Kourosh Ghaffari

Building things for good people

- $1.1k MRR (My growth engine)
- $12.4k MRR

Señor PM at Tiiny Host

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

It took me 2 years to get to $10k MRR.

Never went viral, never grew with ads.
Never had an audience.

I just followed the advice of the ones who did it before me.

Here's the advice: https://t.co/IKgdVIlw1f

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

https://t.co/Rwio8PEZ0V

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

@JohanesSurya It’s up to you whether you wanna review what happens. I just give a final “ok post this” but you can skip that

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

This is free btw (Claude tokens not included 😅)

But legitimately, it'll cost less than $1/day to rank INSANELY high and get clicks

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

https://t.co/g0Ri2BdXK8

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

@fyreinteractive Agreed

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

My app (https://t.co/kJcEX5IXGk) is reaching plateau territory at around $12.5k MRR

Here are the reasons:

1. We have a single acquisition channel (SEO)
2. The market is FULL of competitors. Genuinely 200+ hungry competitors (dictation apps)
3. Acquisition = churn (even though our churn is at 7%)

2 ways forward:

1. I either go all in and find a new distribution channel
2. I fully focus on https://t.co/OoJSy4Y4kh

Neither route is great IMO

This is honestly pretty scary and has been weighing on me a lot in the last few months

But for some reason, every 2-3 years, something goes wrong in my life

I then have to sit down and work 2x as hard

We always come out better on the other side

Time to griiiiind ❤️

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

@mynameisaniket Want a free month of https://t.co/KMuchyt3JH? Would be cool to hear what you think

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

Starting to see SEO kick in for https://t.co/OoJSy4Y4kh 🥳

Even though Romeo is an SEO tool, I don't think SEO will be our primary acquisition channel

Why?

Every single player in this market is an SEO expert.
The competition is brutal.

Can you win? Yep
Will it take 20x more work than winning in any other industry? Hell yeah

If you check the other players, most people get clicks to free tools.
Free tool traffic = the lowest possible conversion to paid users

I gotta be a bit more creative this time;)

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

@IamYashKapoor Our Chrome extension has about 12k users actually!

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

@mynameisaniket Conversion on the site is great actually! It's definitely an aquisition problem that we need to boost

Rather than reddit, I was more thinking facebook/youtube since that's where a lot of our users hang out

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

@sab8a But you're right - I think I gotta work more on that specific wedge. We got a headstart there with our marketing already, but gotta make it more clear.

Thanks dude!

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

@sab8a I mostly sell to boomers in the US who wanna write their memoirs.

Nobody got more money than them

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

@sab8a Got something in the works there;)

We are THE BEST at serving the accessibility & disability community.
So while everyone else is building a note-taker, we're working on some more supporting features for elders and kids with disabilities.

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

@gavinelliott So the move to competitors hasn’t increased at all actually! But getting more and more “I just built it myself” messages😅

I genuinely don’t think that churn is our issue right now

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

@starwardshar Excited to see it dude!

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

@TheWontonShawn @bruvimtired this you?

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

@talhash_ Congrats dude!

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

@_Gxnji_ He’s back to getting clicks

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

My boy is healthy again🫶

[Kourosh Ghaffari @BuildingWaves]

@bruvimtired Mmm daddy the sluttiest one for me plss

[cal @calummoore]

Conductive, a 1:1 replacement for Conductor.

I used Conductor from the beginning, and was devastated by the shut down. It made me so incredibly productive.

I couldn’t live without it, and now, we don’t have to.