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
1/ @EmergentLabsHQ
- purely vibe coding tool (you need zero code skills)
- works best for building micro SaaS for the web
- has its own AI api keys (no need to figure things out)
- I'd say: go for it if you are non-technical with an idea
I'm vibe coding InboxBott:
2/ Claude Code is the best coding agent in the world now.
People build SaaS, mobile apps, and more. It suits coders, non-coders, and both existing or new projects. Elon Musk said, "we entered singularity." for this.
If only someone told me this before my 1st startup:
1. Validate.
I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed.
2. Kill your EGO.
Make your users happy, not yourself.
3. Don’t chase investors; chase users, and then investors will chase you.
4...
4. Never hire managers. Only hire doers until PMF.
5. Landing page isn't important.
Go for an average template and edit texts, and that’s it.
The sale happens outside of the website anyway (in the early stages).
6. Hire only full-stack devs.
There is nothing less productive in this world than a team of developers.
One full stack dev building the whole product. That’s it.
1/ AI is whatever machines can't do yet (Larry Tesler, 1970)
2/ AI might seem just like the next platform shift, but one may argue it's a new paradigm shift, like the invention of electricity or the discovery of fire.
How I got my first 100 users for each of my 24 startups:
1. Cold emails:
- go for quality, not quantity
send to 20 people; if no reply, change the copy and resend. repeat until 2 replies.
- make it super short and include the outcome E.g. for @listingbott I'd send this "100 backlinks from relevant directories in one click"
2. Social media DMs (Li, X, IG, FB, RD, etc)
- send 15 sec loom with an audit of their biz/site/profile...where the preview makes it obvious it's personalized.
- impress them with your quick effort
- e.g. for @seobotai it'd be: "SEO audit of their website"
The most complete list ever made (with demos & notes):
1/ @rork_app
Out of all mobile app builders, this one impressed me the most.
I built an app to track my bio markers and guide me with healthy todos.
See the video (15 minutes in 23 seconds):
2/ @coderabbitai
- helps to review the code
- works great when I need to review my vibe coded project, but I dont wanna read all the code
- finds bugs, security holes & suggests improvements