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👉 Try Distribb for Free: distribb.io Miki previously built a VC-backed company with hundreds of employees, then quit to start over bootstrapped. He launched Zernio, a social media API that lets SaaS companies plug into Meta, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube without dealing with the bureaucracy themselves. In 10 months, he scaled it to $1M ARR using Google Ads from day one, even when his acquisition co...

👋 Apply to join Profitable Founder Community: tally.so/r/dWZ5Jz Marie and Philip (her co-founder and life partner) launched Tally, a free form builder, from their living room during COVID lockdowns. Five years later, they hit $5M ARR with just 10 people and zero funding. In this episode, Mari shares how giving their product away for free became their biggest growth engine, why she said no to thei...

🔷 Try Distribb for Free: https://distribb.io?utm_source=yt-nevo Nevo David built Postiz, an open-source social media scheduler, and grew it from $0 to $66K MRR. It took him 3 years to go from 0 to $20K MRR. The last $46K took 35 days. Thanks to one viral article and the OpenClaw wave. In this episode, he breaks down every growth hack he used, how he made his SaaS agentic-first, and why this is th...

🔷 Try Distribb for Free: https://distribb.io?utm_source=yt-yasser Yasser Elsaid built ChatBase from 0 to $1M ARR in 117 days with just 16 followers on X. No funding, no sales team, no connections. In this episode, he shares the mindset that got him there, how he stayed locked in during the chaos of early growth, why he didn't sell at $1M, and what he believes separates founders who burn out...

Get 50% off your first month on Velio using the code « florian »: https://velio.co/?ref=florian59 In this video, Marcus shares the best SaaS marketing strategy to get your first 1000 customers without ads. Marcus Jones grew one of the biggest YouTube education channels to nearly 500K subscribers and launched his SaaS, Velio, to 1000 paying users in just 60 days with only 2 YouTube videos. In this...

🔷 Download Loic's Playbook: https://floriandarroman.com/loic-berthelot Loic spent 5 years building SaaS products nobody used. Then he cracked the code: partner with a creator, focus on the problem, and scale with a playbook he can repeat. His first real SaaS (Minea) went from $0 to $750K MRR. 100% bootstrapped. No VC. Just a small team and a YouTube creator as co-founder. 7 months ago he lef...

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👋 Get the FREE OpenClaw Starter Guide → https://floriandarroman.com/openclaw-starter-kit/ Bhanu built and sold Feather for $250K, grew SiteGPT to $18K MRR, and now uses an army of AI agents running 24/7 on OpenClaw to hit $1M ARR. In this episode, he breaks down: → How to set up a main agent and let it create specialist sub-agents → The dashboard he built just by talking to Telegram → How AI agen...

🔹 Are we friends on Instagram? https://www.instagram.com/florian.darroman/ My guest today is Nick Lawton. He grew SideShift to $8M ARR with his 2 co-founders. In this episode, you'll discover: - How Nick and his co-founders built an $8M ARR startup - How to use UGC for promote your product - His complete playbook to build a $1M startup in 2026 Find Nick on X: https://x.com/nicholasnlawton Tr...

🔹 Download the Playbook: https://floriandarroman.com/how-to-dominate-your-niche/ Cody Schneider built 20+ profitable businesses by making himself impossible to ignore in his niche. In this episode, he reveals the exact 3 steps playbook that turns strangers into buyer-ready customers. (without cold outreach, paid ads, or begging for sales calls). If you're tired of chasing customers, this is...

Try Outrank: https://outrank.so/?via=floriandarroman Eugene Zolotarenko failed for 3 years before building Outrank to $200K/month with Tibo. He shares the exact framework for creating products people actually pay for, why most founders focus on the wrong problems, and what changed when he stopped trying to do it alone. Find Eugene on X: https://x.com/eugZolotarenko Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 1:05 - Wh...

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Download the 7-Steps Launch playbook: https://floriandarroman.com/rob-hoffman Rob Hoffman runs 3 profitable startups making $400K/month. In this episode, he breaks down his exact 7-step playbook for launching a profitable bootstrapped SaaS. The same system he used to grow Kleo from 0 to 60K MRR in just 53 days. Find Rob on X: https://x.com/RobHoffman_ Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:36 - Who is Rob Hoffm...

🔹 Get your weekly founder's playbook: https://floriandarroman.com/newsletter This is Romàn Czerny. He cloned a Shopify app, grew it to $500K ARR and sold it for 7 figures 2 years later. Then he did it again. But this time with a new strategy. He decided to sell first before building anything. And it worked. he made $7,000 before writing a single line of code. Then grew GojiBerry, from $0 to...

🔹 Get Jeddi's Playbook: https://floriandarroman.com/jeddi Jeddi Mees helped 600+ startups scale with influencer marketing. In this episode, he breaks down the exact B2B influencer playbook used by Lovable, Gamma, and n8n to hit $100M+. You'll learn: - How to find & qualify the right influencers for B2B - The cold outreach process (25-30% reply rates) - The UGC farm strategy ($400/mo...

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🔸 Get your Free Build in Public Playbook : https://floriandarroman.com/free-guide 🔸 Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/florian.darroman/ Ever wondered what posting daily videos for a year would do? Well this guy did it for 420 days straight. Thanks to that, Yoni Smolyar grew to 176,000 followers on Instagram and launched an app that made $26K in its first month. In this epis...

🔸 Get your Free Build in Public Playbook : https://floriandarroman.com/free-guide 🔸 Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/florian.darroman/ From $1.5M/year Startup exit to 9-5. At 22, ‪ ‪  Alex Heiden sold his SaaS company Closify and had zero plan for what's next. Then he accidentally went viral with his first video hitting 2 million views and 20,000 followers overnight....

🔸 Get your Post Bridge 7-day free trial → https://post-bridge.com?atp=florian 🔸 Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/florian.darroman/ David Attias went from trading quant to calling out fake revenue screenshots on X. Six months later, he's running three apps doing $13K/month by copying successful onboarders and going all-in on influencer marketing. His strategy? "We...

🔹 Get Free Backlinks on Linkuma: https://www.linkuma.com/en/?fpr=jttfw 🔸 Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/florian.darroman/ Dmytro quit his comfortable $100K+ engineering job to build ScreenshotOne. A B2B SaaS that now makes $24,800/month. But he's still asking himself if he's just lazy for not chasing more. In this conversation, we dig into: How he grew from $0...

🔹 Get Free Backlinks on Linkuma: https://www.linkuma.com/en/?fpr=jttfw 🔸 Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/florian.darroman/ Tibo Maker failed for 4 years trying to impress his family at dinner parties.  Behind the scenes? Zero revenue. No clients. No traction.  Then he made one shift that changed everything. Two years later, he exited two startups for $8M.  Now he's r...

🔸 Get your Free Build in Public Playbook : https://floriandarroman.com/free-guide 🔸 Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/florian.darroman/ Join me as I chat with Jim Tang ‬   to break down how he cracked the Instagram algorithm to grow 140,000 followers in 100 days.  We dive deep into his daily posting strategy, the content formats that went viral, and the exact tactics he use...

🔹 Get access to my in-depth insights from the best founders: https://floriandarroman.com/newsletter Travis Fischer sold 2 companies (one VC-backed, one bootstrapped) and learned the hard way that raising venture capital isn't for everyone. Now he's building the Hacker Residency: A YC-style program for indie hackers. In this episode, he shares how to get 6 months of work done in 6 weeks,...