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Anderson: AI backend compute costs are under 3% for most mobile apps
“Unless you're doing image generation or using advanced voice mode, AI costs are sub three percent.”
Jozef Gherman Settled With CFTC For $400,000 Over Crypto Firm
“We later settled with them after I think like two or three years of dealing with this issue. It was like a 400,000 dollar total settlement. Still paying for it to this day.”
Microsoft simultaneously sent a cease-and-desist and reached out for add-on integration
“Microsoft actually reached out to me. They reached out to me twice. One for a cease and desist. And the other one, it was someone that was on their add-ons team.”
Pearl: Stella hit ~$350K-$360K MRR and 12K paying users in two months
“So within the first two months since launching, we hit 300 K MRR, and I think this is a little lower than it actually is. We're like at about three 53 60 MRR. We have 12,000 paying customers. We've had, I believe, over 200,000 downloads,”
Bo: No real product exists for cross-border banking and asset holding
“Founders, investors spread across multiple countries who need help with things like opening a bank account in Singapore, choosing the right jurisdictions for holding real estate or IP, Today, there is no real product for this.”
Lara Acosta's SaaS Clio hit $60K MRR in under two months
“We literally launched it in October of 20, 25, and we've gone from zero to 60,000 dollars a month in less than two months.”
Lotz claims his app Praise Screen achieved 60% Day 30 retention
“So praise screen had a 60% day, 30 retention. Which is kind of like unheard of.”
Praise Screen achieved a $0.30 to $0.50 US cost per install
“So for pre-screen, we were getting between 30 to 50 cents cost per install in the US market, which is like unheard of.”
Every John Rush software user tries at least one additional portfolio app
“Every user that drives one of my product, Ends up trying at least one more product and often I have people who try all of my products.”
Park: A single repeating TikTok format drove $500K+ for Jenni AI
“We probably posted that exact same video two times a week for maybe half a year, and that's done hundreds of millions of views, tens of thousands of paid users. I would say probably over half a million dollars, and it was one of several video series that we we…”
Anderson: $100 creator promo drove 500,000 Rizz GPT downloads in one month
“I pay them each 50 dollars for a promo. So 100 dollars total and overnight five, ten million views total. 45,000 downloads in that first big day. 200,000 downloads on that week. 500,000 downloads on the month.”
Walls: Nearly every successful bootstrapped B2C app grew purely from content
“I've done a lot of research on businesses and nearly every really, really successful bootstrap to B to C app like this purely got traction from content.”
Cravotta: Hard paywall boosted Puff Count conversion rate to 20-25%
“When I changed PuffCount to a hard paywall, and I made users commit to a free trial before they could use any features in the app, it changed my business overnight. My conversion rate shot through the roof upwards of 20, 25%.”
Andre Heckel Jr.: ListKit grew to $1M ARR in 87 days
“In 87 days, we grew it to a million dollars
ARR.
Zero to a million.
From the launch of the actual SaaS, yeah.
That's the first 87 days.”
McIntosh: American consumers will not buy from non-.com domains
“And rule number four is that if you're going to sell to Americans, you got to have a .com because Americans don't buy from anything that's not a .com.”
Glacer: Third-party iOS alarm apps were unreliable before Apple's AlarmKit API
“Up until this point there were a lot of other alarm apps out there, but they were sort of gimmicky and not reliable because they used different like app sounds and workarounds to make the quote unquote alarm.”
Glacer: Early reached $1K in 3 weeks, $50K in month 4
“I did my first 1000 dollars in revenue three weeks after the first influencer video went up and then first 30 came on in month three and first 50 came up in month four.”
Huberge: A single influencer post generated over $10,000 for PepAI
“We had one guy that had made one story post and from that we did a thousand dollars in revenue, which is insane for one story post on Instagram. And then when he made his actual first post, it got 50,000 views and we did like 4000 dollars in revenue just from …”
Leavitt: YouTube became the highest-grossing revenue source for multiple software clients
“I became multiple software companies, highest converting either affiliate or if they were a customer of mine, YouTube became their highest grossing revenue source.”
Leavitt: Unlike Google, YouTube easily permits multiple top search rankings
“The awesome thing about YouTube SEO, unlike Google, it's almost impossible for you to get multiple high ranking listings within Google, very possible on YouTube. And especially if you're doing this across multiple channels,”
Ben Leavitt: Follow Buddy operates entirely within Instagram's terms of service
“All that we're doing is telling people who unfollowed them through leveraging Instagram's export data feature. So all that you have to do is go follow the steps to get your followers and following information that is approved from Instagram. We're not breaking…”
Schmidlkoffer: DuckMath consistently hit 20,000 views per post on Snapchat
“Most people don't look at Snapchat, but we consistently hit 20,000 views and above from Snapchat. So I definitely would not sleep on Snapchat.”
Czerny: New Emails Combined With New Reddit Accounts Trigger Bans
“And when you create an account, do not create it with a new email. So if you do the combo new email plus new Reddit account, You will get banned right away.”
Walls: Reddit Users Created a Petition to Ban Starter Story
“People were so mad that we were sharing these business stories on starter story that they created a petition to ban us from Reddit.”
Baron: 15-Minute App Onboarding Tripled Prayer Lock's Organic Conversion Rate
“I immediately saw my organic conversion rate more than three X organically without paid ads with my new knowledge.”
Acosta claims clients hit up to $70K using the Clio playbook
“Our customers and my clients have been able to hit 50 K, 60 K, and 70 K following the exact same playback.”
Gravl reached 70,000 subscribers and generated $440,000 in monthly revenue
“We launched around two years ago, and now we have over 70,000 subscribers. Last month we made over 440 K.”
Steven Cravotta Paid Mega-Creators Just $110 Per Video Using Posted
“For example, this creator right here who has 552,000 followers, she made a post for us for 110 bucks. It got 30,000 views. This creator here with 2.7 million followers, a 110 bucks a video, or this creator right here who only had 768 followers, but made an ama…”
Steven Cravotta Scaled Puff Count to $44K MRR on $82K Spend
“We spent a total of 82,000 dollars on our paid ads before exiting the business. This is how we scaled from three K to 44,000 dollars in monthly recurring revenue.”
Wysocka: Rootd users feel panic attack relief in under two minutes
“We've also realized that based on usage that we're able to now take a panic attack and users are feeling better from the panic attack within under two minutes.”
Removing the Free Plan Boosted Revenue to $8K in Two Months
“At the beginning we had a free plan and I realized that a lot of users were just using the free plan and that was enough for them. They didn't need to pay. So I made a decision to remove the free plan. It was risky. There was a lot of people angry about that, …”
John Rush operates 26 bootstrapped startups simultaneously after leaving VC
“My name is John Rush and I'm running 26 startups at the same time after quitting the VC world and joining the Bootstrap movement.”
John Rush: Building in public cut his product failure rate to 10%
“Before building in public, my failure rate was really high. Nine percent of the things I've done Failed. And when they start building in public, it flipped. So now only 10% of my products fail and 90% don't fail because I adjust them before I ship them just be…”
CJ: CodeGuide reached $42K MRR and 4,800 developers in three months
“So we launched on the 24th of December, and in just the last three months, we've grown CodeGuide to 42 K MRR with a community of more than 4800 AI developers”
CJ: CodeGuide spends $3,500 monthly on operations, including $2,800 for OpenAI
“The biggest bill is OpenAI API, which is 2800 dollars. Then we also use Cloud API, and that costs us 300 plus dollars. Gemini Flash API is free right now. Cleric Dev is for user authentication. That's a very good tool. And then we use ConvertKit to send emails…”
Veed grew from zero to $6 million in revenue within two years
“Zero to one million in the first year. Four months later, two million. Two months later, three million. And then six months after that, it was six million. So it was zero to one to six. This, like, proper growth phase of the company going from 10, 20, 30, fort…”
Pieter Levels built his flight simulator entirely using AI coding tools
“In fact, Peter Levels built his game with 100%
AI coding tools”
Fricks: Free trials and 40% annual discounts drove SaaS revenue up
“Free trials and 40% discount on yearly or a big discount are two really simple things that I did that drove revenue up a lot.”
Park: Jenni AI generates over $10M annually, is profitable, and has 5M users
“Collectively, we do over ten million a year, we're profitable, and we have over five million users. The vast majority of our growth came in the last two years,”
Park: Standard base pay for in-house UGC creators is roughly $2,000 monthly
“The industry standard is usually you pay like 2000 ish per month. It could be a little lower, a little higher depending on who you're targeting, but 2000 dollars per month, and then some incentive bonus on top of it. And it usually shakes out. Like you will pr…”
Myers: Google and Microsoft each employ 120,000 offshore workers
“Google has like a 180,000 FTEs around the world. They have a 120,000 people offshore. Microsoft, same ratio.”
ChatGPT helped Adam Lytle build and release nine apps in one month
“It turns out ChatGPT only made me a nine X developer because I only had nine, nine apps released.”
Daniel Lubetzky defended and consulted Neuro for 18 months during lawsuit
“He hopped on a phone call with us right away for 18 months, consulted us, defended us. He was talking to his lawyers, our lawyers, their lawyers.”
Joe Rogan's endorsements of Neuro are entirely unpaid and organic
“Joe Rogan, big fan of Neuro. He talks about it organically. None of that's paid.”
Neuro is generating nearly $10 million in revenue per month
“We are now doing almost ten million dollars a month.”