My Coding Course Grew 16X In One Year [Update]

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Lane Wagner

Founder, Boot.dev

$236K

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

Boot.dev

boot.dev

from Salt Lake City, UT, USA

started March 2020

$236,000

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

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Want more updates on Boot.dev? Check out these stories:

1. How We Launched Backend Development Courses That Generate $110K/Month (2023) ➜

This is a follow up story for Boot.dev. If you're interested in reading how they got started, published about 2 years ago, check it out here.

Tell us about what you’ve been up to! Has the business been growing?

Growing at a very rapid clip, it looks like my last interview with Starter Story was almost exactly a year ago, in June of 2023.

In last June we did $25,000 in total revenue, and it was just me and one employee. This June we're looking at about $400,000 in revenue and I have 8 full time employees. It might be interesting to see the team breakdown:

1x Me
5x Developers (building the app and creating coding lessons)
1x Video Producer / Editor
1x Admin & Marketing
1x QA & Customer Support

The positioning of the product has remained consistent over the last 12 months, so the writeup surrounding all of that from last year is still accurate, we've mostly been focusing on scaling up our marketing efforts and...

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