And the best part? The AI features were still working, meaning I was burning actual OpenAI tokens for free.
Lost about $8 😪 in tokens before I finally noticed.
Founder life is just debugging your own mistakes in production 🚶🏽♂️
First week of launching my SaaS 😭
I paid a bunch of creators for UGC, downloads started coming in, users were signing up… but my Paystack dashboard was looking like a deserted village. 😂😂
I kept getting “payment successful” emails and thought:
probably just those fake test payments from development since I used a bunch of temporary emails to test .”
Turns out… they actually WERE real users 💀
I forgot to switch my Paystack test keys to live keys before launch
So real users were trying to pay me… with fake money 😭
If scientists can bring back the body and pastors can bring back the soul why don’t we build and AI powered SaaS app to bring back people from the dead 🤔, by combining science and spirituals ,
Pricing starts @ 999,999 a year for ever dead brought to life, tbh this is a Trillion dollar market
Failed startups → $8M ARR → Maker of the Year
Plot twist: he shares how he did it. For free. Every week.
Just joined @tibo_maker's newsletter.
This is the cheat code I needed: https://t.co/ay7FBkH5OJ
Couldn't be happier for Zach.
I remember when he first launched and I thought it was the coolest app I had ever seen.
I used to check the ratings every day and pray that it was growing.
Fast forward 18 months, the team has helped millions lose weight and inspired so many founders, including myself, to get into this space.
Congrats
@zach_yadegari@henrylangmack@blakeandersonw@jakecastilloooo
incredible.
@zach_yadegari paid @MrBeast $500K for an ad in one of his videos - and they almost got it for free.
the craziest part of this whole story isn’t even the price.
it’s the fact that they couldn’t properly attribute the $500K investment.
i worked on the growth team at a unicorn startup, and attribution was one of our biggest challenges too.
is anyone actually solving this? @ZssBecker?