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How I Built A $1M Business in 117 Days

Name: How I Built A $1M Business in 117 Days
Uploaded: 2025-07-02
Duration: 12 min 46 s
Description: Yasser Elsaid built Chatbase — a platform for training custom AI chatbots on a company's data — to $1M ARR in 117 days, primarily via a build-in-public Twitter presence and a 'PLG' (product-led growth) motion where free users convert. Chapters cover the $1M tweet, the build-in-public playbook, future-proofing against model shifts, and AI agents as the next layer.

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Synopsis

Yasser Elsaid built Chatbase — a platform for training custom AI chatbots on a company's data — to $1M ARR in 117 days, primarily via a build-in-public Twitter presence and a 'PLG' (product-led growth) motion where free users convert. Chapters cover the $1M tweet, the build-in-public playbook, future-proofing against model shifts, and AI agents as the next layer.

Ideas in this episode

AI chatbot SaaS for SMBs
Yasser Elsaid's Chatbase $1M ARR story can be mirrored as a faith-organization chatbot service on a self-hosted LLM plus vector-DB stack — organizations pay $29/mo for a chatbot trained on their own bulletins and FAQ — with the build documented publicly on a code-hosting platform.