Nico

👨‍💻 21. Building my first app from 0 → wherever it goes. 📈 Sharing wins, failures & numbers. 🚀 Building in public. 🟩⬜⬜⬜ $24 → $100 MRR

[Nico @nicobuildss]

From fashion to software!

My first business taught me how to build a brand and took me past €10k.

Now I’m 21, starting from zero again with my first app.

Today, I got my first paying customer.

Next challenge: take this one past €10k too.

Different industry. Same ambition.

[Nico @nicobuildss]

Did you know your Android app may already be appearing in third-party app stores?

Google Play now shares listings with enrolled third-party stores by default in the US.

No extra integration required.

Distribution is quietly becoming less centralized.

Worth checking your Catalog Settings.

[Nico @nicobuildss]

@LinoLeighton Haha I do the same!

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@andreigec Look dm

[Nico @nicobuildss]

Second paying customer just came in.

$24 MRR now.

Still tiny, but we’re moving.

Goal is $100 MRR next month.

One customer at a time. Getting closer 🚀

[Nico @nicobuildss]

@ipanditshashi Yessir

[Nico @nicobuildss]

A weird thing is happening in mobile apps:

Building is getting cheaper.

Distribution is getting more expensive.

AI keeps reducing the cost of creating software.

But everyone is fighting for the same attention.

The moat is moving.

[Nico @nicobuildss]

@TTrimoreau one for 10 years

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@kapxapot @X yess

[Nico @nicobuildss]

The @X tells you if you're doing something right.

Thank you all for joining and following me!

Btw, If you're into:
-Marketing
-Business
-Psychology
-Research & Papers
-AI & Hermes Agent
-SaaS
-Content
-NYC (don't live here, but huge fan)

Then my acc is for you 🙂

[Nico @nicobuildss]

@AlejandroSyed @X hahah nicee

[Nico @nicobuildss]

@fouadelbouiadii 5000$

[Jake Castillo @jakecastilloooo]

Things I believed in late 2024, when I quit a $150k job to work on Cal AI for $0/month:

> The product had to be great before marketing could work
> Signing a big creator would be the moment it turned
> Being early to a niche mattered more than being loud in it
> If I just worked hard enough the imposter feeling would go away

What was actually true:

> Distribution came first and the product got better because distribution forced it to
> No single creator turned anything. Volume did.
> Being loud beat being early, every time
> The feeling never went away. It didn't go away at #1, it didn't go away at $30M ARR, and it got worse after the acquisition.

I was wrong about all four and it still worked, because the one thing I got right was showing up to the boring list every day.

You can be wrong about a lot if you're consistent about the right one thing.

[Nico @nicobuildss]

@pfernan95dev lfgggg

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@0xKusha Create a saas proyect

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@akashkv4 LFGGG

[Nico @nicobuildss]

@markproduct the best thing for networking

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@ads4apps lfg

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@gauraavvii marketing

[George Lampropoulos @GeorgeLampro20]

This Christmas I will buy my mom a G wagon.

Manifesting ts.

[Nico @nicobuildss]

@china_saparbek keep pushing!

[Nico @nicobuildss]

@LinoLeighton truee

[Lino @LinoLeighton]

Literally the hardest part about scaling apps is finding your marketing channel + the type of content that actually converts for your app.

Once you figure that out, you’ve solved the hardest part of the entire process from $0 → $20K/month.