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First $5k Month as a Solopreneur
Moncef Belyamani quit his job in October last year. In May, he announced that he crossed the $5000/month mark as a solopreneur for the first time 🤑 Currently, I have two sources of income: Ruby on Mac, and a 2-year fixed-price contract for maintaining a Rails application. I only get $1050/month from the latter, so the bulk of my…
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$90K/Month Wordle Website
That’s WordPlay.com 👈 The first version was built and launched in a weekend last February by Dharmesh Shah. Dharmesh revealed on a recent episode of the My First Million podcast that 9.5 million people have visited the site so far… SimilarWeb estimates 1.8 million total visits in the last month alone. He put Google Adsense on it for a while and…
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His Niche Site Earns $800K/Year
He is Matt Giovanisci and the site is Swim University 🏊♀️ Matt opened up an AMA on Twitter earlier this week. His reply to what he’d do differently if he were starting the business from scratch today… I wish I would have focused on writing better posts instead of spending time building backlinks in the early days. It was…
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$7000/Month Cambodia Design Agency
Vathana Nguon is a self-taught WordPress developer from Cambodia 🇰🇭 who has grown his Anachak Design agency to $7000/month. (Btw, the average salary in Cambodia is less than $1000/month.) Vathana tells Starter Story that he learned web development online after high school, gradually built his freelance business, and eventually evolved into an agency. Focusing on a specific niche 🎯 has been key for Vathana… I wouldn’t…
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1 Year to $14,000 Monthly Profit
Dashiell Bark-Huss writes about building Wish Tender, “a universal wishlist and gift registry platform, specially designed for influencers and public personalities.” Dash is a self-taught coder and it took her a year to code Wish Tender, then another year to get it to $14K/month profit 🚀 That sounds fast, but in the day-to-day of working on a business, progress…
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$500,000 Revenue By Age 22
Some dude named Mateo Price recently sold the YouTube analytics company that he started in college. The sales price is undisclosed, but at the time of sale – just a year after Mateo had graduated – the company had apparently pulled in $500K in revenue while helping YouTubers like Ali Abdaal and AJ Lapray “generate more than…
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$10K/Month Pitch Deck Templates
Maximilian Fleitmann writes about buying BaseTemplates in 2019 and growing it to $10,000 per month in revenue (some months as much as $25,000) 📈 The site sells “handmade pitch deck & fundraising templates” for startups and entrepreneurs. The templates are simple digital products that sell for $29 to $99 a pop. Max also sells a related online course for $179 and…
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ZipTraderU Review
12 things to know about ZipTraderU, Charlie Plattus’ trading course. Essential info, hidden costs, red flags, controversy alternatives…
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$1M After 3 Years of Self-Employment
That’s Daniel Vassallo’s story. And he’s done it via multiple income streams: an online course, a paid community, info products, freelancing, affiliate marketing… In the same thread he shares 3 forms of self-employment income for developers… 🔴 SaaS: Takes a long time for meaningful returns.🟢 Info Products: High volatility, unpredictable, potential for extremely high ROI.🔵 Freelancing: Predictable, stable, choose your…
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Are NFTs All Scams?
The Freakonomics podcast has put out a smart 3-part series about crypto called What Can Blockchain Do For You? The episodes: Also a good listen is a recent episode of This American Life called The Reluctant Explorer, about a guy who became a multimillionaire in a week and a half after an “NFT archaeologist” contacted him about…
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0 to $325K Revenue in 18 Months
Muntasir Rashid is a co-founder of Postpace, an AI-powered SEO writing tool 🤖 They launched the company from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 in November 2020 and Muntasir has shared the following updates along the way… Muntasir and his co-founder Moin had previously run a SaaS development agency, so they had lots of experience building SaaS solutions. But from reading Muntasir’s updates it’s…
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1-Minute Strategies To Boost Sales
Josh Spector lists ten of them 👈 My favorite is the 9-word email… Send an email to previous leads that says:“Are you still looking to ____?”It re-starts a conversation. If you’re a freelancer, set a reminder to do this with previous clients every few months. Or prospective clients that faded away a while back.
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Her App Made $5000+ in a Week
Serial maker Alyssa X writes about her experience building and launching a MacOS app called Later, which clears and restores your workspace with a couple of clicks. (Check out the slick demo of the app on the landing page.) Alyssa had the idea for the product at the end of January, built and launched it over the next two…
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Broke Student to 6-Figure Freelancer
An inspiring story about Komal Ahuja, who was a broke 20-year-old professional dancer studying literature when the pandemic hit 🦠 She started writing online “about anything and everything” and eventually stumbled into a freelance gig when a company DM’d her via LinkedIn. It’s been a tough couple of years for Komal – “there were days I…
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$1,400 in Pre-Sales (Digital Product)
Gene Maryushenko writes about his experience pre-selling a digital product via Gumroad, to the tune of $1400 💵 The product is Tailwind CSS React Application Components. Yeah, I’m not sure what that is either, but no worries. The important takeaway is that Gene was able to leverage his audience of ~5000 followers on Twitter for the pre-sale. Gene’s advice if…
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