youtuber & software engineer | building https://nitter.cf/t.co/7olKcFsci4
New York, NY
Joined February 2022
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david is my inspo 🙏 congrats to @Davidjpark96 & the jenni ai team!
our startup was acquired today :)
jenni ai is now part of the digital science family
we fucking did it!!!!!
i could go on and on about why this acquisition is so perfect, but i’ll save that for another time
for now, i want to focus on the fact that we built jenni in public from day one all the way to exit
there was honestly very little i didn’t share, so i hope this archive of our journey can help a few founders on their own fantastical journeys
thank you to everyone who's followed along and witnessed all the pivots, near bankruptcies, and general hijinks that come with running a company
despite the roller coaster, we ended by hitting our highest MRR ever shortly before deal close 🥳
it's been a crazy ride, you all helped me live out my dream, truly
i owe my success to my team, my investors, and my family for all of their support throughout the years
not too bad for a college dropout who had to move back in with his parents!
Google before the great AI-ification 💔
Back when I grinded SEO on my website RateMyDorm (now sold) to get featured like this
Update: my income streams ranked the past 30 days (profits)
1- content creation
2- my UGC platform/agency: ugctank.com
3- clothing brand: ruleofthirds.com
lost an income stream since the last update (quit my SWE job 2 months ago). otherwise that would’ve been #3 :)
UPDATE - my income streams ranked from the past 30 days (gross revenue)
1- ugctank.com
2- content creation
3- full time swe job
4- clothing brand
crazy to see this list compared to my post from Jan 1. my bootstrapped startup has risen the ranks :)
10 years later
I grew up on a small, US-territory island called Guam
Now in my 5th year living in NYC 🗽
the great q4 lock in 🧑💻 headed to a cafe this morning to start working on rebranding & pivoting my app
so if any tech UGC programs need creators rn, post your campaign on ugctank.com (last chance)
you’ll get 50 applicants from my vetted roster of 1,400 creators
joma x ugc tank 🤝
Episode 3: When you have no idea what you're doing with UGC Creators, this is what happens...
I hired a UGC creator, which was surprisingly cheap. $30 per video. But they wanted bonuses.
I don't want to give bonuses though. I made $0 on my app so far.
She went on the make a few videos on Instagram and a few of them for 2000 views. I still got 0 sales though.
I probably need to pivot my app.
This is a dream comment for any creator building their own product
I started building a new UGC platform in public ~10 months ago
I haven’t ran any ads to grow it, and the only marketing I’ve done is talking about it on my own socials
@ugctank has been seeing a lot of growth from word of mouth & LLMs recommending it, and as a result, I get cool comments like these :)
I quit my software engineering job at Disney
I worked there for 20 months and decided to leave to build my own app
I've been working on ugctank.com for ~10 months now, and between the platform itself and my agency within it, it's consistently surpassed my Disney paychecks. Figured it was time to go all in :)
Excited to continue building & be self-employed again!