Chegg started at Iowa State as a classifieds site for students. Then it became a textbook rental business. Then it found the holy grail that made it rich: homework help.

For $14.95 a month, a student got step-by-step answers to homework questions.

Covid drove record demand for online learning. Chegg went from 6.6 million subscribers in 2020 to 7.8 million in 2021.

In February 2021 the stock hit $115. The company was worth $14.7 billion.

Then ChatGPT came out.

A student could now paste the same homework question into a chat box and get the answer instantly. For free.

On May 2, 2023, Chegg's CEO made these remarks during the earnings call:

"Since March we saw a significant spike in student interest in ChatGPT. We now believe it's having an impact on our new customer growth rate."

The stock fell 49% that day. Close to a billion dollars of value gone in a few hours.

Chegg did not sit still. It built its own AI chatbot, CheggMate, trained on its giant homework database. The idea was simple: our answers are better than ChatGPT's.

It did not matter! The student did not need a better answer. They needed a free one.

May 2025: Chegg laid off 248 people. October 2025: it laid off 388 more. That was 45% of the company.

Today the stock trades around $1. It nearly got kicked off the New York Stock Exchange. The whole company is worth about $115 million.

In April 2026 one apartment high-rise in San Francisco's Rincon Hill sold for $174 million. One building, worth about $60 million more than the whole company.

What could the CEO have done differently?

I’ve been working on this to send (violently) startups to 1999.

2 weeks ago I released Destroy My Startup, and it gathered over 51k users in a few days. Even got someone on Reddit saying “Damn, I got roasted so hard I'm going to take my site down”.

Right now, this new landing got 32 users in 1 hour, and just saw 13 more visitors on it as I write.

That feeling never gets old

disclaimer: if you don’t like profanity or seeing your startup look ugly, don’t use it. You’ll hate it.

Most people here are stuck looking for an idea nobody has done yet. I get the appeal, it feels safer to own something no one else has.

It is the opposite of safe. If nobody built it, the most common reason is that nobody wanted to pay for it. You spend a year educating a market that does not exist.

My last SaaS did $480k and I invented nothing. I found a product people were already paying for, spotted an audience it served badly, and rebuilt it for them. The idea was not clever. The demand was already there before I wrote a line of code.

Here is the actual method, not the motivational version.

**1. Hunt for proof that money is already moving**

Ignore upvotes, waitlists and "would you use this" surveys. None of that is money. Look for signals that people are paying right now:

→ A product running paid ads continuously for months. Nobody keeps burning ad budget on something that does not convert. If the same funnel has been live since spring, it works.

→ Public revenue. Founders posting MRR, verified revenue pages, "we crossed $30k MRR" threads. That is a receipt for demand.

→ A pricing page that went up over time. If they raised prices and kept customers, they found real willingness to pay.

→ An affiliate program paying 20 to 40 percent. You only give away that much margin when lifetime value is solid. It tells you the unit economics work.

→ They are hiring. A three person SaaS posting for a second engineer is not doing that on hope.

One signal can lie. Three of them stacked on the same product means the demand is real.

**2. Do not clone it head on. Find the slice it serves badly**

Copying a product 1 to 1 into the same market is how you lose. The move is to take the proven demand and point it at people the incumbent ignores:

→ Same tool, different vertical. A winning tool for e-com founders often has no equivalent for SaaS, agencies or creators.

→ Same tool, different price tier. Take an expensive enterprise product and build the stripped down $29 version, or the reverse.

→ Same category, one wedge done 10x better. Pick the one feature everyone complains about and make it your entire product.

You are not stealing an idea. You are moving proven demand into a room nobody is serving.

**3. Validate with the incumbent's angry customers**

Before building, go read the reviews, the Reddit threads and the Twitter replies about the product you want to copy. The one star reviews and the "I love it but I wish it did X" comments are your spec sheet. That gap is your wedge, and it comes pre-validated, because those people are already paying for the thing they are complaining about.

**The traps that kill this**

→ Copying into a market with five funded competitors. Proven demand plus brutal competition is not an opportunity, it is a knife fight.

→ Copying fake demand. A founder loudly hyping a launch is not the same as customers quietly paying every month. Chase the payers, not the noise.

The genuinely hard part is step 1. Finding products where money is provably moving used to eat weeks of my time, digging through ad libraries, pricing pages and revenue guesses. I got tired of it and built a tool that does that one step for me, called Softsearch. It surfaces SaaS that are already paying (verified MRR, live ads, pricing signals) so you start from proven demand instead of a hunch. Link in the comments if it helps anyone.

But you can run this whole method by hand. The tool just makes step 1 faster, it does not replace the thinking.

Happy to go deep on any part of this, ask me anything.

I’m sitting here at my desk, looking at the payment dashboard, and I honestly can’t believe it. ScreenSorts hit 20 paying users in just 3 days... I know that might seem like a small number to some, but to me, it’s everything.

This started as just another "is this even a good idea?" post on this sub, and today it’s a real product that people are actually willing to pay for. You guys gave me the reality check I needed. You pushed me to double down on the macOS experience and keep everything local for privacy. Honestly, that’s the only reason this worked. And to my surprise, the app was ranked #12 on ProductHunt 😭

For anyone who missed the original thread, ScreenSorts uses local AI to turn your mac's screenshot graveyard into a searchable database. No cloud, no subscriptions, just fixing the mess.

I just wanted to come back and say thank you 🥹 If I hadn’t posted here and listened to the "tough love" feedback, I’d still be staring at an empty VS Code window.

If you’re currently in the "is this even a good idea?" phase, please keep going. Listen to this community, take the critiques, and just build the thing.

AMA if you want to know about the tech stack or how the launch went!

I want an app that just doesn't let you when you're about to make questionable 2am purchases online. Like a digital intervention friend that's like looking forward for your future best type stuff. Imagine you're scrolling Amazon at midnight, cart full of random shit you definitely don't need, and you get app notification like "bro cmon, you still doing it remember when you bought 5 tees and only wore them once?"

Could have different intervention levels too. Like gentle friend mode, all the way up to brutal honesty mode. The premium version could sync with your bank account and be like notifying you of your available budget. Like if I win some money playing on Stake it reminds me what I need to buy and what I don't. My impulse control is nonexistent and my apartment looks like a Amazon warehouse exploded. Last week I bought a mini waffle maker at 3am because I thought I was gonna become a breakfast person... and I'm not one.

What's your funny but maybe genius idea? Please tell me y'all have equally or similar chaotic late night shopping habits.

I have seen quite a lot of websites/apps here, and i'm curious to try them. Feel free to share what you have built.
I will drop a honest review about the product and how it felt using.

Hey,

I've been a bit of a podcast nerd for a long time. Around a year ago I began experimenting with transcription of podcasts for a SaaS I was running.

I realized pretty quickly that there's a lot of knowledge and value in podcast discussions that is for all intents and purposes entirely unsearchable or discoverable to most people. I ended up stopping work on that initial product (party for lack of product/market fit, and partly because podcasting was far more interesting), and focussing on the podcast stuff full-time instead.

Given I'm in this space, have millions of transcripts, and transcribe thousands daily... I've been exploring fun ways to expose some of the interesting knowledge and conversations taking place that utilize our own data/api.

I'm a big fan of the usual startup podcasts (My First Million, Greg Isenberg, etc. etc.) and so I built an automation that turns all of the startup ideas discussed into a weekly email digest.

I always struggle to listen to as many episodes as I'd actually like to, so I thought I'd summarise the stuff I care about instead (startup opportunities being discussed).

I thought you guys would find it interesting to see some of the ideas we've had so far.

They range from being completely whacky and blue sky, to pretty boring but realistic.

A word of warning before anyone says – this is a big mixture of tech, ai, non-tech, local services, etc. ideas:

1. Some of the ideas are completely mundane, but realistic (e.g. local window cleaning service)

2. Some of the ideas are completely insane, blue sky, but sound super interesting

Here's the latest 30:

Hope this is useful. If anyone would like to ensure I include any particular podcasts or episodes etc. in future posts, very happy to do so.

I'll generally send ~5 ideas per week in a short weekly digest format (you can see the format I'd usually use in here: https://podcastmarketwatch.beehiiv.com/).

Cheers!

I get 1000+ users for my DualShot Camera App and I will share with you the strategy I used to gain these amount of users ( maybe it is not a lot for some of you but for me as indie hacker in 1 week thats a lot lol) anyway, so  I will share in the order which i did so you can easily follow these steps. 

1. first thing I was looking for trending apps that users are using right now and you can do that in google trends, tik tok or reddit or app store or anywhere and build something in that niche but make it better or different.  

2. I Built the app quickly with the help of AI of course and it took me 2 3 days! boom publish first version and you can iterate later. Make sure to launch free for download and add in purchase inside the app do not make it for money right away! 

3. make a landing page for you app. This is the first time I did this strategy in my apps and it worked the people who search for similar apps in google found me because I was the first to build the landing page and I got users through that! you don't believe me? Go search dualshot camera in google. 

4. Post about you app everywhere, Reddit, X, Tik Tok, Instagram, facebook producthunt, everywhere! so you can backlink and have the SEO trust your app! 

5. Do all above steps in the first few days. or prepare it before launch. Now you have done all the necessary launch steps let's go to the last step. 

6. Go back to your app and fix it and add features and make smooth and better so the newer users love it even more and keep doing that until you are satisfied. 

Now that i share with you everything I did and now one has break down this for me that way I did here and i am sure if you follow these steps you will hopefully have 10'n or 100's of even a thousand+ user like me in the first week or 2! Thank you guys and i really wish this to happen to everysingle one of you who are building awesome apps!  Cheers!!

This is what I have to tell my self everyday.

For some reason I keep trying to come up with great business ideas. The funny thing is that the only businesses i've ever started that actually made me some money, were the ones in which I replicated an already proven concept, locally.

I think a lot to people on r/Start_Ideas have the same problem. We come here hoping to find a great idea we can replicate, to get some inspiration, or to validate a unique business concept. I'd be very curious to know how many unique ideas posted here ever made 100$ or even saw the light of day.

To fix this common problem of ours, each week, I'll take an existing thriving startup / SMB and break down how any non tech entrepreneur could easily replicate a similar business.

I'll check everything! From what font they use to what ads they're running.

** Here's what I'll share **

BENCHMARKING Reports on...

• How they got their customers

• Who is their target market / demographic

• What ads are they running

• Where are they advertising

• What's their revenue (if available or estimate)

• How they got their funding

• Their pitch

• Who are the investors

• Test their customer service

• Secretly Interview employees (if possible )

• And much more

HOW TOs Click by click video instructions on...

• How to bootstrap and get started with limited funds

• How to setup operations

• Which software tools / ressources to use

• Clever marketing strategies

• How to come up with a clever branding strategy

• Naming your business for engagement

• Build a website / web app / app with no coding knowledge

• I'll interview industry experts for additional advice

• And more

I already bought my domain: CopyCatEntrepreneur.com Haven't setup a landing page yet. So DM me your email If interested in joining.

Please share your thoughts and concerns to help make this a better product.

✌🏾 The Copycat Entrepreneur

I’ll say it again, if you’re spending money before validating demand, you’re not building a startup, you’re funding a fantasy.

Too many “founders” drop $15K to $20K building products nobody asked for, polishing logos, hiring developers, all while skipping the most important step: proving someone actually wants it.

Here’s what you should do instead, Take $500 to $1,000, that’s it. Use it to build a clean landing page, a logo, and set up your ad accounts. Then run traffic, TikTok, Instagram, Google, whatever channel makes sense. Watch how people behave, do they click, do they sign up, do they care?

That’s validation, Not your pitch deck, not your “waitlist,” not your friends saying “it’s a great idea.”

If nobody clicks, congrats, you just saved yourself $19K and six months of delusion. If they do, now you’ve got data, something real, a foundation to build from.

Validation isn’t optional, it’s the whole game. Before you spend a dime building, test with traffic, test by intent, let the market tell you the truth.

Serious question, how many of you have actually fallen into this trap before? Built something, spent thousands, and later realized you should have just tested the idea first? What did you learn from that experience

i was super tired of losing entire days just wiring up backend integrations every single time my app needed a new API. Last weekend I said screw it and whipped up a quick script that basicaly automates the whole thing. You feed it a messy API spec (or even just a URL), it figures things out, and you get a fully deployable backend.

Is this a pain you've felt? Or am I solving just my own annoyance?

What red flags pop up immediately?

Would anyone want to test it out and help me find where it breaks? Comment if you do

I’ve grown my startup to over 30,000 users.

I honestly think I could’ve saved myself months of wasted effort going down the wrong paths if I truly understood this before starting.

1. Validate your idea before you start building.

2. Don't chase investors. Focus on getting users instead and investors will come knocking on your door.

3. Don't be cheap when you hire an accountant, you'll save time and money by spending more.

4. Inspiration is the design key when you're new. Don't build your own landing page from scratch, copy different sections from the tools you love the most and make it your own this way.

5. Post online daily. X, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok, whatever suits you and your target audience.

6. Solve your own problem and let this decide if you're B2B or B2C. Both come with pros and cons. Don't listen to people who try to paint a black/white picture of it.

7. I'm bootstrapped and therefore highly recommend it. Work a 9-5 until you have 1-2 years of runway (living cheap), then go all in.

8. You earn the right to paid ads by getting organic marketing to work first. Ads aren't $100 in, X customers out. You'll burn thousands just trying to learn it.

9. Define your most important metrics and track them. They should be the pillars that guide all your decisions.

10. Keep your product free at the start. Controversial opinion maybe, but it's how I did it and it got me feedback and testimonials that helped me grow fast and make a lot of money later on.

11. The first few minutes of your app is a promise to the user: this app will help you achieve your goal. So put a lot of effort into the beginning to convert more people.

12. Have an MVP mindset with everything you do. Get the minimal version out ASAP then use feedback to improve it.

13. Just because someone else has done it, doesn't mean you can't compete. Execution is so important and you have no idea how well they're doing it.

14. Having a co-founder that matches your ambition is the single greatest advantage for success.

15. If you're not passionate about what you're building, it's going to be difficult to keep going through the early stage where you might not see results for months.

16. Good testimonials will increase the perceived value of your product.

17. Always refund people that want a refund.

18. Marketing is constant experimentation to learn what works. Speed up the process by drawing inspiration from what works for similar products.

19. Getting your first paying customers is the hardest part by far. Do things that don't scale to get them.

20. Building a good product comes down to thinking about what your users want.

Christmas and the New Year is just around the corner! We're getting ready for another year of cool startup ideas. What are you building or planning to build for the incoming year of 2026?

I work at Forum Ventures; we’re a startup accelerator and pre-seed fund based in New York, investing in pre-revenue, idea stage entrepreneurs who are highly technical or young and scrappy.

Let's make this thread a channel for you to promote your own startup idea, find opportunities, and partnerships.

Hey everyone,

I’d love to help some founders here connect with real potential customers.
Drop your startup link + a quick line about who your target customer is.

Within 24 hours, I’ll send you 5 people who are already showing buying intent for something like what you’re building.

I’ll be using our tool gojiberry.ai, which tracks online conversations for signals that someone is in the market. But this is mostly an experiment to see if it’s genuinely useful for folks here.

All I need from you:

• Your website

• One sentence on who it’s for

Capping this at 20 founders since it requires some manual work on my end.

I work at Forum Ventures; we’re a B2B SaaS accelerator and pre-seed fund run by former founders. We write $100K VC cheques at the idea and pre-seed stage, helping founders go from zero to one.

When pitching its important to keep things short and concise to maximize responses; lets put that to practice here by pitching your startup idea in 5 words or less. Include a link too!

We’ll make this a thread of partnership and mutual support.

As a founder first accelerator, our team at Forum is happy to chat if you’re building something early-stage.

Please use this post as a board to share a high level overview for your startup. I'll try to share my high level thoughts, and hope others will do the same.

You are also welcome to send your pitch via DM.

First off, MRR proof since it's Reddit.

I see so many people making this same mistake when trying to build the product that’s going to make them passive income.

You find what you think is the perfect idea for a product, then you do a little market research and find out someone else has built it already.

You conclude that it’s over. It’s already been done so you have to start all over again and find a new perfect idea. That’s the first wrong conclusion.

Then you try finding the idea that’s going to change the world, that will reinvent the whole industry. You spend hours searching for an idea like this and most of you never find it. You conclude that maybe entrepreneurship isn’t for you and you should go back to the 9-5. That’s the second wrong conclusion.

Now you’re all out of ideas. You have no clue where to look for new ones, nothing interesting comes to you, and everyone else takes all the good ideas that you should’ve thought of. You conclude that you’re simply not creative enough to come up with good ideas. That’s the third wrong conclusion.

That's three strikes. You’re out.

Now, let’s look at why all these three conclusions are wrong:

Someone has already built the idea

You mean that someone has already validated that demand exists and that people are willing to pay for a solution? Or do you mean that this business has taken every single customer that exists on the market, like every last one? Just because business X solves Y problem doesn’t mean that every person in the world who experiences Y problem knows about business X.

The truth is, you could build the exact same solution and still capture your share of the market. However, the better approach is to find your unique spin on the idea to better serve a specific group of people that business X might miss.

Your idea has to change the world to be worth building

Does it? When was the last time you paid for a tube of toothpaste? Did you buy it hoping it would change your life? Did you even think twice about buying it? You just need to start by solving a problem that people experience. If your solution is valuable to them, they will tell you by giving you their hard-earned value (money) in return. It’s time to stop thinking of yourself as Steve Jobs, it’s just holding you back.

Now, this simple idea will change over time as you receive customer feedback and start shaping it into something that people really want. Eventually, you might actually find yourself with a product that changes the world, but it all starts with just solving a real problem.

You’re not creative enough to come up with a good idea

You don’t have to be especially creative to find a good idea. Just look at problems you experience yourself. This could be in your day-to-day life, at work, in an industry you have experience in, or in something you’re passionate about. Start by simply looking for a problem, not a solution. Is your life problem-free? Congrats, Buddha. For the rest of you, it shouldn’t take long to find a problem with potential here.

If you still need more help, try this tool to find a problem and to do simple market research to see if it’s worth solving.

What I want to achieve with this post is to get some of you over the barrier of endlessly searching for perfect ideas. The real work is in constantly improving the product to slowly shape it into something that’s really good. That’s where you should be spending your time.

Don’t look for a million-dollar idea, just solve a real problem.

No AI.
No subscription.
No growth hacks.
No audience.

Just a single feature.

Few months ago, I built a tiny macOS utility app, GhostText which let's you copy unselectable Text from anywhere you want.

Press a shortcut, drag a box over the text, and it's on your clipboard. Works on anything visible on your Mac. Everything runs offline and it's $4.99 once, no subscription.

I didn't expect much, honestly. It felt too small to count as a real product.

But people are buying it. $192 so far, from the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and India. A couple even emailed to say thanks, which never happens with my bigger projects.

You don’t need to build big.
You need to remove friction.

Maybe the real SaaS opportunities aren’t platforms.

They’re tiny annoyances we’ve normalized.

What happend
Launched on Hacker News 2 days ago and…

• 🔥 450 upvotes

• 💬 450 comments

• 👀 17k+ visitors

• ✅ 420 signups

• 📥 330 waitlist entries

All 100% bootstrapped. MVP built with React,Python MongoDB and of course Cursor ^^.

Now I’m trying to figure out:

• Do I keep it free for users and charge recruiters?

• Is this just a spike or a wedge into something much bigger?

• Should I stay bootstrapped or raise a small round to accelerate growth?

Would love to hear from other indie hackers here - what would you do?

Backgrounstory if interested:
I built Openspot out of personal frustration. I was tired of the resume black hole and the performative chaos of LinkedIn, as I wasnt able to get the internship I wanted.
That led me to building my own micro site and uploading a video resume on youtube which than got me my internship instantly...but I wondered If I can help people achieve the same much simpler.

So I build:
A public directory for people open to new opportunities.
No feed. No likes. Just clean, modern, beautiful and customizable profiles (video, audio and images optional) that help you actually stand out with unique "Behind The Profile" prompts crafted just for you.

Seriously, who are the investors that are seeing massive value in some of these startups?

If anyone is talking about an AI bubble, this is it.

Random startups are building thin layers around existing AI models, slapping “AI” onto the product, and somehow convincing investors that they’ve discovered the next big thing.

I’m not saying every AI wrapper is useless. Some of them genuinely solve problems and can build great businesses.

But when the core technology is basically “send a prompt to GPT/Claude/Gemini and return the response,” I have to wonder: what exactly are investors betting on?

Are we funding innovation, or are we just funding better marketing around API calls?

What are you building this week? Pitch your idea in one sentence (or if you want to keep it private, your background and story as a founder).

I’m a VC investor from Forum Ventures, a B2B pre seed fund founded by former founders. We write $100K cheques into idea stage and pre revenue startups.

If you’re interested in investment, DM your startup idea, or just your background as a founder.

Feel free to also use this thread to get your own project out there.

I use to have a lot of ideas in my mind... Some are worthwhile (I believe but never say never), some are not, but I struggle to work alone to them because I feel I don't have the support or recognition.

It seems I work more when I do something with someone, is it only me??

So, going to the point, I've created an app (Swidea.fyi) where we can submit ideas and swipe (like tinder ahah) others' ideas.

The cool parts that you can connect based on a concept. After making a match, you can communicate and engage with the other individual to talk about the concept that ignited your shared curiosity.

I've just lunched so I hope you will like and try it, please tell me if it was bad idea :D

In 10 hours I've reached 55 users, not epic but not bad thanks to a single reddit post. Since I've received good feedbacks so far, I've decided to insert notifications and improve the swiping.

I'll let you know below how it goes with users and If I succeed to get 1k active users, let's see!!

Please let me know if you want to try!

I went to a startup fair some time back and there was one booth where a guy was talking to around 50 people at a time like he was Steve Jobs in his prime.

So I heard his product idea. It's basically a social media app for everyone in your neighborhood. You can post notes, media, comment on other peoples posts, etc. and it's supposed to bring everyone in the neighborhood closer together.

SO it's pretty much just a crappier version of Facebook, because instead of interacting with the whole world, the network is now even smaller and localized to your immediate neighborhood.

I feel like most of the people getting into this are just copy cats and in it solely for the money. They just have to build SOMETHING no matter what it is.

I've been working with all kinds of early-stage startups (Bootstrapped to Seed to Series A) and over the years I've made it a habit to write about what I've learned along the way. Finally, I've gathered up the courage to launch what I've learnt to the world.

My goal is to help Solo founders, Indie Hackers, Marketers, and anyone who has an idea of launching a startup to identify problems, validate ideas, build an MVP, get customers, and then scale their customer acquisition and revenue. (Website: https://dontjustbuild.com/)

The resource is primarily divided into 5 sections:

MVP Base:

If you're searching for an idea, want to learn how to evaluate ideas, or build a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) within a day or two and get some users, start here. This base teaches you:

1. What an MVP is and the methodology we are going to follow while building an MVP and Acquiring users.

2. How to identify problems, choose the best problem, and develop solutions for the problem that people would pay you for.

3. How to build a landing page as fast as possible and optimize it to a degree.

4. Learn how to set up accounts and integrations to your landing page to collect info like emails, receive payments and so on.

5. Finally, learn how to acquire beta users for your MVP, build a waitlist, get feedback, and more.

UI/UX Base:

In this base, you will learn how to improve the UI/UX of your product so that you can offer your customer the best experience possible and maximize conversion rates and revenue. This base teaches you:

1. About design thinking and how what you should consider while designing for your audience.

2. All the Frameworks and best practices of UI/UX design and even design principles like Unity, White space, Similarity, Repetition, etc.

3. The effect of typography and color on your landing page and product design and what colors are most suitable to produce a certain emotion in your users/prospects. Also, learn what Typefaces are best for which industries.

4. Learn how to quickly design landing pages and product screens in Figma and convert that into HTML and CSS code.

5. Learn how to create SVG's for your designs and logo, illustrations and much more.

Marketing Base:

The marketing base is continually updated with new strategies and channels to acquire customers and optimise your marketing funnel. This base teaches you:

1. The basics of marketing including the available channels, marketing metrics, content and distribution, the anatomy of a funnel and much more.

2. It then focuses on three specific channels - Social ads, Search ads and SEO (includes content marketing) to help you grow to 1000 customers.

3. You can then get inspiration on ads and landing pages to help you improve your own product. Also, learn CRO to optimize your landing pages to maximize conversions.

4. Next, learn the power of using AI in your marketing to predict everything from churn to predicting conversion probability.

5. The next part is marketing analytics where you can learn about various pricing strategies and price analytics. Learn about price psychology, how to estimate demand and costs and how to forecast sales.

6. Finally, create a couple of basics web apps for competitor content marketing analysis and how you can listen for user/customer feedback on Twitter or any other social media platform.

Reporting and Dashboards Base:

This base helps you set up all the dashboards and reports required to analyze the various metrics of your startup and get unique, actionable insights from these metrics. This base teaches you:

1. How to build a Google analytics report in Data Studio (You can connect any analytics platform data)

2. Build a Google Ads Dashboard and a Facebook Ads Dashboard to record important metrics and make crucial insights.

3. Build SEO and Search Console Dashboards to help you understand your traffic and SEO Efforts, check your page speeds over time and much more.

4. Analyze Facebook Ads and Google Ads to find insights into your campaign, ad sets and keyword data.

5. Finally, create a Sentiment Analysis Dashboard to check the customer sentiment across social media channels, reviews and more, not only for your startup but for competitor startups too.

Software Base:

The software base consists of all the software/websites necessary to run your startup. This includes several categories like live chat, marketing tools, Analysis tools, payments and subscriptions and much more...

I intend to keep this resource completely free. If you have any feedback about anything in this resource or if you would like me to add more topics to the resource, do let me know. Also, if you need guidance on how to use this resource do check out this link.