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A warm welcome to the 11 new subscribers who’ve joined since the last edition!
This is Chase from The Day 1 Lab, where I share examples of useful and interesting online businesses and side-projects (and how much 💵 they make) every week!
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Project Highlights ⭐
Classic online solitaire game playable in browser
👨🚀Founder: Holger Sindbaek, Solo-founder
🌎Location: USA
💰Funding: Bootstrapped
💳Monetization: Advertising
🏘Category: Web app, iOS app
💡Biggest lesson: Find apps from App Store/Play Store that had a lot of downloads but bad reviews. If an app had a lot of downloads and bad reviews, then create something better and there would be an audience for it.
Tiiny.host (💵~$9.5K MRR)
The simplest way to host & share your web project (in static format)
👨🚀Founder: Phillip Baretto, Solo-founder
🌎Location: UK
💰Funding: Bootstrapped
💳Monetization: Subscription
🏘Category: SaaS
💡Biggest lesson: As a start, apply your skillsets to trends with your skillsets, preferably in a topic you are interested in or have a background in. If you are building a tool, focus on SEO early on. It will save you time for the future.
Gather and share text or video user testimonials in a few clicks
👨🚀Founders: Wilson Wilson, Oliver Meakings
🌎Location: USA
💰Funding: Bootstrapped
💳Monetization: Subscription
🏘Category: SaaS
💡Biggest lesson: To speed up growth, 1) Build a valuable product that solve a pain point for your targeted audience 2) Create a seamless onboarding experience 3) Use multiple acquisition channels (FB, Twitter, Reddit etc.)
Automatic content creation using programmatic SEO
👨🚀Founder: Allison Seboldt, Solo-founder
🌎Location: USA
💰Funding: Bootstrapped
💳Monetization: Subscription
🏘Category: SaaS
💡Biggest lesson: Launched a free SEO course related to your project increase signups for the project. Also, give promotion/deals 1 month in planned sequence before major holidays (e.g. Black Friday) to drive signups.
feather.so (💵~$1K MRR)
Create a SEO-friendly blog with Notion as CMS
👨🚀Founder: Bhanu Teja, Solo-founder
🌎Location: India
💰Funding: Bootstrapped
💳Monetization: Subscription
🏘Category: SaaS
💡Biggest lesson: In the crowded blogging tool space, niche down and become the one company in that space
Useful sites from the web 🌐
A web content highlighter that you can share in a community in different topics
Search engine for no-haggle used cars deals.
Crowd-sourced prompts platform for ChatGPT
Enter the topic or text and Present AI will generate a presentation in seconds.
Rewrite any sentence in Gen Z slang
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