Episodes featuring Starter Story
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Starter Story's Pat Walls talks with Rasty Turek, whose first iOS app, the encrypted vault Vault Air, now makes about $2,000 a day, grown through AI-written SEO guides rather than ads or TikTok.
Koresh built Voicy, a speech-to-text app making $18K/month, by targeting seniors and disabled users that bigger competitors ignore rather than chasing professional users.
Vadim, a 19-year-old non-coder, shares how he grew his AI video editing SaaS, VGola, to $11K/month in five months using a low-cost Instagram content strategy.
Max built Maxed AI, a lifting app making $13-15K/month, with no coding experience in six months using AI and no-code tools. The episode covers his approach to pricing, content, and ads.
Lino Leighton, 18, built AbMax, a niche ab-training app, with no coding experience and grew it to $60K/month in 6 months using no-code tools and paid ads.
Milly Tamati explains how she built Generalist World to $30K/month as a solo founder on a remote Scottish island by designing her business around lifestyle and calm rather than rapid growth.
Starter Story talks with sports creator Frank Smith, who built the Geosports web game in a weekend using Claude without knowing how to code. It now makes about $40,000 a month, mostly from word of mouth.
Tom Holliday tells Starter Story how he and his brother built Avenue, a simple booking widget for trades and mechanics that now makes $85,000 a month in Australian dollars, mostly through door-to-door sales.
Jay, solo founder of Nomad Table, talks with Starter Story about bootstrapping his app to $140K/month and 1.8M users while traveling full time.
Kenneth Law left a $155K/year Meta job to build Harpia, a text-based idle RPG that now earns $10,000+ monthly with only a few hundred active users.
Mauro Botanes joins Starter Story to explain how he grew Symmetry, a gym-tracking app, to $160K per month in one year using data-driven experimentation instead of gut instinct.
Pat Walls talks with Roman, who built Career Hound, a job board making $25K a month, about how he grows it through content research and affordable video creators.
Piotr Pobidowski tells Starter Story how his AI rendering tool for architects spent 700 days stuck at $100/month before a simpler chat interface pushed it to $10,000/month.
Gaurav shares how he grew Fastlane, an AI content tool, to $69K/month in two months by running 2,000 customer discovery calls to guide every product decision.
Rashid Khasanov shares how he built three niche database websites, AngelMatch, InvestorHunt, and JournalistHunt, that together earn $32K per month through programmatic SEO and B2B subscriptions.
Gaurabh Mathure built 72 apps with zero revenue before accepting a 60-day challenge to earn $1,000. He ends up making $6,500 by shifting focus from building to selling.
Rob Hallam, a solopreneur making $22K/month while traveling full-time, talks with Starter Story about building productivity around happiness rather than rigid routines.
Pat Walls talks with the Cali AI founders, whose app hit $50M+ in annual revenue before being acquired, about whether building iOS apps is still a real opportunity in 2026.
Pat Walls of Starter Story talks with Will Mayer, who built two iOS apps earning over $10,000 a month using his "lazy method": copying proven app ideas and growing them with a few paid ads.
Tomer built a Hebrew calorie-tracking app by localizing a US concept and hit $80K/month in under a year, sharing how he did it without a coding background.