The First App I Ever Built Makes $25K/Month

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About this video

Kyan is a college student who built his first app and turned it into a $25K/month business. This is the story about how he found a tiny problem and turned it into a profitable app in just 5 months.

Chapters

• 0:00 Zero to $25K in 5 months
• 1:04 What's your story?
• 1:41 App breakdown
• 3:01 Kyan's background
• 3:40 Finding and validating the idea
• 4:20 The Attention Playbook
• 5:03 Solve your own problem
• 5:22 Build process and tech stack
• 6:51 Growth and marketing
• 7:39 Being "cringe"
• 8:20 Find something you already know
• 9:30 Find a tiny problem
• 10:11 Ship V1 FAST
• 10:32 Post 3x per day
• 11:09 Scale winning content
• 12:15 ToneAdapt demo
• 14:12 Advice to younger self
• 15:05 Pat and Gus reflections: a cool little idea