This Simple Widget Makes $50K/Month

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About this video

Tom built a tiny widget that solves one painful problem. He launched it about 1 year ago, and today it makes $55K per month – 100% bootstrapped.

This video is the story of how spotting one real problem and building the simplest possible solution turned into a real business.

Chapters

• 0:00 The simple app I found on X
• 1:03 What's your story?
• 1:28 What's the app?
• 1:59 Solving an age old problem
• 2:29 Revenue breakdown
• 2:50 Problems worth solving
• 3:29 Founder background
• 4:13 Finding the idea
• 4:51 Build timeline
• 5:45 Hiring without revenue?
• 6:18 Growth and marketing
• 7:29 Building for the trades
• 8:29 Tom's advice for building apps
• 9:10 Tools and tech stack
• 9:51 App demo
• 10:29 Final advice
• 11:19 Gus reflections