9-5 Dad Built A $1M AI App With No Code
How He Did It With No Experience + Step-by-step Guide On How You Can Do It, Too!
Hey Creators! 👋
Today we’re talking about David Bressler, a family man & data analyst, who was constantly nagged by his coworkers with simple Excel tasks. With 6 weeks left till his son's birth, he decided to finally scratch his entrepreneurial itch - he began building an AI app for Excel & Sheets, which later became Formula Bot.
In this post, we'll be revealing how David built an app evaluated at $1M with:
Only 2-3 hours per day
A full-time job
Zero coding knowledge
No prior business experience
A family & son on the way
From September 2022 to September 2023 he built the MVP and refined it, all while juggling many responsibilities, and as of now — Formula Bot has nearly 900,000 users & generates over $26K in MRR, mostly being run solo by David!
We’ll take you through David’s journey of building Formula Bot from the ground up and give you a step-by-step tutorial to create your own no-code AI app.
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6 Weeks To Make It Work
As a full-time senior data analyst, David was a wizard in Excel and spreadsheets. With this skill & his constraint of time before the birth of his youngest son, he had a window of 6 weeks to create something that would scratch his entrepreneurial itch.
David always had a knack for creating something awesome, but could never act on it because of his responsibilities, ranging from family commitments to his 9-5 job — he just never had the time or resources to even start.
With his youngest son on the way, a sense of urgency gripped him. David realized that he HAD to make something happen — it’s now or never.
This was before ChatGPT even existed, yet the technology of GPT-3 did. It all started with David's prompt — "Hey, I'm thinking of building this app. What's a good name for it?" — and it responded with “Excel Formula Bot”.
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David knew he wanted to create an AI solution for Excel, but it would take a long time to learn to code and create the minimum viable product — and with the clock ticking till his youngest son’s birth, he had to think outside of the box and find a way to develop this app, without coding a single line, as fast as possible.
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So, how did David build an app that would be evaluated at $1M with only a few hours a day, a family to feed, a son on the way, a 9-5 job, and ZERO coding knowledge?
We’ve analyzed his story & gathered every bit of information you would need to do the same — here’s exactly how he did it, step-by-step:
