My app recently hit $6k over a 30-day period. Here’s my “one-night success story” 🤣
I've been building products since 2016 and launched around 20 of them.
Here's the full list of everything I tried:
2016
🔴 Rielt Friend - assistant for real estate agents
2017
🔴 Quick Hire - service for job candidate search (made a few bucks)
🔴 Post Store - posting automation
🔴 Mantir - instagram ads search
🔴 Gifmake - ad gif generator (made a few bucks)
🔴 Partisano - telegram ads analytics
2018
🔴 Covermaker - cover image generator
🔴 Post-zilla - vkontakte autoposting service
2019
🔴 Tgspoiler - telegram analytics
🔴 Landing-copy - landing page copy service
🟡 Videogun - intro videos for youtubers (reached $1k/month)
2020
🔴 PostsDeliveryBot - telegram posting bot (made a few bucks)
2021
🔴 Lenny Tab - language-learning chrome extension
2022
🔴 VeedGen - short video generator
2024
🟢 X account - made $4k so far
🔴 QA Robot - AI QA engineer
🔴 ViralTweetAI - viral tweet search
🔴 Screen Charm - screen recording chrome extension
2025
🟢 Screen Charm - pivoted to a mac app ($6k/month) (TrustMRR)
I can confirm that for most of my projects, I gave up too early after failed attempts at promoting them.
All these years I've been combining side projects with my 9–5 job. Twice, I quit to build full-time, and both times it didn't work out.
These 10 years were full of disappointments, feelings that I'm too dumb for it, depression episodes after one failure after another, and a lot of soul-searching.
At some point, I realized I’m never going to stop building. It’s just part of who I am, and I shouldn’t base my self-worth on how successful I am at it.
