Founder Playbook
Launching
“We reached out to a couple people had them made a couple posts just to see like are people interested in this and all of them said yes We made some Reddit posts and we had a wait list with like 300 people on it before we launched”
Build a 300-person pre-launch waitlist via Reddit + influencer DMs
Before shipping, DM 5-10 mid-tier creators in the niche asking them to post the concept and bank early supportive replies as validation. Pair that with 2-3 Reddit posts in relevant subs pointing at a one-page waitlist. Hit ~300 signups before you ship. Those signups are your day-one revenue: one Instagram story alone drove $1K, one feed post drove $4K same-day, ~$10K total attributed to a single creator.
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Cedric
PepaiCollege student who built Pepai (iOS peptide tracking app) in 2 weeks with Replit + Claude — $51K total revenue and $11K MRR within 7 weeks of launch (~2,000 active subscribers).
Starter Story
Zero to $30K/Month App in 35 Days· 10:10