Hey, Marc here 👋
I was kicked out of the Spanish class back in junior because I was building paper planes...
To my point, the topics were so boring 🥱
I discovered recently that GPT-4 is really good at creating grammar exercises.
So I built WorkbookPDF: Learn any language with your favorite topics 😍
For instance, you can learn French with Cheese & Wine related exercises 🧀🍷
How to build an AI language learning app in 1 week
Here we go again... - 1 week to build a startup - 1 feature - no AI in headline/domain Ship it 🔥
1. Logo Picked an SVG from heroicons.com and added gradients ✅ Free ✅ 5-min delivery
2. Boring Privacy policy & terms of services are needed when setting up oauth with Google, ads account, Stripe ✅ Generated with ChatGPT ✅ 5-min delivery
3. Google This project targets SEO keywords, so Google is my friend. ✅ Verified domain with the Search Console
4. Database: @MongoDB
5. Emails: @Mail_Gun ➡️ Send via SMTP for transactional emails ⬅️ Get webhook and forward to personal email for inbounds
6. Login: @nextauthjs Simple login screen with Oauth + Magic Link (sent via mailgun)
7. Analytics: @PlausibleHQ I'm building an MVP. No need for advanced stats, crash reports etc... Plausible is way enough to find out
8. Payments: @stripe Successful payment > Server gets a webhook > Create account > Deliver product 💡 Make sure the CVC rule is activated, almost got me banned for life
9. Website: @nextjs + @tailwindcss I use DaisyUI by @Saadeghi for all the UI components because: - it looks dope - it's super easy - it's free
10. Hosting: @vercel - dead-simple - 200k pageviews/mo - $25/mo for all these apps - Image Optimization for better SEO
11. Images: @awscloud - Images are made with Figma - Hosted on a S3 bucket - Served by a CloudFront CDN Or I use NextJS <Image/> for small images or when I just need 1 image
12. pSEO: a) Keyword research with @ahrefs free tool: I target main keyword (i.e. landing page) + long-tail (i.e. SaaS landing page) with KD < 15 and more than 200 volume b) ChatGPT builds 20+ pages: I create an empty page with prefilled components (i.e. testimonials,
UPDATE: The startup is live at WorkbookPDF.com 🤩 🧑🏫 Your personal teacher to master a foreign language The following is about marketing & how to (hopefully) become profitable👇
13. Lead Magnet: - Show up after 30sec session - Lead inputs email to get a free workbook - Gets a branded link by email - Gets another email if no account is created within 2hr
14. Hacker News: It's where tech nerds hang out. If you get featured, you secure 10k+ visitors in 24 hours - Post in the /show subfolder using "Show HN:" in title - Use the "I made [product] so you [benefit]" formula - Use tech words If it works, you'll be roasted like
15. Reddit Redditors hate being sold. If your product has a pricing page, forget most subreddits. /SideProject is your best shot: It's a small Twitter version of our community. - Use the "I made [product] so you [benefit]" formula - Make a short video of you demoing your
16. @ProductHunt You're pretty guaranteed to get a high quality backlink, press coverage, and decent traffic. - Launch on Mon/Sat/Sun. Other days are busy with big corp with big $$$ - Make a product demo video. Walk users through your app, explain why they should listen to
17. Extras Here's a recap of all the sites you can launch your startup
That's a wrap! It took about 2 weeks to launch workbookpdf.com (with heavy procrastination 🥲) You can follow me for more experiments like this, not quitting anytime soon!
Want to ship fast?
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