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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 Story333,447 次观看 • 3 个月前
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 Story272,716 次观看 • 3 个月前
Bro built a $50K/month app in 6 months with ZERO coding experience, and he says: hire a Fiverr VA to DM hundreds of creators, but only the ones who pass his 4-point checklist... "Highly recommend hiring a VA on Fiverr, which is extremely inexpensive, and having him DM hundreds of creators in your niche who fit your criteria." "My criteria were anywhere from 5,000 to 50,000 followers. They post consistently, they show their face, and they have an active comment section."
Starter Story39,344 次观看 • 15 天前
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 次观看 • 3 个月前
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 Story146,571 次观看 • 2 个月前
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 Story823,955 次观看 • 1 年前
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 Story139,264 次观看 • 3 个月前
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 次观看 • 5 个月前
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 Story85,444 次观看 • 2 个月前
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 Story78,309 次观看 • 2 个月前
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 次观看 • 5 个月前
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 次观看 • 2 个月前
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 次观看 • 3 个月前
