
Paul is a startup founder who is building in public. He co-founded Copy.ai.
Copy.ai
Paul is the cofounder of Copy.ai. Copy.ai is a GPT-3 Powered Marketing Tools to Help You Grow Your Business.
Copy.ai was launched on October 15. Within 9 hours, they had 667 new users. After one day, they had added 1,568 new users and had interest from agencies.
On October 17, he set the goal to get 10000 Copy.ai users by the end of the month. He had hit 3k users on October 20. By October 21, he had hit 5001 users and generated 400,000 marketing copy ideas. On November 5, they reached 9k sign ups. They reached their 10k target on November 8.
Their growth continued into December. December 10 was the first time they added $1k MRR in a day. By December 17, Copy.ai had hit 30k sign ups.
Copy.ai passed 1,000 paying customers in early February.
Monthly updates
MRR
He broke $500 MRR in mid October, 2020. Days later, he hit $1k MRR.
He continued to provide updates as he reached new milestones.
October
November 2020
- $4k MRR in early November
- November 9: $5k MRR
- November 12: $6k MRR
- November 16: $7k MRR. It had been about a month after launch. He also shared a growth chart.
- November 19: $9k MRR
- November 24: $10k MRR
- November 27: $11k MRR
December 2020
- December 1: $12k MRR
- December 2: $13k MRR
- December 4: $14k MRR
- December 7: $15k MRR
January 2021
- January 12, 2021: $28k MRR
- January 15: 30k 3 months after launch
- January 22: $33k MRR
February 2021
- February 5: $40k MRR
- February 13: $45k MM. They had 1965 sign ups the day before.
- February 23: $50k $51k MRR
- February 24: $52k MRR
March 2021
Other Projects
Taglines
Taglines is a tool that helps users generate great taglines in seconds.
Paul and Chris launched Taglines prior to starting Copy.ai.
MRR
- August 27: $6 MRR
- August 28: $24 MRR
- August 31: $36 MRR
- September 5: $56 MRR
- September 10: $102 MRR
- September 17: $200 MRR. Doubled in 6 days.
Move With Friends
Move With Friends mission is to help awesome tech people move to cool places and not have to leave their friends behind.
Paul announced the project in May, 2020. He built the website in 2 hours using Webflow.
Features
Interviews
#19 Paul Yacoubian | Co-Founder – Copy.ai at Building Fire