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    Working Mom, Zero Tech Experience, Built a Startup in 48 Hours After Reading Fastlane | Progress Thread

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    Late August Update Short one but meaningful. Partnerships Have a meeting coming up with commute.org, San Mateo County’s official Transportation Demand Management agency. Their entire mission is getting solo drivers out of their cars. Reached out to explore being listed as a resource alongside...
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    Working Mom, Zero Tech Experience, Built a Startup in 48 Hours After Reading Fastlane | Progress Thread

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    Partnerships Have a meeting coming up with commute.org — San Mateo County’s official Transportation Demand Management agency. Their entire mission is getting solo drivers out of their cars. Reached out to explore being listed as a resource alongside their programs. This is the kind of...
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    ScrollScholar - App Blocker That Makes You Study

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    Those conversion numbers are genuinely impressive, 28.6% trial-to-paid with $100 MRR while still ironing out the paywall flow is a really solid foundation to build from. The Meta ads shifting to trial starts instead of installs makes a lot of sense. Installs are a vanity metric if the funnel...
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    The Millionaire Fastlane changed my life — here’s the action I took in 48 hours

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    Thanks! No ads, it’s a simple monthly subscription for platform access. The cost-share between driver and rider is peer-to-peer (never processed by the app), so the subscription just covers using the matching and verification tools. Right now we’re in a free pilot to prove out the model before...
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    ScrollScholar - App Blocker That Makes You Study

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    Great question! For me it was cold pitch emails, no personal connections or PR service. Instead of just the general tips@ inbox, I looked up specific reporters at each station who covered community or local business stories and reached out to them directly, that seemed to get a much better...
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    Working Mom, Zero Tech Experience, Built a Startup in 48 Hours After Reading Fastlane | Progress Thread

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    Hey everyone, wanted to give an update since my last post here got such a great response (and even inspired a couple other threads, love seeing that). Quick recap for anyone new: I’m Shey, a working mom and X-ray tech from Roseville, CA. I read The Millionaire Fastlane and built RideNeighbor, a...
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    Working Mom, Zero Tech Experience, Built a Startup in 48 Hours After Reading Fastlane | Progress Thread

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    Thank you! Honestly, for me it was Bubble.io, it’s a no-code platform, and I had zero coding background going in. It’s not the only option (Adalo, FlutterFlow, Glide are other popular no-code tools depending on what you’re building), but Bubble worked for me because it’s flexible enough to build...
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    Working Mom, Zero Tech Experience, Built a Startup in 48 Hours After Reading Fastlane | Progress Thread

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    Appreciate that, thank you! And yeah, no music is a totally valid preference, that’s exactly why we built it as an actual filter instead of just a bio note nobody reads. You’re right that UX-wise this could go deeper over time. Right now it’s a fixed set of categories (chatty/quiet, music...
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    ScrollScholar - App Blocker That Makes You Study

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    Hey Jessey, this made my day honestly! Glad my thread nudged you toward local news/forums, that’s exactly why I started posting here in the first place. ScrollScholar is such a smart pivot from the language-learning angle, the “screen time is a classroom problem” framing is a much easier sell...
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    Working Mom, Zero Tech Experience, Built a Startup in 48 Hours After Reading Fastlane | Progress Thread

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    Wow, thank you for taking the time to write all this out, this is exactly the kind of blunt, experienced feedback I need right now. The four-variable density point really hit home. I’ve been thinking about “California” as my market, but you’re right that I need to think about it as concentrated...
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    Working Mom, Zero Tech Experience, Built a Startup in 48 Hours After Reading Fastlane | Progress Thread

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    Honestly it’s still super early days for me too, only about 5 weeks in! Whenever you’re ready to jump into your idea, hit me up if you wanna bounce ideas off someone, good luck with everything else on your plate for now!
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    Working Mom, Zero Tech Experience, Built a Startup in 48 Hours After Reading Fastlane | Progress Thread

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    Thanks for the rec, I’ll check it out! “Trading up the chain” makes a lot of sense, I actually pitched CBS13 and ABC10 separately myself, and the CBS13 story then syndicated automatically to KPIX Bay Area and Yahoo/MSN/AOL since they’re all on the same CBS content network. So the syndication...
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    Working Mom, Zero Tech Experience, Built a Startup in 48 Hours After Reading Fastlane | Progress Thread

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    Good question! I actually reached out to them first, cold pitched CBS13 with the story, and once that aired it opened the door for ABC10 and the syndication to KPIX/Yahoo/MSN/AOL through the CBS network. Really like your idea about using that as social proof for further outreach though. I...
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    Working Mom, Zero Tech Experience, Built a Startup in 48 Hours After Reading Fastlane | Progress Thread

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    Progress update on RideNeighbor — A lot’s happened since my last post. Quick rundown: Press & visibility: Got picked up by CBS13 Sacramento, which syndicated to KPIX Bay Area and Yahoo/MSN/AOL through the CBS content network. ABC10 also ran a segment. Waitlist is now sitting at 130+ signups...
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    RideNeighbor Carpooling App, Progress Log

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    Haha the honey buns line got me but real answer: every RideNeighbor member goes through ID verification + a background check before they can ride with anyone, so it’s not an open free-for-all, it’s built specifically for verified commuters trying to save money on a real daily/weekly drive. Tell...
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    RideNeighbor Carpooling App, Progress Log

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    I came up with it because my husband drives 125 miles each way to the Bay Area for work, twice a week. Watching him burn money and hours on that commute is literally what started this. I looked around and it’s all Facebook groups and Craigslist for carpooling, no verification, no real safety...
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    RideNeighbor Carpooling App, Progress Log

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    100%! That’s exactly the mindset. There’s always SOMETHING you can do, even on the hardest days. Thanks for following along
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    RideNeighbor Carpooling App, Progress Log

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    Both actually! We’ve been hitting every angle, TikTok and Instagram with organic content (personal story hooks have been performing best), active in Facebook groups and Nextdoor for hyperlocal reach, and the press has been a huge accelerator. CBS13 syndicated nationally and we just wrapped ABC10...
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    RideNeighbor Carpooling App, Progress Log

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    Appreciate it! Lots more updates coming, this thing is moving fast
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    RideNeighbor Carpooling App, Progress Log

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    It’s been a whirlwind and I had to come back and update this thread! Since my last post: ️ Just wrapped an ABC10 news interview today — segment coming soon targeting California commuters up and down the state App prototype is built and looking polished — Home, Find a Ride, My Rides, and...

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