Ideas for Solo Developers

Growth has been 100% organic. I have spent $0 on ads. The biggest surprise was AI search: I noticed ChatGPT sending 14-30 visits a day to my site, which I think explains a signup jump I could not explain at the time. I still do not have real analytics installed, which is embarrassing but honest.The channel that actually converts is showing up in communities where my buyers already hang out. I answer questions genuinely and mention Siteless only when it directly fits. Never a bare link on first touch.The $1 3-day trial is my best growth tactic. Free trials attracted people who would never pay. One dollar up front filters them out.What I would tell other founders: pick two channels and ignore the rest. I tried to launch on every platform at once. TikTok signups kept failing, my YouTube channel failed. Narrow focus beats broad effort every time.I am now betting on creator partnerships: I give creators in the web design space three months free and a revenue share on referrals. It is early, but one honest video from someone the audience trusts beats a month of my own posting.

Everything has been organic. No ads, no sales team. One loop does almost all the work, and I call it "show, then teach":Make something people actually want to watch, using your own product. Post only the result. No pitch, no feature list. Right after, teach exactly how you made it, with the files open. The best example is my AI series of "phone footage from the Bible": moments everyone knows, like the sea splitting, shot as if someone was standing there with a phone. In 30 days it did 59M views on my Instagram and brought 200K+ new followers across my account and Kolbo's.Here's the part nobody talks about: the views made almost no money. What changed everything was one tutorial. I posted an English video showing exactly how I made the series, and I opened the entire project on Kolbo, every prompt, every image and every video take, for anyone to copy. On the day that tutorial went live, signups from outside Israel jumped 6.5x. Over the next three weeks, 3,285 people from abroad signed up, 78% of all new signups.Why it works: virality gets attention, but a tutorial gives people a reason to act. And giving away the recipe builds more trust than any ad.The second channel is affiliates. Customers who run the same loop on their own audiences earn a share of what they bring in. One of them brought in more than $30K on his own.My advice: stop selling and start teaching. Whatever you build, show what it can do, then show exactly how you did it.Top episodes of the AI Bible seriesInstagram Insights: 59M views in 30 days