🚪How Hausia teamed up with an influencer and is making $2000 MRR

The No-Code Success Story of Hausia and Investor Pro

Hello there,

Katt here. No-Code Exits has now 10k subscribers. Unbelievable! 🙏

This week I talked to Hausia, read about:

💥 Using industry insights to spot a product opportunity
⭐️ Building with no-code web app builder Glide
✨ Teaming up with a niche influencer for distribution
💰 Growing to $2100 MRR

Enjoy and happy building.

PS: missed the last interview? Read here how a tiny unbundled Canva was acquired for $4k.

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✨ Spotlight

🚨 Calling non-technical app startup founders!

Are you waiting for the right moment to finally launch your app?

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They teach you step by step how to plan, design, build, monetize and launch an app startup. All with Flutterflow, the best no-code native app builder.

But it doesn’t stop there.

With 10+ years experience in startups, Alim shares all his knowledge of what it takes to get an app from just an idea in your head to generating revenue, getting your first 1000 users and raising venture capital. 

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🔥 No-Code Founder Interview

Learn every week from a real world no-code success story

Hello! What's your background?

My name is Hausia—I'm a 26 y/o Kiwi based in Wellington NZ. For the past 4 years I've worked in Sales & Marketing for a couple of Real Estate companies. I started to get frustrated with the tools we were using and decided to try and build my own using No-Code.

How did you get your idea?

I noticed there was no widely used app for doing calculations on a property investment. Most people used spreadsheets which didn't store information well and is terrible on mobile. I reached out to a prominent influencer who coaches people on how to flip property and asked if he'd like to collaborate. InvestorPro was born, it’s your go-to platform for analysing the potential of property deals and managing all the information linked to it.

What went into building the first version?

I took a spreadsheet with pre-filled formulas and converted it into Glide tables. Glide is a phenomenal MVP builder—typically it's for internal use for enterprise companies, not SAAS products. But it's simple no-code drag and drop builder makes shipping an idea lighting fast.

Then the first step was to show it to a first few users. Based on their feedback we improved it and started adding more features like helpful resources, an explore page and sharing deals.

We also added AI (with OpenAI) to analyse the expenses, cashflow & yield of a property flip. It returns a short paragraph with some ideas on how to improve profit margins based on those margins.

12 months later here we are with 1,200+ users, 105 premium users and $2100 MRR.

How have you attracted users and grown your product?

The app is freemium with a $19 per month premium plan for unlimited deals. The reason I approached Tama (co-founder) was because he had a significant audience—over 18k followers on Instagram. I knew distribution was as important as product so I wanted someone who would give us a negative CAC (customer acquisition cost).

What's your advice for people just getting started?

1. Validate your pain point before anything else.

2. Talk to your target customers and figure out if they would pay for this

3. Find a distribution partner—you build it, they market it

We are miles away from where we want to be & miles away from where we started. Appreciate the journey!

Thanks for the refreshing story Hausia. Give him a follow on Twitter or on their Instagram.

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🍿 Katt builds in public

My actions, fails and wins on growing this no-code business to ramen profitability

My clear focus from December is completely gone.

This week I spent 95% working on Build The Keyword.

I feel like a failure that I’m not sticking to my ‘one thing’ plan.

The crazy part is that on auto-pilot No-Code Exits keeps growing, bringing in new sponsors, getting shoutouts from happy sponsors and having website visitors.

I still write the issues.

But I seem to have always better things to do then finding sponsors and creating courses (it are also kind of boring tasks…)

Especially because of Build The Keyword with lots of traction and new shiny things to learn…

Not sure yet what I will do about it. Resist it or go with the flow?

But first… 2 weeks of Easter Holiday over here.

I hope to have a (new?) plan when I’m back.

See you in a few weeks!

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🙌 When you’re ready, here’s how I can help

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