I made these 23 websites (and earned $562,943)

Marc Lou
16 Apr 202435:34

Summary

TLDR在这段视频中,讲述者分享了他作为独立开发者的创业之旅。2021年失业后,他决定独自创业,开始构建自己的网站。至今,他已建成23个网站,涵盖软件习惯、Strikers和AI工具,并且亲自负责编码、设计和市场营销。他展示了自己制作的每个网站及其产生的收入,从一些从未盈利到收入超过五位数的网站。此外,他还分享了三个被收购的网站的故事。他的第一个应用“Mood to Movie”是一款基于用户心情推荐电影的应用,尽管未曾盈利,但因在ION新闻上的一篇文章而走红,获得了10万访客。之后,他开发了“Habit Tracker”,一个虚拟花园习惯追踪器,通过游戏化的方式激励用户坚持习惯,最终以1万美元的价格出售。视频中还介绍了他的其他项目,包括“Books Calculator”、“50 hacks”、“Body Crush”和“Decision Game”,每个项目都有其独特的创意和市场策略。通过不断创造和尝试,讲述者展示了如何通过独立开发和创新营销手段,将个人项目转化为可持续的收入来源。

Takeaways

  • 🚀 **独立创业**:在被解雇后,决定独立创业,建立自己的网站。
  • 🛠️ **技能全面**:独自完成从编码、设计到市场营销的所有工作。
  • 📈 **收入不均**:所建网站的收入非常不均衡,有些从未盈利,而有些收入超过五位数。
  • 🎥 **内容营销**:通过创建病毒式内容和在社交平台上的推广,成功吸引了大量访问者。
  • 🌱 **产品创意**:开发了多个基于习惯和游戏结合的产品,如习惯追踪器和电影推荐应用。
  • 💡 **SEO策略**:尝试使用程序化SEO策略,成功在谷歌上排名多个页面。
  • 📱 **移动应用**:开发了iOS和Android应用,并通过应用商店获得了额外收入。
  • 💰 **出售产品**:成功出售了习惯追踪器应用,获得了一笔可观的收入。
  • 📊 **数据分析**:利用分析工具来监控用户行为和收入,以优化产品。
  • 🤖 **AI技术**:探索并应用AI技术,如使用Chat GPT创建聊天机器人。
  • 🌐 **全球视野**:通过在国际平台上的推广,吸引了全球范围内的用户。

Q & A

  • 视频中提到了哪些网站或应用?

    -视频中提到了多个网站和应用,包括mood to movie(基于心情的电影推荐应用)、habit tracker(习惯追踪器)、books calculator(书籍计算器)、50 hacks(生产力技巧分享平台)、body crush(朋友间的问责小组应用)、decision game(决策游戏)、gamify list(游戏化应用目录)、visualize habit(可视化习惯追踪器)、heroit(健身习惯追踪器)、naval AI(基于Naval的聊天机器人)、naval 25(Naval Ravikant的名言集合网站)、fake it until you make it(发送假支付通知的应用)、Indie page(创业者的链接树)、Mech Ling(使用AI的网站生成器)、work book PDF(语言学习练习册生成器)、chip fast(开发者快速启动代码库)、by dispute(防止Stripe争议的软件)、poop up(网站通知插件)、virally bots(Facebook Messenger bot以提高逃脱房间业务转化率的工具)和game widget(网站小游戏插件)。

  • 视频中提到的'Mech Ling'是什么?

    -Mech Ling 是一个使用人工智能的网站生成器。用户只需输入一些文本,AI就会自动创建一个包含图片、文本和按钮的落地页。它允许用户自定义网站内容,包括文本、按钮、字体、颜色和主题等,并支持在移动设备和笔记本电脑上预览网站。完成编辑后,用户可以将其部署到自己的域名,或者将代码导出为HTML。

  • 视频中提到的'visualize habit'应用是如何工作的?

    -visualize habit 是一个习惯追踪器风格的应用,它允许用户选择想要养成的习惯,如每天阅读书籍的时间或每天散步的时间。用户可以设置每天或每周进行习惯的频率。应用会展示一个可视化的习惯网格,显示用户选择的习惯,并允许用户创建一个习惯卡片,其中包含所有他们想要养成的习惯,以及一些有趣的统计数据,如阅读书籍的总时间。

  • 视频中提到的'Indie page'是做什么的?

    -Indie page 是一个为创业者设计的个人资料和项目展示平台,类似于 link tree。用户可以创建自己的个人资料,展示项目描述,并列出所有的创业项目。它还提供一些额外的功能,比如分析数据、个性化页面、连接新闻通讯等。此外,用户可以将自己的域名连接到 Indie page,使其看起来像一个专业的作品集网站。

  • 视频中提到的'work book PDF'是如何帮助用户学习新语言的?

    -work book PDF 是一个在线平台,允许用户生成特定主题的语言学习练习册。用户可以选择他们想要学习的语言、他们的学习水平以及他们感兴趣的主题。一旦练习册生成,用户将获得包含词汇匹配、文化知识、完成句子、找出正确缺失词汇等语法和词汇练习的页面。这些练习可以下载为PDF文件,以便打印和离线完成。

  • 视频中提到的'chip fast'代码库有什么作用?

    -chip fast 是一个为开发者设计的代码库,旨在帮助他们更快地启动他们的创业项目。它包含了创建落地页、设置Stripe支付、数据库更新等所需的基础代码和组件。开发者可以重用这个代码库,减少重复工作,快速搭建新应用。

  • 视频中提到的'by dispute'软件是如何帮助用户减少Stripe上的争议的?

    -by dispute 是一个旨在减少Stripe账户上可能出现的欺诈性支付和争议的软件。它通过监听Stripe账户上的事件,并基于用户设置的规则来尝试预防一些欺诈行为。例如,如果检测到信用卡被报告为被盗,它可以自动退款最后一笔支付。此外,它还提供了一个通知标签页,显示实际发生在用户账户上的数据。

  • 视频中提到的'poop up'插件有什么功能?

    -poop up 是一个网站插件,允许用户在其网站上显示通知。用户可以自定义何时显示消息、何时隐藏消息,以及消息本身的内容。用户可以通过拖放来重新组织内容、更改文本和图标。安装插件后,用户需要将脚本添加到他们的网站上,以便弹出通知能够显示。

  • 视频中提到的'naval AI'聊天机器人使用了哪种AI技术?

    -naval AI 聊天机器人使用了CH GPT(Chat GPT)技术,这是一种基于大量文本数据训练的自然语言处理模型。naval AI 特别训练在Naval Ravikant的推文上,以模仿他的风格和回答方式。

  • 视频中提到的'naval 25'网站是如何工作的?

    -naval 25 是一个汇集了Naval Ravikant的300条名言的网站,这些名言按照受欢迎程度进行组织,访客可以对它们进行投票。网站还提供了随机名言的选择功能,用户需要在给定的时间内选择他们最喜欢的一条,并进行投票,这将增加名言的计数器并每天或每12小时更新页面。

  • 视频中提到的'fake it until you make it'应用的目的是什么?

    -fake it until you make it 是一个简单的应用,用户可以通过它发送假的支付通知,这些通知看起来像Stripe的支付确认通知。这个应用可以用来恶作剧朋友,或者用来激励自己回到工作中去。

  • 视频中提到的'virally bots'和'game widget'有什么区别?

    -virally bots 是一个基于Facebook Messenger的聊天机器人,用于提高逃脱房间业务的转化率,通过与用户进行互动游戏来增加用户参与度。而 game widget 是一个网站小游戏插件,允许用户直接在网站上玩游戏,通过解决谜题来获得商家的折扣券。两者都旨在通过游戏化的方式提高用户参与度和转化率,但应用的平台不同。

Outlines

00:00

🚀 独立创业之旅的起点

视频脚本的开头讲述了作者在2021年被解雇后决定独立创业的经历。他分享了自己建立的23个网站,包括软件习惯、Strikers和AI工具,并详细介绍了从编码、设计到市场营销的全过程。他还提到了这些网站产生的收益差异很大,有的没有赚钱,有的收益超过五位数。此外,他还分享了三个被收购的网站的故事。

05:01

📈 习惯追踪器与游戏化

作者介绍了他创建的习惯追踪器应用,该应用允许用户追踪自己的习惯,并在虚拟花园中种植花朵。他详细描述了应用的功能,如习惯页面、任务、成就系统和社交功能。尽管最初没有盈利,但通过去除免费计划,应用的收入有所上升。最终,他以1万美元的价格将习惯追踪器出售给了一位Twitter用户。

10:01

📚 书籍计算器与SEO尝试

作者分享了他创建的书籍计算器应用,该应用可以根据用户的阅读速度和时间推荐书籍。他还尝试了程序化SEO,通过创建针对特定关键词的页面来提高谷歌搜索排名。虽然这一尝试没有直接盈利,但确实为习惯追踪器带来了流量。

15:02

🎯 产品多样化与市场响应

作者继续介绍了他创建的其他几个产品,包括50 hacks网站、Body Crush应用、决策游戏和Gamify List目录。每个产品都有其独特的市场定位和用户互动方式。他还分享了通过产品猎人平台推广产品的经验和收获的成果。

20:03

🌟 可视化习惯与新产品发布

作者讲述了他创建的可视化习惯应用,该应用可以展示用户一年内通过坚持习惯可能取得的成就。他还分享了通过制作视频和在社交媒体上推广产品的经验,这些努力帮助他的产品在Reddit和其他平台上获得了关注。

25:05

🤖 AI技术的探索与应用

作者分享了他与朋友合作创建的Naval AI聊天机器人,以及基于Naval Ravikant的推文创建的Naval 25网站。他还提到了尝试AI技术的过程,以及如何通过AI生成的内容来推广自己的产品。

30:05

🎮 游戏化产品的创新与挑战

作者介绍了他创建的一些游戏化产品,包括Heroit健身应用和Decision Game决策游戏。他分享了这些产品的设计理念、用户互动方式以及市场反应。他还提到了如何通过直播和社交媒体与用户互动,以及这些产品带来的收益。

35:06

📈 个人品牌与产品组合

作者分享了他创建的个人品牌网站和Indie Page产品,这是一个为创业者设计的链接树服务。他详细介绍了产品的功能、定价和市场反应。他还提到了通过AI技术创建的Mech Ling网站生成器,以及如何通过收购平台出售该产品。

📚 语言学习与AI工作簿

作者介绍了他创建的Work Book PDF平台,这是一个可以根据用户兴趣生成语言学习练习的AI工具。他分享了产品的定价策略、用户界面和市场推广经验。尽管产品初期收益不高,但作者对产品的长期潜力持乐观态度。

🛠️ 开发者工具与创业平台

作者分享了他为开发者创建的Chip Fast开源代码库,以及如何使用它来快速启动创业项目。他还介绍了By Dispute软件,这是一个旨在减少Stripe上欺诈交易的工具。此外,他还提到了通过社交媒体推广产品的经验,以及这些产品带来的收益。

🎥 创意视频课程与个人成长

作者讲述了他创建的迷你课程,教授如何制作创意视频以推广产品。他分享了自己的成功案例,以及如何使用AI技术制作视频和背景。课程的市场反响良好,为他带来了可观的收入。

🌐 免费图标生成器与产品推广

作者介绍了他创建的Logas免费图标生成器,以及如何通过产品猎人平台进行推广。他分享了产品的用户界面、功能和市场反响。尽管产品本身没有直接盈利,但通过推广他的其他产品,如Chip Fast代码库,它帮助他实现了销售。

💰 发票生成工具与产品销售

作者分享了他创建的Z Invoice发票生成工具,以及如何通过该工具节省Stripe费用。他详细介绍了产品的定价策略、用户界面和功能。产品自发布以来,已经为他带来了稳定的收入。

📌 网站弹窗插件与产品创新

作者介绍了他创建的Poopup网站弹窗插件,以及如何通过产品猎人平台进行推广。他分享了产品的定价、用户界面和功能。自发布以来,该产品为他带来了不错的收入。

🎮 早期创业项目与市场适应

作者回顾了他早期的两个创业项目:Virally Bots和Game Widget。他分享了这些项目的目标市场、功能和收益情况。虽然这些项目最终没有持续下去,但它们为他后来的创业成功奠定了基础。

🔚 创业之旅的总结与展望

作者总结了他的创业之旅,分享了他创建的各种产品和获得的经验。他提到了通过视频分享和社交媒体推广产品的重要性,并对观众的支持表示感谢。

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Keywords

💡独立开发者

独立开发者指的是个人独立进行软件开发和维护的工程师。在视频中,讲述者从软件工程师的职位被解雇后,决定成为一名独立开发者,自行构建网站,这体现了独立开发者自主创业、自主创新的精神。

💡网站构建

网站构建是指使用各种技术和工具来设计和开发网站的过程。视频中提到讲述者构建了23个网站,涵盖了从代码编写、设计到市场营销的整个过程,展示了网站构建的多面性和复杂性。

💡病毒式营销

病毒式营销是一种营销策略,通过用户之间的传播来迅速扩大产品或服务的知名度。视频中讲述者提到其开发的一个应用程序因为帖子在ION新闻上的病毒式传播而获得了10,000名访客,说明了病毒式营销在产品推广中的巨大潜力。

💡习惯追踪器

习惯追踪器是一种帮助用户建立和跟踪日常习惯的应用。视频中讲述者开发了一个结合游戏元素的习惯追踪器,通过虚拟花园和奖励系统来激励用户坚持习惯,体现了习惯追踪器在促进个人发展中的作用。

💡产品变现

产品变现是指将开发的产品转化为收益的过程。讲述者通过移除免费计划、在应用商店销售以及出售产品等方式对其开发的习惯追踪器进行变现,说明了产品变现对于独立开发者的重要性。

💡SEO(搜索引擎优化)

SEO是一种通过优化网站内容和结构来提高其在搜索引擎中的排名的技术和过程。视频中提到讲述者尝试了程序化SEO,通过创建多个页面来提高网站的搜索排名,从而为习惯追踪器带来流量。

💡社交媒体营销

社交媒体营销是利用社交媒体平台来进行品牌推广和产品营销的策略。讲述者通过在Twitter和Product Hunt等社交媒体平台上推广其产品,成功吸引了大量用户和关注,体现了社交媒体在现代营销中的关键作用。

💡AI(人工智能)

AI指的是使计算机系统模拟人类智能行为的技术。视频中讲述者利用AI技术开发了多个应用,如使用Chat GPT构建的聊天机器人,以及利用AI生成内容的网站生成器,展示了AI在提升产品功能和用户体验中的潜力。

💡产品展示

产品展示是指将产品的特点、优势和使用方法通过各种方式向潜在用户展示出来的过程。讲述者通过创建产品展示页面和视频,有效地向观众展示了其产品的功能和价值,是产品推广和用户教育的重要手段。

💡用户增长

用户增长是指通过各种策略和活动来增加产品或服务的用户数量。视频中讲述者通过创建吸引人的产品和使用有效的营销手段,成功实现了用户数量的增长,如习惯追踪器应用获得了14,000名用户。

💡产品收购

产品收购是指一家公司购买另一家公司的产品或技术的商业行为。讲述者提到其开发的几个网站被收购,如习惯追踪器被以10,000美元的价格出售,这不仅是对其产品价值的认可,也是独立开发者实现收益的一种方式。

Highlights

在2021年被解雇后,该个人决定独立创业并建立自己的网站,至今已成功建立23个网站。

使用软件习惯、Strikers和AI工具,个人负责从编码、设计到市场营销的所有工作。

展示每个网站的建设过程以及它们产生的收入,其中一些网站收入不均,有的收入超过五位数。

分享了三个被收购的网站,包括根据心情推荐电影的应用程序Mood to Movie。

Mood to Movie应用因在ION新闻上的帖子而病毒式传播,获得了10万访客。

创建了基于习惯和游戏结合的习惯追踪器,用户可以通过坚持习惯来培育一个虚拟花园。

习惯追踪器通过Hacker News发布而走红,获得了14000名用户。

习惯追踪器在移除免费计划后收入显著增加,最终以10000美元的价格出售。

创建了一个读书计算器小应用,通过可视化长期习惯来激励人们阅读更多书籍。

尝试了程序化SEO,为读书计算器创建了300多个页面,成功在谷歌上获得了一些排名。

建立了一个名为50 hacks的网站,列出了互联网上最佳的生产力技巧,该网站通过广告实现了盈利。

在飞机上挑战自己构建一个完整的应用程序,Body Crush,这是一个朋友间的问责小组应用。

创建了一个决策游戏,帮助用户在两个选项之间做出决定,以克服过度思考。

建立了一个游戏化应用目录Gamify List,帮助用户找到使用游戏化技术实现现实生活目标的应用。

创建了Visualize Habit应用,通过可视化工具帮助用户规划和追踪习惯。

开发了Heroit,一个健身追踪器,用户可以通过日常锻炼来培养自己的虚拟角色。

利用AI技术开发了Naval AI,一个基于Naval Ravikant推文训练的聊天机器人。

建立了Naval 25,一个展示Naval Ravikant名言并允许用户投票的网站。

创建了Fake It Until You Make It应用,允许用户发送看似真实的虚假支付通知。

开发了Indie Page,一个为创业者展示其创业项目的链接树风格的平台。

创建了Mech Ling,一个使用AI生成网站着陆页的平台。

推出了Workbook PDF,一个帮助用户通过他们感兴趣的主题生成学习新语言练习册的平台。

建立了Chip Fast,一个代码库,帮助开发者更快地启动他们的创业项目。

开发了By Dispute,一个帮助预防Stripe上的争议或退款的软件。

创建了一个名为Poop Up的插件,允许网站显示通知。

在初学编码时创建了Viral Bots,一个用于提高密室逃脱业务转化率的Facebook Messenger机器人。

开发了Game Widget,一个嵌入在网站上的游戏小部件,允许用户直接在网站上玩游戏以获得优惠券。

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in 2021 I was fired from a software

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engineer job and I decided to go solo

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and build my own websites today I have

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built 23 websites from software habit

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Strikers and AI tools and I do

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everything myself from the code the

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design and the marketing I'm going to

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show you every website that I made as

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well as the revenue it has generated

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you'll see that it's very uneven some

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never made money some made well over

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five figures and I'm also going to share

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three of those website that got acquired

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the first app I built right after I got

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fired is called mood to movie it's a

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movie recommendation based on your mood

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so if you feel like you're sleepy it's

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probably going to recommend you some

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action movies you can scroll through

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them and if for some reason you don't

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like the movie you can actually hide it

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and you will not see it again I never

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tried to monetize this app but the post

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went quite viral in total since I

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launched it it got 100,000 visitors one

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of the reason is because I posted on ION

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news I had zero audience back then and I

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made the post there as a nobody and the

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post went viral and I got I don't know I

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think about 10,000 visitors from that

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post and then it started some kind of

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like viral Loop where some people on Tik

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Tok would basically get this information

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and reshare it on other platforms that's

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probably why we see some spikes in

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traffic all around here and also I added

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a little joke it was not really intended

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but the horny mood it actually got

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people speak about this they seem like

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to enjoy the joke and that created some

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kind of like Word of Mouth organic word

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of mouth so pretty fun experience

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overall after m movie I thought of

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creating a project that potentially

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could generate Revenue so I'm a big fan

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of atomic habits the book and I thought

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what if we combine habits and games and

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I had this idea of building a habit

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tracker where you could stick your

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habits and it's going to grow a little

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garden a virtual Garden that you can

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friends can see so this is the landing

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page a few video demoing the product and

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it's priced at $9 per month or $54 per

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year when the users get access to the

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product they end up on their like a

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habit page where you can add any habits

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you want and then you can tick them and

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you have this habit grid that's going to

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fill so you see I've have not been

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really consistent recently and then you

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have missions so for instance if you

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show up every day you can open a box and

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that box will give you some little

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rewards so that you can plant flowers

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later in the game and you have a few

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achievement you have the streck system

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to gamify everything here is the little

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garden so you have different kinds of

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flowers they different Rarity you unlock

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them as you progress through the game

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and you can plant them with the gems you

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collected from the quests and there's

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also a social part where you can see

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what your friends are doing but there's

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a little Board of who's being the most

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consistent and you can see here I also

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managed to get 14,000 users on the app

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the traffic charts looks like this so I

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started launching the app on March 2022

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there has been a few spikes I'll will

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share which one of those later and the

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traffic has been pretty consistent with

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a few thousand visitors per month to

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launch the product I went on Hacker News

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for the second time and I got also

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really lucky the number of points here

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show that the app went quite viral and

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that explained the spike in April 2022

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where I get 14,000 visitors and thanks

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to that I also got the first customers

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for the first time since a long long

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time it was about 2 years ago since I

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haven't done any entrepreneurship

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projects I was really happy and I was so

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happy that actually my wife and I open a

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bottle of champagne I'm going to spare

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you the The

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Laughing there you go I spent about a

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year growing this habit tracker I will

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show you what the revenue looks like so

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I launched it about April 2022 and then

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the revenue was not crazy whatsoever it

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was about hundred few hundred per month

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at this point I decided to remove the

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free plan and the revenue really went up

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and then I stopped working on the app so

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obviously the revenue went down later

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and for the monthly recuring Revenue it

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went to something like $300 per month in

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recuring Revenue I also built an app IOS

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and Android app you can find it actually

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on the store still so it also had some

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Revenue coming from the stores I think

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it's about an extra 50% so probably at

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the peak it was about $500 Mr and

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because I stopped working on the app the

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revenue obviously went down and around

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this time someone on Twitter reached out

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to me and offered to buy the product

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that's why the revenue is actually zero

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right now because we did transition to

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its own stripe accounts so I ended up

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selling the Habit tracker to that person

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for $10,000 so in total it made almost

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$6,000 in Revenue plus around $2,000

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from the IOS and Android store so that's

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roughly 17 to $18,000 at this point I'm

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trying to grow my habit tracker but I am

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a developer and I love creating stuff

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too much and so I try to find some

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clever way to do marketing by creating

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things and came up with books calculator

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it's basically a mini app that if you

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tell it how much you want to read every

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day at which speed for how long you're

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going to be able to read these many

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books and it's going to show you some of

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the books you can read it's basically a

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way to visualize your habits over the

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long run and if you curse and you say oh

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I want some motivation to read more then

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he's going to do a little promotion for

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habits Garden I launched the tool on

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producton Twitter and everything and I

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don't remember why there was a spike in

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traffic at the beginning but it happened

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and then the traffic has been pretty

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consistent over time and it's now a

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little bit growing at this point on

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Twitter I heard some people talking

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about programmatic SEO and I am totally

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new to SEO so I was like oh let's try

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programmatic SEO for this project see if

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I can learn something and I realized

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that for books there's some keywords

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that are easier to rank and so I created

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all those pages so if you type here for

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instance I build programmatically all

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those pages so I think maybe they're

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like over 300 Pages ranking on Google

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probably at the moment as you can see

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here we have one page another page and

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so I'm basically trying to rank a bunch

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of URLs on Google and traffic wise in

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the search console so Google will not

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let me show you the data before December

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but I started as zero like any project

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and there was nothing for a month and

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then someday at some point Google

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started to pick my URLs and started to

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send some traffic to it and it's not

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crazy but it's driving few dozens of

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clicks per day and it doesn't look like

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it's going to stop so it's not making

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any money but it's bringing some traffic

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and it's sending the traffic to The

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Habit tracker the fourth website I buil

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is called 50 hacks it's a list of the

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best productivity hack on the internet

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so anyone can post a new productivity

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hack like uh I don't know like no phone

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in the morning or Airplane Mode whatever

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this is that his is helping you and then

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anyone as well without an account can

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like or dislike those posts I try to

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mimic what's happening on Reddit so

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there is a Hot Tab where you would

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basically see the most recent hacks

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posted that got the most engagement you

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have the new one where people basically

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the most recent post and you have the

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top ones all time and for each of them

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you can go click it and you can have a

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conversation with other users on the

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platform again without an account I

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launched it on product T and for the

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first time ever I got a badge and it

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ended up being second product of the day

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so I was so happy and that also helped

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my Twitter account grow a little bit so

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I started to have a little audience

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traffic-wise it got a big burst at the

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very beginning 45,000 visitor on the

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month of the launch and in total so far

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200,000 visitors that's quite a lot

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because it went viral a little bit

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everywhere people would restare this on

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Twitter Tik Tok and everything and and

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consistently there will be some new

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people coming onto the platform and so I

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decided to monetize it with

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advertisement so at the bottom of each

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post there will be an ad placement as

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well as somewhere yeah you can see here

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this is an ad for instance for actually

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one of my products dog fooding my own

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product and at the bottom there is

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another Banner here that is an ad as

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well and if I'm not mistaken to promote

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to advertise on 50 hacks yeah so this is

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the pay wall to advertise on 50 hack

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it's connected directly to my analytics

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dashboard and is going to show you how

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much traffic you can expect to get on

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your site and there is a payment link it

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didn't make a lot of money but it made

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$350 which is pretty fun for a project

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like this one some when in the summer of

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2022 I was traveling from Indonesia to

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France and I set myself a stupid

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challenge of building an entire app

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within the plane and I commented on

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Twitter so that I had something to

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deliver and I managed to deliver a

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little something it's called body Crush

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it's a accountability groups for uh

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friends this is the landing page here

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and then when you sign up you can join

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uh groups with people and you can

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complete your habits and you can see

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what they completed so you can either

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create a new group or you can join an

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existing group so you have groups for uh

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I don't know people who wants to tweet

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every day people to want to become game

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developers Health Group like workout

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stretch every day and all those kind of

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like daily habits and when you complete

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your habit is going to show some little

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Comet I launched it on product T and to

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my surprise he also got a badge third

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product of the day which is amazing for

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a very tiny product like this one I

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guess it's because I got so much love

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from people on Twitter that they helped

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and pushed the launch a little bit

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higher traffic-wise nothing as much as

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the previous apps about 10,000 visitors

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in total and the app was free and it's

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still 100% free so no revenue generated

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for this one then I also built this

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little game called decision game the ID

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is if you have two options like you

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hesitate between let's say a burger and

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a pizza then when you press Start you

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have the overthinking monsters that try

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to eat Kitty and you have to choose one

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or the other before the monster actually

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eats the cat and when you press the cat

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is happy and your score is saved in the

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database and you can see there are

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25,000 people who won the game and 5,000

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who let the overthinking Monster eat the

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cat traffic-wise it was about 32,000

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visitors so I launched around here he

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got decent traffic and then now it's

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almost to zero every month one of the

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reason I buil this game was to promote

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habits Garden my habit tracker shortly

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after that I realized I already built a

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bunch of apps that use games in order to

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achieve real life goals so I decided to

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create a gamify list it's a directory of

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gamification app so whether you're

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trying to learn math JavaScript Finance

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building habits any app that will used

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games will appear in here and so I paid

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someone on um I think it was upwork to

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gather some information about games so

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we have the famous duelingo we have my

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decision game here we have my habit

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tracker here and also apps like Strava

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that use some leaderboards and things

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like that and each app would get a page

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so for dualingo for instance people can

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actually leave reviews you would have

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some information about the app is it

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free is it not free where you can use it

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related apps and you can also search

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apps by categories let's say carrier you

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can have apps to I don't know do

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something like team buildings and all

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that traffic wise we are at a pretty

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decent traffic I launched but nothing

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crazy happened but you I'll show you why

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it's getting consistent traffic with

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about 30,000 visitors on the app so far

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it's because um I didn't know it was

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random but actually I rank for some

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keywords like for instance you can see

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basker here there are some keywords that

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start to rank for those apps and somehow

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people find the app valuable so Google

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keep pushing and giving me some more

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Impressions every month I Tred to

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capitalize on the traffic and add a

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monetization on the app so you can

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promote your own app it will be featured

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on some different places on the site

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it's been a few months now and I managed

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to get zero customers at the end of the

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year 2022 I started building an app

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called visualize habit it's basically an

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extension of books calculator you can

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pick any habits say how much you going

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to do per day how many days per week and

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it's going to show you some nice visuals

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on what you can achieve over a year and

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then you can build your little habits

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card where you can see all the habits

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you want to pick and some fun things

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like I don't know if you read 18 books

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you read for like 3 days and 19 hours in

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total for instance so let me show you

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how that works let's say I'm going to

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build on my habit gried and I want to

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code I don't know 30 minutes uh three

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times a week and I want to walk let's

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say 10 minutes every day and when you

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press enter then you're going to see

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your habits gri I call it this way

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pretty visual there's a way to share

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your card so you will download the photo

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and you can send it to any friends it's

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a little promotion for my habit tracker

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habits garden and when you click on this

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link it's going to open automatically

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the app habit garden and it's going to

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import all the habits the person wanted

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to build so there is a little onboarding

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flow and you can see you can take your

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new walk habit and then yeah that's

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typical of morning flow for habit Garden

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traffic wise it was probably one of the

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best launch I've ever made the month I

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launched so it shows the traffic for

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January but because I launched it I

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think by the end of the year so that's

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probably the New Year resolution time

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that's also helping a lot it went viral

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on Reddit and other platforms and it got

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a golden Kitt award from productons and

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as well as a producton badge you part of

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it is because I started to make those

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videos where I would plug myself into a

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popular movie or a popular podcast and

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promote my app in my YouTube channel if

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you want you'll see a bunch of those

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videos they do usually do pretty well on

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Twitter because they're pretty new and

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people were not expecting to see these

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from a mini startup fer So that

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obviously brought a lot of traffic to

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the app and managed to get a bunch of

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signups for habits Garden I built

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another habit tracker style I promise

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this is the last one it's called heroit

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where basically you pick a workout

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Avatar and every day when you work out

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you're going to grow your little Avatar

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he got the product tant product of the

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day which I was really really happy with

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when you sign up you have your this is

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your dashboard so those are my avatars

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let's say I surf this morning you can

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complete and you get a little bit of XP

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you can also create new avatars by

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choosing whatever sports that you like

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save the frequency and then create your

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avatar there's also a mobile app for

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hero fits it's available on the app

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store and on the Android store same as I

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did for habits Garden it's called

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capacitor it's a tech that will

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basically take all my HTML CSS files and

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put them into a web view that is going

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to run on any device and So within a few

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days I had the app live on the stores I

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actually built this app Live on YouTube

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if you find somewhere in my channel some

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of the first streams I did for I think

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what seven days yeah spent seven days

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building the product I did it live while

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I was actually eating some days I would

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spend 10 hours on the stream and bunch

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of people from Twitter would come and

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debug me help me with the design like

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Manu I remember is the one who helped me

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me make those acute Avatar things over

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was a really fun experience and so when

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I launched on product hunt I managed to

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get the product of the Day badge thanks

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to the community of people who actually

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help and supported the launch and

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traffic-wise nothing crazy but still

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pretty decent and for some reason it's

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still getting some monthly traffic and

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of course I tried to add a paid plan to

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add more avatars but I think I made like

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probably $30 of Sales Early 2023

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everybody was talking about Ai and I

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wanted to build an app that uses CH GPT

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and I was totally new to AI so I reached

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out to my friend called Martin and

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together we built Naval AI it's a little

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chatbot on messenger and on Telegram and

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WhatsApp that's using CH pt4 that was

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trained on naval's tweet Naval ravikant

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and then inside of your WhatsApp you can

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ask question to Naval at least what's

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looks like a version of Naval it's a

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fairly simple landing page I also made a

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little funish video about the product

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where I was actually talking to naal

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here I was wondering how do become

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famous like you being a celebrity is no

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good uh same it's also available in my

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YouTube channel if you want to have a

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look at it we disconnected the app cuz

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it was a little bit pricey and some

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people were abusing the system and it's

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not like it was a business we just did

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this for fun so I think we made a few

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hundred I don't have access to a stripe

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account and traffic-wise we had a decent

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traffic for a tiny app like this one to

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stay on the naval Trend I built Naval 25

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so I pulled 300 quotes from Naval and

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put them on a little website and they

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are organized by the most liked one and

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people can vote for them if they want

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where you have random Cotes and you have

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to choose the one you like the most and

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you have 25 votes this one is pretty

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nice and then it's going to increase the

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counters and update the page every day

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or every 12 hours it's a very simple app

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I did just for fun and it didn't get

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much traffic okay so this is the last

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app I built that did not make money it's

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called fake it until you make it it's an

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app that's available on IOS and Android

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it's a very simple app you can basically

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send yourself fake payment notification

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that look like the stripe notifications

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you would use it either to prank your

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friends or to motivate yourself to go

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back and grind and do the work the link

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page is pretty simple I made a video in

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The Wolf of Wall Street and this video

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actually got a bunch of attention and

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that's the moment where my Twitter

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account started to grow back then the

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app was paid I think I made probably two

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sales actually it made a little bit of

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money like probably like something like

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$30 I made the app free now and instead

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I'm adding a promotion for another

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product of mine I'm going to show you

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later at this point I had built over 10

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products and I had a little portfolio

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website for myself where I would show

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little cards of the things that I built

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and I got good feedback from people on

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Twitter so I decided to make it a

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product and so I built Indie page it's

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like link tree for entrepreneurs where

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you can have your own profile

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descriptions and show all of your

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startups there about 5,000 solopreneur

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registered and the profiles are public

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so this is for instance the profile of

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Martin you can see his uh Revenue you

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can see all of his startups link just

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like you would do on link tree and you

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have some other cool features like you

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have some analytics you can personalize

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your page you can connect a newsletter

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and it's priced at $25 for one year

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access or $45 for an entire lifetime

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deal this is my Indie page dashboard so

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you see in my profile I can do anything

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here I can use markdown to update my B

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right here I can connect my newsletter

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like substack or beehive and then I can

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add any startup I want I can drag and

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drop and reorganize them hide them add

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some new startups I can also connect

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them with stripe so that's what I do for

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all my startup I add a stripe restricted

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API key to Indie page and it's going to

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fetch automatically the revenue from

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stripe so that the revenue is

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automatically updated every 12 hours and

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then I can personalize my page so I can

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change uh the font I can change the

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colors for instance I can do literally a

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bunch of things and I have access to

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some analytics so I can see the total

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visitors on my Indie page I can see

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where the peoples are coming from I can

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see which links they click and few other

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things like this and finally people can

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connect their own domain name so it

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looks like a really a portfolio website

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I try to make a kind of like a clone of

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product tant where startups will be

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displayed on a discovery page and people

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can upvote those it got some attention

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but it did not do anything crazy when I

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launched on producton back then it ended

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up being product of the day I was really

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happy I think it was one of my best

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launch so far and traffic-wise there has

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been almost 200,000 visitors that's

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quite a lot it's also because some

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people share the Indie page to Their

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audience so it also brings some extra

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traffic for instance this is my own

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Indie page and revenue wise this is an

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old strap account I disconnected it in

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January so you would add three, ,000 in

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Revenue to this so it made a little bit

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above $1,000 with something ranging from

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500 to$ 1,200 every month I wanted to

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play with AI a little bit more so I

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created Mech Ling it's a website

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generator using AI so people would type

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some text and the AI will create a

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landing page for that query it would add

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pictures text and buttons the landing

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page is fairly simple it shows some

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customers demo as you can see here two

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features and the price has changed but

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when I started it was a onetime payment

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like something $30 per landing page so

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let me show you the dashboard uh let me

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pick one website and there are a bunch

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of features on each of those websites

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I'm going to show a demo of each of them

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so this is the website editor by default

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is going to generate the website and

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then the customer can do anything they

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want so uh you can change the text you

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can add some new buttons you can change

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where those buttons will go you can

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change the font the colors the themes

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there really are many things you can do

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here you can also add sections so there

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are few like headers testimonials ctas

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pricing really a bunch of things here I

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basically took all the components I

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built for my previous website and I try

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to put them in this site and when

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someone adds a website it will normally

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I think if I remember well is going to

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populate create some uh text using CH

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GPT and sometimes if it's working it

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should create an an image with AI the

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customers can also use let's say with

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typ PCAT they can also use the unsplash

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library and add anything they want in

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here so I'm going to remove that section

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because it's not supposed to be here and

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the user can preview the website on

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mobile laptop whatever so that they know

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what how the page will look like and

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when they're ready they can actually

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deploy the site to their own domain name

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or they can export the code to HTML and

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there are also a few analytics like how

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many visitors on the site same I reuse

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what I use for my other product in the

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page same components applied here

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traffic wise it went pretty well it's a

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trendy AI product so a bunch of visitors

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over 10,000 visitors per month and

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revenue wise I started under a different

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branding it started as lending AI it

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made about 7,000 us and then I rebranded

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to make lending later because lending AI

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was actually used by a big software

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company and it made another uh 8.6 th000

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so in total it was something around

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167,000 and Tech wise I was spending

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about 10% of the profit for open EI

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credits so for copy generation with chbt

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and for the image generation using

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stable diffusion around November

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December 2023 I realized I was competing

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against uh big companies like framer uh

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Squarespace even WordPress like all

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those website builder and so it was kind

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of hard to know how to take the product

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to the next level and I decided to sell

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the product so I listed it on acquire

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and within a few weeks the deal was done

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and made $35,000 in sale from this

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startup and so in total for Ming I made

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a little bit over

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$50,000 I stayed in the AI world and I

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created work book PDF it's a little

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platform where you can generate

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exercises to learn a new language on the

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topics that you love so let's say you

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want to learn French and you love food

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you can create a workbook with exercises

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all about food so you would get

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exercises with word related to food as

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well as some like a food uh cultural

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facts and interesting things the Ling

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page looks like this there is a little

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demo of the workbook so people know what

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they are purchasing and the pricing it's

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a day pass so if you access the product

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for 30day you will pay $30 I they don't

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want to go for subscriptions because I'm

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a big fan of no subscription as a

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customer I don't like subscriptions so I

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would like to avoid subscriptions if I

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can and when you get access to one of

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those PS you can basically generate any

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workbooks on the student side this is

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what you will see you can create a

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workbook where you would pick the

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language you actually want to learn you

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would choose the level you're at and you

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would pick the topic that you're

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interested in and once the workbook is

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generated you will have this little page

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right here where you have exercises

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where you have to match words some

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interesting cultural facts complete the

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sentence find the right missing words

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and all these kind of grammar vocabulary

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things you can also download it as a PDF

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file so that you can print it and do it

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without a computer traffic-wise it also

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went pretty well I launched it on AI

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directory tools and it's still getting

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consistent traffic but it's not really

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making much money it made some money

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during the launch time and then now it's

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a few dozen dollars per month at this

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point I was doing the same thing over

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and over like set up a landing page send

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emails to customer to confirm their

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login listen for for stripe events so I

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can update the user in the database and

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all that and I decided to make a little

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boiler plate for myself so I can reuse

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it for all my projects and I thought why

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not making it open so that anyone can

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use it and so I created chip fast it's a

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codebase for developers to launch their

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startups faster this is the Ling page

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here and we have a little demo of the

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product which is me with a beard

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explaining what's going on in the boiler

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plate it's price uh like this at the

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moment and we have some testimonials

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here and one of the biggest thing for

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the spiler plate is that I was a nobody

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for years like for six years I was no

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one literally like doing project that

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nobody wanted to use and seeing that I

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received hundreds of messages from

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people who purchased sh fast and that

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say that it changed their lives it made

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me just so so so happy yeah enough of me

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bragging but the testimonials are one of

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the most precious thing I got from this

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B plate so it is a codebase so it's

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available on GitHub and there's also a

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little documentation that helps the

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people to get started set up their

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landing page shut up stripe and all that

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kind of things there also a bunch of

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components as I keep making new apps I

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add new components to the bo plate so

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it's more complete traffic wise it is

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probably the app that got the most

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traffic I've ever had 4,000 visitors in

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the last 6 months or so maybe 7 months

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now most is coming from social media so

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like Twitter and YouTube and also some

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word of mouth and financially this is

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the first trap account I had I

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disconnected it in early January so

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that's uh a little bit over $200,000 us

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Genera since the launch plus another

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$176,000 and something like probably

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$8,000 collected from other payments

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like PayPal so in total she F made

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$380,000 in Revenue had to turn on the

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lights it's getting dark here I built by

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dispute it's a little software that

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helps prevent disputes or chargeback

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happening on stripe quick backstory when

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I was working on hadits Garden the first

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five payments that were made were made

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with a fraudulent credit card so someone

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testing a stolen credit card on my site

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and the payment went through and I was

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banned like literally banned from stripe

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overnight and luckily I had a little

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audience on Twitter back then and I

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managed to speak with someone who had a

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deeper look at my account and reinstated

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it but I was really really scared so

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this product by dispute aims at reducing

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chances that you have fraudulent

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payments in your account I show some

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examples of you know like if this

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happened then do that there is also this

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little component here so some solo

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entrepreneurs like myself back then have

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no clue that you could get in trouble

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for a few disputes on Stripes so but

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this is what I try to highlight on this

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page and then I have a few demo of the

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product and we have the pricing section

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here where it's basically a pay per

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transaction the more transaction you

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protect the cheaper it gets and on the

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dashboard size this is what it looks

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like so this is my I actually use that

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product for all of my other products so

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you would add a new stripe account by

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dispute would listen to events on your

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stripe accounts and based on the rules

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you set up it will try to prevent some

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fraudulent actions so you would add new

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rules like let's say if a credit card

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was reported stolen then refund the last

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payment and then there is a little

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notification tab where this is the

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actual data that's happening on my

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account and you can directly go to your

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stripe account to check the transactions

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or sometimes even just refund it or send

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yourself an email or all this kind of

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like uh prevention traffic wise it's

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still pretty decent couple thousand

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visitors during the launch nice and

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MoneyWise it made

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$32,000 when I launched it and then as

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for other accounts I had to swap my

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account and it made another 700 50 bucks

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this year so we are almost at $4,000 in

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revenue for any new product I launch I

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created one funish video that I would

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post on social media so either I would

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go with Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of

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Wall Street or I would play World of

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Warcraft in real life and those videos

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really helped me Kickstart the journey

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it would create an initial boost on all

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my launch and get the first visitors and

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people on Twitter love the video so I

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decided to make a mini course so this is

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the landing page where I'm basically

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telling my story exactly how it happened

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with seen here the first video I made

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with jogan for the product visualized

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habits that started to Kink things off

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and then the story as it is today where

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most of my product actually end up

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getting a product on badge and even I

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got some big names in the game that were

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reaching out to me that say they love

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the videos so the landing page would

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show some features like everything that

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the course is about little hints most of

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the fun jokes are made with AI I'm

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actually not a smart guy and another

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funny guy as well but the AI chpt is

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really good at crafting jokes and that

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is what I use to make those videos and I

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also use AI to create fake backgrounds

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and create those like a fake characters

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in the movie The course looks like this

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so this is the curriculum on the left

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and on the right there are all the

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videos where I basically explain

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everything that I do how to do step by

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step from the script to shooting

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yourself editing the movie and also

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break down some of the videos that I

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made traffic wise it's doing pretty

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decent it's also connected to my Twitter

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so the traffic is coming from there and

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financially it made 6.7 th000 last year

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and this year it made 88.7 th000 so a

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total of about

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$15,000 the next website is called logas

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it's a free tool to generate a little

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icons so for every website I make I

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always do the same process I take an SVG

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and I just change the width and add some

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colors and this is the logo for all my

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products and I thought why not making it

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a product itself and so you would go

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here choose whatever icon you want and

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then you can change uh the size of the

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icon you can change the width of uh the

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borders change the colors everything

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there are some presets like this like

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that rounded whatever you want you can

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also ask AI to make a logo for you so

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you can describe your business and it

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will suggest some icons and matching

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colors and here on the right side

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there's a little promotion for my sh

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fast B plate so that hopefully it's

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paying back the time I invested for this

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product I launched it on product tun and

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it was I think my best launch so far so

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product of the day product of the week

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and second product of the month as well

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as a goldon kitty award for 2023 I was

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so happy I guess it's uh this video who

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helped a lot where I'm playing

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with Matthew M people loved it and

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obviously that spread the word out and

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the launch went quite viral at the same

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time when people download their logo

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right here is going to save those logos

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in my database and I created a little

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directory of logos made with logo fast

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and if you go here you can see for

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instance a logo made for uh softwares

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and you can see some of the logos that

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were made and if you click on some of

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them you can actually save it on your

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local browser or you can download it or

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you can even edit it and then it's going

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to open Logo fast and let you edit that

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SV the purpose of this experiment is to

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rank some pages on Google I tried

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earlier this year and Google has already

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ranked over 2,000 pages so if you search

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for icons for a SAS for instance you

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might find one of the icons generated

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with logo fast it didn't make any money

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directly but thanks to the promotion for

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ship fast it generated some sales

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although I didn't trke any of them when

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I realized I gave stripe over ,000 just

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to generate PDF invoices I decided to

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build my own product so I don't have to

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pay the stripe fee so I created Z

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invoice this is the Ling page though the

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typical when you create invoice with

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stripe for one time payment you can pay

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up to $1 per invoice and with invoice

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it's a onetime payment and you can

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generate as many invoices as you want

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the current pricing is this way it's a

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onetime payment of $49 or 69 for

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unlimited strap accounts and then the

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customers going end up on their

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dashboard where they have a unique link

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that looks like this that they can send

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to the customers so that the customers

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can automatically generate their

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invoices the users can edit the details

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they want to show on their invoice so

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they can change your business name the

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customer support emails their V8 numbers

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and all that and on the customer side

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when they send the link to the customers

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they'll land on this page where they can

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retrieve invoices or actually they can

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retrieve any payments made for the

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business and when they click here

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they'll get an email that looks like

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this and when they click on this link

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they would end up on this page where

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they can see all the payments they made

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for the business and they can download

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their invoice as well as edit a few

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information if they made a mistake in

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the name or if they want to change the

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vat number for instance and financially

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wise it made a little bit over $4,000

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for the past 2 month of running the

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product and my most recent product is

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called poop up it's a little pluging

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that lets your website show some

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notifications like the one at the top

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right I created it after Zenvo because

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people love the notification I even got

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the attention of gearmo the CEO of

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versal which was absolutely amazing so

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this is how the lending page looks like

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um we have a little demo of the product

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with some of the features some use cases

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and the pricing here so it's price one

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time payment $9 for one website and $19

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for unlimited websites the user

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dashboards looks like this so people

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would add their website here and then

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they could click on it and they can

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customize anything from when to show the

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message to when should they hide the

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message and they can also customize the

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message itself so they can drag and drop

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to reorganize uh change the text change

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the icons as they want and at the bottom

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there is a little script to add to their

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website for the pop-ups to show up and

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when it's going to work is going to look

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like a little bit like this here you go

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and revenue wise it made three 32,000

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since the launch which was like a little

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bit over a month ago so pretty nice for

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a tiny product like this one it took me

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3 days to create this product I'll link

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to another video here if you are curious

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about the tricks I use to build fast

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there are two more softwares I would

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like to show you that I created at the

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very beginning of the journey when I was

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learning how to code so the past two

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years or so I was a solo entrepreneur

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making all those projects I showed you

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and then prior to that I was working as

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a software engineer for a company and

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prior to that I was learning how to code

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and I created those softwares and the

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first one I created is called virally

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Bots it's the Ling page you can see here

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it's basically a little messenger

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Facebook Messenger bot to increase

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escape room businesses conversions so I

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would work with escap room business

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where you would go with your friends to

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solve Clues and puzzles and I would

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connect a little messenger bot to their

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Facebook page so it would look like this

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their users would type on the buttons on

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their Facebook Messenger app and the bot

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will automatically replies with a few

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games you could have puzzles like solve

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this puzzle here solve that puzzle and

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they would get some points and when they

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get enough points they can get a

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discount coupon for the escape room

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business I was working with and so my

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customers would use these fun messenger

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games to convince their own customers

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that they are the best escape rooms in

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town as I was learning how to code this

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is basically just a lending page there

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is no user account if they want to get

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started they would have to email me and

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I would have to manually go to their

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Facebook page to connect a messenger bot

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and I remember taking a course on UD me

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where the teacher was explaining how to

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interact with a Facebook API and I just

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copy pasted what I had deployed a

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node.js uh server I think he was Heroku

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back then and it was working and I was

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just adding some more messages I

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literally had no real understanding of

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what was actually going on and so I

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spent a little bit over a year on this

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business it's actually how I made my

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first internet Dollar online so it

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generated a little bit over $69,000 us I

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grow to couple thousand per month uh the

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Mr actually I think reach 4K in the

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month of December 2019 escap room

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businesses would pay $200 per month to

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access product the messenger bot and I

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had a couple like maybe 20 customers at

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the same time then covid killed the

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entire business and then I burned out

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and I abandoned the business completely

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and he keept making a little bit of

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money over the years until the last

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customer turn really recently this

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business helped me understand the

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foundation of programming and I built

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another software later that would cover

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the most important part of web

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development one of the main struggle I

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had with viral bot is that customers

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would have to share their messenger but

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with their customers in order to get

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results and because of that not all

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escap from businesses were getting good

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results with the product so I decided to

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create a new one called game widget

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which is basically a similar thing so

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it's a game but instead of being on

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Facebook Messenger it's on a website so

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the code is old so it's hard to show you

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but they used to be a little widget here

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at the bottom left that people can click

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and actually play a game and so when

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they would click here it will open a

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pop-up window in the center and they

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will be able to play this game right

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here and so it's like a mini escape room

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within a website so people can go across

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different rooms and then they have some

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puzzles to solve so here they would use

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the key to open the safe to get the lamp

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they could turn on the light here using

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the lamp get some stuff and once they're

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done solving all the puzzles they will

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get a discount coupon for the business

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so they can book I launched this product

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for a very wide Market I didn't Target

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Escape rooms but like basically any

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business so I really struggle to get

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customers I think I get about $50 in

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monthly recurring Revenue the pricing is

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set to pay per use so it's $19 per 500

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website visitors which is a little bit

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price but the commer rates were really

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good and just like what Co happened and

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my other software went down I also

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abandoned this business and didn't touch

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it the product was making about $50 to

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$80 per month and so last year I decided

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to try to sell it and I managed to find

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a buyer so it was exactly 80 Mr so

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that's pretty almost nothing and the

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person bought it for $4.3 th000 which is

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kind of amazing that was the first

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startup that got Acquired and I was

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really happy with that all right that's

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a wrap if you want to check the text I'm

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using to build all those products I'll

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link to a video somewhere right here and

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if you enjoy the video and would like to

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subscribe to the channel That would

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really mean a lot until the next video I

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