One person running 3 apps at $35K/mo: find a product that's already making money, make it 1% better, clone and ship in a week
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[Video] Samuel Rondo, a solo developer, runs three SaaS apps simultaneously, totaling about $35K/mo: (1) StoryShort.ai — a generator of “faceless” AI short videos for TikTok/YouTube, roughly $20K/mo and 4,000 customers, cloned and shipped within one week; (2) Artemis — a LinkedIn data-scraping / email-finder tool, roughly $15K/mo and 10K customers, his “first real app”; he picked the hyper-competitive email-finder space (up against Apollo/Lemlist), admits it was a mistake, and finds it hard to maintain; (3) Capacity.so — an AI coding tool, brand new at $900/mo with 50 users. All three apps run the same stack: Next.js + Node.js + Vercel + Stripe. [AI] All revenue is verbal self-report with no screenshots shown, but the $35K in the title matches the sum of the three ($15K + $20K + $0.9K).
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