15 Days Post-Launch: My New AI SaaS Just Crossed $250 Revenue! (Here's the Story)

We launched TypeThinkAI.com to external world about 2-3 weeks back and got a decent traction.

So far the SaaS made $250 in revenue. Not big numbers I know but for a new SaaS, this is still a great number.

Some things that may interest you:

We picked Open source modules and built our SaaS with additional capabilities. We did this to move fast as now a days the barrier to enter into SaaS is extremely low. We wanted to build a robust product.

Now, the product is part of my daily workflow and I use it daily for a lot of my activities.

For Payments, mostly used Paddle, LemonSqueezy. Gumroad in the past - but this time, went with Polar. Pretty good product for payment. But we are having hard time with no good option for affiliate link creation that works on top of Polar.

So far this is what we did:

• Built the product on top of open sources products like OpenWebUI, LiteLLM \[Purposefully built on opensource model to cut down the dev time and instead spend more time on marketing\]
• The product can compare output from multiple models at the same time and this is huge for me as I work on many things.
• The product can generate images
• We are working on our most asked feature - Video generation but not there yet as most providers generate only 6-8 second videos.
• We also have Web Search enabled for all models which means TypeThinkAI can actually query wen and get latest results to write better content with better context. In fact I am personally using this heavily for a lot of content I need.
• We are betting on some new fun feature (not yer ready) - \[Family access plan - Share your subscription with upto 4 family members or something similar, No one asked for this but we are thinking it's a good feature for users - but please let me know what do you think about this, I hate to build something that wasn't asked by the users \]
• We also built some good tools (ofcourse for SEO plus some helpful tools if you are interested to learn more about models) - LLM Leaderboard, Free AI-Chat to talk to popular personalities, more Free AI tools you can check. \[So far not great traffic yet as we just started creating these a few days ago but we started seeing impressions in Google Search Console for some of the keywords that we wanted)
• Using Splitbee for all traffic stats
• Created list of MCP servers incase you are interested / we compiled about 70 servers.

Most popular customer requests:

1. Video generation support (we are currently working on this using OpenAPI tooling)
2. Support for 4o image models - Right now the API is not yet open for public. Once 4o images API is released, we will integrate it from day 1
3. Users requesting access to openai o1 model. Most players in the market are not providing access to this model as it's costly compared to other models. But we went ahead with this and we now support o1 models as well (probably one of the very few players who provides o1 access) - Just went live with o1 models today
4. Users requested support for PPT uploads where they can upload PPT and chat with it. This also just went live today. Now users can upload PPTs and ask questions, generate multiple choice questions etc.

Happy to answer any questions!!

Immediate actions to grow the app:

• Using UsePlunk to send emails to users like an email sequence as there are way too many features that users need to know
• Implementing PostHog analytics/events for better visibility
• Setting up Affiliate links (Right now using Polar for payment and need to setup Affiliate links with Polar)
• Finding Influencers (as the product is pretty stable and being used by a lot of users, it's a good time to work with influencers).
• Add more free tools + blog post

The big item:

We have just built a B2B version as well where orgs with 10-1000 employees can host the whole app for their employees with self-hosted and bring your own key options as well. We were thinking if we can onboard 4-5 Organizations with may be 200-300 employees, it will open up a lot of options. I think we can charge may be $2-$3 per employee (when organization bring their own keys + infra), it would still do $1000/m per company to 200-300 employees. If you have a company with anywhere between 10-1000 people, please let me know - happy to do a quick connect and see too roll out this to your organization. May be we should try a little bit of cold outreach to reach these stakeholders and see how it goes.

But for now the whole focus in on B2C.

Read this if you are building an app in AI space:

• The space is bound to be crowded.
• New products will be coming in everyday competing with you.
• Get backlinks as soon as you can
• Launch AI related free tools around your niche
• Get 2-3 influencers to talk about your product and see how it goes (Don't do this until your product is robust, otherwise you will lose all the traffic sent by influencers if the product itself is not working
• If you are working on MCP related AI products, make sure if you really want to pick MCP or OpenAPI (depends on how you want your agents to be running).