Day 494 growing my SaaS startup to $1M

It's insane. The video had no sound, man. For [ __ ] sake, man. I don't even

man. For [ __ ] sake, man. I don't even know how to start the video. AI has made building so much insane and so crazy and so [music] fun that I'm working on like five things at the same time. This video

is going to be filled with like crazy stuff. Among them, hopefully reaching

stuff. Among them, hopefully reaching this million dollar goal and we're 90% done, completed, building four apps in [music] 4 days with AI and going viral.

We're locatedating here in Cyprus, our new home. This is partially what's going

new home. This is partially what's going to be in this video among a bunch of other random stuff. Let's start [music] the playlist.

We just landed Cypress. Good weather,

good air, good food, nice people, jeans, good times.

[music] It's 7 a.m. My poor wife. 19K. Wow. I

think we're reaching the end. What the

[ __ ] man?

Three apps in three days. [music] Make

more stuff.

Yes.

Where are we going?

Are you hoping?

Do you hope?

Yeah. [music]

Did you find somewhere good for me?

All the leaves are found.

And the sky [music] is gray.

And the sky is gray.

I've been [music] Oh, where did you bring me?

We're in Cypress, my man.

We're in Cypress.

Yes.

So, what do I do here?

Uh, become tax resident, have a ID card, a proper bank account.

Yeah. So, finally, we can get paid from the company.

I'm going to be a European. [music]

[singing] Hey, what's up? We just landed in Cyprus and we're in Pos and I have a shitty haircut and I have to lock in because I'm shipping a new [music] [singing]

This is what we're building.

It's basically like a a posture detector. If I slouch, it's going to

detector. If I slouch, it's going to alert me. And then if I close the app

alert me. And then if I close the app and if I put my head in the incorrect [music] posture like this, like I'm I'm literally slouching. Then the app is

literally slouching. Then the app is going to alert me that something is wrong until I get back to the correct posture. It works [music] in the

posture. It works [music] in the background like anytime. So whether I'm coding, watching a movie, or whatever this is I'm doing on my computer, it forces me to be in the correct posture, like stand straight. And I've added

[music] a bunch of little gamification things that I'm going to show you later.

Wow.

Is it a welcoming den?

We're cooking.

Why we're here?

Good weather, good air, good food, nice people, gyms, good tax, tech friendly.

Missing something?

No. I also heard there are so many smart people coming to Cypress for the same reason.

Yeah, it feels like uh the belly of Europe somewhere.

I share some crispy goals.

We're launching many free tools for fun.

We're launching a new startup. We're

building a marketplace and we're growing it to make $1 million worth of acquisition. 300K now.

acquisition. 300K now.

300K.

300K.

Especially with the AI, there are so many things you can do.

It's crazy, man. Like at the moment there, you can see here three projects I'm working on. Like the eye is building something. Yeah. This one. Look, look,

something. Yeah. This one. Look, look,

look, look. It's building here. This

means Zaka is working well. All we have to do is just think and input the thinking in here and poof, it becomes real. That's amazing.

real. That's amazing.

I'm jealous. Mark is petting his laptop more than me.

[music] Yes. New product, new startup. Oh, hello

Yes. New product, new startup. Oh, hello

you. Hello little shrimp. Super shrimp.

Super shrimp. launching very soon.

[music] Hello.

How is your date of this visiting?

Wow. Straight to the point. I think

we're reaching the end cuz uh Okay. I

haven't checked in a week.

About a week. I think we're getting close to I I mean, you're getting too slow. I

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Wow.

Stop teasing us and show us. So this

this is today. Today six customers yesterday five customers $751 today. And

you ready for this?

There we go. 19K.

19K.

Wow. We're almost at the end.

Yeah.

About to be finished this series. Oh no.

What are we going to do after the video is after the video is over and then No, we're going to find a new topic. We

just make it 100k more and then be good for 10 years.

Okay. So, what is the secret? How did we grow this fast?

I think for this the secret [laughter] I think I have to show my computer and some stuff that I built recently.

Okay. So, what is the key word?

Side projects. A shitload of side projects that gets attention that people look at and then they share and they're like, "Ah, this is fun." And then they discover your software, yourself, whatever. And then you never have to do

whatever. And then you never have to do marketing. All you have to do is to

marketing. All you have to do is to launch more side projects. The side

project has to be related to your main product or doesn't matter just what you do is amazing. So people just know your older product and they buy. So what is about

man? Both both.

man? Both both.

As long as you make stuff something will grow and also you have to make a good product because I think data fast like is great like people share it without me do asking them anyway. So make more

stuff.

Okay.

[music] having your best time.

Yes. With my husband.

Hello.

What's up today?

Uh what's up today? And we have to finish uh the marketplace.

So before that, we need a little workout to clear our mind.

Oh yeah, that's true. What are we going to do today? Dips.

Some weird things.

Mostly weird things. Yeah.

Yeah. But it looks like the weird things are working. Oh,

are working. Oh, I feel like I am some kind of a porn star and you're like, "Oh, can you do it again? Do it again."

again? Do it again."

Except in public.

This is getting sketchy. We This is never going to land on YouTube, man.

Never.

You sure about that?

Our editor will decide.

You're goddamn right. Let's work out.

[music] So sketchy, but it's getting better.

Arm is also [music] transportation.

[music] [music] Shining so bright, we take the spotlight. [music] We are the one. We're

spotlight. [music] We are the one. We're

the champions.

Looking smarter, beating harder. [music]

We play to win. We're the champions.

The champions. The champions. [music]

It's our key to open up your heart.

I was about to say exactly the same.

No way. Eight years together we think exactly the same.

What happened?

What dude? Oh man, you will see it will all

dude? Oh man, you will see it will all connect. So plus 460

connect. So plus 460 MR in like 12 hours. So I checked and actually it's one customer. You don't

know the person, but they found us because of TrustMr. They're basically the number two the second most MR startup on TrustMr. this this this this TRIM RX.

Mhm.

It's a teley health company. 771 MRR. So

like they almost make 1 million per month.

Wow.

And they just subscribed to our most expensive plan. So it's like more than

expensive plan. So it's like more than 10 million views. And so it's like I think I don't remember exactly but it's like $499 or something. [clears throat]

Man, we're so damn close to the million dollar. The next video will be the

dollar. The next video will be the close-up. I think you can just make

close-up. I think you can just make stuff. It's massive. It's massive.

stuff. It's massive. It's massive.

20K [snorts] very soon. Yes.

very soon. Yes.

Yes.

battle.

Why? Why you're looking?

So, what is it? [laughter]

A Bloomberg terminal [music] for web analytics. It shows visitors, revenue,

analytics. It shows visitors, revenue, and everything. This is absolutely

and everything. This is absolutely useless, but I had so much fun doing this. This is connected to my web

this. This is connected to my web analytics data [music] fast. Those are

all the referers that brought traffic.

And then here it shows the number of visitors and page views and the revenue, the commitive revenue over time with some little metrics. And I'm having so

much fun using AI to create stuff. I

just have to think, ask and then I get a results and I never have to do the hard work of coding or thinking too much about the infrastructure and then it becomes real. This is one of the best

becomes real. This is one of the best feeling ever. It's insane. This is part

feeling ever. It's insane. This is part of a three apps in three days challenge.

There are two others that I was having fun with. Number one is data city. It's

fun with. Number one is data city. It's

basically a little websites where each building is one path on my website.

[music] For instance, this is the URL trust R. And for each building, this is

trust R. And for each building, this is the total number of visitors. And

basically, the building gets bigger and bigger as there are more visitors. And

then it's connected to my Stripe account. So the building's colors gets

account. So the building's colors gets [music] yellow as they make more revenue. So, this one, this page

revenue. So, this one, this page generated $3,000 in revenue. And because

I was bored, I added a pedestrian mode where I can just walk around my little city and see the buildings. Another

example of something that is absolutely useless, but it's so fun. And that's not it. I also made this one macro data. I

it. I also made this one macro data. I

might or might not have watched severance season 2 recently where basically each real time visitors on my website is going to pop up here at the

bottom and they're going to head over rooms. Each room is a URL. So they're

like inies in severance and when they go from one page to another on my website they're [music] going to exit the room and travel to the next page. One of the reason I'm doing these kind of

experiments is because I own a website analytics called datafast which let me get the data and so all of those websites are connected to my web analytics using an API key and all data fast users can use it and what I think

is with AI getting so good the UI interface [clears throat] dashboard of the future are going to look different a lot of SAS will become just API it will work in the back end and we will have a

device or something like an AI super intelligent AI that is going to interact using this like API [music] and he's going to build in real time in front of us the UI based on our custom

preference. And so this is kind of what

preference. And so this is kind of what I'm playing with those little stupid example here. This is kind of what I'm

example here. This is kind of what I'm trying to play with because I believe that is the future of software. People

are probably not going to watch their web analytics inside of a Bloomberg terminal. But I'm having fun making

terminal. But I'm having fun making those and I'm playing with stuff that I think will be the future. [music] So uh let's see where that goes. I'll add

links to the description where you can play all with all those three [music] interface. It's completely free. You

interface. It's completely free. You

just import your API key and you can watch your data in a not so common way.

[music] [music] It's 7:00 a.m. My poor wife and this is

my fourth app. Boom. This is literally Tik Tok for web analytics.

one, two, three, and fourth. Four apps,

four days. And so I was doing all these mini apps because it's just so fun. But

I also realized that since you need the data fast accounts, then it also brings users for my SAS, which I'm trying to grow to a million dollar in valuation.

And so this is what happens. This is my SAS. And in the refers, we can see that

SAS. And in the refers, we can see that this is the traffic that has been brought by some of those side projects.

So I don't ever have to do any some form of serious marketing and this is going to drive users for my SAS. I don't know yet how much uh revenue or MR this is going to bring to because it's too early like there's 14 days of free trial but

this those numbers are pretty good and so again all I have to do is to make more fun apps and hopefully some magic will happen later.

I'm reading this book by Scott Adams which passed away a couple of days ago as I'm making this video and um well he left us with some really good stuff.

It's a book about persuasion so mostly psychology. This is really good and

psychology. This is really good and helpful for marketing. I recommend you to read it.

What is the outro wife? give us some motivation to crush it.

I think the generation in the future will remember us being the luckiest humans alive. We have this crazy

humans alive. We have this crazy technology that the mainstream people are not aware of. Nobody is aware of color code. Nobody is aware of open 4.6

color code. Nobody is aware of open 4.6 and all those crazy AI tools. So now is the gold rush. Now is the time to build.

It has never been a better time in the world to build. At some point this might become a community [music] because everybody will be able to do it. But now

is the crazy best time ever to do these kind of things. That is [music] the outro. Go build something.

outro. Go build something.

[music] [singing] We're all politics. So that's that's an amazing. [music]

amazing. [music] I am prepared to fail twice and time again. Was my first business. It was my

again. Was my first business. It was my 20th product.

[music and singing] [music] I decided to do the sauce for so I've been singing sauce.

How can [music] you [music] February? Yeah. [music] So it means on

February? Yeah. [music] So it means on the month of May you're launching.

Yes, if you use AI well, you can have [music] you know the benefit already.

But the problem that I faced was that most software engineers they don't know how to use AI tools properly. So the ROI basically was very uh dependent on how well we use the tool in the first place

and I kind of have to struggle a little bit with the selling point there of okay what exactly am I buying? [music]

[music] [music] That was uh that was amazing for you to come. These things might have been more

come. These things might have been more open to something bigger here. So, uh

thanks. Thank you.