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A browser-automation SaaS as the center pole, fed paying users by a cluster of tiny tool sites
one month peaked above $400K · 8,000 paying customers
Don't build one product and then shove it at the market. Build a nest of small tools that feed each other traffic, and let SEO raise your main product for you.
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Jeremy started as a non-technical founder. In 2019 he hacked together the first version of his product himself — a painfully slow no-code app builder (V1). After monetizing it early, he hired his first employee (later his CTO); the two rebuilt it and relaunched in 2020, taking it to seven figures in revenue. In 2021 they stepped back to look for a bigger opportunity and noticed customers kept asking the same thing: how do I automate all this? So they bet on automation, starting that year from a few hundred thousand dollars in revenue. Over the next three years they grew TaskMagic to roughly $3M in annual revenue, 60,000 users and 8,000 paying customers, with one month peaking above $400K, and landed on the Inc. 5000 list last year — the entire time with just him and his CTO. The most important thing in this arc isn't how magical the product is; it's that 2021 pivot to listen to customers and bet on automation, and the tentpole strategy he later used to systematize acquisition.
The first version, shipped in 2019, was a no-code app builder Jeremy hacked together himself while non-technical, and by his own description it ran painfully slowly. It still found buyers fast enough to fund his first hire that same year, which is the part worth copying: he monetised a bad V1 instead of polishing it.
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Data credibility: Founder Jeremy's own account in a Starter Story video: TaskMagic reached roughly $3M in annual revenue, 60,000 users and 8,000 paying customers, made the Inc. 5000, and sold for a mid-to-upper seven figures. The numbers are his spoken claims, not independently verified — treat as founder-reported. All revenue figures are founder-reported or estimated by the video creator, unaudited.
Not as a subscription, which is the interesting part. Jeremy's stated early unlock is that people did not want to keep paying a subscription forever, so the way to make the business bankroll itself at the beginning was a lifetime deal plus usage-based pricing.
The turn came when acquisition stopped being a marketing activity and became a product line. Rather than push TaskMagic harder, Jeremy built small, deliberately narrow tools around the next problem his customers already had.
There are two hard stretches here, and both were decided by signals other than revenue. The first came in 2021, when the business was already at seven figures and the two of them deliberately stepped back to ask where the bigger opportunity was.
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