$20K/Month After 8 Months: “We Just Make Noise”

🤖 Journalist AI is an AI writing tool that comes with features like publishing directly to WordPress, automated internal/external linking and more.

Afonso Matos tweeted in late December that the tool earns $20,000 in monthly recurring revenue…

I started out in January with $0 MRR, 20 followers, no product and just a goal to make $20k MRR by the end of the year.

I was stuck with a part-time job and $0 MRR even in April!

… I finally partnered up with [Vasco Monteiro] in April and bootstrapped Journalist.

Oh and let me add that I was travelling the world during this whole time!

Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines

Afonso tweeted back in April…

Finished working on the dashboard for a hobby project called Journalist.

You give your business URL, context and niche, and it’ll generate high-quality articles

Then in October…

Journalist just reached $5k MRR.

🤑 Less than a month later…

Journalist AI is making 8 grand a month

with one file and 125,231 lines of code

While Afonso codes, Vasco comes up with marketing ideas and memes to get the word around.

Like this cheeky tweet where they made the Journalist logo look like the P*hub logo. That somehow got 200K+ views 👀

(Maybe worth trying that for your business? 😜)

Vasco recently tweeted…

“how do you market your product?”

“what’s your marketing strategy?”

“what are your main acquisition channels?”

BROTHERS

we just make noise anyway we can

find a platform (ideally one with browse features)

and be the one pumping more content in your niche

that’s how you win

Elsewhere Afonso mentions Facebook Groups to be one of the main ways they find customers.

In another tweet Vasco adds…

need emails for cold outreach?

1. scrape niche FB groups
2. use Apollo

So that’s likely what they’ve done themselves.

Both Vasco and Afonso tweet regularly and Vasco also runs a YouTube channel. So they’re very visible online, and their followers tend to check out what they’re working on.

With that in mind, what can you do today to “make noise” and get your business noticed? 🤔

Lastly, Afonso’s tip for building a software as a service (SaaS) business…

i would tell AI companies to get as many yearly subs as possible, until your product is mature and not flaky

yearly clients are the ones who stick around and give feedback to improve

journalist has progressed immensely due to yearly customer feedback