Day 494 growing my SaaS startup to $1M

0:02It's insane. The video had no sound, man. Pick up 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 fun [music] 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 this million dollar goal and we're 90% done completed building four apps in [music] four days with AI and going viral, relocating here in Cyprus, our new home. This is partially what's going to be in this video among a bunch of other

0:31stuff. Let's [music] start the madness. We just landed in Cyprus with weather, good air, good food, nice people, jeans, good times. [music] It's 11:00 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.

1:03Where are we going? Our new home, baby. New home? Yeah. [music] Did you find somewhere good for me?

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1:21[music] So, where did you bring me? We're in Cyprus, my man. We're in Cyprus? Yes. So, what do we want to do here? Uh become tax residents, have a ID card, open up a bank account. Yeah, so finally we can get paid from the company. I'm going to be a European. [music] [singing]

1:46Hey, what's up? We just landed in Cyprus and we're in Paphos and I have a shitty haircut and I have to lucky because I'm shipping a new app. [music] [singing] This is what we're building. It's basically like a a posture detector. If I slouch, it's going to alert me. And then if I close the app, and if I put my head in the incorrect posture [music] like this, like I'm I'm 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 background like anytime, so whether I'm coding, watching a movie, or

2:19whatever this is on my computer, it forces me to be in the correct posture, like stand straight. And I have a bunch [music] of a bunch of little gamification thing that I'm going to show you later.

2:33Wow. Is it a welcoming then? We're cooking on Why we are here? Good weather, good air, good food, nice people, jeans, good tax, tech friendly. Missing something? No, I also heard there are so many smart people coming to Cyprus for the same reason. Yeah, it feels like the Bali of Europe somewhere. I heard some crispy goals. We're launching mini free tools

2:56software. 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. 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 AI is building something. Yeah, this one look at this, look at this, it's building here. This means the AI is working well. All we have to do is just think and input the thinking in here, and poof, it becomes

3:20real. That's amazing. I'm jealous. Marcus petting his laptop more than me.

3:30[music] Yes, new product, new startup. Oh, hello, you. Hello, little shrimp. Super shrimp, super shrimp. Launching very soon. [music] Hello. How is your data office doing? Ooh. Well, straight to the point. I think we're reaching the end cuz okay, I haven't checked in a week about a week. I think we're getting close to

4:03I I mean you're getting too slow. Okay, but okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, well Stop teasing us and show us. This this is today. Today six customers, yesterday five customers. $751 today and you ready for this?

4:27There we go. 19k. 19k. Wow, we're almost at the end. Yeah. About to be finished this series. Oh no. What am I going to do after the video is after the video is over and then Oh, we're going to find a new topic. We just make it 100k more and then we good for 10 years. Okay, so what is the secret? How did we

4:46grow this fast? I think for this the secret [laughter] I think I have to show my computer and some stuff that I built recently. So what are the keywords? Side projects. A [ __ ] load of side projects that get us attention people look at and then they share and they're like oh this is fun and then they discover your software, yourself, whatever and then you never have to do marketing. All you have to do is to

5:07launch more side projects. So 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 all the product and they buy. So what is about? Man, both. As long as you make stuff something will grow. And also you have to make a good product because

5:26I think that our first like is great. Like people share it without me to asking them anyway so make more stuff.

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5:44Having a the time? Yes, with my husband.

5:56Hello. What's up today? Uh what's up today? Man, we have to finish the marketplace. Well, before that, we need a little workout to clear our mind. Oh, yeah, that's true. What are we going to do today? Dips, RDL? Some weird things. Mostly weird things, yeah. Yeah, but looks like the weird things are working. I feel like I am some kind of a porn star, and you're like, "Oh, can you do it again? Do it again." Except that it's

6:21in public. hopper.

6:27This is getting sketchy. We're going to This is never going to land on YouTube, man. Never. You sure about that? Our editor will decide. God damn right. Let's work out. [music] It's so sketchy, but it's getting better. Our feet is just a transportation. [music]

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7:26It's a key to open up your heart. I was about to say exactly the same thing. No way. Eight years together, we think exactly the same.

7:41What happened? What? Dude, ah you will see it will all connect. So, plus 460 MRR 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 Trust MRR. They're basically the number two, the second most MRR startup on Trust MRR. This this this

8:00this. Trim RX. It's a telehealth company. 771 MRR. So, like they almost make 1 million per month. And they just subscribed to our most 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. Man, [clears throat] we're so damn close to the million dollar. The next video will be the closer, I think. You can just make stuff, Peter. It's messy, man. It's

8:23messy. 20k [snorts] very soon. Yes. Yes.

8:31Sassy keynote battle. Why? Why you're the king? I talk talk talk I talk. What is it? [laughter] A Bloomberg terminal [music] for web analytics. It shows visitors, revenue, and everything. This is absolutely useless, but I had so much fun doing this. This is connected to my web analytics data past. [music] Those are all the refers that brought traffic. And then here it shows the number of visitors and page views and the revenue, the cumulative revenue over time with some little metrics. Man, I'm having so much fun using AI to create stuff. I just have to think, ask, and then I get a result, and I never have to do the hard work of coding

9:14or thinking too much about the infrastructure, and then it becomes real. This is one of the best 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 basically a little websites where each building is one path on my website. For instance, [music] this is the URL trustinmar. 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 [music] yellow as they make more

9:52revenue. 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, microdata. I might or might not have watched Severance season 2 recently, where basically, each real-time visitors on my websites 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 innies in Severance, and when they go from one page to another on my website, they're

10:34going [music] 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 Datafas, which let me get the data. And so, all of those websites are connected to my web analytics using an API key, and all Datafas users can use it. And what I think is, with AI getting so good, UI interface dashboard [clears throat] of

10:55the future are going to look different. A lot of SaaS will become just API. They'll work in the back end, and we will have a device or something like an AI superintelligent AI that is going to interact using this like API, [music] and it'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 I'm playing with those little stupid 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

11:27those, and I'm playing with stuff that I think will be the future. So, [music] uh let's see where that goes. I'll add links the description where you can play all these all the three [music] interface. It's completely free. You just import your API key and you can watch your data in a not-so-common way. [music]

11:48[music] It's 7:00 a.m. My poor wife. And this is my fourth app. Boom. This literally TikTok 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 account, then it also brings users for my SaaS, which I'm trying to grow to a million-dollar evaluation. And so,

12:20this is what happens. This is my SaaS. 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 SaaS. I don't know yet how much uh revenue or MRR this is going to bring to because it's too early. Like, there's 14 days of free trial. But these These numbers are pretty good. And so again, all I have to do is to make more fun apps, and hopefully some magic will

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13:01I'm reading this book by Scott Adams, which passed away a couple 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 helpful for marketing. I recommend you to read it.

13:22What did you tell your 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 technology that the mainstream people have not aware of. Nobody is aware of Colcode. 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 commodity [music] because everybody will be able to do it, but now is the crazy best time ever to do this kind of things. That is Geo [music]

13:59Shot. Go build something. [music] [singing] You know, we're all coming to That's That's amazing to [music]

14:16I am prepared to fail multiple times again. It was my first business. It was my 20th project in total. [music and singing]

14:27[music] I just came here to meet this house for accounting tools. So I've been accounting since I was 5 years old. [music]

14:42[music] What are the functions of 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 of our engineers they don't know how to use AI tools properly. So the ROI basically was very dependent on how well

15:04they used the tool in the first place. And I kind of had to struggle with that with the selling point there of okay, what exactly am I buying? [music]

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15:22[music] That was That was for you to come and do something like this. Might happen more often. We can do something bigger here. So, uh Thanks, man. Thank you.

15:40Thank you.