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"I use Mintlify for docs"

"I use Bento for sending emails"

"I use something called Gibili to get call recordings from users"

"I use Ahrefs for SEO for creating these free tools"

"I use data first and PostHog for analytics"

"I use ChartMogul for my subscription analytics"

"I use Feature Base for getting feature requests and bug reports from customers"

"I use Cal.com for booking calls with customers"

"I use Claude for actually coding"

"So everything exists on a Notion. So right here we have our all tasks that need to get done in the company are simply assigned out to people"

"Mixpanel used for analytics"

"Fastlane, this is the thing that I use for shipping everything fast."

"Flutter, this is the framework that I use for the app development."

"Then I use Cursor for AI coding."

"I also use Open Gemini for image recognition and the AI work."

"Firebase, this is everything. This is my app's backend. This is the authentication database and website host."

"Originally, I created my templates by just making a CapCut project and copying and pasting it over."

"We used React Native and Expo. For the back end, I did .NET for most of the core functionality."

"For the back end, I did .NET for most of the core functionality."

"We used React Native and Expo. For the back end, I did .NET for most of the core functionality."

"I've also used Next and React to build some internal admin dashboards."

"I've also used Next and React to build some internal admin dashboards."

"Work in Reddit groups... more and more we're seeing Reddit as an important place to go and answer questions."

"I started talking to ChatGPT about it having a little conversation of like what is before even the sale or anything conversations happened"

"We track everything all our rankings with Ahrefs and Google Search Console and basically constantly optimize our CTR based on the results."

"We automate everything through Google Ads. We use automated bidding which sets a target CPA at $120. Currently, we spend around $8,000 a month."

"I use Supabase for the database every time"

"I use also a boilerplate to start all my web projects called Ship Fast from my friend Mark Blue"

"My cost for running these businesses is Twitter API. That costs $200 a month"

"Apple notes some like Trello board just for my own internal use"

"EOS is cool. Entrepreneur operating system is um you guys are probably familiar with that, right? Yeah, I paid um an implementer for a one day seminar with our leadership team"

"I kept coming back every single day refreshing Stripe, watching it go from zero to a couple hundred bucks."

"Launch on AppSumo or one of the other marketplaces. AppSumo is great because they have huge reach."

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"Let's say you are building a language app and you're copying something that Duolingo did. You know that they've run tons and tons of tests"

"Like I think about these bigger apps like Cal AI. This is like a very very tiny version of this for this specific combat sport wrestling"

"If you look at Fresh Books and their SEO strategy around templates and tools, I'd probably copy that playbook right there. They've built the playbook for you."

"You could probably even record a Loom video pretty quick and rank on something niche if you have a niche SaaS."

"It used to be Quora that we would go out and answer questions on, but more and more we're seeing Reddit as an important place."

"So now you can just set dashboard either in Google Sheets, Data Studio or any tool that you like."

"So now you can just set dashboard either in Google Sheets, Data Studio or any tool that you like."

"You can use Ahrefs, you can use SEMrush. I mean there are some very core keywords that you don't have to search for."

"Apple notes some like Trello board just for my own internal use"

"there's a ton of developer tools out there that are making millions of dollars. Cursor, Claude Bot, that's like the big examples"

"There's the guys that we interviewed on the channel that have an app that forces you to do push-ups before you can go on social media. They're doing 30K a month."

"This is something that we got from Indie Hackers at the time, which was big on that, too. Shout out Courtland who built that."

"There's a guy that just built an app that helps you track. It was called Puff Count. And I think you just track how many puffs you took and then once you get to a certain low amount it sort of gamifies the process of quitting nicotine."

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