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AMA: I built 6 startups in 6 months, sold 4
3 points by Mtaimoorh on Nov 12, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Heyyy Hackers!,

I hope everyone will be doing great.

Many hustlers may not know me, and many gurus haven't heard about me "yet". I am Muhammad Taimoor Hassan, 21 years old entrepreneur, Microsoft Imagine Cup 2021 National Winner & World Finalist, working on many startups & side-projects since the age of 12. The Ups & downs of the industry have gradually made me grow & polish myself.

I have a longer-run plan to achieve $100k in 1.5 year In the last 6 months, I have created 6 side projects & sold 4, adding approx $20K to my name, side by side documenting my journey on Twitter. Working on many projects side by side.

What I built? Low-Tier Category: Untapped - Untapped websites database with details/resources (in-profit)(acquired) LetsPost - SEO database, SEO untapped secret websites, backlinking resources, with links of 10k websites that accept direct guest posts (in-profit)(acquired) Confidential - Huge database of marketing resources, with methods & results (in-profit)(acquired)

Mid-Tier Category: EarlyAcquire - Marketplace for buying & selling early-stage sideprojects. (was in-profit)(listed for selling/ accepting offers) PresetBucket - Collection of 1200+ high-selling Adobe lightroom presets at a price of one. (in-profit)(listed for selling/ accepting offers) BeeNotion - Marketplace for Notion templates, widgets, apps, tools & resources (beta testing/ not launched), got a huge response with 11+ submissions & not even launched yet.

High-Tier Category: Vocally - Text To Speech & Podcast solutions (in-profit)(acquired)

(all projects of 8 months)

My Tier System Low-tier: very niched problems, specific audience & huge market gap. Mid-tier: Specific niche, huge problem that is easily cashable for the next 5 years. High-tier: Vast niche, huge problem, easily cashable for next 5 years & have at least 5-8 different usecases for different audiences.

Feel free to ask me any questions in the comments below that you can't find answers to already. I'll answer them and consider adding them to the post later.

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Twitter: www.twitter.com/mtaimoorhas Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtaimoorhassan/




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As you grow, your research/mind grows gradually. The main game is to narrow down your research as much as possible.

From one website to other but only after specifying keywords you want to research on & further narrow down to use-cases.

Keep yourself 24/7 updated to whats going on in market.

1: get involved in communities on twitter/linkedin/slack/discord. 2: go & find bad reviews of products on internet/app stores, etc. 3: search on startup directories that whats launching in world. 4: go to ad libraries & see whats selling/what ads are put out in market. & a lot more accordingly




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