How I launched a product with a team in 1 month for the first time

Hey indie hackers 👋

Recently, I shared here https://www.indiehackers.com/post/im-building-a-tool-for-creation-cool-video-clips-in-minutes-9a13754208 the story of the idea to create a product that helps to create short clips from long videos in a matter of minutes. Now I want to share my progress 🚀

My friend (and co-founder) often records podcasts, but very rarely uploads them, because cutting pieces, and adding a cover takes him a lot of time. And 3 weeks ago we had a call. The call lasted 1.5 hours, and during this time I made the design of the entire application from scratch! It sounded like a joke, but no.

A couple of days later, in my 9-5, developer courses began - they take place every summer, and students with no programming experience learn to write code and develop real products. One of the products was my ClipWing. I was given a team of 4 young guys and a developer mentor. Our first daily call was on July 6th.

To say how excited I am is an understatement. For the first time, I see a developed product that matches the design as much as possible! During the first day of work, the guys made a complex gradient button, because of which any experienced developer would blow my mind... A week later, the video was already uploaded, short clips were obtained by selecting fragments from the video transcription. An automatically AI-generated cover image was added in accordance with the automatically AI-generated title, which was generated based on the selected fragment from the video.

In the meantime, I'm already in full swing recording a demo video, collecting users in waitlist, and marketing the product. The product is not yet launched, but I already got 4 paid users! Some numbers:
🤩 49 users in the whitelist
🥹 4 pre-orders ($60 MRR)
🔥 792 unique site visits

A week later - pricing plan update, billing... And the selection of several different fragments and gluing them into one short clip!

Now it's the 3rd week. It is possible now to adapt the video to 3 different formats (vertical, horizontal, square) and, and download the result.

All that is left to launch the MVP is to make ClipWing work faster. And i Have no doubts that we can do it 🥹

Someone will say that it's not surprising - as many as 4 developers make such a simple product! But just imagine - 3 weeks ago, these developers didn't know how to make a simple button. I consider myself extremely lucky with the team - they got their experience, and I got my first product!

The test version will be ready on Monday-Tuesday, and on August 8 I'm going to release the MVP officially. As soon as I get 10 real users and the first real feedback, I plan to launch it on ProductHunt.

I work hard and put my whole soul into ClipWing, but I still wouldn't have been able to achieve all this if it were not for my wonderful team of young and talented guys, and not for the support on Twitter and on IndieHackers. Thank you!

Learn more about ClipWing here: https://clipwing.pro/. And I have a 50% promo code "DOIT" for indie-community for the first month of usage 🦋