$3,000 in a Month From an App Two Dads Built in Their Spare Time

📝 Philip Sergelius writes…

We were both spending half an hour a day scrolling feeds that left us with nothing, and we wanted that time back.

He and co-founder Max are physicists with semiconductor day jobs, two kids each. NerdSip got built in early mornings and after bedtime.

Type in any topic, get a short, AI-generated course with quizzes.

Started coding in December, launched in March. By July: 10,000 downloads, 100+ paying subscribers, $3,000 revenue that month 🤑

The part worth stealing is how they got users 👇

SEO drives over 40% of new users, all flowing through our blog… which has become the backbone of the whole operation.

AI search is second at 28%, meaning ChatGPT and Google’s AI answers citing us. Everything else is noise.

Their blog is past 250 posts 🤯, aimed at questions like “how to never run out of things to say”. Backlinks came from cheap directory listings. Their $500 of ads never beat the free stuff.

Meanwhile SaaS SEO agencies charge $3,000–$5,000 a month for a couple of posts and some technical work.

Plenty of people are vibe-coding apps with no clue how to get users. With NerdSip’s SEO strategy and AI drafting the posts, you could run this as a profitable service for those app creators 🔥

Get 10 more business ideas in your inbox each week