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:

Chapters

• 00:00:00 Zero to $25K in 5 months
• 00:01:04 What's your story?
• 00:01:41 App breakdown
• 00:03:01 Kyan's background
• 00:03:40 Finding and validating the idea
• 00:04:20 The Attention Playbook
• 00:05:03 Solve your own problem
• 00:05:22 Build process and tech stack
• 00:06:51 Growth and marketing
• 00:07:39 Being "cringe"
• 00:08:20 Find something you already know
• 00:09:30 Find a tiny problem
• 00:10:11 Ship V1 FAST
• 00:10:32 Post 3x per day
• 00:11:09 Scale winning content
• 00:12:15 ToneAdapt demo
• 00:14:12 Advice to younger self
• 00:15:05 Pat and Gus reflections: a cool little idea