I grew my first SAAS to 1K MRR in 1 week
I am 4th year computer science student. I had a job offer at my dream company but right before the new year, the offer got rescinded. This severely affected my mental health and I was about to fall back into depression.
I always knew that I want to build a side project to make money online, so I decided that I won't allow my self to be a victim and thought this was the perfect opportunity to start building.
I started working on chatbase.co (chatGPT for your data) exactly 6 weeks ago. I released it on twitter 1 week ago to my 13 followers and it went semi viral.
Now it's at 1200 MRR and if it continues on growing I might not need any full time job.
I had no idea what I am doing building a saas. But I think I got lucky with my tweet going semi viral and with having what I think is a good idea for a saas. I can easily see this making 0 dollars if the right person didn't retweet my tweet.
Anyway I just wanted to share my small success with bouncing back from a low point.
Congrats! Very cool Idea.
Thank you! I am glad you like it
This is awesome and great timing with the virality of chatGPT in general. Hope it continues to go well and you get experience growing it to replace the need for a job.
Yes, the virality of chatGPT made it much easier to explain what chatbase.co does
Dude, awesome! Who cares if it would have made 0...it's not making 0 so might as well ride the wave ;)
That’s the plan
Interesting how this post also pushed your followers from 13 to more than 900 :o Cool idea, good luck!
Thank you! I started posting more on twitter to grow a following
Really great idea & execution! Goodluck!
thank you!
Very cool idea!! Simpler is better!!
Thanks!
Good for you, turning a bad situation around and coming out on top. Very impressive.
And you're just getting started! Keep up the good work
Thank you!
We have done something similar but for a domain.
You can add a domain, and we create a Widget Bot for your website.
https://lovi.ai/en/
The bot auto-configures everything for you. You just type a domain.
The bot will scan your website and prepare the replies base on your users questions.
The bot can hold a proper conversation.
If you have a cool website with documentation, you can use this bot.
Congratulations!
Just one thing,
Your logo is same as tailwindCSS... :)
Very nice product. How long did it take you to build the MVP?
that's very neat. Good job.
This is a dream saas for me. Not to hard to build / maintain so you can do it solo, and actually provides value... man i'm envious but in a good / inspired way. Wish you all the success with this!
$1200 MRR in one week is great! You definitely have something here.
It’s a great simple and useful tool people are willing to pay for. I say commit to it for the next 6 months.
You’ll need to learn how to be okay with not comparing yourself to your friends that have full time offers though. It will be tough.
Just followed you on twitter too
This is amazing! I'm also working on something that will work on OpenAI too.
Very cool. Does it work for 50+ page pdfs?
Good job !
Happy for you!
This is a very promising sector - I'd have presumed one needed a lot of things implemented to offer this service, maybe some privacy-friendly options, etc., but I'm happy to be wrong :)
What did you use for the video btw?
⚡️👏 keep up the good work! you don't need any jobs or bosses. you are a maker, you create your destiny.
Will the widget be something that I can integrate into a notion-based (with super.so) website and assist people with its content?
Cool story! Keep it up. I wish you the best.
Congratulations. I think you were a very lucky person. It is good you did not get a job unless you wanted that job to keep you poor forever, for the remainder of your entire life. Working for other people, not for yourself, is nothing good. Look at this as an opportunity, and celebrate it. It is not a failure or misfortune, you should be happy.
That's an intellectual development in your career... Congratzzz !!!