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🤑 Startup turns your startup idea into an MVP and earns $10,000/month
Chris Bulen
February 28, 2024
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🦄 Startups.fyi Spotlight 💰
💪This tool gets feedback from your customers who want to cancel, then helps you win them back, on auto-pilot. It was built with No-Code by a Solo-founder, it is a pre-revenue side project.
This tool creates amazingly effective meeting agendas using AI
🧐. Excellent agendas result in excellent meetings and we make it happen right in your calendar.
The founder told us this:
In my ops role at one of the big tech majors, I peaked at a week-crushing *36-hours of weekly meetings* on a 40-hour work week, causing me to work evenings and weekends just to keep up with emails and core 'heads down' work.
A buddy of mine had the same issue and wanted to try to do something about it.
We did months of research on meetings, which was actually pretty interesting and revealing. Both of us having analytical backgrounds, traced the issue back to a main root cause: unprepared meetings. Call it breaking it down to its first principles.
We also realized that many other meeting software is focused on the wrong problem.
Some interesting stats we found: 65% of meeting owners never prepare. Also, only ~30% of meeting attendees found the meetings they attended impactful, despite ~80% of owners thinking otherwise. A clear gap.
The core issues we identified were:
- Lack of agendas, talking points, and objectives
- Excessive participants, often unnecessary
- Absence of structure and clear outcomes
- No feedback to meeting owners
We tested this finding out ourselves in our meetings by:
- Establishing a single defined objective (i.e. what we want to leave the meeting with hitting) - Articulating thoughtful talking points well ahead of time - Limiting attendees to those with assigned talking points (max 3-4 people per meeting) - Asking for honest meeting feedback from our attendees - Politely declining unnecessary meetings, including 1:1s
The result after only 1-2 weeks: A remarkable 10-hour reduction in my weekly meeting load, giving me back an entire workday and eliminating the need for evening and weekend work.
It was pretty wild how well this worked, but the key to keeping it this way was consistency.
We asked our colleagues and friends if they had similar issues with meetings and were astonished how common this was. As a result, we developed an in-calendar tool that makes meeting preparation as simple as practicably possible. This tool streamlines the creation of crisp, structured agendas with impactful talking points, ensures only necessary people are invited, and makes it easy for attendees to provide feedback to meeting owners --- all of this in less than 2 mins.
This project is based out of Silicon Valley, has Multiple founders, uses Code, but has No employees, is bootstrapped, full-time and pre-revenue. This project chose the startups FYI “Beat the Line” option and did not have to wait 5-6 months to get featured in this newsletter (only a few days)! 🧐
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🤖 This startup says they have the most powerful AI tool for Google Sheets on the planet. The only AI tool for spreadsheets built for scale and safe for the Enterprise. Unlike other tools that can only help with basic tasks, our tool is built to crack advanced use cases and unlock insane value.
This project was started more than two years ago as a content website to lay the foundation for a spreadsheet SaaS product that we’re building today. The founder didn’t know it would be AI at the time, but the combination of AI and spreadsheets is so powerful that they decided to deploy the capital they managed to accumulate (outside the project) to pursue this opportunity. Now, the website generates roughly 25,000 organic search visits per month, allowing us to start getting paid users even before the official launch.
The founder was also able to assemble a great core development team - our CTO is recognized by Google as one of the top Google Apps Script developers in the world. We had our official launch less than a week ago. The user feedback has been overwhelmingly positive since we’re able to solve very complex problems with our product.
Based in Bulgaria, built with Code, Solo-founder, 1-5 Employees, Subscriptions business model, boostrapped project, earns $238/month (in Beta stage). This project chose the startups FYI “Beat the Line” option, and did not have to wait 5-6 months to get featured in this newsletter (only a few days)! 🤖
📊 This SEO marketing service and offers comprehensive digital marketing solutions to businesses in London. Our services include customized website design, top-notch SEO, and effective online marketing strategies that cater to diverse sectors.
Based in London, built with No-Code solutions, Solo Founder, 1-5 employees, bootstrapped, full-time, makes £500/month ($634/month)
🤑 This agency helps Entrepreneurs and Founder launch their products faster than ever. We are MVP (Minimum Viable Product) development focused on turning ideas into reality.
The founder has been building and launching products for a long time now, and launched their first product in 2015.
The founder met with many new founders and people who had ideas but didn't know how to make it a reality.
Traditional dev companies charge just too much for initial products and not many can afford it. That was the primary reason why the founder created this service.
This boostrapped project has a full time Solo-founder and makes $10,000/month on average 🤑
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🤠 Startups.fyi Roundup 🐴
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— Chris (@ChrisBulen)