Making over $10k a month from a timer app

High Signal

I spoke to Lukas Hermann from StageTimer about how he's making over $10k a month from his timer app.

We talked about how he's growing and monetizing StageTimer along with a lots of other fun topics like making really ambitious goals, business ideas to avoid, doing business in Germany vs going overseas and loads more.

Chapters

00:00 Intro
00:24 What is StageTimer?
01:19 What led you to create StageTImer?
02:36 Is it a simple or complicated app?
05:16 Setting ambitious goals and Lukas's pinned tweet
09:08 What if you fail?
10:32 How much revenue StageTimer makes
10:57 Getting laid off
16:24 Viral moments for StageTimer
19:39 Did you ever explore VC?
22:12 Busineses to avoid making e.g. courses/boilerplates
26:11 Doing business in Germany vs overseas
32:07 What are your future plans?
35:50 Freemium pricing
38:08 Marketing experiments
40:47 Conclusion

Links

StageTimer: https://stagetimer.io/
Lukas personal site: https://lukashermann.dev/
Pinned tweet: https://x.com/_lhermann/status/1506665241458921476
Doing business in Germany: https://lukashermann.dev/writing/bootstrapping-a-saas-business-in-germany/

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