HOW I EARNED 70K IN ONE MONTH FROM MY SaaS
This post could have been an article, but I am lazy and wanted to give an overview of how I did it.
In January 2026, I created my first-ever application, InterviewPrepNotes (UI is still bad ik). I didn't know anything about SEO, Domain Rating, AEO or GEO.
In the first 7 months of building this application, I learned and implemented these things side by side on InterviewPrepNotes. Basically, FAFO.
I wanted to test whether I had actually learned anything from all this or whether these were just X clicks that I was getting.
So I made Cliputils, a tool that does basic conversion and processing of images, videos and audio. I implemented all my learnings from Day 1 of this project and launched it on 19th July.
From 19th July to 29th September, the total number of files processed was just 400. But in October alone, more than 70,000+ files were processed.
I'm now getting clicks from ChatGPT (my major source), Google and Bing.
In just the last 35 days, Cliputils has made over ₹72,000, and my expenses have been around ₹15K–18K. I had to introduce the freemium model because backend costs were rising pretty fast.
Research and work on your products:
>Domain Rating
>Bing Webmaster Tools
>Google Search Console
>The market you cater to
>All the high frequency queries
>Queries that you can potentially target and rank for
Your product should be good enough that repeating customers keep visiting your site.
People coming from ChatGPT might start Googling your site, creating more branded search queries, and so on.
WORK ON YOUR PRODUCT DAILY AND ITERATE ON THE QUALITY DAILY.
Be OpenAI.
> drop 1 year of ChatGPT Go for FREE in India 🇮🇳
> onboard millions of users overnight
> train on their prompts, emotions, and daily workflows
> turn AI into a daily habit they can’t work without
> pull the plug on the free year
> bait with ₹99/mo for 3 months
> quietly bump to ₹399/mo right after
Congratulations, 90% of users are too hooked to cancel now
They went the Jio business model way lol