How I Made $1M Building 30 Micro-Apps
Gus of Starter Story talks with Sanskar Tiwari, a solo founder from Bangalore who built 30 plus tiny single-feature apps, eight of which made money, reaching $1 million in total revenue over 6 years.
The gist
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Sanskar builds on platforms like Chrome extensions and Google Workspace Marketplace add-ons, and keeps each app to one clear feature.
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For ideas, he browses TrustMr to see companies' revenue, follows the right people on Twitter, and solves problems that people will actually pay to fix.
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His advice is to add buy buttons first: post a pre-order page promising delivery in 10 to 30 days, then build after the first sale.
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His web app stack is Next.js for code, Supabase plus Cloudflare for the back end, and Resend or Apps Script for sending email.
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His first sale came from Facebook groups, then AppSumo launches and a separate YouTube channel per product, plus quick Instagram videos made with Edits.
"All of my products, literally all of them, you'll find either as a Chrome extension or a workspace add-on, which is the Google Workspace Marketplace. So that was the one clear theme where I was not trying to build everything from scratch."
▶ Play at 4:09"Today if I were to find ideas, what I will do is, number one, the TrustMRR platform, which I have showed you, is a very interesting place where you can kind of see revenue and stuff of companies."
▶ Play at 7:27"If you want to build a web application, here's the tech stack which I use. I use Next.js for the coding."
▶ Play at 10:035 creators recommend it, including Brian Lovin, Florin Pop, and Ivan Nedlekovski.
See all on the Next.js page10 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Liam Ottley, and Benjamin Chen.
See all on the Supabase page"When it comes to sending emails, I have been recommending two different solutions. Number one, I use Resend."
▶ Play at 10:126 creators recommend it, including Chris Koerner, Cedric Roberge, and Frey Chu.
See all on the Resend page"I got my first sale through Facebook. I was going into Facebook groups and I found a group which had the target audience which I made the product for."
▶ Play at 10:375 creators recommend it, including Chris Koerner, Greg Isenberg, and James Oaks.
See all on the Facebook Groups page"I started sharing on the AppSumo platform. So I launched there and again I got sales from there."
▶ Play at 10:482 creators recommend it, including Vikash Prajapat.
See all on the AppSumo page"I'll record that, open the Instagram Edits app, you just add a title and caption through that and post. Within 1 hour I was able to post 10 videos."
▶ Play at 12:343 creators recommend it, including Farza Majeed and Trevin Peterson.
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"When it comes to sending emails, I have been recommending two different solutions. Number one, I use Resend."
"All of my products, literally all of them, you'll find either as a Chrome extension or a workspace add-on, which is the Google Workspace Marketplace. So that was the one clear t..."
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"Today if I were to find ideas, what I will do is, number one, the TrustMRR platform, which I have showed you, is a very interesting place where you can kind of see revenue and s..."
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