I made a SaaS in 3 days with 3 cheat codes
Summary
TLDRThe speaker shares their experience building two apps with contrasting outcomes. In 2017, an app with zero users was developed over a year, whereas a recent AI-assisted project, 'Poop Up', was created in just three days and generated $1,000 in profit within 24 hours. 'Poop Up' is a web script that helps improve website conversion rates through customizable popup notifications. The creator emphasizes the importance of starting somewhere to find startup ideas and demonstrates how GitHub Copilot, an AI coding assistant, accelerated development by generating code and even copywriting. The video concludes with a testament to the power of AI in boosting productivity and the success of launching a product rapidly.
Takeaways
- π The creator built an app called 'Poop Up', a script for websites to display popup notifications aimed at improving conversion rates.
- π‘ The idea for 'Poop Up' came after the creator launched another tool called 'Zenvo' and noticed customers loved the popup notifications on its site.
- π οΈ The creator used a code boilerplate called 'cheap fast' to quickly set up the landing page and features like user login and private dashboard.
- π€ AI was utilized through GitHub Copilot to write code faster, including complex tasks and even generating copy for the landing page.
- π§ GitHub Copilot can generate code, fix code, explain code, and even assist with tasks like creating color palettes or writing copy.
- π The creator emphasizes the importance of providing context to GitHub Copilot by keeping relevant files and information accessible.
- π The use of personal code boilerplates and consistent naming conventions helps GitHub Copilot generate more accurate and usable code.
- π Leveraging small, reusable functions across projects allows GitHub Copilot to efficiently generate code for new projects.
- π The creator managed to launch 'Poop Up' in 3 days, using unconventional methods like avoiding TypeScript, not using Git branches, and forgoing code testing.
- π― After launching, the creator promoted 'Poop Up' on various platforms, attracting about 7,000 visitors and making $1,000 in profit within the first 24 hours.
- π The video concludes with a message encouraging viewers to utilize AI to enhance their productivity and to take action in shipping their ideas.
Q & A
What was the outcome of the app built in 2017 by the speaker?
-The app built in 2017 by the speaker did not acquire any users.
How long did it take the speaker to build the product using AI after having a random startup idea?
-It took the speaker only 3 days to build the product using AI.
What was the name of the product built by the speaker?
-The product built by the speaker is called 'Poop Up'.
What is the primary function of 'Poop Up'?
-Poop Up is a script for websites that displays popup notifications to improve website conversion rates.
How did the speaker come up with the idea for 'Poop Up'?
-The idea for 'Poop Up' came after the speaker launched another product called 'Zenvo' and noticed that customers loved the popup notifications on the site.
What is the speaker's approach to finding startup ideas?
-The speaker does not actively search for startup ideas; instead, they come naturally as a result of building and launching other products.
What is the name of the code boilerplate the speaker uses to speed up development?
-The speaker uses a code boilerplate called 'cheap fast' to speed up development.
How does the speaker utilize GitHub Copilot to write code faster?
-The speaker uses GitHub Copilot to write code faster by providing plain English instructions and having it generate the corresponding code.
What are some of the features included in the 'cheap fast' boilerplate?
-The 'cheap fast' boilerplate includes landing page components, user login, private dashboard, and handling of Stripe webhook events.
How did the speaker manage to launch 'Poop Up' and make $1,000 in profit within 24 hours?
-The speaker launched 'Poop Up' using unconventional methods, such as not using TypeScript, not using Git branches, and not testing the code, and promoted it on platforms like ProductHunt, Twitter, Hacker News, and Reddit.
What is the speaker's advice for someone looking to build a startup?
-The speaker advises to start somewhere, build a product that solves a real problem in your workflow, and to build a small audience that will lead to promising ideas for the future.
How does the speaker use GitHub Copilot for tasks beyond just coding?
-The speaker uses GitHub Copilot for generating copy for websites, creating color palettes, and even writing copy for landing pages.
What is the speaker's strategy for leveraging GitHub Copilot effectively?
-The speaker suggests providing context to Copilot by keeping relevant files open, using personal boilerplates for consistency, and creating small reusable functions.
How did the speaker manage to ship the 'Poop Up' app in just 3 days?
-The speaker used a combination of a personal code boilerplate, GitHub Copilot for coding, and unconventional methods like avoiding TypeScript, Git branches, and testing.
Outlines
π Rapid AI-Powered Product Development and Launch
The speaker recounts their journey from a failed app in 2017 to a successful product launch within a week using AI. They introduce 'Poop Up', a landing page tool for website popup notifications designed to improve customer engagement and conversion rates. The tool allows users to customize pop-ups, add messages, and integrate them into their websites. The speaker emphasizes the importance of starting with a simple idea and iterating upon it to find startup ideas. They also mention using a code boilerplate called 'cheap fast' to expedite the development process, which includes features like user login and database updates via Stripe webhook events. The final piece of development involved creating a script for customer websites, which was significantly aided by AI.
π€ Leveraging GitHub Copilot for Enhanced Coding Efficiency
The speaker discusses their techniques for rapid product development, focusing on the use of GitHub Copilot, an AI tool that assists in writing code. They demonstrate how Copilot can generate simple arrays, complex event listeners, and even suggest copy for web pages based on existing project context. The speaker advises keeping all relevant files open to provide context for Copilot, using personal boilerplates for consistency across projects, and creating reusable functions to streamline coding. They also mention unconventional methods like avoiding TypeScript, not using Git branches, and forgoing code testing to expedite the development process. The product, launched with a simple copy and without extensive testing, managed to attract significant traffic and revenue within the first few days.
π Successful Product Launch and Future Insights
The speaker concludes by sharing the successful launch of their product, which garnered 7,000 visitors and $1,000 in profit within the first 24 hours. They reflect on the power of AI in enabling a single developer to accomplish tasks that would typically require a team, including coding, copywriting, and administrative assistance. The speaker also offers to share more detailed strategies on acquiring initial customers and traffic in a linked video. They encourage viewers to like and subscribe for more content and end with an encouraging note to take action on ideas.
Mindmap
Keywords
π‘App Development
π‘Startup Idea
π‘Artificial Intelligence (AI)
π‘Profit
π‘Landing Page
π‘Conversion Rate
π‘Customer Dashboard
π‘GitHub Copilot
π‘Boilerplate
π‘Stripe
π‘Product Launch
Highlights
In 2017, the speaker spent a year building an app with zero users, contrasting with a recent 3-day AI-assisted product development that earned $1,000 in profit within 24 hours.
The product, named 'Poop Up', is a web script that displays popup notifications to improve website conversion rates.
The landing page for 'Poop Up' includes features for customers to pay and access a dashboard to customize popups.
The speaker emphasizes the importance of finding startup ideas through building and iterating on projects rather than searching for them.
The concept for 'Poop Up' originated from customer feedback on a previous product, illustrating the value of iterative development.
The speaker uses a code boilerplate called 'cheap fast' to expedite the development process with pre-built components.
GitHub Copilot is highlighted as a tool that can write, fix, and explain code, accelerating development by 2 to 3 times.
Examples of GitHub Copilot's capabilities include generating arrays, creating event listeners, and even writing copy for landing pages.
The speaker demonstrates GitHub Copilot's ability to understand project context and generate appropriate code based on open files.
Custom boilerplates and consistent coding practices are recommended for maximizing GitHub Copilot's efficiency.
The use of tiny, reusable functions is advised to streamline the coding process with GitHub Copilot.
Unconventional development methods like avoiding TypeScript, not using Git branches, and forgoing code testing are mentioned to speed up the process.
The product launch strategy involved promoting 'Poop Up' on platforms like Product Hunt, Twitter, Hacker News, and Reddit.
The speaker achieved 7,000 visitors and nearly $2,000 in revenue within the first few days of launching 'Poop Up'.
The video concludes by emphasizing the power of AI in enabling individuals to perform tasks that typically require a team.
Additional resources are offered for viewers interested in learning more about attracting visitors and acquiring initial customers.
The speaker encourages viewers to 'just ship it', highlighting the importance of taking action in the product development process.
Transcripts
in 2017 I spent one year building an app
that got zero users two weeks ago I had
a random startup ID in mind and it took
me only 3 days to build the product
using Ai and 24 hours later the launch I
made $1,000 Us in profit in this video
I'm going to show you the software how I
got the startup ID and especially how I
use artificial intelligence in order to
build really fast let's go all right let
me show you real quick what the product
is it's called poop up it's the Ling
page that you can see here and it
basically it's a little script for
website that will display popup
notifications like those ones customers
would typically use it to show that they
know the pain of their own customers in
order to improve their website
conversion rate so this is the landing
page that I built right here as you can
see we got a couple things going on in
here and when customers are ready they
can click here they will be prompt to
pay and once they've paid they go to
their customer dashboard I'm going to
show you that right now right there they
can add websites let's say we're going
to go to that website right here and
here is where they customize the pop-ups
they want to send they can add messages
where each message could have text you
could have some icons and everything
people can reorganize it and once
they're ready they will get a little
script at the bottom right here and once
it's installed on their own website they
can test it and you can see on the right
side we going to see those notifications
coming up I have built over 20 side
projects and one of the most common
question that I get is how do you find
startup IDs and the answer is simple I
do not search for IDs they come to me
these product poop up came after I
launched Zenvo a little tool for stripe
users to to generate invoices without
paying the fee I added popup
notification on the site to nudge
customers into buying and people say we
love the notification and poop up came
up and prior to Zenvo I was playing
around with ship fast a boiler plate for
nexs developers and I found out that I
paid a lot of money for stripe invoices
and I decided to turn those off and I
realized I needed to have some kind of
product that would let me generate
invoices for free and that's how I came
up with Zenvo and we can go back in time
and the loop keeps going on I build
Chast because of another product because
of another product and another product
so the answer to finding startup IDs is
to start somewhere anywhere you can
build a note note taking app just make a
better version or a version that you
would use and you're going to stumble
upon real problems in your workflow
you're going to learn stuff you can
build a tiny audience there will be
things happening and those are promising
idas for the future I built the product
poop up in 3 days and I'm going to share
the three ways I actually use in order
to build fast and first is that I use a
code boiler plate it's called cheap fast
it's a boiler plate I made for myself it
includes a bunch of learing page comp
components so I just have to fill the
copy and the landing page is ready it
includes also some cool features like
user login private dashboard with just a
click of a button it handles all the
stripe web hook events so I have users
updated in my database as soon as they
pay and so the actual final part that
was missing was to create the script
that would sit on my customer's website
in order to display those popup
notification and this is where AI comes
in very handy and I will share
everything that I do with GitHub
co-pilot in order to build sometimes
code that I don't even understand I use
GI up cop highight in order to write
code two to three times faster it's
basically chpt inside of your code
editor I can write code fix your code
explain your code but you can also do a
bunch of other stuff like generate a
nice color palette or sometimes even
write your copy for the landing page
it's absolutely awesome and let me show
you how it looks I use copilot
absolutely everywhere to write most of
my code and I can use it for very simple
tasks to very Advanced and integrated
tasks let me show you how that works so
basically you would write plain English
let's say I want to have an array of all
the days of the week with all the days
of the week you press enter and bingo I
press Tab and then is going to create
the JavaScript array with all the days
of the week which is very handy if I
want to do something a bit more advanced
I can keep typing English and it knows
the entire code of this file and so he
going to be able to interact with it
let's say now I am on the product when
we press test we're going to fire some
popup notifications at the top right
what we want to do is if the person
change to a different page we want to
remove those popups and so we need to
have some kind of cleanup function and I
am familiar with reactjs but JavaScript
a little less so I can just tell copilot
like if a route change user navigates
away call cleanup I press enter and boom
I press Tab and GitHub copilot generated
this little event listener and we call
the cleanup function which is right
there that was actually created by
copilot and it's going to remove all the
pop-ups that we've had it's also really
good at generating copy for your
websites so not only code but like
actually plain English like copyrighting
so here on this page I removed this is
the headline of the page I remove the
text that was right underneath on
purpose and if we go to the hero file we
are going to see so we have the H1 here
and this P tag here is the text that's
underneath and bingo you see copilot
already has a knowledge of what the
product is about thanks to everything
that I've uh written previously and it
knows that this P tag is underneath the
H1 so it should be some kind of like
helper sub headline thing and it says oh
poop up is a NOCO tool that helps your
increase Visitors convers by chowing a
poop up to your visitors it's not
perfect you can fine tune it there a
bunch of way to make the results better
but it's really a good start for the
copy and you can even use copilot in
order to do some very cool stuff like
play around with multiple files in your
project so in this poop up example I
have an API endpoint where I would
basically get the script and get the
data for the script to show which
messages we have to display and I can
say something like a functions that
fetches the data from the endpoint and
return it and here we go you see that we
have an entire function um I'm going to
come in that we have an entire function
right here that is going to hit my API
endpoint it's going to pass some
parameters and I'm going to get the data
back and it's going to sanitize the data
and return it and it knows exactly how
to write the function for my own code
because if I go to that API endpoint so
the script in the API part here it knows
which parameters are needed the body
which part of the body we need the
domain and then is going to pass on the
right parameters based on what this API
endpoint needs and it knows which data
will be returned from the response by
default GitHub copilot is very awesome
but to make it even better you want to
use those little tips first you want to
provide context to copilot so by default
when you type English copilot is going
to create some code for you but you want
the code to be usable right away so it
means it has to hit the right API
endpoint it has to have the right
variable names in order to upload your
new documents to the database right away
and the only thing you have to do for
that is to keep tabs open as you can see
here at the top I have a bunch of tabs
open and especially here I'm going to
create a react component that lets users
proceed to a stripe checkout and on the
right side I open this file here which
is an API endpoint that basically take
on a few parameters create a strap trick
out session and return the URL if I did
not open this file copilot doesn't have
access to it and so when I'm going to
create my react component right here it
will Generate random API endpoints and
you will not name the variables as you
do in your code so you want to keep all
your files open and when you do this
when you start creating your own react
component in this case it's going to use
all the files it knows from the project
in order to create the right components
so here we're going to say constant
button bu you see as you can see here
the price ID here is likely to be what
we're going to have somewhere here in
the API so it knows it's going to be
calling this function so it knows it
needs to be pass this variable and if I
keep pressing tab enter it's going to
Bingo it creates the entire components
right here with a loading state with the
call to the API it handles it knows when
it's loading when it's not it's going to
disable if it's not loading handle the
click handle event and it's going to
call the right API end point with the
right parameters right here and this is
achieved because it knows this file and
this file knows how this file is working
this is my database model it knows how
users are restores in the database which
Fields do they have by default copilot
already knows the packages you've
installed as you can see here it called
those two packages at the top so you
don't need to do anything for that
another part that very helpful in order
to get the most out of copilot is to
have your own boiler plates which means
a code base that you reuse across
different projects where you name
variables the same way you have the same
way of naming your database schemas and
all that so that you already provide the
foundation to co-pilot so it knows
already how are you going to name this
API endpoint how you're going to name a
new users uh fields in the database and
all that and the final part to leverage
GitHub copilot is to use very tiny
functions that you can reuse everywhere
in your code so in this API route we can
see here we have a function that creates
the checkout and if you go here we open
the stripe.js file which has a few
helper function function for stripe such
as a function to create a checkout or
create a customer portal those are very
tiny function that have a specific use
case and this is useful because anytime
I create a new API routes for instance
copilot will be able to reuse those
functions in order to do a specific
actions and finally in order to ship
this app in 3 days I use a bunch of
unconventional methods such as not using
typescript not using G branches not
testing my code I will share somewhere
around here a link to that video if you
want to dive into it more and so after
spending three days on the product it
was actually done and I launched it
everywhere from producton Twitter hicker
news and reddits in total I think there
was about 7,000 visitors on the site it
made $1,000 within the first 24 hours
and I think it's been 4 days now and it
should cross $2,000 pretty soon which is
pretty good for a tiny product like this
one that's it I hope you enjoy the video
and you realize the power of AI how a
little guy like me can have a junior
engineer and a copywriter and maybe even
a secretary assistant thanks to AI if
you want to dive deeper into how I get
couple thousand visitors and the first
customers on all my products I'll link
to another video somewhere where I go
more into details into that if you like
the video you can like the video and if
you loved it you can subscribe to the
channel until then I'll see you for the
next video and I hope you just ship it
cheers
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