR.”
Andre Heckel Jr.: ListKit spends $175,000 monthly on team and marketing
“The team cost is over a 100,000 dollars. Total cost to grow the business, including ads and marketing and acquisition is anywhere from 150 to 175,000 dollars a month to maintain.”
Dickie Bush: Ship 30 for 30 generates around $3M annually
“The first is Ship 30 for 30, which is a Community power writing course that helps beginners who've never written anything start writing online. That one does about three million dollars per year.”
Dickie Bush: Premium Ghostwriting Academy generates roughly $5M annually
“The second is the premium ghostwriting Academy, which helps beginner freelance writers to position themselves as premium ghostwriters. That's a group evergreen group coaching model. That one does about five million dollars a year.”
Dickie Bush: Write With AI newsletter is pacing toward $500K revenue
“Then we have right with AI, which is a paid newsletter for training AI writing tools to become your personal writing intern. That one's on pace to do 500 K this year.”
Naval and Balaji retweets grew Dickie Bush's newsletter to 1,000 subscribers
“That post got retweeted by Naval Balogy, a handful of other kind of high profile people. It had four or 5000 likes. I dropped my newsletter at the bottom and went from 250 subscribers to a thousand.”
McIntosh: Sheets & Giggles reached $1.2M in monthly sales by November 2020
“I incorporated the company in October, 2017, shipped our first box in October, 2018, and then about 25 months later, in November, 20 20, we had our first million dollar month at about 1.2 million dollars in sales.”
Sheets & Giggles captured 11,000 pre-launch emails at a 46% conversion rate
“For us, we were selling a set for a hundred dollars, but if they signed up first, they get them for 69 bucks. And we ended up capturing 11,000 emails. 46% email capture.”
Sheets & Giggles generated $284,000 in total crowdfunding revenue
“What ended up happening is our email list converted at four and a half percent, we got 450 customers at a hundred dollar AOV, did 45,000 dollars on day one, and that snowballed into a 284,000 dollar campaign.”
McIntosh: SiteGPT reduced Sheets and Giggles customer care tickets by 30%
“It's like 50 bucks a month, and it cut down our customer care tickets by like 30%.”
Giovanisci: Swim University generated $1M in revenue last year
“So we hit a million last year in the business”
Stoddart predicts his holding company will generate up to $5.5M in 2024
“This year for Stasi, we'll do probably like two and a half million, but on the side and more and more throughout the day, I find myself running a personal holdings company. My guess is it'll be like 5.2 to five and a half million for 2024.”
Thomas Frank: Price increase lowered volume slightly but increased total revenue
“We did a price increase last year and we saw volume dip a little bit, but overall revenue went up.”
FormulaBot hit 750,000 users, 5,000 paid subscribers, and $26,000 MRR
“The application has been around for about a year and a half, and during that time, there's now roughly about 750,000 users. And of those seven, 550 K, there's about 5000 people that pay for unlimited access to tool. And during that time, it's reached about 26,…”