Solo founder makes $150K/year with a simple app

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Hey it's Pat from Starter Story,

I’m coming back from filming some YouTube videos in Denver this week – it's been awesome.

I love connecting with founders who are building incredible businesses all around the country.

Keep your eye on the channel. We’ve got some really great ones coming up!

Today I’m excited to bring you 5 case studies from founders in 5 very different industries.

One guy makes money playing online solitaire.

Another founder built a stupidly simple converter tool.

And then this other guy… well, let’s just say he smoked the competition.

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And with that... Welcome to Sunday Breakfast:

1. The Orange Juice 🍊

This little website makes $48K/year on autopilot

The simplest way to make money online is from display ads.

And this guy found the perfect formula in the perfect niche.

He bought a website doing < $500 per month and with terrible SEO.

All he did was make a few tweaks and suddenly the business started to grow.

Today he makes $4K per month and barely even touches the site.

Now all he does is play games all day :)

See how he did it.

2. The Coffee ☕

He made his Airbnbs 420-friendly and turned it into $18K per month

When people go on vacation, they just need to have a good time.

But this guy kept running into trouble with “traditional” rental hosts.

So he turned his problem into his unique advantage.

What started as a small idea, has expanded across the US.

Turns out a lot of people shared his desire for a cannabis-friendly community.

Now, he’s just vibin’ all day

Check out his story here.

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3. The Eggs 🍳

This simple quiz app makes $3M ARR

These guys had been building projects since they were 15.

While in college, they got this idea to build a simple app.

Let’s make it easy for businesses to make online quizzes.

So they built it in a weekend, did a little marketing, and got a few paying customers.

Here’s the thing… they barely made any money for 6 years.

But they had a tiny group of customers who LOVED the product, so they kept it alive.

Just when they were about to give up, they saw an uptick and it just kept growing.

Today they do almost a million page views and $250K per month.

Incredible.

Get the full breakdown here.

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4. The Toast 🥪

He coded a party app that makes $500K per month

This guy found the perfect niche to build his product: bachelorette parties.

My girlfriend tells me that bachelorette parties are a nightmare to plan, so I had to keep reading.

They built the MVP quickly and had a waitlist of 50,000 users.

Within 60 days of launch, they had 100,000 users.

6 months later they hit a $1M run rate

Today? $500K per month

Read the story behind the app

5. The Pancakes 🥞

He makes $150K/year converting PDFs to Excel

These are my absolutely favorite case studies and founders.

This guy wanted to do something stupidly simple: get a CSV feed of his bank transactions.

But his bank would only give him PDFs

There was literally no way to turn PDFs into Excel files…

Until he built it himself.

He figured if he had this problem, so would a lot of people.

He was right.

When we wrote this case study, he was making ~$12K/month

But I just found out he’s doubled that in less than one year 👀

Behind the scenes on this simple business.

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That's it!

I hope you have the best Sunday, and are getting ready for a great week ahead!

Pat

Founder, StarterStory.com

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Without quitting your day job.

✔ Learn how founders came up with the idea that turned them into millionaires… and exactly what that felt like.

✔ Get the lowdown on what niches actually make money… and get the confidence that you're working on the right thing.

✔ See exactly how $1M businesses grew… never waste months on the wrong marketing channel.

✔ Surround yourself with success... soak up the knowledge and learnings of the most successful founders in the world.

Click HERE to learn more about it.

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Solo founder makes $150K/year with a simple app

We'll help you build the side project that changes your life.

Without quitting your day job.

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Without quitting your day job.

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