Pallyy's first year made ~3K.

3 years later, working 7 days a week, I've done it in 1 day.

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🍾 CaptionsGPT now has 5 active paying subscribers = $143 MRR.

Thanks to @stripe's payment links, I was able to add a $19/mo subscription & validate this super fast.

No free trial, just a Pro & Free plan.

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Just spent 1 hour of my time adding a feature that will save hundreds of hours of my customers time.

Do that over & over, and you've got yourself a (great) business.

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🎉 Just got my first subscription for captionsGPT.

Probably still need a few more to be properly validated...but it's a start.

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💡 Solo founder tip #4: Collect feedback.

The best way is to have a public roadmap (I'm using @cannyHQ) where users can suggest & upvote feature requests/bugs.

Promote it via a link in your dashboard & welcome email.

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March was @pallyysocial's biggest month in the 3.5 years I've been working on it:

✅ + 14% MRR
✅ 180,000 Visitors
✅ 4,600 Sign Ups
✅ 179 New Customers
🔻 -$3,014 Revenue Churn

Mostly from SEO, affiliates and free tools I built/acquired.

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14 people clicked the upgrade button in captionsgpt.com since adding subscriptions yesterday.

No upgrades though, need to add some more info about what you get on Pro (currently just redirects to Stripe).

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Just added a landing page & subscriptions to captionsgpt.com

Getting about ~200 visitors a day by linking from Pallyy. Let's see if we can get a subscription for some validation!

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Pallyy's largest affiliate payment yet, just over $5,000 for 30 days worth of commission.💸

@getRewardful helping me to be a "marketer"

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Working on another AI platform over the last few days.

You'll be able to create your own AI models on any documents you upload and share a link to it with anyone who can ask it questions.

Similar to a chatbot, but not for your website.

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🔔 New Twitter API basic subscription has (finally) launched at $100/mo.

You can upgrade here: developer.twitter.com/en/portal/prod…

And if you want to apply for enterprise: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

#twitterdev #buildinpublic

💡 Solo founder tip #3: Launch ASAP

Don't worry about your padding, integrating payments or adding dark mode, just get your SaaS into the wild a.s.a.p.

This way you'll get feedback faster and can focus on making changes that your users will actually want.

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💬 CaptionsGPT can now create social media captions in your unique voice, tone and format for free.

1️⃣ Create a Persona (can be for anyone)
2️⃣ Generate captions in your unique voice

If you're a social media manager, this is going to save you hours. 🤩

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Pallyy's free Twitter bio generator seems to be going viral this morning 😲

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💡 Solo founder tip #2: Coming up with a SaaS idea

Trying to build something *new* can be hard, if the idea doesn't come naturally - don't force it.

Instead, pick a competitive niche and build an awesome SaaS for a small subset of it's users.

#buildinpublic #SaaS

Want to put your marketing on auto-pilot? Start an affiliate program.

Pallyy's has generated:

🌟 $78,000 USD
🌟 44K visitors
🌟 659 conversions

And, it's only $50/mo via @getRewardful, and all I have to do is pay my affiliates once a month.

#buildinpublic #affiliateprogram

Already doing a big pivot (2 days after launch) for captionsGPT:

- Dashboard & user accounts
- "Profiles" so you can train GPT on your previous captions

This will be amazing for SMM's as you can create a profile for your clients to help with creating captions.

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💡 Solo founder tip #1: Learn to code

▪ Sign up to @codecademy (it's free)
▪ Learn JS, HTML, CSS
▪ Spend 1-2hrs/night studying
▪ Learn @mongoDB databases
▪ Build something!

Learning to code will give you a huge advantage when starting an online business.

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💡 Solo founder tip #1: Learn to code

▪ Sign up to @codecademy (it's free)
▪ Learn JS, HTML, CSS
▪ Spend 1-2hrs/night studying
▪ Learn @mongoDB databases
▪ Build something!

Learning to code will give you a huge advantage when starting an online business.

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Going viral on Twitter was fun, in 24 hours Pallyy had:

⭐ 7k unique visitors
⭐ 210 signups (free)
⭐ 14 signups (paid)

Going forward I'm going to do a series of posts on starting & growing a solo biz.

If there's anything you want me to cover, comment below.

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