We had AI grade 185 Starter Story videos. Here’s how much is slop.

Least specific moment · 1.3 / 4“give to them? Definitely to sell before you build. I know it's said so many times, but customers don't care how much went into something sometimes. It's really sad. If you can get someone…” 10:45 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“past business was still like actively running without a whole lot of like attention required, but needed that income to kind of be able to hire staff to then get the product up and…” 6:08 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“I think my philosophy is always kind of have fun with life, you know. I think life is short. Don't take things too seriously. Have fun. Go spend time with your loved ones. Go…” 7:46 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.3 / 4“It's important for me to like always put myself back in the shoes of my audience. I've seen lots of products that start out good and then as they mature, they kind of like…” 4:23 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.4 / 4“enough. Your early users or play testers will give you incredible feedback and help shape your game. I also didn't worry much about monetization in the beginning. My focus was retention first and building…” 13:02 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“past year. The monthly active users ranges anywhere from 3500 to 4,000 with daily active users around 5 to 600. The game has reached over 50,000 downloads combined with both iOS and Android with…” 3:05 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“the year that you started Symmetry, before you had a successful app, what would be your advice to your younger self or for anyone watching this that wants to build apps that are crushing…” 14:29 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“going to be really good for growing the app. It wasn't. So, we started to try new things. We went into influencer marketing. Well, it didn't work. So, we tried other methods and that…” 3:48 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“stages because if you are running marketing experiments on a daily basis, extracting insights from every failed experiment, it's actually inevitable that you are going to create a profitable business. It's not a rocket…” 13:05 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“listening to somebody who's 19 years old? But, when you see somebody who's older, maybe has some gray hairs, some wrinkles, that is on a subconscious level associated with wisdom and credibility. The way…” 9:14 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“use. I was really impressed by the the fact that he stayed at it for multiple years. I don't know why that's sticking with me right now, but I was like, "Man, 2 years…” 10:48 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“So, I saw the potential, but I didn't want to create another generic AI toy. I just wanted to find a specific niche that I can cover with. So, I decided to, you know,…” 3:51 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“year in 2 months? I mean, that's awesome, right? Cool guy, loved his like energy and vibe. The most compelling thing was the whole talking to customers part, but it really made me think…” 15:16 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“customers one-to-one. So, we'd be crawling Reddit threads, posting lead magnets all across social media, and the moment they signed up to our waitlist, we sent them an email, invited them to a call,…” 11:27 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“But what I love about this business is that it's not an AI trendy business. It's just a really, really solid business that will continue to grow and compound when a lot of people…” 11:34 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“traffic? Would that translate into like 10x-ing my MRR? And that's how I came across SEO. We hired six content writers. We started publishing blogs consistently. At the same time, with the tech team,…” 6:56 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.7 / 4“just sharing what you're doing every single day. So I want to ask you what you think about this challenge and see if you're in. Absolutely. uh is definitely pushing me towards a new…” 3:02 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“in that second 30 days. Yeah. So now that I was getting interest, I was also cold outreaching and then getting somebody to say, "Hey, great that you did a little bit of research…” 9:09 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.9 / 4“For the longest amount of time I thought the gap between what I had and what I wanted was discipline because all the self-help stuff online tells you that. I thought I had to…” 7:46 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.5 / 4“I usually have like this monthly or maybe bi-monthly, you know, every 2 months I have a big list of things that I'm just as they're coming I'll note them down. They're like usually…” 4:25 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“differentiated idea or marketing strategy? I mean this is like advice that a lot of people give, but if you're really solving your own problem, it really makes everything fall into place because you…” 9:13 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.1 / 4“I think that for us entrepreneurship is that game. Yeah. Obviously you just had this sale just a few months ago, but you're already working on new stuff you were telling me. So could…” 11:32 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.6 / 4“others a lot easier. I 100% agree with that and hope that you continue to share your story. So, thanks for coming on, sharing this. I think it's going to inspire a lot of…” 9:11 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“try and increase the conversion amount as much as possible by selling them the story during an onboarding process. For my app, I use 12 to 15 steps in the onboarding. By the time…” 6:53 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.8 / 4“will always be setbacks and new things you'll have to learn along the way. And some will look super complex and scary, but you can never allow yourself to become the constraint of the…” 10:45 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“advantage going in was that I came from marketing. And it's important to say that every channel works. You just see influencers, paid ads, SEO. The question is which channel is the most efficient…” 6:54 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.9 / 4“going to be working a lot the next day. So, I definitely think that no matter how many hours you're working that like getting 7-8 hours of sleep is probably one of the most…” 8:23 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.3 / 4“point for me was seeing like my monthly recurring revenue actually be above like a few thousand a month. So, I knew I could live off this and then when my savings built up…” 3:49 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.7 / 4“take your business to the whole next level. So, thanks for coming on, Nevo, and sharing amazing growth and just super cool that you shared it all transparently. So, yeah, thanks for coming on.…” 11:30 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“that you sort of like reverse engineered this multiple times. And I think a lot of people watching this might be like, you were just lucky with the open cloth thing. What advice would…” 6:54 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“seen anything like it. Hopefully, people watching get some inspiration on what you can do with software now and how software is going to change, be more playful, be more fun. Maybe that is…” 12:22 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“to beta test it. We spent about a month gathering feedback, fixing bug, iterating on it. The app launched August 27th. We had about 3,000 downloads in the first week, but wasn't really a…” 4:39 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.4 / 4“Well, that's great advice. Thank you, Teemo, for coming on and sharing. Awesome business. You built 20 hours per month. Super cool. Let us know in the comments what you think about Teemo's app.…” 12:17 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“that Tik Tok gets a lot of data from you on which people bought in your app. For this, you need MMP. For that, I would recommend to use a tool like apps flyier.…” 7:41 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“just like, "Yeah, like good luck." Right? I feel like there is gems when you're willing to completely let your ego go. Go make the stupid Tik Toks. Go do the idea that you…” 13:45 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“100K views equals how many downloads. And then based off that I'm like, okay, now I know I can hire creators for this amount of price. With the format, I replicated it myself on…” 9:10 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.5 / 4“Because when you quit your job, usually it's in a time when you're not really sure about if your business is going to be legit. What are people going to think about you? What…” 10:58 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“kind of became like this obsession of like how do I keep making this thing better every day. Let's talk about how you built it. What's the tech stack on this? It's a web…” 3:19 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.7 / 4“Story, what did you think of Sarah and the manifestation app, Stella? Awesome. I mean, she's got her stuff together and it was just cool to hear how she talked about building and the…” 14:34 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“amongst the most successful people. I get paid to exist and it is always working out for me. How can I remember all these? You can actually get custom affirmations on your lock screen…” 10:45 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“some sort of analysis. Yeah, yeah, like the video and then make sure you actually did the push-ups. Well, that's it. That's what I love about this app that you built. It's simple. I…” 14:36 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“TikTok and Instagram, just reaching out, sending a ton of DMs early on. And it's a tough a tough start. You get very few responses. And I was trying to find people who were…” 9:15 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.7 / 4“For the first year of the hustle, when I told successful people what I was doing, they were like, "Okay, but what are you actually going to do?" Or when I told my friends…” 8:52 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.8 / 4“million in revenue, for every company that I've run, I am blunt force, where I just will have what I call zebra calendar, because there's a stripe, which is like a 15-minute meeting with…” 7:05 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“Go. [laughter] All right, let's see what score you got. Let's see. Dude, that's probably a zero. Oh, that's sick. Ooh, you got a 56. Bro, I got a D. So, you got one…” 6:53 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“obviously you can build for 100 bucks and it's all, you know, you can do it with prompts, ideas. So, I want to talk about the actual app that you built. Then we're also…” 4:36 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“I love the e-commerce tooling space. It's not as like creator tools. You see a lot of like AI tools, AI wrappers. I think e-commerce tooling is like one of the coolest kind of…” 9:13 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“if you see a real scenario planner, the one that, you know, like, Deloitte will produce and charge tens of thousands of dollars to do it. It's complicated and totally inaccessible. Whereas, these trying…” 6:10 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“it, create more of it. Well, that's awesome. Great advice on super cool story, super cool framework. Thank you for coming on and sharing. I think people will find it useful. Thank you, sir.…” 13:02 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.7 / 4“the video like that. But if it doesn't convert for your product, it's not worth anything. How do you determine this? When you're trying to find the right kind of content, you go on…” 6:56 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“There are enough guitar players out there that want to match their tone and need to solve that problem enough to pay for it that that is enough. And this is the change that's…” 16:06 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“scale it out? Yeah, for sure. So, my marketing approach was dead simple. The first video I actually ever posted about Tone Adapt went viral overnight. And I realized quickly it's not just about…” 6:56 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.4 / 4“And then through email marketing, we built the agency. And then only then after running the agency for 5 6 years did we build hero. And so I wouldn't discount any of these experiences.…” 9:54 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“I need to make a sale, I would have to go to brand A, brand B, brand C to sell one subscription to each of them to get to three subscriptions. with agencies. Each…” 5:20 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.7 / 4“successful and how they did well. And don't worry about bothering people and they'll let you know if they're bothered. Well, that's great advice. It's the exact premise behind all of Starter Story. People…” 11:28 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.9 / 4“help you because you making any chance of money helps them make money. So, I'm sure their support lines would help, but it's really not that hard. Okay, so that's all on the build…” 9:10 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“work with great people like that, you tend to want to improve yourself so you can match the pace and then to provide value. I'm not saying to do meaningless networking, but create your…” 12:19 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.8 / 4“them one by one by interviewing them to see whether they have that virality built in them. And typically we get a 10% conversion rate. So for every 100 creator we interview, we get…” 6:57 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“keep my head down and just keep building. Go build, David. Super cool to see what you built and I think it's going to continue to grow. So, thanks for coming on and sharing.…” 9:57 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“we focused on high-intent SEO keywords like alternatives to X, how much does X cost, with X being our competitors' names. Around day 50 of building in public, X started working, then things went…” 6:53 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“yourself. I've had literally a lot of my friends that I'm really close to that have just make fun of my app ideas, even what it is now, they still think it's funny and…” 14:37 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“just go on there, scroll TikTok, scroll Instagram, and just find what everyone's talking about. This is what a lot of successful people have done is finding things that are just blowing up. But…” 8:30 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.9 / 4“might not be the sexiest ideas, then head to the link in the description to grab the report for free and take a look at them. All right, let's get back to the episode.…” 3:06 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.9 / 4“and then productize it. With AI apps, you can do this really easily now. You don't need a developer team to build some crazy app. You kind of turn process, some boring process like…” 11:35 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.8 / 4“builder, I think that's something that a lot of the times people can overlook, but I think that's the best part. Well, that's great advice. Thanks, Nicole, for coming on the channel. Congrats on…” 13:50 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“head, you need to find creators that are good at yapping, that are good at talking. If you're doing reaction videos, you need to find creators that are really good at facial expressions. And…” 9:11 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.8 / 4“initially expecting. So, really stop overthinking and launch as fast as possible. Thanks for coming on, Brian, and sharing. Super cool app. I think it's going to grow a lot. Thanks for coming on…” 13:03 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.7 / 4“wedding, and one networking event. So, this is the second part. Now, you have to go outside of your inner circle and really try to reach out to everyone who could be your potential…” 7:40 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“One thing I see people making that mistake too often is they got this idea or this brilliant idea, they spend 6 months shipping it, and once they ship it, they got a a…” 9:19 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“Now, I really try to think less about what would be the output. I just try to think what what is the thing I want to exist. So, recently I launched this little macOS…” 3:43 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“the real deal. He is and actually a true SaaS millionaire. So I want to congratulate something and um you can reveal this to the camera if you'd like. I would like. What is…” 13:23 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“is specificity. So, the more specific you can get, like cold outreach email for some sector or whatever, like for automation, that's going to rank as high as it can faster than something general…” 7:58 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“brilliant and I'm a genius. Is I've made these mistakes 10 years ago. So it took me 10 years to get to this point. People say an overnight success, no such thing. It doesn't…” 12:14 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“the prison industry, which is just wild. So, you come up with this idea to improve the lives of people that are in prison. How did you validate this idea? In this situation, it's…” 5:23 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“in this screen, you can see the recommended meals for each day. These meals help you stay within your limits, so you know, you don't go over and miss weights on competition day. Okay,…” 11:32 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“solved a very specific pain points that no other apps solved, it converted very well on my organic posts even though they didn't get that many views. I think there's a huge opportunity in…” 9:13 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.8 / 4“think this will actually become increasingly important in the future because the popularity of apps is getting bigger and bigger, I feel like. So I think more and more content creators will see the…” 13:03 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“be very specific with the outreach. So, don't just send what a lot of people do, just say, "I love your content. Let's collaborate." That won't cut it. Instead, you should reference a specific…” 10:44 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.5 / 4“time into building my business. From a young age, you were sci-op'd into thinking there's only one path. Go to school, get good grades, go to a good college, then get a stable job,…” 10:44 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.9 / 4“their accounts, and send each creator the same message every time. Which should always start with paid promo, question mark. The second step is getting them on a call. Step three, you want to…” 7:40 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.9 / 4“price before the actual launch date. Okay, Umberto. Thank you for showing this. I mean, this is amazing that you publish all this on your blog for anyone to read and and be helpful…” 10:46 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“will buy because the product is not ready and for other reasons, and I believe this is a mistake because you're leaving uh serious money on on the table. So, what I did was…” 13:50 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“on young Steve's shoulders and give him some advice or give some advice for anyone on here that wants to build a million-dollar app. What would it be? One thing which I would definitely…” 19:12 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“different uh media, incredibly different uh assets, images, videos. And then eventually, you're going to start to see patterns of what works and what doesn't work. And most importantly, update your Play Store assets,…” 12:17 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.3 / 4“whatever." But there's enough success stories out there. People have done something like this where it's like build multiple things and kind of see what lands. And I'm sure there's a bunch of other…” 10:41 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“like a creatine scoop right in smack in the beginning of the video, and people would just hop off right away. So, I always do like a hook in the beginning now. It's not…” 7:38 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“And so that was very appealing to him that I told him that once we build this, you'll also have full-time employment afterwards. But that could be a revenue split. That could be whatever…” 14:34 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“actually searching for that per month. I would then put my strategy together for which videos that I want to make, prioritizing based on the intent of the traffic. So, how likely would that…” 7:39 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“licensing for each of the staff members. Okay, cool. Well, thanks for sharing that. Last question that we ask all founders who come on Starter Story, if you could go back in time and…” 9:55 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“the platform based on the initial feedback, we decided to bring in a $25 US dollar subscription fee per month. That's when we start to make money from it. I remember sitting there and…” 3:48 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“die, by side and internal combustion, then by or by competition. So, just get going and start building. Well, thanks Joseph for coming on and sharing all this. It is crazy to see that…” 13:46 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“pages pitting Super Demo against our competitors. And when I mean competitors, I mean every competitor that you can find in your space because that's the easiest way to piggyback off of their traffic.…” 5:24 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“young Ivan or to anyone who's watching this who wants to build software and build stuff online? If I could give myself from a young Ivan from few years ago any advice, it would…” 13:50 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“go straight to the source and find the coaches, the experts, the influencers. We've had a lot of people on the channel that have done very similar stuff. There's something to learn here and…” 8:30 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.4 / 4“end of the day, it's still the same. Like they're going to put that into Google, they're going to put that into the AI. They're going to click in through to your software and…” 18:23 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“just optimize and scale based on the data that you have. You identify what's working. You identify the keywords that are bringing new customers and you try and optimize for this. You just can't…” 12:16 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“has to be like a serious topic. It's really cool to see a kid who's like I just like doing this stuff. I just kind of started sharing about it online. It was probably…” 13:44 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“pretty low and then all of a sudden it spiked really high for a short amount of time and then you sold it. I want to hear how you did that. The main thing…” 5:19 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.7 / 4“sharing between them. So, the final takeaway, I would say that pick the persona and remove aggressively all the friction as much as possible and be obsessed with one core value until you really…” 9:14 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“database. You choose your platform, you're taking one query that is the smart query, running into one of your database clients. I'm connecting here to the database called PokemonDB, running the query that got…” 10:00 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.8 / 4“was never just money. It was to build something bigger than myself, something real, something that didn't depend entirely on me. And somewhere along the way, that happened. Starter stories stopped being about me…” 6:54 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.5 / 4“starterstory.com. When I quit my job, I had about $12,000 to my name. That was it. The only thing that I could do was go allin. And for a while, it was messy. I…” 3:50 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.4 / 4“not ignore your health. I had been grinding 14-16 hours a day in my past and that resulted in a spine surgery last year. So, if you're grinding, hustling, please do not ignore your…” 13:48 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.7 / 4“website and look at our reviews, we have more than 100 five-star reviews, and most of the reviews talk about customer support. That is because we treat customer support as an education channel. Whenever…” 7:38 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“licensing and the download delivery and so on, which costs us about $300 a year. Cool. Well, thanks for sharing that. One last question that we ask everyone who comes on the channel, Katie,…” 13:02 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“story. Okay, cool. So, number one source of traffic, that's cool. You do run 20 different products, though. I'm curious if there's any strategy there in terms of having all these different products. How…” 7:39 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“and now he's crushing it. It's easy to like underestimate tools that you don't use, but how big those actually are. And that's the thing, too, is like you hear this, you may hear,…” 16:06 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“completely unique experience, something people have never done before, it will be extremely hard to find customers, to find even someone to talk to, to sell it to someone, especially as an indie hacker.…” 9:59 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.9 / 4“comparing your level three with someone's level 20. Well, that's great advice. Thank you, Floren. longtime fan and follower of yours. Love your stuff. Thanks for coming on and sharing all this so transparently.…” 12:21 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.7 / 4“about how to kind of find your first win. You know, if you do aspire to start lots of different things, you kind of have this ADHD brain where you're excited to do a…” 9:17 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“just like you know they've never heard before about anything and just like start with a B2C which is usually harder for people that don't do good distribution and then they don't know what…” 21:32 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.9 / 4“of them. I get tons of traffic from these places. So this is why it's super important that you invest in your title and cover picture. Same thing as you like when you're working…” 13:52 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.8 / 4“So that's going to be really simple. It's advertised the way you would love to be advertised to. For example, I love watching entrepreneurs stories like starter story. So when I hear successful stories…” 13:46 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.8 / 4“feature that hides your feed. So when you do Reddit marketing and heavily post on Reddit, some people are going to go to your profile and see that you are always talking about the…” 8:26 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.3 / 4“anything else. You'll not learn from a marketing book or a course or a sales book or a course, right? Because uh when you publish uh something online, your product, your work uh that's…” 19:15 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.9 / 4“project. It's there on GitHub. You can uh you know enter yours one subreddit and you get to see essentially the map of Reddit. And here you can get a lot of ideas and…” 8:30 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.7 / 4“apps and distribution, then jump onto even more ambitious things. Thanks, Ma, for coming on. This is amazing. It's super cool to see without a crazy developer background, be able to build something, figure…” 16:06 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.9 / 4“Following the same strategy, increasing the ad spend regularly each week, we close December at 20K, and we're probably going to close January at 40K a month. Well, on that note, for anyone watching…” 11:31 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.5 / 4“My main advice for people would be build your tool to accommodate for scale. You need to initially bet on yourself. Think that, okay, cool. I'm going to have 100,000 users building my tool.…” 12:59 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“give me the playbook on how you would get customers from niche communities or specifically Discord if you had to start over today? So, the first step that I would have for you is…” 9:10 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.4 / 4“thing. Build your personal brand, educate on an important topic that you already know. And if you don't know it very well, you'll learn it through writing about it consistently. The second thing, build…” 16:54 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.7 / 4“is to have that waitlist in the background building. So, when you want to launch something, when you want to offer something, you can. Step number three, which is my favorite, is webinars. You…” 12:18 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.3 / 4“feedback tell you. So, that's what I would say to my past self if if I were to go back. Yeah. That's great advice. Launch first, figure out what happens next. Thanks for coming…” 13:05 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.8 / 4“is how you get all the keywords that you might want to build, but this is still not enough. It's very difficult to rank for AI image generator. If you see here, it shows…” 9:13 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.9 / 4“think? Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's just such a smart strategy like especially for people who have no audience or small audience. It's like a hack. It's a new way of thinking like oh…” 13:45 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“going to look for niches that already have successful SAS tools. If they're already making money, that means the market exists. We can use tools like Sensor Tower, RFS, or even Google Console just…” 9:08 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“before you had the SAS, what would be your advice to young Rob or your advice for anyone that's watching this that wants to build SAS and build in public like you? First thing…” 18:24 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“start over right now with no audience, zero followers, what would be your step-by-step process to build an audience like you did? So step one is set your foundation before you post anything. Set…” 10:42 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.7 / 4“you give for anyone watching this channel that wants to build apps like you guys? Building an app, you're going to invest a lot of your time. So, don't be afraid to also invest…” 11:30 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.8 / 4“an app or validate an app idea before actually creating it? Do you think it's repeatable? And what would be your playbook if you had to start over from scratch right now? I do…” 7:40 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“Really just take action before you feel ready to learn fast from your mistake but from your success as well. And to just keep building and building. If you stay focused and you grind…” 11:30 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.8 / 4“iPhone. You just buy a USA SIM card. If you're in the US, you're okay, but if you're outside the US, you just put it in and then you buy a VPN that is…” 4:37 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.7 / 4“store and we've made over a thousand bucks. We're flooded with comments on like our Instagram page of, yo, this app's so cool, blah blah blah. It was just it was awesome. It was…” 18:26 ↗

Most specific moment · 4.0 / 4“followers and then pay to verify your account to establish more credibility. Once you start doing a few influencers deals, that's when I would switch from your personal account to your business account cuz…” 13:03 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“to win, but Max proves that you can be successful with a portfolio of tiny bets. I asked Max to come on to the channel to break down his entire system. And in this…” 0:45 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“the difficulty is very low. I would build that because I probably might target for this keyword and get some good results and then like I select my keywords that I'll be targeting add…” 6:06 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.7 / 4“adjacent markets just because you know apps there were doing very well but I've consciously stuck to doing the simple stuff well. Um I think that slow consistency is what has worked for me.…” 10:46 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“level. How do you actually build it, launch it, and monetize it and then grow it to 15K per month?" The first thing was I got signal from people. I DM' them. I was…” 6:10 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“you, Thibault. I think that's the best advice I heard all year. Thanks for coming on, sharing your playbook. Amazing what you've built. So thanks for coming on, sharing, being so transparent about everything.…” 17:42 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“your mom is testing your idea, if she finds it relevant or not, there is absolutely no real knowledge that you can gain from that. If the person is not relevant, like there is…” 7:44 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.6 / 4“track that activity. And there was no great app to do that. And from there, we had new ideas. And now the app is one of our main apps for the wellness company. Okay,…” 5:22 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.9 / 4“app to help your sleep and circadian rhythm by showing you and telling you when to get sunlight and also helps you get your vitamin D. And then the third app is Posture AI.…” 2:17 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“some sort of pre-sale, validating that people are willing to pay for it. The second thing is as a bootstrapper, the number one thing that you've got to strive for is profit. There are…” 14:33 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“there I was able to build up an email list of over a thousand people. you know, every week or so, I would just hit hit up this list with new findings that I…” 4:36 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“get emotionally attached to what you're building. Pivot when necessary and good things will happen. Thank you, Loick, for coming on and sharing everything. I love what you built. Thanks for coming on and…” 13:03 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“think that's a good number. And also a minimum of like 100 comments per video. And the second thing I actually look is basically you know how long has you been working with brands.…” 7:41 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“making it more simple, eliminate friction. Every screen that we are doing, every interaction that we are doing is about this. This is our competitive advantage. We think that this is the main uh…” 3:51 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.7 / 4“Lety makes $250,000 a month. And actually, we have launched 2 years ago. And before that, for 15 years, I was trying to create a startups and all of them failed. And I've tried…” 1:33 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“are about $100 a month as well. So, the total is 5 to six grand a month. We're operating at about 50% margin right now. Okay, cool. Well, thank you for sharing that. The…” 11:31 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“were making content about things that genuinely excited us. So, I was writing threads on spiritual esoteric topics. Nick was doing the same with more of a breath work focus. And if we weren't…” 3:50 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“the end of the day. Okay, cool. Well, thank you for sharing that, being transparent around the numbers. A lot of people who watch us really appreciate that. The last question that I have…” 9:14 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“we got it on the App Store, we had a really good base of influencer marketing. I had worked with other really successful app founders before, and then I kind of saw the rise…” 3:05 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“directory or building cool SAS software apps, whatever it is online, what would be your advice? Start. It sounds simple, but here's the thing. When you start building and when you commit to something,…” 13:00 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“Okay, cool. So, you find this idea, it doesn't exist yet. How do you go about building it? Both me and Victor has a lot of experience building apps and websites through the years.…” 3:50 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“and what we ask all founders who come on Starter Story, what would be your advice to anyone watching this right now that wants to build something? Be proud of what you build. Cuz…” 13:52 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“distribution strategy or the secret sauce behind Gravel on how it grew to over $4 million a year? For us, the bigger distribution was paid ads. We started running ads as soon as we…” 6:58 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.9 / 4“cool. Well, thanks for sharing that entire playbook. That was amazing. You've already built and sold four apps. So, I imagine you've seen a lot of ideas that didn't work and obviously you've had…” 11:30 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“idea ready. Now, of course the major part is obviously growing it for it to be attractive to a buyer. I have a very specific route that I go down and it's normally UGC…” 9:57 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“to get started and build awesome companies like you're doing? Really simply, just work with people you enjoy working with. Work with people that you are quite happy to go and have a drink…” 12:15 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“you're closing off your LTD, your lifetime deal, for life. It will never, ever be available again. Put your prices up a little bit and offer one last private LTD. Send it out to…” 8:27 ↗

Least specific moment · 2.2 / 4“one-to-one copy, I mean like you copy each screen, you copy each word. I changed black by pink, I replaced ideal content by sugar, and then done. Yep, I mean, I agree. I think…” 8:25 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.7 / 4“take some screenshot of each screen. What I wanted to see is basically like how we go from screen one to screen two to screen three. So, I was prompting us Cursor, please make…” 5:21 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.5 / 4“month, we only spend like 1 to maybe 2K on infrastructure cost. These apps barely cost anything to run. You're going to end up spending like 90% of your budgets on marketing. If you…” 13:04 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“girl. And you know, this is literally where we integrate Social Wizard. He doesn't talk about trying to sell the app. The viewer is watching this like a regular video and he says, "Okay,…” 5:22 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“Okay, cool. Thanks for sharing. That's a pretty simple stack you got there. I like that. The last question that I have for you that I ask everyone who comes on to Starter Story.…” 12:14 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“people know that you know you don't need all these fancy tools. I was just watching YouTube videos and going on Stack Overflow and now my process today is pretty straightforward. I have a…” 3:02 ↗

Least specific moment · 2.4 / 4“on a map. Uber had just come out. It was such a a thrill to be able to see a taxi coming along a map towards you. And I wanted to have the same…” 2:21 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“which one performed better. And over the course of maybe two or three months with maybe 10 experiments, I was able to increase the conversion rate from 0.5% all the way up to 8%.…” 9:16 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.9 / 4“I have for you and what we ask everyone who comes on to the channel, if you could stand on young Dominico's shoulders when you're working that 9 to5, what would be your advice?…” 9:17 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“defining what you want to do with your product. The step two is the validation stage. I usually validated product by using a single landing page builder named yep.so. My only goal was you…” 4:36 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“for anyone watching this starting out in 2025 about how to do something like you've done? Stop bouncing around ideas and just pick one thing. Do it every single day. Focus on it every…” 11:31 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“differentiation database at the first link right below in the description. Thank you to HubSpot for Startups for sponsoring this video. Now, let's get back into it. I want to understand a little bit…” 6:07 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.9 / 4“projects, I just used React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, regular stuff. Then Nex.js came out and it turns out that you can build stuff pretty quickly with it. So I used Nex.js as a fullstrike…” 5:22 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“three, when a big competitor leaves, they have a lot of articles still mentioning them. And that's a great chance to rank on keywords that would you would otherwise never have a chance to…” 9:58 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.5 / 4“make like 30 to 40 K MRR without a website. So, I would say if you just start out, everything's free. Thanks for sharing all those tools. If you could go back in time…” 8:27 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.7 / 4“in your niche. I was leaving like 50 comments a day on other designers' posts. Step two, you go from little amount of followers, like a few hundred followers, to a few thousand followers…” 4:36 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“biggest problem that founders face is letting their past failures define them. I had a lot of confidence when I launched my first software company and by the grace of God it was successful…” 9:55 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“to hire developers to help me when I had this idea, I had to find a way to build it myself without spending any money. And so, I actually found a really great online…” 3:48 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.9 / 4“an entrepreneur because your whole purpose should be about finding a product market fit, finding something that you're going to put out in the market and they're going to give you money and reward…” 11:35 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“start with the one-time purchase, and I had to convert the app into a one-time purchase, which means that I cannot incur any AI cost because AI usage cost me money, and I wanted…” 3:51 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.6 / 4“started out or for anyone who's watching this that wants to do what you did, build a million-dollar SAS, what would be your advice? I think it's very important to know that this is…” 10:44 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“video. If maybe 1% of people click the links in the description, you know that they came from that video. Something else we did to increase the tracking accuracy was have a dedicated coupon…” 6:07 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“first thousand plus customers. Okay. Well, thanks for sharing that. I mean, SEO, I love SEO. Big reason Starter Story grew as well. The last question that I have for you that we ask…” 9:58 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.9 / 4“about how you actually grew and scaled these businesses. Can you tell me a little bit more about that? Uple got its first 1 million in annual recurring revenue strictly from cold email. So,…” 8:25 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.9 / 4“video. Let's get back into it. I'm also curious to hear from you guys. You're busy building your business, but I'm sure you're seeing lots of other cool ideas you could be building right…” 7:39 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.7 / 4“two, set up a landing page. Do some basic SEO research. Go to hrefs or go to any free SEO tool. Search for keywords that buyers would search for. Step three, set up a…” 5:22 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“First, I would say be honest with your employee. Be upfront about your side project cuz that's mutual beneficial. You learn so much at your work and your specific fears. But having a side…” 3:51 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“way. Also, I simply didn't have the money for it. And my goal was also not to make money. But what was crucial were my friends and family, especially at the beginning, because I…” 8:27 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.4 / 4“before exiting the business to a larger mobile app studio in Europe. That's it. You start with market research. You give yourself the best chance to go viral. You start posting consistently. Hire creators…” 22:18 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“of people, right? Vaping was a problem that I experienced in my daily life. When I was in college, all my friends got addicted to vaping. I got swept up in the habit. So,…” 3:06 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“look at people above me and I feel envious or I feel jealous. What you really should be doing is just comparing yourself to yourself. So, as long as you keep winning, then that's…” 14:35 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“business? How did you take this business from zero to 250K in about 9 months? What were the actual marketing channels? Yeah, the way we got it off the ground was we would share…” 11:30 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.6 / 4“use AI to build my minimum viable product quickly. Nowadays, you could do that in just a couple weeks. Get something out there quickly. Number three would be get feedback on that idea from…” 7:39 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“down some of the growth strategies or marketing strategies that got you there? Yeah, so one of the main drivers for us is Apple search ads. We run ads on certain keywords that helps…” 4:34 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.9 / 4“educate users on the problem. So I would suggest focus on validated markets. Don't hesitate. Don't think you need to create a really unique product. You can just build a better version of existing…” 14:34 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“cut did they take of the lifetime sales? They actually do everything for you apart from the product. What rocketub did was they marketed our product across lot of different platforms. They did multiple…” 5:23 ↗

Least specific moment · 2.1 / 4“five devices. And US phone numbers, $5 per month per phone number. So other than cost of our time, uh the cost to run uh this business is very low. Thank you for sharing…” 10:01 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.8 / 4“that you have competitors on Tik Tok and proof that these competitors have viral videos on Tik Tok as well. Tik Tok search is your best friend and creator search insights also on Tik…” 4:35 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.5 / 4“reached burnout. I was building something really intense and that level of intensity was with me at all times. And I think I looking back I wish I celebrated a few of the smaller…” 13:54 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“you know, once you actually put your name to a story, it does resonate better with the audiences. I would find people online, journalists that wrote about mental health and then I would read…” 7:45 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.3 / 4“are going to stick together and we are going to be successful. If you can find the people who are willing to do that with you, make the changes, pivot accordingly, those are the…” 9:59 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“website, the biggest thing is what can this tagline say? As you can see right here, the next generation of pop-ups. And when I click on product, this says pop-up features. It doesn't say…” 4:36 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“give for people that are thinking about getting started building or have some failed projects under their belt? What would be your advice on how to get to where you are now? My answer…” 10:00 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.9 / 4“where you can showcase your tech product. But it started as a simple directory for front- end tools. At first, Unid wasn't really a successful product even though it got a bit of traffic.…” 4:37 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“All right. So the main reason I wanted to bring you guys on the channel is that you built this business on top of open source which is a super cool model. You guys…” 3:04 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“alternative to Docsend and it went just like crazy. Within, you know, a couple hours it got like 40,000 views. Lots of people mentioned that they would love to see this as an open…” 1:32 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.8 / 4“young Andy? So, I'd tell young Andy to do proper user testing. do it early and do it often because I wasted almost an entire year without ever speaking to the people that are…” 9:56 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“goes completely in between the two of them. And so I think it's safe for now. Touchwood. Cool. You mentioned to me that you have kind of a framework for finding ideas to build…” 4:34 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“you kind of made your first dollar and and found this idea? What advice would you have for him? Something that I always thought was true was that understanding your target customer was really,…” 13:04 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“the playbook that I would always use, which is find your target communities on Reddit and Facebook. Engage in the comments after observing the behavior of other members of the group. And then when…” 10:46 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.5 / 4“similar? If you are young, take risk early because you have less responsibilities and don't neglect marketing. That is important thing. Apart from that, I would say don't build things because you can. If…” 9:10 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“gap. Okay, let's take a deeper dive into the finding the gap strategy. Can you break down this strategy so that someone watching could think about how they could do something similar? The idea…” 3:03 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“once you have some traction as a bootstrap business you're actually much more free to make moves. I mean we can target a much lower market size as a bootstrap business then a VC…” 10:50 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“generator and then you already need to do a mental step. Hm, maybe I can do music videos here, right? Some people will not do this. So, you lose already some people versus you…” 6:59 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.6 / 4“also very valuable. And automate as much as you can use automation tools. So like outrank, story short, etc. to automate posting, article creation, as much as you can. Finally, once you have growth…” 12:24 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“what you need to learn to build it. So for example, you go on Google or on Twitter and you find a product you like and you take a screenshot of that page and…” 2:21 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“and when they actually go to scale, it doesn't work out and they can't take it to be a full-time job. It's less about being really innovative or inventive. It's just coming up with…” 13:04 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“can convert an iPhone into a dumb phone cuz I know there's this audience of of people that are just kind of fed up with their smartphone and they're tired of being addicted to…” 10:00 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.4 / 4“paid much, but you kind of get the money for that hard work in like years four and onwards. The last question that I want to ask is what we ask everyone who comes…” 9:12 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“Total number of users 75,000. Paying customers about a,000 and traffic per month about 40,000. All right. So everyone watching this right now is probably wondering, okay, it's cool how you built it, but…” 3:51 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“time marketing instead of like adding more features no one asked for. And lastly, as a solo founder or small company, speed is one of your major advantages. So take advantage of that whenever…” 11:40 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“So, there are a lot of different ways to find subreddits related to your product, but the one I recommend the most is using a Reddit ads tool, and you don't need to pay…” 6:13 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“bootstrap company. I was too worried that because everyone was saying it's like a chat GPT rapper. It's not going to work. This this got into my head because it was true. It was…” 11:32 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“looking at that, they don't have any context, right? So, they're not they're very likely to skip it. So I try to frame every single launch to make it make sense to new people…” 6:09 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.3 / 4“month. What's a key lesson that you learned in the journey building this? One lesson I learned conversely is that there's more opportunities out there than we think. There's so many solutions that still…” 12:22 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“it for people that are in a video production industry. Where are they? Where do they hang out? I'm looking for a subreddit. It took me quite a while to actually find one. These…” 1:33 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.7 / 4“gave it five stars and you gain a lot of reviews and ratings. Yeah. So, gathering uh reviews is pretty important. Beautiful. Let's talk about ideas. You've launched a few things on the app…” 8:32 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“data like keywords, app name, or subtitle or even the screenshots in the way that you're more likely to rank in the top spots when people search for certain keywords. I'm focusing on the…” 7:46 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.9 / 4“tools like lovable bold new. Even if you want to just purely use chained workflow app then there are automations that you can create with tools like make or n or zap year etc.…” 11:35 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“the business. Build distribution before building a product. By distribution, I mean write about stuff that interests you or what you're working on. For example, for question, before even building the product, I used…” 7:45 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“bootstrapped forces you to build lean and and really focus on your value. If your idea is valuable to others, then you can scale healthfully. And if it's not, then you can move on…” 12:16 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“the key is really getting your messaging right and it's nothing fancy. It's just good execution. So, I come from a film making background and that's a lot about storytelling. So, if you can…” 8:26 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.6 / 4“or something is not going to move the needle, I just don't do it and focus my time in something else. Cool. Last question that we ask all founders who come on Starter Story.…” 13:48 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“Works Pay Marketplace and then I started to spam a lot of famous groups related to notion and Reddit as well. So, I search keywords related to the product and started to have conversations…” 9:12 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“what I'm doing, I'm always putting my community first so that I can maintain that distribution so I can keep selling my product. That's great. This would be helpful for anyone who's working in…” 12:18 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“is I would try to break that feature down into the smallest building blocks possible. So my first request would be, hey, can you build an input where a user can enter in an…” 4:39 ↗

Least specific moment · 2.0 / 4“or current relationship. And the cool thing is we have here quotes from the conversation that are related to this painoint here. For example, it's hard to cooperent with your abuser, which is a…” 13:58 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“use quizzes. So you simply tell to people you show the page and then on the page there is a popup that says thank you for being for being here. The app is in…” 21:40 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“getting started today? The most important thing when you build a startup is the idea and the founder idea fit. So people start looking for random ideas in random spaces and I think that's…” 16:04 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“solutions for that pain. And if I don't find the solutions on the market, then I go and talk about this pain on the internet. And if I see other people resonate with my…” 3:49 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“that's great advice. Thanks for coming on, Polus. I love what you built. You're going to be a massive success. Keep building, keep going, and uh hopefully we'll see you back on the channel.…” 12:59 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“because it has the most upto-ate information. So it has all the documentation, anything that you want to any tool, any library, just tell it you're a complete noob and absolutely don't know how…” 3:50 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.8 / 4“for you. All you need to do is create your own canvas. All right. Well, that's the best advice I've heard all month. Thanks for coming on, CJ. It was it was just so…” 17:48 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“build a product that fix just one problem and then I push that product to that core group that gave me my initial users and from their own words I would just double down…” 10:51 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“we didn't get into YC, right? Like there is so many points where I could have been or we could have been like, "Nah, nah." Like, it's over. It obviously doesn't work. But every…” 13:51 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“prey combinator which is a company that makes no revenue and now there's post a company that makes some revenue. Once we got back to the UK after California I did one thing which…” 10:47 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“of founders get way ahead of themselves thinking like, I'm going to be the CEO. I'm the [ __ ] idea guy, right? I'm going to delegate everything. I'm going to hire that salesperson,…” 15:25 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“integrations, YouTube marketing, we've been able to scale that with other creators. And the unique kind of cheat code that we have as Bootdev is that we have such strong affinity with gaming audience.…” 9:16 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“like a 10x better entrepreneur because you like you all just have more actionable steps on what to do next. Yeah. I think it's cool that you guys found your people. I think a…” 19:11 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“Ryan, will go into this templated project plan where there's a 45step system of how to do the trailer. So every little step in each one of these steps has an SOP that then…” 16:09 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“community is is really is really helping because you you get to know people you can learn from their mistakes and uh yeah maybe you can even you know find a co-founder in those…” 16:57 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“just ask for then we have all of these uh monthly emails. So every month we're sending a monthly email in which we uh show how much revenue this app brought to you and…” 11:33 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“which, you know, stupid Tik Tok hook we're going to use that's going to uh get us the most views. the context which you need to do in a very short period of time…” 15:24 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“example, for rummer, I tested so many things out and then the thing that worked really well was organic short form content. We make funny short videos for Tik Tok, Instagram, and YouTube. And…” 10:00 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.9 / 4“this first little wins to PCH the snowball until you get like a a bigger one at the end of the slope all right well that was awesome thank you Nico for coming on…” 16:15 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“don't have any constraint in time then there will always be something to add something to make you know the perfect app Etc and it forces me to only focus on whatever is necessary…” 5:27 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“what advice would you give to a younger Jack if you could stand on his shoulder? Mainly to just keep going. A lot of the times in my journey, I wanted to give up…” 16:55 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.9 / 4“marketing with no ad spend. That's a very simple strategy. First, I would open account on Tik Tok and Instagram for my product or a personal page. Either one works. And I would just…” 9:16 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“will probably be super cringe and they're probably going to get ignored and your first influence partner ship will probably be painful you'll probably lose some money but slowly your skills will compound you'll…” 26:55 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“important when working with these people but what I really want to get from you are like the dirty details on the negotiation tactics I really want you to go deep on this cuz…” 13:03 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“experiences in my life and it ended up here yeah and if I hadn't made all those mistakes and done all those things this door wouldn't have been open I would have been in…” 19:15 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“right let's talk about the early days how did you set up this business how did you get your first customer how' you get your first 10 customers what did that look like so…” 8:25 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“all of my Inspirations come from and what I've learned is the more you put out into the world that has a positive impact or a positive net positive result the money and the…” 16:10 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“debt over my head I can't go out for dinner and I can't even afford a a a Pepsi Max Adam realizes that the business model of building apps purely to sell them isn't…” 13:08 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.9 / 4“of a stable scalable business not just a startup they're desperately looking for a way to crack the code and then something crazy happens 2019 a group of investors were just like hey guys…” 10:44 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“spending all their savings on the initial research and development and a couple of samples and finally they got the product back we had all these different formulas and and I would sample them…” 6:06 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“what you're doing philosophically I would just tell you like get started do it it's not as scary as you think and your worst cas scenario is the one that you're already living in…” 13:53 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“is huge it's it's so invaluable So to that end I've said okay what other things can I do to get word out about this Resume Builder that are going to scale with without…” 10:46 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“couch I spent Thanksgiving alone I had some sliced turkey while I was coding and now with Apex everyone looks at me and they're like dude you you did so well in the app…” 17:48 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“first app Riz gbt comes into play right how do you get started with it yeah we had friends that would send in fraternity group chats or whatever group chats with guys saying like…” 4:38 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“new job a new experience a conference you want to go to an event you need to attend a webinar a video or whatever always optimize it for the learning you're going to get…” 20:15 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“I would tell them you know what like buy the software subscription and I will myself write the campaigns for you and in exchange I would also ask them if they want to be…” 11:03 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“give a piece of advice to all solopreneurs just starting out right now what would you say yeah sure I personally used to think I could never ship a profitable product because I was…” 13:52 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“week it Go spread so quickly and I got so many Bings but then SEO is the main Channel and I'm definitely better at building that that marketing so I started building a lot…” 7:43 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.8 / 4“lessons for example I had good runaway but somebody quitting their job they don't have good runaway and it makes a huge difference some people treat money seriously and some people don't care like…” 13:55 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.6 / 4“you can post YouTube video and you can be run pretty high you know it's kind of HW I would say you know okay cool you got customers but how about keeping them how…” 6:58 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.8 / 4“their life just to build what you describe them right if that happens that means that you know one guy was more motivated than you by your own ID and that's on you right…” 16:08 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“which is always a big one for this kind of products usually they have you know like a subreddit dedicated to it people that are really fond of the product so they're curious about…” 6:55 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.6 / 4“darkest moments I laid awake wondering if this was all worth it am I being selfish to sacrifice everything in the name of chasing my dreams I knew I had to go on this…” 9:13 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.1 / 4“the street this was the place where I transformed from someone who never did anything to someone who actually got done I started waking up every day at 6:00 a.m. and every day I…” 6:53 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.6 / 4“this right here this is our pride and joy this is our 100,000 YouTube subscriber plaque in 2024 it doesn't matter what product you build it doesn't matter how good your product is it…” 9:04 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“idea do you remember the uh the video with Alex Goldberg I think his name was it was my laptop we were using for boll and they were talking talking about all the uh…” 5:53 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.9 / 4“okay another question for you since the space is heavily dominated by dudes how does it feel for you to be a successful girl Indie hacker yeah I don't know why but girls are…” 10:49 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“really reduced it like drastically by adding yearly plan it sounds stupid but now they are engaged for a year so they will use the service better the second one is uh I did…” 8:32 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“as you think like you just have to be driven and you have to you know be willing to to work with people who have skill sets that you don't Outsource what you're bad…” 15:22 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“good guide into what a get app looks like and then you take those sketches and you upload them to a site called 99 designs you upload sketches and you say here's the app…” 5:23 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“the process. Believe in what you're doing. Don't just waver into like 100 other things just because you can. It's okay to start anonymous or just faceless account. While you do that, be as…” 17:00 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.9 / 4“Nick and Alex launch a design service where the clients pay monthly. But because of the premium price tag, it didn't take off right away. But then Nick would post something that would change…” 14:37 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.4 / 4“of these other major platforms that's going to make my my life a lot harder all right s final question what advice would you have to someone just starting out who wants to build…” 11:36 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“launched I already had some idea what features missing and initially when I was building the features I was mainly building the extension for myself and later I tried to go find the places…” 3:54 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“decision when my friends and I graduating from uni they all got a job pretty easily in Paris as a software engineers and I think around the time I might have seen the movie…” 2:23 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“$4,000 in 2020 3 mid 2023 I had built somewhere around 10 to 15 products and I realized I was doing the same thing over set up a landing page deploy it add a…” 15:27 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“no one has a pedigree no one has really done anything before we've built this thing and we're kind of just building an amazing piece of software over here let's talk about ideas a…” 12:18 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“that much love and hope you guys enjoy the rest of the video you build your MVP how do you get your first customer I listed the website on future pedia which I saw…” 7:41 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“either continuing to work or spending time with my girlfriend or talking to family members and pretty just simmering down and getting ready for the next day do you have any advice for uh…” 16:03 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“who you want leads of we'll send you 50 leads from list kit and if they're good let's talk about how you can get more and that lead magnet in our cold email campaigns…” 9:09 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“read that copyrighting book jump to the single chapter on subject lines surgically read it now I have that skill now I can move on to the next thing and you end up learning…” 16:04 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“very difficult so I zoomed out and said what was the put that led to this opportunity while it was writing and Publishing every day for 30 days on my own so I tweeted…” 8:27 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“important is that you have skills that compliment each other so everyone can stay in their Lane having a team that doesn't like overly overlap and step on each other toes I think is…” 9:57 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“probably around 10,000 users or so we offered a lifetime deal which means that our customers have access to us and our services forever for people that self subscription say well in this world…” 3:49 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“able to have the self-confidence to stick through the trials and tribulations I think that's that's the ultimate that's the ultimate thing okay last question that we asked to all the founders we interview…” 13:03 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“you have to kind of Stack your case studies and stack your testimonials so I took that job and used it as social proof for my Twitter DMS and I was sending out 100…” 4:37 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“things where I don't have my phone that helps me reset for the next day yeah all right last question that we ask for every founder that we interview is you could stand on…” 12:22 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“someone interesting online I won't be shy and I'll try to find their email address I'll DM and even if they have a job I'll say hey let's let's hop on a quick call…” 9:15 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.5 / 4“business the story starts a few years back in New York City 9 to5 six figure salary parties profit but numb on the inside I want something more no I need something more in…” 0:52 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“Reddit I post a link to my website it starts getting a few upvotes I start getting traffic 10 users 20 users 100 users holy sh I'm jumping around the room I could see…” 3:10 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.3 / 4“what the product was for people who are thinking about starting a business if you have a problem other people have that problem too I think that logic is great and I think it's…” 3:51 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.7 / 4“then need on day one $30,000 300 customers at 100 bucks where do you get those customers from you get them from an email list you need 10,000 emails cuz an email list reasonably…” 6:57 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“model it is a Content business and there's just a lot of times I don't want to write about pools or I don't want to talk about pools but that is the business that…” 13:51 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“yeah so you're building this thing you're making money how do you grow it how do you grow into a business that's making a million a year it's the same exact thing I've been…” 6:07 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.2 / 4“then somebody told me all you ever have to do is get through the day so you make it till midnight and then what do you do when midnight comes you just make it…” 14:31 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“or however many you got to hire another employee right but nonetheless I still think it's the best business for somebody to start because you just need a client once you get your first…” 6:52 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“through that cycle make it as tight as possible so I guess my biggest piece of advice for people who feel the same is it doesn't matter if you get harsh feedback because it's…” 13:49 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“templates business uh yeah so Thomas Frank explains is the main way that people find us right now especially for notion templates because we just have all these videos teaching people how to use…” 7:42 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.8 / 4“for the fun of it I'm not doing it cuz I have to find customers or I have to find the next idea necessarily yeah that's great okay one final question if you could…” 13:04 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“didn't know they had also hitting retweet was such an easy thing to do I had 10,000 organic signups at the end of that 48 hours wow and how did you get those signups…” 6:54 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“can try and engineer the outcome as much as possible from the gecko but the reality of the situation is that you can't see around very many corners and you're going to have to…” 13:50 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“that was working at a larger company now you got this more chill work life balance tell me how you get the idea for Finn versus Finn and what does the journey look like…” 2:18 ↗

Least specific moment · 2.0 / 4“there in the comments for the next few hours I think that's a huge por like you you don't want to delegate that like anytime that's when you're getting the pulse of what everyone…” 9:11 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“days it be like 12 hours and then the next day would be nothing then another 12-hour day so it was like definitely like halfhazard but my hands were just from holding the spoon…” 5:23 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“days I think um a lot of beginners will start and they'll say look I need to to know stuff before I do stuff and that's of course true to a degree but you…” 8:55 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“at Epic gardening back in the day and so what I started to put together is why would I not just be the brand who would sponsor my own content it doesn't it doesn't…” 6:18 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“Rings even if they're terrible Focus instead of making it perfect on getting it to customers and then talking to as many of those customers as you possibly can about how to make it…” 13:00 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“told anyone bro have you hey bro have you told anyone turns out people won't magically find the site you've built so with close to $0 in their pockets and over 50,000 rings sitting…” 8:24 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“run without yourself. You don't need to always be there for it to work. Some people that might be watching this may be feeling a little bit of analysis paralysis on what idea they…” 10:44 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“Staff, which is a super good time tracking tool. And then in terms of AI tools, we are using a good amount of them to help with the content production process just to make…” 7:42 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.8 / 4“actually asked the open AI uh application I said hey I'm thinking about building this app what's a good name for it and uh one of the names I suggested uh was Excel formula…” 3:04 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“Reddit went to the XL subreddit where there's probably several hundred people that follow it RIT title was AI XL formula generator and I think I mentioned it was free and it was just…” 6:54 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.3 / 4“failing I really only got any semblance sucess in the last 18 months so it's 9 years almost a decade of just gut punches people not taking you seriously you need that discipline I…” 12:13 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“just talk to your users ask the more difficult questions of you know you shouldn't be asking why do you like my product you should be asking why do you dislike my product like…” 5:20 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.2 / 4“Diversified his income but it's allowed him to work less and probably sleep better at night but what I love about Brett is that he doesn't just sell courses he continues to build his…” 10:48 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.4 / 4“to do the work and that brings us to step two of The Playbook Bal boundaries so at this point Brett's put in the Reps he's raising his prices and now he has customers…” 3:55 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.4 / 4“have no idea where to start how do I find a good idea how do I know it can make money how do I take the first step I couldn't find this information anywhere…” 1:32 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.9 / 4“again and I don't stop every single day I get off work walk into that Starbucks and do my 2 hours of deep work I even start waking up at 6:00 in the morning…” 3:51 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.5 / 4“right idea click the first link in the description we're running a special for the YouTube family all right enjoy the video I'll see you around peace tell me about why you decided to…” 6:09 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“designer I really liked his other designs formatting you can either use Amazon's tools to format the ebook or you can use another tool called rezy that's what I used I used the default…” 8:28 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.3 / 4“best companies it could be raising your own Venture Capital fund it could be joining a venture Capital fund there's a lot of different routes that you can take and the the earlier and…” 16:54 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“with me so once you find the deal what are all the steps that happen until this deal is finalized and all the investors have put their money in the the first part is…” 13:51 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.3 / 4“if I was to build my next business in the holdco it would be that I think there's so much opportunity to build it so your audience should feel free to steal the idea…” 13:48 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“favorite way to build a business is like product doesn't exist yet you get a sense of demand then you build the product after you truly build the plane as you're flying it so…” 8:26 ↗

Least specific moment · 2.2 / 4“about oh what's our subscription price and ah turn's too high and like we need account managers and we need project managers and we need quality assurance and dyan's like no if we can…” 13:45 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“to help us produce it we like did this whole system so I'm like let's try this little podcast system with our favorite podcast which the first one was my first million they're looking…” 3:51 ↗

Least specific moment · 0.5 / 4“niche in any product service all right man thank you for having me this been amazing congrats on all your success man thank you follow this advice and you'll build a $2.5 million Dev…” 13:51 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“gives a step-by-step breakdown of how he would start all over again with nothing I initially started draft dodev not even as a company there was no website there was no landing page I'm…” 0:47 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.3 / 4“the magic that people want to feel before they go out and purchase something like if you think about Abercrombie walking into a mall there's two shirtless teenagers with six packs labs and cologne…” 11:39 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“someone wanted to buy this product and once they got the product that they were happy with it we weren't just good marketers with shitty product it got to the point where I was…” 4:41 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“about my long-term goals 10 years ago all I did was like make money and spend money if I wanted to do it I did it which was great because I collected a ton…” 13:47 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.9 / 4“the end of October fast yeah how does it work fundamentally fundamentally at the end of the day a customer pays us for a predefined service so in the case of hay friends for…” 2:17 ↗

Least specific moment · 2.2 / 4“and things getting saturated I'm at a point right now where my brand has so much momentum when I see new competitors coming to the space it doesn't scare me it hasn't affected my…” 8:27 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“revision of that and then I'd have a good ready to go book tell me more about the marketing side of things as I understand uh you make money with ads how specifically does…” 6:56 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.4 / 4“8 to 10,000 steps a day. solid feels good. And at this point, my team is big enough where I can kind of just like think of stuff and then be like, "Abby, do…” 11:47 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.5 / 4“Scroll through constantly just like looking for any type of company that like would hire me. I got one a music blog. They made no money. I think they posted the rate was like…” 4:10 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“trying to create that that Vibe of like nighttime creativity and just being uh in the office but I mean that's essentially my routine all right our final question that we ask all entrepreneurs…” 11:27 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“100 or 1 000 subscribers on a newsletter yeah so this is something I learned from Noah Kagan and it's this idea of like Hanahan combat when you're trying to get your first 100…” 4:35 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.7 / 4“to talk to any person I wanted to for an hour or more I know podcasting may seem like something people just do for fun or as a hobby but actually it might be…” 2:17 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.3 / 4“in terms of getting good guests their Outreach side of things what do you tell people use Twitter Twitter is the most untapped resource there is for getting guests and I think it's because…” 7:37 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“that are Drop Shipping the Sim exact the answer is that they're not the power of the brand is dropping a product on your website and in 30 seconds it's sold out the power…” 6:52 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“like in terms of like developing that sample like that first initial sample once you have that down it's then about finding a manufacturer that's willing to work with you because here's the deal…” 9:57 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.6 / 4“um so I I would probably tell them like to believe in yourself that like you're capable of doing this doing it and believing that you can as corny as that sounds is what…” 9:58 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.1 / 4“board they get immediate access to it which is a big selling point of a product I service and they can begin in putting design requests into the queue and they're basically worked on…” 1:32 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.3 / 4“hypothesisdriven creator. Same thing I was when I was a sales leader in my my previous career, which meant making a hypothesis, testing it, seeing if it worked. If it did, doing it twice…” 10:47 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.2 / 4“millions, potentially billions of impressions on social media and you've sold millions of courses. What's your marketing strategy? It's not as complex, I think, as a lot of folks might assume that it is.…” 6:10 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“firstly negotiation is a really useful skill to learn because you can use it in every single part of your life that doesn't mean I'm suggesting you go into a grocery store and start…” 14:39 ↗

Most specific moment · 2.9 / 4“dollars into 500 and because they didn't have any money that was on my credit card so I was paying off my credit card by physically selling and then moved up from there so…” 1:33 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.0 / 4“your problems and then third I think surrounding yourself with either a good co-founder and or advisor right or mentors that have done it before and have been in your position right but also…” 16:51 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“worked for us it was cost effective scalable we were able to find a lot of emails and contacts online the second approach that's really worked for us is building out an affiliate or…” 13:47 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.6 / 4“could lean on them so that was kind of the big thing I was like all right how can I go about using this as as a as a way to kind of not…” 3:50 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.0 / 4“did you make that money was it just through YouTube AdSense that first it was all YouTube AdSense I know you make money through lots of different ways now uh how did you find…” 6:54 ↗

Least specific moment · 1.1 / 4“refreshed you know environment to work in yeah foreign if there's one last thing something I hear really often is like you know follow your passion it's kind of like follow instead of following…” 19:23 ↗

Most specific moment · 3.7 / 4“you got to send a lot and for our ICP which is stands for ideal customer profile specifically the open rate or reply rate for software is only about they're two different things the…” 14:46 ↗