The
number
one
question
I
get
is
how
do
I
come
up
with
a
good
business
idea
But
the
truth
is
you
don't
have
to
And
this
video
is
proof
Meet
Adrian
a
solo
developer
from
Austin
who
had
a
different
approach
I
copied
a
successful
app
and
now
it
makes
me
20
000
a
month
A
year
ago
he
saw
a
successful
app
for
sale
but
instead
of
buying
it
he
rebuilt
it
himself
and
now
it
makes
20
000
a
month
If
something
is
working
you
have
a
moral
obligation
to
copy
it
I
invited
Adrian
onto
the
channel
to
share
exactly
how
he
did
it
including
the
specific
platform
he
used
to
find
proven
ideas
his
method
to
validate
if
an
idea
is
worth
copying
and
the
playbook
he
would
use
if
he
had
to
start
over
again
today
If
you've
been
looking
for
the
right
business
idea
this
episode
might
change
everything
for
you
I'm
Pat
Walls
and
this
is
Starter
Story
All
right
Adrian
welcome
to
the
channel
Tell
me
about
who
you
are
what
you
built
and
what's
your
story
Hey
my
name's
Adrian
I'm
a
solopreneur
I
built
a
SaaS
to
20K
a
month
and
I
found
this
idea
not
by
coming
up
with
something
new
but
rather
I
copied
a
successful
app
I
found
on
an
online
business
brokerage
and
built
it
myself
Okay
cool
So
you
built
this
API
doing
20
000
a
month
Can
you
share
a
little
bit
more
about
some
of
the
numbers
behind
it
Sure
Yeah
So
monthly
revenue
is
about
20
000
a
month
right
now
And
it
is
a
credit
based
model
So
you
just
pay
for
credits
and
then
use
them
There's
no
subscription
So
right
now
we
have
600
people
who
have
paid
but
aren't
necessarily
paying
on
a
regular
basis
We
do
almost
like
20
million
API
requests
a
month
right
now
Okay
cool
Before
we
get
into
how
you
found
this
idea
and
kind
of
the
genius
way
that
I
think
you
did
it
I
do
want
to
understand
a
little
bit
more
about
your
background
How
do
you
get
to
the
point
where
you
build
a
SaaS
like
this
So
I
moved
to
SF
wanting
to
be
a
part
of
tech
learn
how
to
code
at
this
program
called
App
Academy
It
was
a
code
bootcamp
Then
got
a
job
in
Utah
as
an
engineer
for
three
years
always
with
the
goal
of
starting
my
own
business
Then
quit
with
30
000
in
savings
and
then
freelanced
built
a
course
built
some
products
but
didn't
have
success
until
I
stuck
with
this
one
thing
which
was
scrape
creators
And
then
here
we
are
now
All
right
Adrian
what
I
love
about
your
story
is
how
you
came
up
with
this
idea
and
how
you
validated
that
this
was
something
that
was
worth
building
Before
we
get
into
all
that
can
you
share
how
you
even
come
across
the
idea
to
build
a
web
scraping
API
Absolutely
One
of
my
followers
on
Twitter
actually
DM
to
me
telling
me
to
check
out
this
listing
for
micro
acquire
or
acquire
com
And
it
was
a
scraping
API
And
the
reason
that
he
DM
me
that
is
because
I
already
had
a
product
that
had
to
do
with
social
media
So
he
thought
that
I
might
be
interested
in
checking
it
out
Once
I
did
I
saw
the
numbers
and
was
completely
blown
away
I
had
no
confidence
myself
that
a
scraping
API
could
make
that
much
money
The
fact
that
they
were
only
getting
their
customers
through
SEO
I
thought
this
is
a
product
for
me
I'm
going
to
do
this
exact
same
thing
Okay
So
you
see
this
idea
on
micro
acquire
which
lists
business
for
sale
You
can
kind
of
see
how
much
money
is
making
or
how
much
the
business
is
worth
How'd
you
know
that
this
is
something
that
you
could
replicate
and
could
potentially
be
successful
Well
a
couple
of
different
things
One
I
had
this
skillset
because
I
had
been
studying
scraping
for
three
years
So
I
had
already
kind
of
built
those
APIs
that
were
hosted
on
this
website
So
technically
I
had
the
confidence
that
I
could
build
it
And
then
the
reason
that
I
thought
I
could
make
money
off
of
it
was
because
they
were
doing
30
000
monthly
recurring
They
were
around
for
three
years
only
got
their
customers
from
SEO
and
they
had
less
than
a
hundred
customers
So
doing
that
math
in
my
head
I
was
like
I
could
probably
do
that
and
I
have
a
little
bit
of
a
presence
on
Twitter
So
even
if
I
just
messaged
people
on
Twitter
I
probably
could
get
there
even
without
SEO
Okay
cool
Well
you
find
this
idea
You
think
that
is
something
that
you
could
potentially
replicate
How
do
you
go
about
building
this
So
I
am
a
node
JS
developer
Everything
is
written
in
JavaScript
So
really
it
was
just
a
matter
of
hosting
the
APIs
like
on
a
server
So
I
had
them
all
in
one
of
my
repos
So
put
those
scrapers
on
a
node
JS
server
on
render
com
So
then
hosted
the
API
there
for
the
documentation
I
just
put
that
actually
in
a
notion
doc
and
then
a
basic
website
And
then
that
was
it
So
it
was
pretty
bare
bones
And
it
probably
took
just
a
couple
of
weeks
because
I
had
built
that
experience
and
those
scrapers
for
my
previous
three
years
of
experience
and
got
my
first
customer
a
few
weeks
later
Okay
So
you
build
this
you
get
your
first
customer
pretty
quickly
I
think
a
lot
of
people
watching
this
may
be
similar
to
you
software
developer
They
have
the
skills
to
build
something
like
this
but
the
hard
part
is
getting
customers
growing
scaling
this
and
replicating
what
this
business
that
you
sort
of
cloned
had
already
done
So
how
did
you
grow
this
business
How
did
you
get
customers
I
hang
out
on
Twitter
a
lot
So
people
see
me
there
People
have
seen
my
content
My
first
customer
was
just
because
I
scraped
a
company's
site
And
then
the
CTO
actually
commented
on
that
post
So
completely
accident
And
then
also
anytime
someone
has
a
launch
video
that
has
anything
to
do
with
scraping
social
media
then
I
comment
saying
Hey
Hey
I'll
give
you
10
K
free
credits
if
you'll
try
my
API
But
the
great
thing
about
a
scraping
API
also
is
that
you
don't
have
to
have
a
lot
of
customers
to
have
a
decent
MRR
So
I
have
maybe
like
12
who
pay
for
the
majority
of
that
MRR
I
love
Adrian's
strategy
for
copying
successful
apps
but
here's
the
thing
He
didn't
just
copy
the
idea
He
got
creative
and
made
his
idea
1
better
than
the
rest
Nowadays
this
creative
edge
is
what
separates
winners
from
everyone
else
And
this
is
where
the
HubSpot
for
startups
creative
AI
use
cases
database
comes
in
handy
It's
a
free
database
with
over
100
creative
ways
to
use
AI
in
your
business
These
aren't
the
obvious
AI
apps
that
everyone's
already
building
These
are
the
creative
uses
your
competitors
haven't
discovered
yet
that
can
give
you
an
unfair
advantage
My
favorite
part
is
the
fact
that
they
break
down
the
list
by
difficulty
business
impact
and
even
steps
on
how
to
get
started
with
which
tools
Just
find
the
one
that
resonates
with
you
and
run
with
it
So
if
you're
ready
to
join
Adrian
and
start
your
own
SAS
business
then
download
the
free
AI
differentiation
database
at
the
first
link
right
below
in
the
description
Thank
you
to
HubSpot
for
startups
for
sponsoring
this
video
Now
let's
get
back
into
it
I
want
to
understand
a
little
bit
more
about
this
framework
If
you
were
to
start
over
today
in
2025
and
go
to
micro
acquire
and
find
another
idea
how
would
you
do
that
for
people
watching
Can
you
break
it
down
step
by
step
All
right
this
will
be
my
playbook
If
I
was
doing
this
again
step
one
you're
going
to
visit
the
micro
acquire
marketplace
step
two
filter
by
SAS
and
then
step
three
filter
by
asking
price
So
we're
not
looking
for
apps
that
are
making
any
money
That's
not
great
We're
looking
for
pre
validated
ideas
So
increase
that
asking
price
to
at
least
300
000
or
you
can
filter
by
annual
recurring
revenue
whatever
you
want
All
right
step
four
you're
going
to
look
for
things
that
you
would
be
good
at
or
market
that
you
would
know
about
For
example
I
knew
I
wanted
to
build
a
product
that
had
something
to
do
with
web
scraping
That
was
my
niche
It
was
niching
down
for
that
You
would
want
to
build
a
product
that
you
have
some
sort
of
knowledge
about
All
right
step
five
we're
going
to
try
to
find
the
website
Obviously
a
micro
acquire
they
don't
list
what
the
website
is
but
we're
going
to
reverse
engineer
and
try
to
find
the
actual
website
So
a
lot
of
these
SAS
businesses
are
really
easy
to
find
because
you
can
just
Google
what
they
have
in
their
listing
So
in
the
title
or
description
you
can
just
Google
part
of
that
And
usually
they're
using
like
their
title
or
H
one
or
description
actually
in
the
micro
acquire
description
So
it's
pretty
easy
to
find
or
they
actually
list
competitors
if
you
scroll
down
So
all
you
have
to
do
a
lot
of
times
the
website
will
write
blog
posts
or
pages
that
will
say
competitor
name
and
then
alternative
So
all
you
need
to
Google
is
the
competitor
and
then
alternative
or
alternatives
One
of
those
two
ways
will
get
you
to
the
site
And
then
you
can
just
view
the
site
and
see
if
the
copy
is
similar
Then
boom
you've
got
the
site
All
right
All
right
step
six
try
to
reverse
engineer
how
they
acquired
customers
This
is
arguably
the
most
important
part
not
so
hard
to
build
a
product
but
how
are
they
getting
customers
So
for
example
the
app
that
I
was
copying
I
knew
that
they
got
their
customers
mostly
from
SEO
read
everything
that
you
can
on
the
site
any
information
that
they
talk
about
how
they're
acquiring
customers
Try
to
look
at
like
the
founder
on
Twitter
LinkedIn
try
to
find
podcasts
or
YouTube
videos
any
way
that
they
talk
about
the
product
or
how
to
grow
the
product
Step
seven
actually
build
the
damn
thing
Step
eight
Yeah
this
is
just
don't
copy
word
for
word
Don't
copy
everything
literally
exactly
You
just
want
to
copy
the
concept
the
idea
Step
nine
don't
get
distracted
with
other
projects
Do
something
every
single
day
to
promote
or
improve
the
product
You
know
that
this
idea
is
making
money
So
now
you
just
have
to
execute
do
something
every
single
day
to
build
the
product
or
market
it
And
I
guarantee
you
will
make
money
You
will
be
successful
Okay
Thanks
Adrian
for
sharing
that
full
playbook
I
think
that's
awesome
We
haven't
really
talked
yet
about
what
your
API
does
specifically
You
have
this
sort
of
micro
SAS
API
Can
you
just
share
what
it
does
how
it
works
what
type
of
customers
use
it
Yeah
So
it
scrapes
specifically
social
media
that
can
be
Instagram
YouTube
Twitter
and
we
just
scrape
public
data
Got
to
say
that
for
the
lawyers
out
there
We
scrape
social
media
as
well
as
like
their
ad
libraries
as
well
So
the
Facebook
ad
library
LinkedIn
ad
library
et
cetera
And
this
obviously
helps
developers
because
scraping
is
a
pain
in
the
butt
So
we
scrape
so
you
don't
have
to
we
handle
all
of
the
infrastructure
proxy
rotation
et
cetera
And
who
uses
this
tool
There's
a
lot
of
like
Lincoln
bio
tools
anyone
who's
tracking
analytics
like
short
form
content
Yeah
So
it's
a
credit
based
system
So
pay
as
you
go
So
we
have
three
payment
plans
right
now
10
for
5
000
credits
50
for
25
000
and
then
500
000
credits
for
500
I
think
it
does
well
because
it
works
works
Like
there's
a
lot
of
scrapers
out
there
like
social
media
in
particular
that
break
pretty
often
So
with
mine
I
think
people
like
it
because
it's
reliable
And
then
if
it's
not
reliable
then
I'll
communicate
with
people
pretty
frequently
as
well
as
well
as
it's
really
easy
to
get
ahold
of
me
Whereas
a
lot
of
developers
who
would
build
these
sorts
of
things
you
don't
even
have
their
email
or
a
way
to
contact
them
So
I
think
that
is
also
okay
Let's
change
topics
a
little
bit
I
want
to
understand
tech
stack
You're
a
developer
you
have
a
scraping
pretty
technical
type
of
product
How
did
you
build
this
What's
your
tech
stack
Yeah
honestly
it's
pretty
straightforward
pretty
easy
So
everything
is
written
in
Node
js
JavaScript
and
it's
just
a
bunch
of
HTTP
requests
So
one
important
thing
that
I
use
is
this
package
called
Input
It's
developed
by
Appify
So
another
scraping
framework
So
you
NPM
install
Input
use
that
for
HTTP
requests
And
then
just
a
lot
of
proxies
So
I
have
four
main
ones
that
I
use
which
are
Evomi
Core
Residential
which
are
the
cheapest
residential
out
there
Decodo
WebShare
and
Massive
And
then
I
host
everything
on
Render
com
or
I
host
some
scripts
on
AWS
Lambda
Obviously
I
use
Cursor
So
that's
20
bucks
a
month
And
then
Supabase
for
the
database
And
then
the
front
end
is
Astro
plus
React
And
on
a
similar
note
I'm
also
curious
what
are
the
costs
to
use
all
these
tools
What
does
the
profit
margin
look
like
for
your
business
Yeah
margin
is
about
80
Most
of
it
is
spent
on
proxies
So
about
1
500
a
month
right
now
is
spent
on
proxies
And
I
hire
a
developer
in
the
Philippines
to
monitor
the
API
for
outages
at
night
So
he's
about
500
and
then
server
costs
are
about
400
Okay
cool
Thank
you
for
sharing
that
Thank
you
for
being
transparent
about
all
that
That's
awesome
Last
question
that
I
want
to
ask
we
ask
everyone
who
comes
on
Starter
Story
what
would
be
your
advice
for
anyone
watching
this
starting
out
in
2025
about
how
to
do
something
like
you've
done
Stop
bouncing
around
ideas
and
just
pick
one
thing
Do
it
every
single
day
focus
on
it
every
single
day
and
you'll
make
it
stop
getting
distracted
because
that's
exactly
what
happened
to
me
Cool
That's
amazing
Adrian
Thank
you
for
coming
on
Thank
you
for
sharing
all
this
being
super
transparent
I
love
the
business
you
built
Thanks
for
coming
on
and
sharing
everything
Thanks
man
Appreciate
it
Big
thanks
to
Adrian
for
coming
onto
the
channel
I
love
his
story
because
it
flips
the
startup
myth
on
its
head
Adrian
didn't
need
to
invent
something
brand
new
He
just
saw
a
model
he
copied
it
and
he
executed
better
And
that
turned
into
a
SaaS
that
makes
20
000
a
month
and
effectively
changed
his
life
I
think
the
lesson
that
anyone
can
take
from
this
is
stop
waiting
for
that
genius
idea
Just
start
build
and
keep
improving
And
you
never
know
what
might
happen
This
is
exactly
why
we
launched
Starter
Story
Build
where
we
will
show
you
how
to
take
your
idea
use
AI
to
build
it
fast
and
launch
in
just
a
couple
of
weeks
Even
if
you're
starting
with
no
team
no
money
and
no
clear
idea
If
you
want
to
finally
build
your
first
app
launch
it
and
potentially
turn
it
into
a
profitable
business
we'll
head
to
the
first
link
in
the
description
and
check
out
Starter
Story
Build
That's
it
for
this
episode
guys
Thank
you
for
watching
I
hope
you
enjoyed
it
We'll
see
you
in
the
next
one
Peace