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Rob who makes $22K/month as a solopreneur while traveling the world says: "I've lived in more than 13 countries in the last few years. In some of them, I barely touched my laptop at all. And in some of them, I shipped more than I have done in months." "The variable is never discipline. It was how I felt in that place. Productivity follows happiness."
Starter Story76,427 views • 13 days ago
Jake, who built a $50K/month alarm app in 4 months, says the most valuable skill right now isn't building it's... "Focus on top of funnel only. That is the most valuable skill right now is marketing. There's so many people that can build an app and it's so easy with AI, but there's not so many people that know how to market and know how to get views." "If nobody knows about your app, it doesn't exist. You can build as many features as you want." "Building doesn't really matter so much. You got to build a good product, of course. But getting views is more of the unknown."
Starter Story332,847 views • 2 months ago
Sarah, who built a $300K/month app in 60 days, says being a woman in tech is actually the unfair advantage... "I don't think most men would have come up with this idea. And so I think that's actually the unfair advantage of being a woman in this space." "There's so many of these problems that we experience as women that we're like, I wish an app existed like this, but a man would never think to build an app like that." "Women are going to dominate this app space and men should prepare for that, because women dominate distribution."
Starter Story272,427 views • 1 month ago
This dude Rob who makes $22K/month as a solopreneur while traveling the world says: you can't actually build a business while bouncing around every week... "When you travel so often, it is really, really hard to focus on one thing. I had to realize this the hard way." "It wasn't until I actually settled in Colombia for three months straight in July of 2025 that I actually got stuff done."
Starter Story85,005 views • 18 days ago
Sarah who built a $340K/month app in just 60 days, says: the viral save-bait trick is almost too simple: tell people to repeat for seven days, and they'll save your video, feeding the algorithm exactly what it wants... "When someone saves the video, then it increases engagement. There you go. And in general, this is very savable content, right? People want to like listen to an affirmation another day." "If you can make content that naturally gets shares or saves, that's going to make it go viral every time."
Starter Story145,246 views • 1 month ago
This girl is insane. 4 different apps doing $150K/month each! 🥶
Starter Story442,077 views • 3 months ago
Matt is a Meta software engineer who built a golf SaaS to $350K ARR on nights and weekends - and he's on pace for $800K by year-end. "We've got about 150 golf courses that have started using our product. We're at about 350K of ARR, and based on how we've been doing the start of the year, about an $800,000 run rate." "I'd wake up, and the first thing I'd want to do in the morning was go build. Or the last thing I want to do before I went to bed tonight was go build." "Find something you care about, figure out where you could make it better, and go."
Starter Story182,910 views • 1 month ago
This guy Jack who now makes $40K/month as a solo app builder says: hitting $3K/month was his breaking point "I used to have headaches and anxiety for like two years, and it wouldn't stop. And I wouldn't stop thinking about how am I going to make it?" "Only two and a half years ago, I like broke down one summer, I was crying, my fiance and I had a walk, and I just didn't think I'd be able to do it. I really thought that like, I was peaked at 3000 a month with my mobile app." "And then two months later, things completely turned around. I kept working on it. And it hit like its peak month at 15,000 a month. Ever since then, it's kind of snowballed in the direction where things are going up rather than sideways or down."
Starter Story80,767 views • 25 days ago
Right now anyone can build an app with AI... But getting your first 1,000 downloads is the hard part. Julia has generated 1B+ views and 11 million app downloads We talked for over an hour and here's the top 5% of our conversation: > Why your FIRST step isn't posting content at all (2:32) > Her 2 day tiktok strat that finds your exact users (3:18) > 3 formats driving app downloads right NOW (5:03) > How going viral is the WRONG goal in your first month (8:22)
Starter Story138,093 views • 1 month ago
Dude makes $77k a month and doesn’t check his phone until noon > no emails > no socials > no notifications just 4 to 6 hours of deep work every single morning he’s built 35 startups and says most people lose before they even start not because they’re not good enough but because they’re distracted
Starter Story235,022 views • 4 months ago
Blake and Zach, who built Cal AI and sold it for millions, casually drop that they went from $30K in month one to a $50M/year run rate like it's just another Tuesday. "The first month we made $30K, and the second month we made like over $100K." "Within eight months, we were at a million dollars a month, which is pretty wild."
Starter Story43,586 views • 21 days ago
Marc, who makes $77K/month as a solopreneur, says the fear of shipping your first product is a one-time fear (he uses a gym analogy to explain why) "We're always afraid to show our new creation and your ideas to the world for the first time. Just keep in mind that that's the biggest barrier to your success ever." "It's a bit like going to the gym for the first time. You see people on Instagram, they lift super heavy, and then you enter the gym, you don't know the machines, you don't know how it works." "It's a one-time fear. You kill 80% of it by doing it once, and then the remaining 20% will just kill it with more iterations, but it just becomes easier and easier."
Starter Story115,504 views • 2 months ago
She built a $100K/year AI app (while working full-time job). Now she’s a full-time founder. And her process for launching AI tools is simple and efficient. She broke it all down for me: > Finding and validating ideas (2:51) > Market where your customers are (5:51) > Subscription vs. one-time payments (7:57) > Costs to run the business (9:07) > Competing in a space dominated by dudes (10:57) > Don't wait. Ship fast. Be consistent (11:40)
Starter Story188,161 views • 3 months ago
He taught himself how to code with ChatGPT... Then built 3 iphone apps. Made $10M in revenue. We called him up and asked him to break it all down. Talked for hours, but cut out all the fluff to give you all the alpha: – why mobile apps are lucrative right now (2:08) – $1M business ideas RIGHT NOW (6:43) – playbook for validating app ideas (8:56) – must-have tools for building mobile apps (9:42) – the sweet spot pricing strategy (12:33) – building $1M apps for $50 bucks (15:35) – Light a fire under your ass (17:03)
Starter Story823,688 views • 1 year ago
19 year old from kazakhastan making $80k per month. The new economy is here.
Starter Story182,257 views • 3 months ago
Sarah who built a $340K/month app in 60 days says: women are about to take over the app economy and men should prepare... "Women are going to dominate this app space and men should prepare for that because women dominate distribution." "The only thing that was standing in the way of women building the number one app on the App Store was the technical barrier, but now, with AI, that's gone." "Majority of influencers are women. We know how to have community. The best product doesn't win; the best known one does."
Starter Story59,297 views • 1 month ago