Sold Their 3-Month-Old Side Project For $30,000

Vatsal Sanghvi is the co-founder of VisualizeAI, a tool that helps architects and interior designers visualize their sketches, prototypes, and designs 👀

Vatsal recently wrote on Reddit…

Our three-month-old AI-based Design tool – VisualizeAI was acquired for $30K in July this year.

He adds…

I have been tinkering around with Generative AI ever since I got my hands on text-to-image models last year… Earlier this year, I came across something called ControlNet and was amazed by what it could do.

(ControlNet is a neural network that gives you granular control over image generation in Stable Diffusion.)

So…

We built out the first version in 5 days and got our first paying customer in the next couple of days… This gave us early validation.

Looks like they got initial traction by sharing it on multiple AI directories and a successful Product Hunt launch.

Vatsal adds…

In three months, We got 🔥
✅ 22k+ Visitors
✅ 7K+ Users
✅ $1500 in Revenue & $500 in MRR
All without spending a single $ on marketing

Pretty good outcome, especially given that these guys were just following their curiosity and launched the project in 5 days 🚀

Then came the sale…

We were approached by an upcoming Canada-based estate tech Startup that was interested in a potential collaboration or an acquisition.

They ended up selling for $30,000 🤑

Writing up this newsletter every week, I notice patterns, and this is a common one: someone playing around with new tech just for the fun of it, ends up developing a rare skill and turning that into a successful business.

With that in mind, could you carve out some time to play around with some new tech you’re interested in? 🤔

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