Find someone who started where you are
Who they were, how long it took, and the steps in the order they took them.
Nevo is a self-described "hype guy" who watches trends closely and experiments fast. He spent a year and a half grinding Postiz to $21K MRR as a standard social media scheduler, then pivoted hard into agentic SaaS when he saw OpenClaw blow up on X — and the business exploded to $143K MRR in just 4 months.
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18 months grinding to $21K MRR as standard scheduler
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The unlock
One viral X article → 700 daily trials
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Scaled X articles with paid influencer reposts
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Listed API in Claude/ChatGPT marketplaces → agent discovery
Ex-head of Digital Product & Design at Aviva; designer and programmer for two decades before going solo. Bootstrapped Bannerbear alone, splitting his time 50/50 between product and marketing.
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Started with the wrong form factor — twice
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The unlock
Repackaged the same tech as an API
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Split his time 50/50 product and marketing
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Self-taught AI engineer who got obsessed with AI + privacy after ChatGPT's rise. Started broke — loaned the business $250 of his own money and built on free tiers in the evenings.
4 steps, in order, with the numbers — members get all of them.
Pulling these apart takes real hours. Members cover them — and get every step, in order, with the numbers.
Ex-Instagram engineer and serial builder — already ran two other tools at ~$50K MRR before this. Pattern: scratch his own itch, ship ugly, let users shape the product.
Solo founder with a design + software-engineering background. Reused code from a prior app to ship fast, and only quit his job after hitting $25K MRR.
Former software engineer and director of engineering, based in Berlin. Grew frustrated with the repetitiveness of dev work and set out to democratize software building.
Spent 1.5 years grinding to $21K MRR the ordinary way, with 200 followers and no audience. Then went to $143K in four months, adding ~$1K a day.