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1 founder I personally know (myself) has followed these 3 rules religiously, and he "made it" btw you see how million dollar ideas are born here: go.starterstory.com/cta-c255a54f

startup advice: 1. do stuff consistently. 2. be directionally correct. 3. just don't quit.

Btw, your next app idea could be on this list i made so check it out: go.starterstory.com/cta-d18ca52a

Kyan, a 21-year-old college student making $25K/month with his first app says: "You should put your face behind the brand from day one" because once that first cringe video is on the internet, you realize it doesn't actually matter. "The first video I posted was honestly super embarrassing. All of my friends saw it. Some of them were making fun of me a little bit. But once you get over that first video and it's on the internet for everyone to see, you realize it doesn't actually matter."

I literally made a database of agencies making $10K+/mo, which could be your next customer, like Zach's: go.starterstory.com/cta-6f0dbc3e

Zach has built a $1M ARR SaaS in 19 months and says: "The path to finding the business that really works is never linear. We've talked about, oh, Hero got to a million in ARR in a year and a half, whatever. But really it took us like maybe 10 years to build Hero." "I wouldn't discount any of these experiences. Every experience you have along the way, you never know which one might be super relevant to the business that finally takes off a decade later."

Deep work is literally how most of these solo devs built $10K+/mo businesses: go.starterstory.com/cta-44938aae

2 hours of deep work every day, NO MATTER what.

Btw, your next app idea could be in this database: go.starterstory.com/cta-d21702f8

This college student who made $50K in 7 weeks with his app PepAI says: You should get influencers posting about your app BEFORE you ship a single line of code. "We had one guy that had made one story post. And from that, we did a thousand dollars in revenue, which is insane for one story post on Instagram."

Btw, I keep a database of solo devs doing cool stuff like this here out: go.starterstory.com/cta-41f084f0

This dude who makes $1.5M/year from two apps, says he recruited his friends to build his app "Cardstock" by offering a three-way revenue split. "When I started Cardstock, it was just me, and I saw my friends were going to have to work stupid jobs at like Kohl's and a restaurant." "So I asked them if they wanted to come help and split the rev three ways, even though there was basically no revenue and they didn't know how to code very much. So I taught them how to do that."

Btw, your next app idea could be on this list, so check it out: go.starterstory.com/cta-77cc570d

This college student says his guitar setup app crossed $25,000 in revenue in just four weeks 🤯 "Combined revenue between the website and the mobile app, we've done over $25,000 in the past four weeks." "The last four weeks on the Stripe dashboard, you can see we've done around $11,500 in revenue." "The past four weeks on the mobile app, we've done another $14,000 and have over 397 active subscribers, all in the past month since we launched the mobile app."

Oh and btw I made a whole database of small brands beating giants like Zac is with this one, check it out: go.starterstory.com/cta-23f0ea79

This founder who built a $1M ARR SAAS selling to agencies, says: Being "too small to bother" is actually his MOAT against publicly traded companies. "Us having a $1 million ARR business unit is amazing because we're a couple of people. A publicly traded company having a $1M ARR business unit isn't really going to move the needle for them. So I just think their sites are elsewhere." "Even if Klaviyo were to build a version, it's extremely unlikely they'd show the data from those other platforms where Klaviyo isn't even involved with that brand."

Btw, I built a database of weekend projects like Kyle's that are making millions, check it out here: go.starterstory.com/cta-29e8a803

Kyle built his $120K MRR app MVP in a single day using AI 🫣 "When I built Scanémon, it was really different from Cardstock because I built Scanémon last year in 2025. I tried to generate it, basically have cursors agent, generate everything, and it did insanely well. The MVP for ScanAmon, I made in a day." "AI has enabled you to see a problem right now that you're experiencing in daily life and ship it within a few hours and then test it in the market."

Build something using this database of side projects you can build alongside your 9-5: starterstory.com/side-project-i…

> Lovable hit $500M in June. > Cursor got acquired for $60B. > Claude Fable 5 was suspended after 72H. All of this happened THIS MONTH!! We are still so early.

If you liked this you will probably love the full episode here with Brett: starterstory.com/brett?utm_camp…

Brett makes $1.3M/year as a solopreneur and runs his business entirely from home. But the craziest part? He doesn't take a single client meeting or Zoom call... To manage 20+ clients completely by himself without burning out, he relies on a dead-simple framework: > clients drop design requests straight into a Trello queue > he knocks them out one-by-one with zero async clutter or Slack messaging His total overhead to run the business? Exactly $176 a month. He didn't even quit his 9-to-5 day job until he was bringing in $80,000 a month from his side hustle.