I SOLD my AI startup for $65,000 (I made it in 48h) 

Hi everyone! If you have any question let me know in the comments, I will reply everyone! :) Just wanted to add a few extra points to conclude the video: 1) About making an AI logo app today: I know some people will be tempted to launch an AI logo making app after watching this. This is probably a terrible idea! It worked for me mainly because of the timing. The fact that I was first to market gave me a massive advantage. I didnt do much marketing other than adding the app to a few repertories. But today, most people heard about it already. Does it means you should only launch app using shiny new tech? No! Opportunities like this happens once every 2 years. Don't rely on it! Instead, learn proper distribution channels like Ads, SEO, cold messaging, etc. 2) About shipping apps fast: I know devs are tempted to make what they think is the best app possible, but keep in mind that unless you've got paying users telling you what they want, you're gambling your time. If you spend 6 months making an app no one wants, you will never make your time back. It's way better to launch something with 1 or 2 features in a week, then talk to users to improve it. Read "The Mom Test" if you want to learn about talking to users. Have a great day, and remember, you just need to win once to change your life. The video took me over 100 hours of work, so let me know if you enjoyed it, that way I know if I should make more or not :)

No way this is your first video. This is insanely good. Both the editing, but more importantly the story telling is superb. And 800 views within 5h is reflecting this IMO.

next year "I SOLD my RU-vid channel for $65,000"

This must be the best 'first channel video' in the whole history of youtube.

Amazing video editing + storytelling! You’re a natural!

It has been 6 months that I’m juggling between full time university and full time consultant contracts and I had kinda lost faith and was thinking about getting a regular job as a marketing strategist. But watching this 14 minutes video, I’m now cranked up for another round. Thanks for the inspiration ❤

Congrats, thanks for being so open about the process. Must be a dream come true to sell your product like this. Keep on building!

Brilliant story telling, and incredible editing. Awesome job! I can see the effort that went into this video 🙌

insane story telling the detailing of each procedure how it went from zero to hero god damnn!!!!

You should've kept it. I also run an AI app generating photos. Funnily enough, I also launched it in December 2022. Teamed up with a product owner from the beginning for equity and he multiplied the revenue with 5X. It took us 1 year and like 50 AB tests... Of course it all depends on how burned you were. Cash is better than a heart attack. Take care and good luck! Looking forwards for the next episode

Nice! I had the same idea on my backlog. Glad it worked out.

amazing story and video editing 🙌 I spent almost 4 years on a project with 2 other friends but still we didn't make it.. we wanted to make an ambitious project but failed in marketing and partially executing it. So now basically back to base 1 and thinking of smaller projects to deliver faster and get feedback early on from the market 💪

Loved every bit of this. Brutality honest with every step of the journey and hid nothing. Bravo Nico! ✨

I like coming across random content because algorithm and not only is it good but it happens to guide me step by step with what im working on. Subbed.

great video Nico. I remember your previous one which had great content but was rather raw. This is a huge improvement! Looking forward to the next ones

Excellent story and pointing to resources. Love it and your process

Awesome to hear about your journey! It's impressive you were able to learn to code and then quickly build a product! Best of luck in the future.

Good for you! I am in a similar process atm! so yes, good to know your process and insights! merci!

I saw the post on twitter and came here to watch immediately. Congrats man! Very inspiring story and great job on the video creation as well.

Great thanks for sharing the story! Would even enjoy hearing about your video creation and editing process and how you managed to learn so much so quickly! Great work

Great video dude, subscribed. Baffling this is your first video lol. Congrats on successfully building and selling apps too. You are a motivation to many

Absolutely well deserved. You worked hard, you used cutting edge technologies, you promoted the product, but most importantly you chose the topic which had demand and you were the first to promoted that. Well Done! Would be interesting to see the legal part of the story. Maybe you can make a video on that as well. Did you register the company to receive payments? When you sold the product, did payment was made on your personal account or the company account? The legal part is as interesting as the development part. Thank you

I finished this videos and went looking for another one 😅 found out this is your first lol! What a way to start! Great things ahead for you buddy! Good luck!

This must be the best 'first channel video' in the whole history of youtube

Which Website's API Key did you use ? Like Midjourney or others ?

Legend strikes again

Incredible story telling and editing, you're killing it with your first video mate! Can wan't to see what's coming next 👀

This was very well done. Acquire should use this as their ad. It's that good.

Fantastic video! I was amazed to learn this is your first one. Great job!

Thanks for sharing your story. It gives me hope that my project will be successful.

Congrats, I've read through your blog, precious advice out there. I have one question what programming stack did you use ? do you think it's worth it to make some kind of web app that is powered by AI ? specially considering the cost of openAI API

Wow, congratulations, I hope that now you can have more time to yourself and are not being as stressed as before.

Pieter Levels is an inspiration to almost every indie hackers. Never knew you have a youtube channel Nico, the story is amazing.

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing your story and congratulations on the sale!! Keep going man 💪🏻

Super cette première vidéo ! Tu racontes super bien, on ressent bien les émotions et l'urgence, le montage est excellent et ton anglais est impeccable ! Incroyable de voir comment tu as pu tirer ton épingle du jeu alors que tu n'avais encore que très peu d'expérience à l'époque ! Longue vie à cette chaîne RU-vid, et longue vie à tes businesses à venir ^^

Excellent video explaining in detail and making it transparent. Enjoyed it. Best wishes.

Love it make a video perhaps to let us know how you started programming, what you did to learn it and how long it took before you did your FIRST project. Subbed!

Man the storytelling is on point. Congratz 🎉

I was screaming when i saw your upvotes counting 😍😍. This is great

Im so glad I saw this video! Im gunna try do the same process and use it to fund my studies! Thank you Did you do any marketing for the company when it got listed on producthunt and gained traction or was it all organic?

awesome video! there was definitely more room for more content at the end, things you learnt etc, I could have continued watching for another 10 mins

That's some impressive work! Thank you for sharing Jeannen :)

I am thankful for your inspiration to think about launching my own AI chat platform. I've been working on it for a year to complete it, but I was afraid that people wouldn't like it.

Here while it's early! @jeannen, thankyou so much for sharing this. I'm currently working on my AI startup. Had been a bit stagnant for a while so, thankyou for sharing these useful strategies with us. Also, what app did you use for your editing?

This was like watching a documentary. Quite an experience to have! And congratulations on the sale.

Thank you please post more content on saas. It is pure gold.btw what is your tech stack or do you use nocode tools??❤❤🎉🎉

Well done!! Amazing video, came from Twitter 🎉

Impressive story. Thank you for sharing.

Hi! I appreciate your consistent work of doing this startup 'til the end! Congrats! How did you know how to document or how to make such a clear plan? Did you study some course of start-ups or something like that?

Lovely! Thanks for sharing

Too good. This has inspired me to ship something fast that I've been pondering for too long.

Great story Nico, thanks for putting the effort in telling it!

Awesome, will give it a watch!

Amazing first video, Nico! Did not except you to replicate your Twitter quality on RU-vid. You definitely deserve more views and subscribers! :)

Hello Brother! I have some revolutionary ideas on building some Saas but do not know how to implement it. Please tell me what should I do.

What technologies did you use to make this saas? Frontend, backend, database and payment section

This is quite impressive! As a fellow early SaaS startup worker who watches my CEO carefully, I must admit that this is the way business is done - through fast and bold moves.

Awesome and Congrats Nico🎉

Thanks for sharing your story. I would like to know how did you designed your landing by page? Was it on Wordpress or some website builder such as wix? Also I would love to see some early screen shots of the first website!

how to you promoted the project, I mean did you make any advertisment or instagram post or anything

Amazing story! How do you do banking for the app payments and the sale transaction?

amazing work, simple idea but great execution

Amazing one! I have a couple of ideas but even with the no codes options available I still have no idea where to start lol

Great video!!! so captivating! What advice would you give to non-technical folks who want to get into the same game? like where would WE start and would would we learn first?

How to edit that tweet animation, the overflowing tweets

Fantastic story mate! I really wish I could experience that. Thanks a lot for putting names like Aquire of ProductHunt. Very useful!

Incredible first video. Random question, what analytics software did you use?

Really cool style of the video! How did you make these cool grafics and soundeffects?

Very coooool Nico :) Just subscribed my friend

I have been trying to think of ideas, some came up and vanished, I have been trying hard and best to launch something, learning to code and trying my best to do so. let's hope, things work out.

I’m so confused what the difference between your product is, instead of just working with midjourney or DallE

Thank you for your feedback, may I ask how did you build These websites ? Did you code them from scratch or used WordPress??

Nice idea bro, i'm waiting for more videos.

Damn, you killed it with this one Nico! Marc now has some real competition 👀😆

Amazing brother proud of you, I'm really impressed by your story telling & video & audio quality

Nice video! That got me thinking about selling my AI startup. It did about 30K last 12 months. I'll look into aquire.

awesome story man! inspired me to share mine how i sold two content websites with poor design for over $1mil.

you inspired me man, i will make my own startup

AMAZING WORK KEEP IT UP!!

How did you create the app, you create it in a specific app like flutter ? ( if yes what app and what code language did you use ) and also, what do you think about no code apps, do you think they have potential as apps or as applications that can be sold ?

I can see why it worked. Look at your new youtube channel. It shows perfectionism from he first video...

Amazing EDIT! Nice story! Where did you edit your video? and... Where did you learn?

Immediately subscribed for your dedication and the passion to build something meaningfull 👌

great editing! keep it up, much love from SF.

What about the random chance that the AI would generate a copy of an existing logo? Did you have any plans against that?

Why brother has only 2.41k sub? it should be at-least 241k . Insane content, top editing. Refuse to believe this is your first YT channel

Could you explain a bit more about the switch between type form and proper UI for non coders?

nice video, gave lots of inspiration and info

What coding language did you use? And what auth solution?

Wild! Good job. Idk how to code, but could someone unexperienced in coding pull this off? Good editing, great video!

Amazing story telling and top notch editing 🤠.. What's your tech stack btw?

Best first RU-vid video I have seen. You earned a subscriber my friend. Post quality not quantity. I’ll be here for it just please don’t post a bunch of crap videos. I would be honored to say I was a day one

so you need to know how to code?? i have basic knowledge, also a own website with a chat system that i developed and a server but how did you build the website so fast??

Wow! Amazing edit & storytelling Nico.

Oh man your stortelling is incredible. Very inspiring story. Hope to see more videos!

incredible video my friend, thanks for the inspiration!

Nico now is the time to push it to the next limit, you have a years savings but don't let that get to you. Now is the time to push it 10x. Good luck I'm on a similar journey, stay hungry.

hey, thanks for this very interesting video. your process of finding innovative ways to publish things even if they are not finished is very inspiring. I'd love to know how you managed to go from France to the USA. Btw, I also started making videos in english even though it's not my main language and you really confirmed the practice. English is the language of technology.

amazing brother, and great initiative. By any chance youre taking mentors, caus i would really appreciate to learn. For the past 3 months have been looking ways to bring my idea to reality. Also whats the best way to contact you. Me and my friends are starting a startup to teach school kids about what youre doing. Want to bring you on board if your available for that.

how did u learn to code ,any course or book suggestion ?