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Jack Friks, a solopreneur earning $40K/month, explains how sprint cycles, ruthless prioritization, and building for personal needs drive revenue without burnout.
Pat Walls of Starter Story talks with Nevo, who grew his social media scheduling app Posties from 17K to 143K MRR in 4 months by pivoting it to work with AI agents and riding viral X articles.
Ryan Yao, a former product designer, built Cat on Chair, a cat-themed Pomodoro timer app, and grew it to $18K/month in 8-9 months without a formal engineering background.
Timo Koehler, 23, explains how he grew Chart Detector AI to $50K per month in revenue while working just 20 hours a month using TikTok paid ads.
Michael Que, a 20-year-old college student, built Go Tall, a height prediction app earning $100K/month by finding validated ideas, growing on TikTok, and scaling with paid ads.
Matt Robinson built a $30K/month golf tournament SaaS while working at Meta, then quit to go full-time. He and Pat Walls discuss the financial and personal factors behind that decision.
Sarah Pearl tells Starter Story's Pat Walls how she grew her AI manifesting app Stella to $300K per month in 60 days by using her 2.8M TikTok following.
Jake Glacer joins Starter Story to explain how he built Early, a push-up alarm clock app, and grew it to $50K/month in four months using influencer marketing.
Sam Parr, founder of companies doing $10M+ per year, walks through the daily habits and execution mindset behind each venture he has built.
Two college track athletes with no coding experience built a $20K/month app for sprinters using AI tools, reaching $70K in revenue and 40K users in six months.
Jack built Profit AI, a Shopify analytics app, from zero to $30K monthly revenue in five months without coding, by turning a client spreadsheet into a SaaS product using AI tools.
Pat Walls talks with Neill about how he grew his couples app Flame from $3K to $10K monthly revenue in 8 months using a TikTok content testing system.
Kyan, a 21-year-old student, built Tone Adapt, a guitar tone app, and hit $25K/month in five months using AI coding tools and daily social media posting.
Zach Cherin shares how he built a $1M ARR SaaS in 19 months by selling analytics software to agencies instead of direct to brands.
Kyle Fowler joins Starter Story to explain how he built two card-valuation apps that together earn $120K a month, starting from his own hobbies.
Benjamin Chen shares how he built Snag, an app making $30K a month, in 4 months using a repeatable process of market research, fast AI-assisted building, and paid ad campaigns.
David built Shipper, an AI app builder making $50K/month, by copying a proven market and winning on a specific pain point competitors ignored.
College student Cedric Roberge built a peptide-tracking app and made $50,000 in 7 weeks by spotting a social media trend early and moving fast with AI tools.
Bohdan built Savvy Nomad to $1.7M per year by helping US citizens abroad cut state taxes, a boring, low-competition niche with high willingness to pay.
Nicole built four consumer apps in two years, with two each hitting $150K/month using a repeatable UGC and viral social media system instead of paid ads.