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It’s Chris, of Startups.fyi

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Casino operators are famous for saying “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Poker players like to say: “Look around the table. If you don’t know who the sucker is, then it’s you.” Today, in Big Tech, they say: “If it’s free, then YOU are the product.” Lurkers on the Dark Web, scammers and ID thieves buy and sell YOUR data, just like Bit Tech! A few months ago, I signed up with Icogni, which is a service that deletes my personal data from hundreds of databases.

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Startups.FYI Spotlight

👾 Speech to Text AI tool makes solo-founder $300/mo

🤤 NSFW, AI “girlfriend” 🧍🏼‍♀️, makes solopreneur $1500/month

👩🏾‍🔬Solo-founder, makes $100,000/mo with “free” tool

🏡🛠️ No-code side project calculator makes £5000/month for the owner

🤖 Simple Wordpress plugin generates AI content, makes Solo-founder $42,000/mo

👋 Be sure to check out the Startups.FYI Roundup section below. We have something extra special for you today!👋 

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Startups.FYI Roundup 

💪 Chris Sean just hit $23,333 MRR as a Soloprenuer, after being laid off from his job.

 🦄 Christoph C. Cember launches AIPRM and gets to 1001 paying customers in 52 hours

🤑 Pieter Levels built 4 projects, that he runs at the same time that make a combined $201,000 monthly recurring revenue: Making $78,000 monthly recurring revenue, making $43,000 MRR, making $46,000 MRR and making $34,000 MRR

🎯 Kristin Hanes is a journalist that makes $20k/month with her blog about the Nomadic Lifestyle

👩🏾‍🎓 Startups often fail, even if they solve a problem that many have. Here’s why, and how to choose a problem that creates a viable startup.

🛠️ 🧰 Startup Viability Scoring tool based on the Smart Bear blog post (above)

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— Chris (@ChrisBulen)

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