How to make $10K/month as a first-time founder

Starter Story’s Sunday Breakfast #106 ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Hey — It’s Pat. I spent the last week across the pond in London. Sipping on tea (not coffee), eating biscuits (crackers), riding the tube (bus), and meeting internet friends IRL. Please enjoy today's case studies and welcome to Sunday Breakfast! Estimated read time: 1 minute 22 seconds. Before we begin... a big thank you to this week's sponsor. Convex is the only real alternative to Firebase on the market. Start your next big idea with the realtime backend platform optimized for developer experience. Build your scheduled jobs, server functions, database queries, and file storage in pure TypeScript. [Start building with Convex for free today.]( 1. The Orange Juice 🍊 [How to make $10K/month as a first-time founder]( Now here’s a business I think anyone can start. Think about everything you know how to do REALLY well in your FT job: – Quickbooks – Notion – Asana – Figma Now just go and teach others how to do that exact thing. This guy took everything he knew about ONE business software, And turned it into a $10K/month business. [Check out the breakdown (and how you can do it too!)]( 2. The Coffee ☕ [$500K per year saas alternative]( I’m 100% convinced you can make a ton of money by building a 70% cheaper alternative to any saas. Here’s how I’d do it: 1) think of $1B saas 2) search reddit for “[saas] alternative” 3) find problems people are sharing 4) start building. This guy built a 6-figure business with his alternative to a VERY popular tool. [Get the full story here.]( See exactly how an online business goes from zero to millions. --------------------------------------------------------------- ✔ Learn how founders came up with the idea that turned them into millionaires… and exactly what that felt like. ✔ Get the lowdown on what niches actually make money… and get the confidence that you're working on the right thing. ✔ See exactly how $1M businesses grew… never waste months on the wrong marketing channel. ✔ Surround yourself with success... soak up the knowledge and learnings of the most successful founders in the world. [Click HERE to learn more about it.]( 3. The Eggs 🍳 [$430K ARR plugin you’ve never heard of]( Some of the best businesses are hidden in plain sight. You’ve probably used this plugin in 100s of times while shopping online without even knowing it. This is a cool breakdown of how he: 1) spotted a problem and 2) built a simple solution. If you ever wanted to build a “boring” saas, [This case study is for you!]( Together with Convex For Product-Obsessed Founders Your backend developer experience isn’t just a “nice to have” element. It’s a necessary component that will make sure your product makes it to market. On that journey, you’re going to be presented with a ton of infrastructure choices. Your job as a startup founder is to be laser-focused on making the product decisions that matter –– not reinventing the wheel. Convex is designed with product-obsessed founders in mind, making all the optimizations that we learned with our founders’ experience building Dropbox’s infrastructure stack. With Convex you get: • Realtime transactions • Optimized caching, and • Scheduling by default Things that you normally have to roll yourself, even if you’ve adopted another backend service on the market. We’re so confident that you’ll love Convex that we’ll give you direct mentorship and 30% off usage based pricing if you’re accepted into our Startup program. [Apply for the program to start building your dream app.]( 4. The Toast 🥪 [Check out this $360K/year wi-fi business]( Ever think about how essential wi-fi is to our lives? Sure, you can run a hotspot from your phone, but that doesn’t work beyond 1-2 computers. But it feels like you’re in the dark ages without wi-fi access. Well, these guys thought the exact same thing. They found one big industry where wi-fi is essential, but hard to come by. And built a $30K per month business around it. [Read the full case study here!]( 5. The Pancakes 🥞 [She makes 6-figures with better powerpoints]( Here’s your daily reminder that you can build a business around practically anything. This woman was bored of regular, old powerpoint slides. So she decided to build a simple and delightful tool to make them better. In a few months she had 1,000 users. And today she brings in $10K/month (with over 160K website visits per month!) [Read the full breakdown]( That's it! I hope you have the best Sunday, and are getting ready for a great week ahead! Pat Founder, StarterStory.com What if you could see exactly how side projects turn into millions in revenue? --------------------------------------------------------------- ✔ Learn how founders came up with the idea that turned them into millionaires… and exactly what that felt like. ✔ Get the lowdown on what niches actually make money… and get the confidence that you're working on the right thing. ✔ See exactly how $1M businesses grew… never waste months on the wrong marketing channel. ✔ Surround yourself with success... soak up the knowledge and learnings of the most successful founders in the world. 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