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FormulaBot sees 5% churn, with 10% of churned users leaving for ChatGPT
“I have about five percent churn. 10% of the reason as to why people churn is because of ChatGPT.”
Patis deployed $60M across 275 startups as a side hustle
“So I was able to invest in 275 companies Deploy about sixty million in total capital, all as a side hustle while I was kind of operating as an early stage employee at a startup.”
Patis's first syndicate startup grew from a $6M to $500M valuation
“In this particular company, they were raising two million dollars at a six million dollar valuation. We had the opportunity to invest a 150,000 as the final trunch, and that company today has recently raised at a five hundred million dollar valuation.”
Lieberman: Morning Brew generates over $75M annually with 200 employees
“Morning Brew is a two-hundred-person company that does more than seventy-five million dollars a year in revenue”
Lieberman quit Wall Street for Morning Brew at 30,000 subscribers, zero revenue
“I quit my job when we had 30,000 subscribers. We had not made a dollar on the business, but I just had this sense of faith, and so did Austin, that we'd be able to figure out a way to make money as a business.”
Smale: In 2010, no M&A firms or brokers serviced online businesses
“There was no M&A firms that did this. There were no business brokers. If you had a really big business, you couldn't call a big investment bank because they wouldn't return your phone call. So very much offered a service that no one else did, and really built …”
Shanadi: Greek House hit with $40K audit on $1M in sales
“We had a 40,000 dollar bill four months into it, which, you know, at the time, you know, we were doing just under a million in sales and that was really scary, right? That's like four percent of our costs. And we didn't even have 40 K in the bank to roll with.”
Pearl: Building the entire Stella app took two to three months
“I think from start to finish, it took us two, three months to build the entire app.”
Brian Shin: ONCE's initial MVP was built in under two weeks
“So the first version took around a week or two. It was a web app that kind of just had the core features of what a mobile app intended to have.”
Mezzadra: Floga has about 4,000 active users
“So at the moment we have about 4000 active users between paid and free.”
Mezzadra: Floga generates between $9,000 and $10,000 per month
“Approximately right now we're doing between 9010 thousand dollars a month.”
Leavitt: Video inventing the Instagram 'compare lists method' hit 1M+ views
“I made a video about that and it got like one point Something million views. And that strategy that I brought to the internet has since been repeated so many times that it's referred to as the compare lists method.”
Leavitt: Follow Buddy ranks number one on YouTube for Instagram unfollower searches
“We are number one for unfollower app Instagram. Not bad. Best Instagram unfollower tracker number one.”
Florin Pop: First SaaS Made $68K in Revenue and Sold for $50K
“My first successful SaaS made 68,000 dollars in revenue, which later I sold for 50,000 dollars.”
Baron: Prayer Lock Reached Number 22 in App Store Reference Category
“In November, prayer lock reached number 22 in the reference category.”
Sam Adeniyi made over $10K promoting RizzApp via faceless texting stories
“Me and my two best friends from home, we worked with a company called RizzApp and we posted faceless texting stories. About different like fake scenarios to help promote their app. And we did over 10,000 dollars in revenue with that company.”
Lampropoulos: Wrestle AI has 2M impressions and ~17,000 downloads
“So we've done over two million impressions on social media download wise. I think we're around 17,000.”
Lampropoulos: Wrestle AI secured 3,000 to 4,000 pre-orders prior to launch
“Back when we were first launching Wrestle.ai, we were hyping up the launch, we had about 3000 pre-orders, maybe 4000.”
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.”
Lotz's mobile apps have reached over one million combined users
“And we've scaled over a million users across all the apps that we have.”
Bhooshan: Supergrow has over 800 recurring subscribers
“We currently have more than 800 plus recurring customers.”
Bhooshan: RocketHub holds a list of hundreds of thousands of buyers
“They have a list of hundreds of thousands of customers who are ready to buy LTDs.”
Bhooshan: Supergrow gained 50 customers from Product Hunt's Product of the Week
“We actually launched it on product and we were able to become like product of the week in product and actually give us 50 customers also.”
Wysocka: Rootd's core panic button feature has remained unchanged since MVP
“The first prototype of rooted was essentially the panic attack button that would walk you through a panic attack. And that actually hasn't changed a ton over the years because it's really the core of rooted. It's the aha moment that really resonates with users…”
Fricks: A 60-second TikTok video generated 15 validation comments for CuriosityQuench
“And then for curiosity quench as an example, I posted a video, 60 seconds on TikTok. I just point and shoot recorded it, talking to the camera and 15 people commented saying, I need this.”
Adam Lytle's custom web design agency peaked at $300K in annual profit
“At the high point of the business, it was generating around about 300,000 dollars profit per year.”
Adam Lytle accumulated $200,000 in credit card and car loan debt
“So I ended up just making poor decisions and ended up getting myself into 200,000 dollars of credit debt and car loan debt.”
Wix and Squarespace collapsed Adam Lytle's custom web design business almost overnight
“I could no longer be charging 10,000 dollars to build a website when people were just going to Wix or Squarespace, and they could create a website for 10 dollars a month. So all of a sudden my business collapsed pretty much overnight.”
Ryan Chen was paralyzed at 19 in a snowboarding accident
“When I was 19, I was at a friend's birthday party, and I was going off a big jump out in Big Bear, California, and I over-rotated on the jump, and I landed on my back, shattered my spine, and was Paralyzed instantly, and literally my life changed in a split se…”
Neuro hit its $30K Indiegogo goal in days via Reddit Nootropics
“Kent, luckily, was a big Redditor, so he got the Reddit Nootropics Group to support, and I think we hit, like, our goal, like, of 30 K in, like, three or four days.”
Neuro rejected two Shark Tank offers to maintain its minimum valuation
“We got two offers that were, like, below what we were asking for, and Kent and I just had this floor where, like, we're just not gonna go below this, and we stuck to our guns.”
Moubeche was rejected by McDonald's while all his friends were hired
“I applied, like, to the McDonald's where all my friends, you know, like, got accepted, and they declined.”
Moubeche: Lemlist has about 100 employees across 100+ countries
“We're about like a hundred people. We have customers in more than a hundred countries.”
Pessagno: ResumeMaker.online won Product of the Week on Product Hunt
“Especially with ResumeMaker.online winning first product of the week. It got spread so quickly and I got so many backlinks.”
Krasun: Building and launching ScreenshotOne took five months
“It took me five months to build it and launch it.”
Nick Buzz Earned $3,200 on His First Day of College
“Around 2016, some dev found me on Dribbble and the dev recommended me to the client. I just worked with them for like two days and they gave me 3200 dollars. I was like happy. I'm like, first day of university and I made 3200 dollars.”
Facebook Paid Nick Buzz $8,000 Per Month For a Design Internship
“Like, I was getting paid 8000 USD.”
Marc Lou lived with parents and earned $10/hr building first app
“As I chose a different path, I lived with my parents, working as a waiter part-time, like at night, basically, to make, I think, 10 dollars per hour. I was so arrogant that I spent a year working on this app.”
Lou: Six-Month AI App Venture Acquired Zero Customers
“It took six months to make an app, but we didn't get any customers.”
Marc Lou: COVID-19 wiped out $4,000 MRR business in 24 hours
“Revenue went from 4000 dollars a month to zero in, like, 24 hours.”
Dickie Bush earned his first $5,000 ghostwriting with 1,000 Twitter followers
“That was how I earned my first 5000 dollars. I didn't have 20,000, a 100,000 Twitter followers at the time. I had a thousand, and I had one person reach out to me that I could charge 5000 dollars for.”
McIntosh: Sheets & Giggles generates 80% to 90% of sales on Shopify
“We do about 90 10 or 80 20 Shopify versus Amazon in terms of sales.”
Giovanisci: Swim University Made $20K First Year, $40K Second Year
“I made 20,000 dollars that year on the site, and I used the rest of that time to do website design to kind of supplement it. The next year I made 40,000 dollars, and then I was like, I have a real business, and then from there it just kept going up.”
Giovanisci: Roasty Coffee reached 100k monthly uniques in two years before sale
“I was getting like a 100,000 uniques a month by the end of it. It took two years to get there. I ended up selling that business.”
Shanadi: Apparel business secured 300 college licenses for merchandise
“We went ahead and got essentially 300 college licenses to do all that merchandise.”