Kyan is a college student who built his first app and turned it into a $25K/month business. This is the story about how he found a tiny problem and turned it into a profitable app in just 5 months.
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Chapters:
0:00 – Zero to $25K in 5 months
1:04 – What's your story?
1:41 – App breakdown
3:01 – Kyan's background
3:40 – Finding and validating the idea
4:20 – The Attention Playbook
5:03 – Solve your own problem
5:22 – Build process and tech stack
6:51 – Growth and marketing
7:39 – Being "cringe"
8:20 – Find something you already know
9:30 – Find a tiny problem
10:11 – Ship V1 FAST
10:32 – Post 3x per day
11:09 – Scale winning content
12:15 – ToneAdapt demo
14:12 – Advice to younger self
15:05 – Pat and Gus reflections: a cool little idea
Major problem with vibecoded apps is the security. Simple prompt injections,xss injections, will just drain the api.
Could we make a special episode for app security.
yup, 99% of tthem, have no idea about security and infrastructure.
it is not easy… i ahve been working in my app and building infra for the last 10 months.
@dolomitehex6117how
Yes, we want episodes about this topic…
Instead of complaining make a business out of it and sell your services to them 💪🏾
Hey,, i am working with my mates to build new tool for vibe coding which we aiming to solve all of these by walking them step by step
If you interested leave your email to send the wait list once we get it up
Note,, i am vibe coder myself but my mates are actual developers been working on these over 10 years
Always inspired by these folks!
I’ll share my story here one day🤞
same it’s my f… dream to espace the low wage of IT they are dreaming for me because of AI or whatever overhiring. I just received a 350 per day before tax// with my experience 2 to 4 years ago I was on 650 per day. After tax that’s 2800 to 3185 something in France.. Paris. That’s it I am done I am building my own thing. F. Dat. I will throw at the problem time money and energy until it’s unlocked. I worked way too much to let people disrepect the skills. Like that. I worth more and I will prove it.
Same here
Really awesome story!!!
Very interesting story and a niche app of course!
I really like the section that you’ve added to the video about App growth
dude i didnt know u pulled like that
Great job Kyan!
0:35 The real problem is that I don’t have any problems.
be observant of other people’s problems.
Try different hobbies and see what you love the most, then ask this one question “how can I make my experience or skill in the particular field better?” Then you will find problems that will get in your way into achieving the betterment and efficiency, and that is how you find problems. Literally problems are not gonna come when you are sitting in a first world country enjoying coffee. Are you getting my point ?
The happiest man alive😊
That is the gold mine
What a great story, I thought about building something like this a couple months ago but after researching the hardware implementation side of things I stopped as I thought it’d be a closed system for most amps…makes me a little sad but hard to hear about a kid like this and not celebrate him! He took something he loved, learned the skills, had a struggle and turned it into success!!🥳
Great Video, and great questions
A lot of times people overcomplicate ideas, as do i lol – but seeing your videos really helps me brain storm bettre ideas for new business and app. Thanks for sharing your story kyan and the inspiration!!!
Looking at my old friend happy and excited, but also motivated to get where he is and even further. Absolutely incredible Kyan, I’ll be there soon
As always, I support solo founders. But can you really forecast your ARR from just 1 month of $24K revenue? And the scary question: what’s your moat? What stops others from building the same or even better app in 4 weeks and dropping $10K on marketing to get more users? Thanks
Excellent video! Truly inspirational how Kyan took a simple daily annoyance and turned it into a product. Lot of great insights, thanks for sharing!
This young man is a huge inspiration to me. I’m 50 years old, a music producer and composer from Ukraine. I’ve never developed computer programs before. And now, for the first time in my life, I’m creating a mobile app related to meditation, sound frequencies, music, and the impact of sound on human well-being and health. This is a unique app, unlike anything else in the world. And now, listening to this wonderful student, I realize I don’t need to fear judgment or ridicule from my friends. I just need to get going and do it. Wishing the author great success and new ideas!
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They have something like this called brain fm
nice content bro, finally you are asking about marketing, please continue to doing that
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So hard to get a cs internship/job these days bro just started a business instead🤣
You know CS is different from SE? anyway I see people always mistake the two….people do CS ad actually end up becoming SE….the time spent on things like theory of computation, computer architecture etc just blows my mind…if you wanna make games and software…I think it’s better to just do SE
Building an app that solves a tiny problem and monetizing it in 5 months is impressive, what was the biggest hurdle you faced?
Now, I know posting on social media is definitely the key to getting your app out there!!!
I like this one great job!!!!!!!!!