Here's an overview of all my revenue generating side projects

[@ianharcourtsmith]

The SaaS circle of life 1. Find a SaaS someone else has built that's making profit 2. Build it better 3. Watch as someone else or a company does the same thing to you

[@neoswann2143]

😂

[@WebDevCody]

Now you’re getting it

[@pencilcheck]

4. You try out their product, 5. You build another one that isn’t better, 6. Rinse and repeat

[@FlorinPop]

“93k per month. That’s pretty good” Cody billionaire confirmed

[@WebDevCody]

I wish man

[@chinmaysawant5600]

Heyy i just wanted to let you know that thanks for putting content on yt it helps me and push me to be a better dev

[@WebDevCody]

Glad to hear it man!

[@TheRiddl37]

Dude, why is every video you shoot even crazier than the previous one? Insane inspiration!

[@nark4837]

regarding the organic search for your products, I think many people do just find it easier to search it up when you talk about a new SaaS you built (at least I do anyway) rather than opening the description, and finding the link so I think it is fair to say, still much of that organic search is your KZbin audience

[@vteckickedin2365]

eh I disagree, I always look for a link in the description tbh.

[@carlosmspk]

if the search queries that people google are generic stuff like "digital assets" I highly doubt they came from a KZbin video. Those people would probably add the KZbinr's name no?

[@homefamilymusic1499]

Such a great video Cody. Thanks so much for sharing. very inspirational! bless you brother

[@zhenobiikuzo4957]

Thank you for sharing your overview for making those side projects. I appreciate the transparency and the passion to share your works on this channel. It was truly amazing to see someone with that kind of passion to do this project in just a short amount of time. Hope I reach that level one day.

[@CodingAfterThirty]

Damn the power of youtube and your own email marketing. This is insane. Love how transparent you are. Motivation and inspiration to us all.

[@Crashman1012]

I love videos like this and other side projects. Very helpful and motivating! Great insights

[@aviadch]

As a long-time follower, it’s incredibly exciting to see the success of your side projects. Your journey is truly motivating, and I just wanted to say thank you for sharing such valuable content!

[@ericka.montanez6821]

I find you to be a very inspiring individual. And I love your style of "I will just record my screen and show people what's up in my day". Thank you.

[@FlorinPop]

I’m a simple man. I see Cody. I press like.

[@thantzinoo938]

same here!!

[@jcmusik7495]

Great job Cody! Congrats on your successes. Thank you for humble attitude and also for creating this inspirational video.

[@salamandr4111]

Appreciate that you are truthful and honest with your community💙

[@maxpagesword]

This is the quality content. No 10 magic things to do X but real case of what's done and some talk around it.

[@boy291-z8c]

Hi cody, I just want to say that I love what you're doing and you're a huge source of inspiration to me. As someone who has been thinking about building my saas ideas but always being discouraged by the thoughts that they might not succeed, this has given me the encouragement to try working on them. Maybe they succeed, maybe they don't but I'll learn from the experience.

[@WebDevCody]

Yeah you just have to keep trying. I have tons of failed and abandoned projects, just within these last 2 years I gained any real traction on side projects

[@boy291-z8c]

@@WebDevCody thanks. I've also found that maybe telling people (mostly friends) about my idea before I build them probably isn't a wise thing to do because I am quickly reminded of the 101 other apps that do the same thing or how my idea isn't really a good one. Just curious to know if you ever told friends about your idea before you tried working on them and what kind of feedback you received. keep up the good work!

[@WebDevCody]

@@boy291-z8c you don’t want to tell friends, you need to find real users. Find someone with a problem and ask if your proposed app would solve their problem, and ask if they would use your app if you built it. Then maybe ask around a bit more to find others who say “yes, that would make my life easier”. Asking friends who probably don’t care about your side projects isn’t useful imo.

[@boy291-z8c]

@@WebDevCody thank you very much, sir 🙏

[@henrimiessan3881]

Thank you Sir from the bottom of my heart and wish you all the best

[@simple5636]

Man I love your honesty

[@CheCortezTV]

Thanks for showing, I feel people don't understand what your are trying to achieve. Helping other people get rich. It's subtle but it is there. Cause you really didn't need to share some of your tips, but you did, so thank you. It sucks people straw man arguments and are negative. They are just expressing their frustration and justifying their excuses as to why they aren't successful.

[@EditsByShobhit]

Man, it's so nice to see you build and talk about your side projects. I've been wanting to make side projects which could generate some bucks. Thanks for this, I'm going to give it a realistic shot now :))

[@rayhankessal6976]

I feel like cody just builds whatever passes through his mind 😂

[@WebDevCody]

So far it’s been paying off 😆

[@rayhankessal6976]

@@WebDevCody indeed it is 😂 that's the thing I love about swe, you can give life to any idea you think of

[@jmaicaaan]

This is why I follow your journey! ❤️

[@marceloguzman646]

This kind of videos are so worth watching!

[@sandro6479]

Keep doing what you're doing bro 🔥

[@emanuelec2704]

a large portion of organic search might be people hearing the product name in your videos and searching for it on google instead of searching for a link in the description

[@bibblebabl]

Thanks for covering it up. It was interesting to see how it works under the hood. Good luck with new projects

[@MoDeadYT]

I would love to know the percentage of people who will watch a youtube video at their desktop computer, the 'Organically Search' using their mobile devices. Its always been interesting to me. Great video!

[@cas818028]

Step 1, build an audience of over 230k subs. Step 2 build whatever and sell your stuff. They will buy it cause they love you. If you miss step 1 you are screwed.

[@rdnexta]

It's true but also he is teaching and sharing lots of stuff.

[@shirkit]

We try and buy his stuff because he deserves, you can see through his video how awesome of a person he is, I've learned SO MUCH thanks to him, it's what we can do.

[@symys6738]

4:00 in the video addresses some of this

[@davidomar742]

did you not watch the video? he clearly says most of his traffic comes from organic google search, not his youtube. You have never owned a business if you think having a "audience" is the only way lmao

[@FlorinPop]

Tbh there are SO many creators with 100ks followings that barely make any money. Having an audience is not a golden bullet

[@stevanfreeborn]

Thanks for making this! 🙏🏻

[@RandomMcLain]

Thanks for sharing, Cody!

[@seiuwatches]

Love the transparency!

[@london5679]

Love your content and openess!

[@roycohen.]

Referall is when someone else links to you via their website, so quite possibly KZbin could be a referral, or if I posted your link on my blog, etc.

[@towelie_dev]

thanks for sharing! was a good and interesting insight :)

[@Llamaa.i]

Enjoyed your video Cody! I’m working on a saas as well in nextjs and golang. Im trying to build in the cheapest way possible. It’s 50% done. Maybe you can have a look at it. You seem smart

[@rtql8d]

I agree, the more you build, the more you have in your collection you can use for future projects. Almost like a code snippet toolkit.

[@mustafabektas7207]

thank you for this, refreshingly honest.

[@rns10]

1 feature that you could add in your Ghost story generator, is aspect ratio of video. Considering some people post it on social media, they would like the long 16/9 ratio portrait mode. This should help in getting more people to the site.

[@WebDevCody]

That’s top of my priority, thanks for the suggestion!

[@Metruzanca]

I'm consistently impressed with your attitude on indie hacking. I love Marc Lu's content because he's so upbeat, but your content is much more relatable. Also loved the part at the end "I'll be okay, I work full time."

[@joelv4495]

Ya, Lou comes across a bit... sleazy

[@UmairSadaqat]

Why this men so honest!! 🎉i love this men ❤

[@tyulen-vn6qj]

Thank you for inspiration

[@АртурУтегенов-й8э]

thanks for sharing brother

[@aoe4_kachow]

BASED take on supabase cody, just use postgres

[@CodingwithElias]

Thanks for sharing

[@Steel0079]

Thanks for this video

[@buildwithharshit]

Nice buddy!

[@sul-dev]

This is great content!

[@nemanjamiljkovic6450]

Thanks!

[@WebDevCody]

Thank you man!

[@okage_]

thanks for the valuable content

[@VaibhavShewale]

looks interesting

[@mzafarr]

Please make a video about SEO and particularly doing it for Next.js

[@TheCodeBulb]

Now, I am starting to build my own SaaS

[@kirrttiraj]

why not sell out dying out projects on Acquire or any other SAAS marketplace. Someone might be interested in buying in the similar niche and you can make 2-4x of the total revenue from the last year

[@oSpam]

Nice, great vid. My progress is way to slow compared to y’all

[@deyonyt]

Regarding your logo generator - have you ever thought of training the replicate models on custom datasets to provide better icons for your niche?

[@deyonyt]

Watching you made me feel like trying out building something similar but I felt I really need to train models if I am to even expect generating even a penny of revenue.

[@WebDevCody]

I’ll have to try training again; I tried a while back and the results were not that great. Training felt like a time sink figuring out how to perfect the models

[@ajzack983]

yoo Cody can you do a video on stripe and how to get an account going, how did you handle sync, did you replicate the databases locally for subscriptions and prices / items? I think many will benefit.

[@TurpoChargedGaming]

Project planner has a lot of overlap imo with a trello/clickup/notion but I like the look of the reports page! This is my issue when starting projects... A lot of things I am looking to create are things that I need myself, but maybe aren't marketable to others, or things that are too similar to established products so why would I bother

[@SETHthegodofchaos]

Do you have videos on how to add the payment solutions to a website and make it secure?

[@TalhaQamar]

Hi Cody, very impressive !!! Could you please give some pointers which api's you are using to generate scary stories or the images?

[@WebDevCody]

Replicate with SDXL model

[@hhwjsw711]

When will the tutorial video for creating a horror story generator be released?

[@parkerrex]

Great vid

[@titzko987]

You`re da goat

[@pencilcheck]

Would be nice to show the cost of each project to see actual revenue

[@codewithmoses]

Don't Build something you think it will make money! Build a product which you have interest in 🎉🎉

[@SergeiUstinov-v8x]

Which format of videos would you pick if you about to start a youtube channel and you would love to build SaaS to support marketing and a personal brand? Do you think KZbin is more efficient than X?

[@WebDevCody]

What do you mean which format? Both KZbin, X, Twitch can cross pollinate exposure. You need to be on all socials, maybe even TikTok as well. Each have their own strategy. KZbin and twitch feels like you are building a real connection with viewers, but the other just help with exposure.

[@SergeiUstinov-v8x]

@@WebDevCody sorry for misunderstanding. By the format, I mean should it be like live streams of building SaaS or daily/weekly videos updates of what I have built and which challenges I faced and solved, or just make SEO-friendly titles and make videos around these topics?

[@pavelb2277]

Hi, how do you handle taxes? Do you have to do anything in order to collect the money from your stripe account like reporting to authorities?

[@MateoC-f4n]

it's almost as if selling shovels can make you more money than actually going mining yourself... who could've predicted it!?

[@WebDevCody]

Even if someone is giving out just as good shovels right next door

[@taunado]

Respect

[@CyberBlastStudios]

Do you have these products operating under your own company or LLC? Do you need to have liability insurance? I think doing a video on those types of topics would be helpful for people trying to build and release products like this.

[@WebDevCody]

Under my LLC.

[@SaketK11]

U r amazing

[@nark4837]

just a quick question Cody, do you host most of these projects on a VPS behind Cloudflare? or serverless? or for the backend you're using a VPS, and for the other services you're using Lambdas, etc also what UI framework did you use for projectplannerai, it looks beautiful!

[@WebDevCody]

Right now everything is on a VPS. The backend uses convex for some of my projects, so really I’m just hosting a ui

[@dandogamer]

10:40 would make a good YT short

[@張博文-n6l]

Thank you for sharing this information.😊 I want to know the cost of an AI project, such as GPU server rendering costs. What type of GPU server can support multiple users for AI tasks?”

[@WebDevCody]

Gpu are expensive, so I couldn’t estimate. G4dn ec2 instance costs $0.50 an hour.

[@張博文-n6l]

​@@WebDevCody thanks for answer~ so renting anGPU server one month 0.5*24*30= $360 ~~🤨 I'm thinking that calling the OpenAI API might be cheaper.? Or maybe renting an AI GPU server is the more affordable option?

[@WebDevCody]

@@張博文-n6l there might be cheaper gpu vm hosts out there. I don’t know off the top of my head. Dalle is very expensive as well, it’s like $0.08 per image. Which can get you to $100 after a thousand images or so. With a dedicated gpu, you would be able to queue up work but pay a flat rate. But using an existing ai service gives the fastest feedback to users and not block your aueue

[@張博文-n6l]

Appreciate the help! 😇 GPUs are so expensive , I just went build a side project~~😥

[@ItsD3vil]

Your ideas are excellent, but I noticed you haven't focused much on marketing. I didn’t see you mention KZbin ads or Google ads-both of which could be highly effective. Based on my own experience, they can drive a lot of traffic if implemented. Edit: 11:30, please don’t give up. Give this project another try. Consider hiring a motion graphics editor to create an ad for the entire project, then run it on KZbin ads. Just give it a shot-you won’t regret it! If you succeed, great! If not (which I doubt), nothing changes, and you’ll gain valuable experience. I hope you go for it and give us an update on what happens.

[@harisonfekadu]

Immediate sub!

[@federicai909]

Thanks for your videos❤. do you have any tips or videos on how to understand code written by others in a large project we have to work on? I'm a junior and I'm on my first project and I don't understand anything and I can't make a console log of everything in the app, I'm wondering how I can work on something that I don't know how it works

[@WebDevCody]

Step through the code with a debugger, and understand it’ll take some time to leadn

[@Crispy_Solutions]

Two videos within 24hrs

[@Andes7]

I think an issue with the scary story generator might be a branding thing. My first impression of it (with just the name/before explanation) was that it would be some kind of chatgpt wrapper that generates the story for you. Maybe a more apt name would be “Scary Movie Generator” or something like that. Just my 2 cents

[@WebDevCody]

That’s good feedback.

[@neoswann2143]

Can you make a video explaining why you prefer using Postgres with an ORM, building outh your own auth etc.... instead of using a BaaS like Supabase? Well you do use Convex now so i'm guessing you don't have anything against a BaaS.

[@WebDevCody]

I just don’t like supabase 🤷‍♂️ I’ve tried it and I personally would not connect my ui directly to my database via an sdk. RLS feels like a bad idea.

[@marcellodichiera]

Great helpful video, can I ask you if you can suggest few or the best not so expensive web hosting to host personal SaaS website and don't pay crazy money especially at the beginning of the journey ? Thanks

[@WebDevCody]

I use railway

[@pencilcheck]

Gumroad charges a lot for their processing fee omg

[@abddulrahmanas]

Where do you host your projects? All on one VPS or separate VPS for each project or serverless?

[@WebDevCody]

Separate vps for each one on railway

[@FranMcOd]

Personal question, how do you manage to do all this in 24h? 9-6 Job, KZbin, Side projects, Wife, ect... amazing!

[@WebDevCody]

Wife helps a lot with watching the kids when record. Also many of the videos I publish on my channel take no effort to make because I’m often teaching something I already know or just learned fresh.

[@SeibertSwirl]

Hiiiiiii Firrrrst!!! Good job babe!

[@WebDevCody]

love you babe! thanks for always being first

[@bogdanfilimon2486]

Hmm but from that income money how much was deployment / ai prompts credit etc. so basically how much profit did you do?

[@WebDevCody]

Dalle is maybe 1/3 of the revenue

[@tejassethi9319]

How are you hosting your scarystorygenerator, keeping your storage for the videos and how do you keep your saas from being ddos and other attacks? Thanks man.

[@WebDevCody]

Hosting on vps in front of cloudflare to prevent ddos. Backend using convex

[@tljstewart]

Where do you deploy, aws?

[@WebDevCody]

Aws, railway, cloudflare cdn, convex for backend

[@jawyor-k3t]

nearly every idea is already done. unless you do some AI wrappers. It's honestly frustrating. What do you think?

[@WebDevCody]

Pretty much, and I don’t have time to sit around and think up new ideas

[@popadavid6076]

Do you still use T3 Stack ?

[@shaunmodipane1]

Can you show use your retention?

[@TheCodeBulb]

What are you using to generate the video from images?

[@WebDevCody]

Replicate

[@joshualloyd6694]

Make a course on Udemy please.... for the love all all things!!!

[@OscarMota]

Hi, do you create a new stripe account for every microsaas?

[@WebDevCody]

yes, each website needs a new stripe account.

[@rallaoYT]

Why not considering selling icon generator?

[@WebDevCody]

That’s a possibility

[@saviomartin7]

Hi, i am that 16 years old... @ 7:40

[@WebDevCody]

👋 you sure were, thanks for being my inspiration

[@valhalla_dev]

Cody where did your Twitter go? 👀

[@WebDevCody]

Taking a lil break

[@uttamkumbhakar2894]

You can hire me as a Python + React developer, i recently joined react have 1 year of exp, but i have 3+ years of exp with python. I have done freelance but somehow ended up getting banned because of some wierd issue, after making about 20-30k :(

[@subem81]

Hmm. Why'd you disappear from X Cody?

[@WebDevCody]

Taking a break

[@SaifurRahmanAkash]

want you to make an aws course

[@WebDevCody]

I hate aws, but I may one day. What services would you want to learn?

[@SaifurRahmanAkash]

btw do you design these yourself?

[@WebDevCody]

Yes