Zero to $40K/Month in Less Than 6 Months
Eric SmithFounder of AutoShorts.ai $40,000 monthly recurring revenue Published May 20, 2024 by Fardeen KhanReviewed and edited by Niall Doherty 
Check out AutoShorts, self-described as…
Faceless Videos on Auto-Pilot. Our powerful AI video creation platform allows you to fully automate a faceless channel.
See their YouTube channel for impressive examples of videos made with their software 
I gave it a try myself and was able to generate an impressive demo video in about 3 minutes.
And channels like Steller Sagas (405K subscribers) show that there’s an audience for this kind of content 
AutoShorts founder Eric Smith recently shared how the business has grown…
Dec 20th: Idea formed.
Feb 1st: First subscriber.
Feb 28th: 1K [monthly recurring revenue].
March 16th: 2K MRR.
…
May 5th: 30K MRR.
May 13th: 40K MRR.
I had no idea Autoshorts would be this popular during the first ~$1k MRR… then it snowballed all of a sudden. Keep grinding
How Eric came up with the idea…
It was something I wanted for myself. So I just built a quick and dirty MVP that I would use and then built features for customers as they trickled in.
Gaining traction…
Initially it was Facebook ads, then more recently it has been through affiliates and word of mouth.
Also…
As we got more users they started making YouTube videos sharing the SaaS, which sorta snowballed on its own.
He’s likely referring to videos like these 
Eric’s business expenses…
Costs come in at about $10k per month. Biggest part of this are server costs, costs to run AI models, and Fb ads.
So he went from $0 to $40k with AutoShorts in less than 6 months, with a 75% profit margin 
While you could try growing a channel like Steller Sagas with this software, methinks a more reliable way to make money here would be to offer AI video creation as a service.
Armed with this software, it’s pretty easy to crank out shorts for clients 
You could even create a demo video for them in a few minutes, use that to pitch them on your service.
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