My brother and I built a $2,600 MRR business in 6 months
We started out building projects together in March of last year. He had previously built another business with two of his friends that he wanted to move on from, and I was completely new to entrepreneurship.
Together, we started building and marketing our first simple software products.
He did the coding while I learned marketing, but we both basically ended up working on product and marketing together eventually.
We did marketing for these products for months, and while it taught us a lot about both marketing and building products, we were struggling to get any traction at all.
We managed to get a few signups but that was pretty much it.
Thinking back to it now, I wonder what even kept us going back then.
Eventually we decided to ditch those projects because we had a new idea that we saw more potential in.
We were going to solve our own problem of building products no one wanted.
The idea actually just started out with giving AI memory so it could remember context between chats and learn about the products you were building. This was something that didn’t exist in LLMs back in July 2023 when we started.
It evolved into having AI be like an expert co-founder guiding you through product-building phases, starting from coming up with an idea, and taking you all the way through the building process to launching and marketing it. We validated the idea through a simple post on our target audience’s subreddit and the feedback was positive, so building began.
We knew we were onto something when we launched the MVP and got 100 users in the first two weeks. Our goal was to get 20, which felt like a big goal at the time. It might not sound like much, but we had never experienced this much traffic before.
From there, we used the feedback we got and improved the product. A month later, we launched on Product Hunt.
Our Product Hunt launch went very well and we ended up in #4 with 500+ upvotes. This got us our first paying customers and we reached 1,000 users in the first week after the launch.
Since the Product Hunt launch we have been working on improving every aspect of the product and the marketing around it, including landing page, onboarding, activation, SEO, tools, emails, etc.
It’s gotten us to where we are now: 4,000+ users and $2,600 MRR.
What's been most exciting about this whole journey is getting emails from happy customers. It's kinda surreal sometimes and it really makes me feel that we have so much potential to scale this into something really great.
Here are some interesting stats:
- 4,000+ total users
- 1,000+ monthly active users
- $2,600 MRR
- $8,000+ revenue
- Main traffic sources: Reddit, direct, Google, X, Product Hunt
We've just released one of our biggest updates yet which is a big overhaul to the platform with a lot of improvements to every part of it.
A specific feature I'm really excited about is our new validation search. It searches internet discussions and uses AI to analyze them, helping you figure out if your idea is actually worth building. Great for checking if a problem you want to solve is real and has potential. It's free, so give it a try!
Our goal now is to scale this to $10k MRR this year and continue to constantly improve the product.
This is going to be a very exciting year I think and I’m looking forward to everything it has to offer.
For the curious, our SaaS is called Buildpad.