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I run SaaS businesses with $4m profit last tax year.

I am starting a new company which will make viral apps.

If you are interested in rapid growth hacking and have ideas on how to crack initial user acquisition rapidly for consumer apps, I would love to meet you.

I will be funding the operation myself and you get 40% of the company.

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Thought I'd flag that you do not have contact info in your profile!

Thank you. Had to remove it once I made public my Saas profits. Non stop pitches from startups otherwise to try their product.

I'm not sure about virality, but I'm building automated ai workflow software, I think it'll be extremely profitable. I'd be more interested though in some sort of angel/vc offering, as I'd like to retain control of this company, at least until I know how far it's going to go. I've already got 5 people ready to buy, when it launches.

All the best. I am staying out of direct AI for a while because I don't want to be dependent on a few APIs. And I am also looking at far more baser human needs to go viral. But if you have 5 people and LOIs you can get angel funding right now.

My fear is AI trends towards obsoletion, and then we're penniless. If I can get some cashflow though, and put some towards also building cloud services to run AI, then at least that hardware might keep us going when one AI tool comes along that basically does what all other software projects do combined.

i have a budding interest in making viral apps!

have you made any in the past? or do you have some potential hunches on how to do them?

i haven’t, was going to start trying to make some attempts this year, static sites like istheshipstillstuck and howmuchtoiletpaper. also i don’t know how to answer the monetization question for new sites that pick up traffic quickly

monetization comes later. the initial viral nature has to be converted into retention. what i am looking for is less of istheshipstillstuck and more of gas app type growth. if that makes sense.

I think gas app type growth was cool, but I cannot imagine being on that hamster wheel long term. the goal would to have an exit at the peak and not be like snapchat. that said, I do admire blue chip sites that go viral simply b/c it feeds a global demand very simply (ie., sudoku.com); if wordle didn't sell, they could've easily surpassed their purchase price in a few months.

They did sell to discord and Facebook before that. The point is to sell but reach at least a few million users fast but those users come back and spend some time on the app. Otherwise it is not monetizable.

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