I'm working on 24 startups simultaneously
(half a million b2b users, multimillion ARR)
No VC funding, employees, calls, office, managers...
Each business is 100% async over chat:
> me: idea, design, UX & marketing.
> comaker: coding, product & support.
Why, how, what:
1. After wasting my best years for a decade in VC-backed space, startup accelerators, conferences, meetings, scrums, I decided to do a hard pivot.
In 2023, I started my bootstrapping journey to build the world's most automated org to democratize startups for everyone
2. I wanted to build a set of tools and AI Agents so that anyone with an idea, passion, and discipline could use them to compete with VC-backed corporations while being independent.
It felt unfair that only people living in a handful of Western cities playing the game.
3. My plan was to build tools for
- ideation, formation, operation
- building/coding
- growing/marketing
Basically, the whole cycle of the business. Here are the tools I've launched so far:
1. @unicornplatform
- website builder for busy founders & marketers.
- best for building web directories, job boards & landing pages with it.
- super easy to use, no design or coding skills needed.
- connected to all my other tools for seo/ads/analytics...
2. @seobotai
- world's first AI SEO agent for a blog
- runs 100% on autopilot with moderation options
- works with all popular CMS
- insanely good ROI for SEO if you're a busy founder
3. @listingbott
- finds new directories on the web every day
- lists your product on every relevant directory it finds
- humans moderate all the actions, so no spam, no mistakes
- saves days and weeks of work for busy founders and marketers
4. @indexrusher
- gets you indexed by bing(helps with LLM search optimization, so that chatgpt knows you)
- helps with google indexing(up to 20 pages a day)
- saves you time, often drives SEO traffic up
5. @devhunt_
- product hunt alternative for dev tools
- second best launchpad in the world after ph (by traffic)
6.
- analytics for landing pages & web directories
- web stats, seo stats, stripe, domain rating and anything else that is possible to fetch/measure for a saas is coming in v2
- The LifeTime deal ends next month, when I launch v2
7. - cinema platform that offers entire cinema software set:
- website and native mobile apps
- CMS
- CRM
- cinema ticketing software and all the other software that cinemas need
Here is the old pic, today most of the team is replace by AI. filmgrail.com
8. @wrapifai
- can generate form based tiny apps
- works best for mini tools for SEO or lead magnets
- also works well for mini AI generator apps (e.g. user inputs data into the form and the app uses AI to generate smth)
10. Directory Guide
- I described everything I know about building successful directories
- Short but effective guide
- 1000+ people have bought it and 99% were happy with it
11. Projects in beta/progress
> saasEmailer - AI Agent to handle emails for saas.
> webPinger - AI Agent for web monitoring and uptime
> PR AI Agent - for social media and PR
> TinyAdz - ad network and monetization tools for websites, directories, newsletters and social media accounts
> Marketing Image Api - an image API to be consumed by AI agents to generate images with text/charts on the fly
> SupportAgent - AI Agent for support that uses discord as UI
> Nova - AI Agent that acts as PM and COO
> Cofondr - AI Cofounder
12. I have 23 more projects planned, and I need co-makers.
- you must have tried building a few products solo in the past
- you live in a cost-efficient country & can afford no revenue for 1-3 years
- you hate calls & love doing it all async over chat
Every profile here with no followers & no reach thinks it's all about hacks, luck, retweets from big accounts, and the number of followers.
I thought the same for 18 years, until I understood what makes content viral.
The Truth (the TLDR is at the end):
1) The content types:
- 99.9% of it is either boring or not useful.
Even the author doesn't wanna reread it.
- 0.09% is useful/valuable content that's boring or difficult to read.
- 0.01% is the viral content. It makes you wanna share it with a friend, bookmark it, or reply.
2) The 99.9% of the content can't go viral, even if you pay someone with 100k followers to repost it.
Even big accounts dont go viral every time, cuz most of their content is boring or useless too.
You'll see many 1mil follower accs with just 50k views on some tweets.
2.
- perhaps the best for generating mobile apps from your phone
- also it's mobile-first iteself, basically "generate mobile app from your mobile"
- produces React Native apps (not just web wrappers)
- uses Claude 3.7 Sonnet
I extracted the most common failure patterns from my 20-year-long startup journey.
(spoiler: most successful founders have done the same thing, while failed ones did many different things)
Why Startup Founders Fail:
1. Solution looking for a problem.
This one accounts for over 50% of failures I've seen & done. Founders build a solution first and then go to users, pitching it and trying to convince them they have such a problem.
The problem often isn't serious enough to change their habit.
2. They like it, but won't pay.
Happens in b2b. You start with a generous free tier or a long trial. Later, you see nobody upgrades to a paid tier.
You think you must massage the pricing model, but the product isn't usually worth paying.
Often happens to "vitamin" products.
The application layer (the wrappers and AI agents) will take the stage.
2. The typical b2b digital SaaS will be heading toward commoditization, prices will be dropping, and at some point, we may even see the b2c model, where tools are free, but the user is "the product".