How AJ's boredom turned Carrd into a Profitable Business

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   Who Is AJ, the Founder of Carrd? at 2:19

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   On The SaaS Podcast, host Omer Khan says Carrd founder AJ is anonymous on purpose. Full answer

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   How Profitable Was Carrd When Founder AJ Described It? at 4:50

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   AJ, founder of the one-page site builder Carrd, tells Omer Khan on The SaaS Podcast that monthly recurring revenue had hovered between about $25,000 and… Full answer

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   How Did AJ Build Up His Design and Development Skills at 7:40

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   AJ learned computer science in school, but mostly everything that he wanted to know for his job, he learned doing it. Full answer

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   How Did AJ Plan His Business Ahead of Time at 12:07

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   There was no plan. He put out a few free templates and let people download them for free. Full answer

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   How Did AJ Come Up With the Idea for Pixelarity.com at 16:51

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   Enough people started asking AJ to drop Creative Commons license on his HTML5 templates where it made sense to actually sell his templates for money, giving… Full answer

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   How Do You Create 93 Templates All by Yourself at 19:21

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   AJ created ~70% of all the templates by himself, and then he also hired a designer and a few coders to help. Full answer

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   Why Did AJ Build Carrd at 21:32

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   While AJ was somewhat bored of making individual HTML5 templates, he also started to create one-page fillers, just something to put up on the site for new… Full answer

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   Why Wasn't AJ Afraid of His Competition at 34:28

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   AJ wanted to challenge himself and try out his own ideas. It was an entirely new approach, so it didn't matter what the competition was doing. Full answer