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Czerny Uses 15-Person Upvote Pod to Manipulate Reddit Algorithm
“What we've done internally is we have a group of 15 marketers where everyone shares their Reddit post, everyone upvotes the other post, and then external People are going to like, is going to rank higher and higher and higher.”
Flame Sourced 60-Second UGC Videos for $1 Each via Kwork
“The second thing we also did is we hired UGC out of Eastern European countries and Russia, and it was literally one dollar for a 62nd video. You go on a channel like Quark.ru, and it's like the fiber of Russia, and you can find this UGC for this cheaper price.”
Lotz sells to third-highest bidders to force deals to close in days
“So even when I'm actually selling my app, I don't like to sell to the highest bidder. And we like to sell to the third highest bidder and tell them that they have two other bids on top of them. But if they're able to close in like three to four days, I'll choo…”
Myers: Oceans does not hire candidates with prior EA experience
“We don't hire people that have been EAs before. We hire people that have had really unique operational backgrounds that are really smart and really intelligent.”
Pessagno: Working every weekend maintains solopreneur momentum
“One thing I do is, though, is I make sure to work even on weekends.
I feel that really keeps the momentum going.”
Glacer: Early pays $2-$3 CPM on view-guaranteed creator deals
“Generally the deal structure is multiple videos a month, like two to four videos a month with a view guarantee. That's sort of the most important part is that you're paying for the views that you get. And so I view it as pretty low risk. Honestly, you can sort…”
Flame Published 150 Videos Every Day to Test a Single Hook
“At one point, we were putting out 150 pieces every day to test a single hook.”
Flame Operates 20 TikTok Accounts Across Five Dedicated Phones
“Every phone has three to five TikTok accounts. You're looking at 15 to 20 TikTok accounts right now. This is the infrastructure we use to manage the distribution phase.”
Bo: SavvyNomad's entire core product is built on Bubble
“We use Bubble, our entire product, Is built on it.”
Jeremy Redman: Lifetime Deals and Usage-Based Pricing Bankrolled Task Magic Early
“So one of the major unlocks that we found with task magic really early on was people didn't want to pay subscription pricing constantly. And the way to like really have this bank roll itself at the beginning was like lifetime deal and then usage based pricing.”
Schmidlkoffer abandoned manual coding for DuckMath once AI 'vibe coding' emerged
“Especially when vibe coding got big, I've really never touched the coding part anymore. It made it a lot easier to just focus on the marketing part for the design.”
Acosta used info-product tactics like FOMO and waitlists to launch Clio
“I took the marketing concepts from that business and understood the idea of FOMO, building waitlists, using emails and webinars, and we took it to SaaS.”
Acosta credits email nurturing, not viral content, for Clio's $60K MRR
“So the emails that I was showing were literally the reason why we were able to get to 30 KMR and then 60 KMR. It wasn't just viral content. It was emails.”
Acosta says a single LinkedIn Live drove $30K in four days
“For launch number one, we just did one LinkedIn live, which is literally on LinkedIn. You're going live like you would on Instagram or X. You tell people that you're gonna do it, you create a simple post about it, just highlighting what it is going to be about…”
Clio co-founder gives his personal phone number to every single user
“One of our co-founders, Rob, he's literally giving his personal number to every single one of our users So they can make sure that they're using the tool, right? That they feel supported.”
Hildebrand: 90% of Subscribr's Code Was Written Using Claude
“Probably 90% of my code is written with cloud code.”
Lotz prefers exiting apps for $250K in months over raising venture capital
“I would rather, you know, build something and then in the six to 12 months exit it for like a cool 250 K.”
John Rush grew SEO Bot to $100K MRR in under 12 months
“It has a hundred K MRR, and it has grown in less than 12 months, and it was one of the first SEO AI agent on the market.”
John Rush splits equity 50/50 with co-makers who handle coding and support
“And we share the ownership of fifty-fifty. It's just regular co-ownership. Where I take care of all the operation, legal parts, accounting, and the co-maker takes care of the coding and support.”
John Rush builds all his SaaS products using a proprietary AI generator
“The way I use AI for building the products is that I built my own tool, my own AI code generator that lets me build all my SaaS products, no code tools, and AI agents, and it works extremely well.”
John Rush's SEO Bot hits $100K monthly revenue with $30K API costs
“For example, in SEO Bot, we have around 70% margins. So we make a hundred K a month, and then we pay 30 K for APIs.”
John Rush plans to keep human customer support across all 26 products
“So I think I want to keep human support for all my products.”
Lane Wagoner: Boot.dev generates almost $1M per month in revenue
“And we're making almost a million dollars a month at the moment.”
Wagoner: Boot.dev sponsors gaming influencers rather than coding influencers
“So we've actually done most of our
YouTube influencer marketing to gaming audiences rather than coding audiences.”
Wagoner: Boot.dev generated $5.7M revenue and $2.5M profit in 2024
“So our total revenue for 20, 24 was 5.7 million dollars. The cost of goods sold on that revenue was only 300 K. So we spent around six to 700,000 dollars last year on salaries and like Full-time contractors. And then the bulk of our expenses were marketing exp…”
McIntosh spends at most 5 to 10 hours weekly on sheetsresume.com
“I probably spend five hours, 10 hours a week maximum on this project.”
Anderson: Product validation requires algorithmically immersing in target social media niches
“My validation process primarily looks like a deep dive into the niche on social media. So what I'll do is I'll create an account, say Cal AI, and then purely consume nutrition and dieting and calorie counting, weightlifting content. Essentially becoming the ta…”
Anderson: Direct messaging creators' mothers secured promotional app partnerships
“There were guys that I was DMing their mom saying, Hey, get me in contact with your son. I want to pay him money.”
Fernando Pessagno builds software solely to buy back his personal freedom
“I mean, I'll be honest, I personally couldn't care less about social media carousels. Like, I like helping people with all the design challenges, but what I care is creating something that allows me to free up my time, have your life, spend time With my family…”
Noteforms only builds features that users explicitly request
“Since the beginning, I've only built what people ask me to build.”
Nahum: AI tool Cursor roughly doubles his development speed
“There was very recently a hype about a new developer tool called Curso, which is kind of an AI-powered IDE, and I recently started using it, and honestly, I'm amazed, and it's literally like speeding up By maybe two my work nowadays”
Marc Lou vows to never raise VC, hire employees, or build slowly
“I will never spend months on a product. I will never raise money. I never have employees. I'll never do all the things that frustrated me in the past.”
StealthGPT Reached $190,000 MRR in 15 Months
“We got to a 190,000 dollars MRR recently. Took us about 15 months to do it.”
Giovanisci: Uses ChatGPT as a business partner for decision-making
“We use ChatGPT as a business partner. I talk to it like a human and ask it questions to help make decisions on things that I don't think about. It's really good at that.”
Giovanisci: All three team members at Swim University are paid equally
“And we all Get paid the same so that nobody feels superior over. I don't feel like a boss. No one feels like a boss. I don't, you know, need to make more than everybody else just because I own the company.”
Giovanisci: Prioritizes Lifestyle Simplicity Over Maximizing Revenue
“As far as what I would tell other people to do, think about lifestyle over business. I don't think about money as the outcome, because like, There's a million things I could have done to make way more money than I'm making now. And that would have been like, o…”
Stoddart built his business by hiring staff directly from halfway houses
“I hired them like straight out of halfway houses, and we've all built this together over the last 10 years.”
Stoddart: I only invest in liked founders, cash flow, and evergreen markets
“There's only three things that I really care about. One, do I like the founder? Because if I don't like the person, it doesn't matter how great the idea is, like life is too short to deal with people that you don't like. Two, is it cash flowing? I personally a…”
Thomas Frank: Sold ~$2.5M in Notion templates to 30,000 customers
“We've sold about two and a half million dollars worth of templates at this point for about 30,000 customers.”
Patis relies on lead VC funds to underwrite due diligence
“I am not built Like an institutional fund with management fees to work nine to five on this and do the diligence that a traditional institutional fund would do. So piggybacking or leaning on these funds that are set up to lead rounds, set terms, and sign off o…”
Lieberman plans a holdco with over 12 companies without acting as CEO
“My vision for my own personal holding company is over the next five to 10 years, I want to have a dozen plus companies that sit under me that I am the CEO of none of, but I am the co-founder and chairman of all of them.”
Lieberman details CEO compensation: $100k-$200k salary, 10-50% equity, quarterly profit distributions
“Basically the range is a CEO, a salary between a hundred to 200,000 dollars a year, and then Their equity in the business will be somewhere between 10 and 50%. Whenever one of my businesses hits product market fit, every quarter thereafter, all of the profits …”
One TikTok Video With 120,000 Views Yielded Only Eight App Trials
“Of this video that got 120,000 views, I think we got nine or eight trials started.”
Huberge built PepAI in two weeks using Claude and Replit
“So using Claude and Replit, it took about two weeks to build out.”
Shin: ONCE required 10 committed events before writing any code
“Before writing a single line of code, I needed 10 events with an actual date, with an actual commitment that they would like to try using out the product.”
Pat Walls Disclosed He Recently Sold His Company, Starter Story
“I just sold Starter Story, our company.”
Jeremy Redman Took on $200K in Personal Debt Selling Task Magic
“Then we had bought out investors for what I thought we could. That depleted the bank account, both personally and for the business. And we had next to no money. And I put 50 grand on my Amex platinum card. I went 200 grand more in personal debt through this to…”