@DeRonin_: Zach Yadegari (Cal AI founder) built a $1.12M/month app at 17 with no paid ads and no VC 80 minutes on how he went from…
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Zach Yadegari, founder of Cal AI, shares his journey building a $1.12M/month app at 17 with no ads or VC, using influencer marketing and rapid MVP development. The thread also includes a list of 20 startup ideas from @DeRonin_.
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Zach Yadegari (Cal AI founder) built a $1.12M/month app at 17 with no paid ads and no VC
80 minutes on how he went from coding in his bedroom to 8M+ downloads while still in high school
worth more than any $2k “how to build a startup” course
here’s what he covers:
find a simple problem people already pay to solve badly build the MVP fast, make it stupid simple to use skip ads entirely, go influencer-first from day one scale with creators, not capital
the founders who win right now aren’t raising rounds.. they’re shipping apps from their laptop and letting creators do the marketing
that’s exactly why I put together 20 startup ideas you can build the same way
the full list is in the tweet below ↓
Ronin (@DeRonin_): The 20 BIGGEST startup ideas I’d build if I had 20 lives
biggest subscriptions: kill agent. average person bleeds $219/month on charges they forgot about. connect bank, show usage, cancel in one click. you keep 20% of what you save them
biggest insurance: AI that fights
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