How I became owner of $800K MRR softare company PART1
I will share all of my story from the first moment when I get to know lukas, and to $800K MRR my software company.
Like all of you reading my post, I also didn't believe myself first time.
It didn't happen in a day but I promise you if you invest your 6-month in hard work, you can change your life.
(I invited lukas to my new office, I didn't expect I could own this luxury office, when I first met lukas)
I first came across Lukas through his blog posts, and he was talking about the importance of learning to code and starting a business then, just as he does now.
The reason I decided to learn to code and start my own business was simple: I wanted to get out of poverty. When I met Lukas, my monthly salary was around 1300 USD, and I usually didn't have any money left over after rent or food. I was very angry with myself when I couldn't buy my wife a bunch of flowers from a florist because I couldn't afford it.
In that situation, Lukas's story that someone like me, with no computer science knowledge or experience, could start a software company was very appealing to me. I found it hard to believe, but he seemed credible, and I decided to learn from him.
I don't know how it works now, but when I joined the program four years ago, every weekend I would meet with Lukas and my fellow cohort members in the office. I learned to code really intensely, from 9am to 8pm, and it was really hard, even now. I would meet with Lukas offline on the weekends to learn, and on weekdays, as soon as I got off work, I would dedicate myself to coding from 7pm to 12am. I think it's a great investment to make to change your life while you're still working. Of course, it was very tiring and not easy.
When I first learned how to code from Lukas, I actually misunderstood him - for some reason I thought he wasn't always friendly. When I would ask him something, he would say, “Have you Googled it? Lukas always stressed to us to find our own answers, and in hindsight, I think he was right. He taught me how to figure things out on my own, and even after the program was over, I was able to do it on my own thanks to his teaching. (Of course, if I reached out and asked him to help me with this or that, he did.)
The first service I created was a dating app for non-maritalistic people. In Korea, there are many people who don't want to get married, but they want to have a relationship, but when the relationship develops and they realize that the other person doesn't want to get married, the couple inevitably breaks up. The starting point of the service was that it would be nice to know in advance that the other person is a non-married person.
So, using the coding skills I learned from Lukas, I created a landing page with the tagline, “A blind date arranging service for people who don't want to get married. I carefully tweaked the landing page copy and started running Facebook ads with a budget of $5 per day.
I waited for about a week, and a week later, I opened the admin dashboard of my blind date landing page and was really surprised to see that two people had applied. I was going to get $200 for each person, so I made a total of $400. It was an amazing experience, and it was officially the first money I ever made from my business. That $400 may seem like a small amount, but I think it changed my life ever since.
But business doesn't always go as expected. I decided to meet with the clients who signed up for our service. I needed to do some research on what they were looking for in a partner, and most importantly, I wanted to hear their reasons for signing up for this service. I traveled over two hours away on the subway to meet them.
And once I met them, I realized that this business was going to fail.
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