How I run a $100k/month software agency with no code

so I run a $100,000 a month software agency without using any code and I want to go over exactly what I'm doing and how you can do something similar or build something in the software industry there's a lot of opportunities right now with software and no code and so I want to talk a little bit about what I've been doing and how I've been able to make it work so before I do that I want to give you um some background around who I am and how I got started so U my name is Jacob clog um and I've been running this business now since I was 17 I'm currently now 20 so roughly around 3 years I've been running this business and I started in high school sitting in the back of my classroom when my teachers would be explaining you know a math lecture or some English course that I just did not care about I knew that I wanted to go into business I knew that there was something bigger for me and so I started really young trying a bunch of different business models everything from Drop Shipping to Amazon FBA to affiliate marketing um eCommerce you name it I tried it um and nothing worked until I started tinkering with bubble and no code um and I'll talk a little bit more more about that in a second um but some other things you should know about me is that I'm not technical so I I may look like I can code but the reality is I actually can't um and so this makes me no different than probably lot of the people watching this or potentially you watching this right now who probably also can't code um this doesn't this doesn't limit um you in any Regard in the world that we live in now and so I'm going to talk through that a bit more as well um and I also want to note that this wasn't an overnight success either it took me two years before I was able to hit a million dollars a year which is still relatively fast but a lot of the time people online like to you know shout about how they got to $100,000 a month in 30 days and and the reality is that 99% of people won't ever hit those numbers but definitely won't ever hit them um in such a short amount of time and so I don't want to be one of those people who who say that you can reality as business is a long-term game and the reality is I'm also still figuring out things as I go um I did that when I was in high school and I'm still doing it now the only difference is that I've just gone a lot biger better at figuring out what to do um and so if you want the full story around what I do and how I got started I just did an interview on Brett malinsky Channel um it's at about 60,000 views right now and you can go check this out um I'll link this also in the description if you want to go watch it but it gives me gives a much more in-depth view about what I do and how I got started so the first thing I want to talk about is is actually what I do to give you a bit of insight so I'm going to show you my agency right now I just pulled up the site so my agency is called digital and what we do is we use no code to build custom software for startups and businesses but because we use noode we're able to do it a lot faster and a lot cheaper and so we've been able to work with some of the biggest creators including aach as you can see now we helped them build um a platform called Creator now which basically was a platform that helped um upcoming creators or want toe creators accelerate their growth by weekly challenges and helping them motivate them and through communities and leaderboards um to hopefully actually um become successful we hooked it up to the YouTube API um so that you were able to actually see when people posted and then have a leaderboard to see how people performed and so we designed this and built this all um in bubble which we talk about a bit more they actually went on to sell um very recently um they sold to vid IQ which we're super proud of um though I'm you know though they end end up working apart from us after the first 6 months um it still is very cool to see that they um were able to accomplish what they've accomplished so um that is arak who is a you know pretty well-known YouTuber in the space um and so that's just one of the projects we've worked with we've worked with some um Fortune 500 companies we've also worked with dozens of startups and and small medium businesses so that's a little bit about what we do some of the advantages of using no Code and low code over a traditional stack um would be that for one we're able to build a lot faster so around 10x to speed to what you can will you compare with traditional development so to put this into perspective we wanted to test ourselves to see how fast we could truly build and so we decided to challenge ourselves and give and and gave ourselves two weeks to basically redesign and build Airbnb and so we came up with this concept that we call Airbnb trips um which is basically a way to create team trips or group trips and so uh the idea was that you know maybe you want to plan a trip with your friends that Airbnb doesn't allow for a great way to do that and so we built our platform ourselves this is not just designs this is like an actually working thing where you can select the dates you can see that change um and you can even search for listings though nothing will actually well these are some dummy listings but the point was that we were able to build this this this functionality and actually make it work within two weeks so this just proves the point that bubble and no code is a lot faster because you can imagine if you wanted to build this in a full stack environment that you'd be probably looking at 6 to 12 months and so you're much much more than even 10 times faster but we just use that as a conservative guess and you can see this is all built with a no code this all works um and so just for reference uh and another thing is you're also going to be a lot cheaper so we come in at around 1/10th of the cost sometimes more sometimes even less um so so instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on building software um we're able to do that for even anywhere from $5 to $110,000 on upfront cost um so that helps a lot of startups and a lot of people that are just getting started being able to build even some kind of proof of concept to get it out the door um and uh we we're really proud of that and then lastly uh there's no technical jargon on on what we do and you don't need to know any specific technical skills or anything to actually be able to follow as we build so no code obviously being in the name it's very easy to follow along there is no code and so we're not needing to speak into these technical dragons that could confuse people and you know mislead people and so that opens us up to a lot bigger of a community and so I want to talk a little bit about some of the tools we use starting with bubble.io so bubble is an amazing tool for people that are looking to build software and is the tool that we use primarily when it comes to actually building these no codes tools so what you can see here is that bubble's just a really powerful tool that allows allows us to basically build apps and and uh you know web apps and mobile app native apps um Etc without using any code um from the front end we use drop and drag kind of uh components and on the back end it's these like really easy zappier like um workflows so if we want to take a look here you can see as far as the logic goes if bubble shows you're basically doing um pretty basic logic right so Buton is clicked and then you're just kind of walking through what actually happens and so it's really easy to follow along and build and then as far as far as the design perspective goes again it's just a drag and drop um board where you're able to take existing components like searches and cards it's all all these stuff that are already pre-built for you and just kind of use it in your app how you see fit and so that really is the power of a no code and why we chose bubble um and then the next tool I use to run pretty much on a day-to-day basis that I'm using right now is notion so as you can see we have all these different tabs for the team and they all go much more in depth as you can see we can break these down even more but notion is an essential tool um that we use in our business and I and I could do a whole video explaining all the processes and pages and flows that we have built into the notion um and I may do that in the future so let me know if that's something you want to do and then of course we use figma for design so figma if you're not familiar is a collaborative design tool we design all the screens in it so before we build anything in bubble it always starts in figma um it's a great easy to use tool Myro I'm sure you're familiar um basically creates flowcharts stuff like that slack stripe web flow the point is that all the tools I use again are not technical so anybody that wants to can get started building a an agency building a software building anything alike with these tools that you can pretty much use to build any online business nowadays and so this just shows how um accessible building software building agencies are right now so I want to talk a little bit about my plan to scale up to $250,000 a month so the first thing is that I'm doing a lot of content as you can see right now I'm shooting some content but I really want to share as I build and share as I learn and the main place I'll be doing that is Twitter and so if you want to follow me uh Jacob S clug or Jacob clug on Twitter you can see that almost on the daily I'm posting little little bits of what I'm doing so you can follow along here's our little animation video that we just put together for our launch so things like this you'll be able to track kind of real time what what I'm doing and uh what the latest in Ras is and so if you're interested in learning more I definitely recommend um giving that uh a look and then next thing is I'm going to build be building communities of like-minded Builders so pretty shortly um I'm going to be launching the community where you and other people can join to basically create a space where we can have a lot of like-minded people everywhere from software to agency iners everybody that's building businesses online and creating beautiful products that are scaling to hundreds of thousand dollars a month or if you're just starting uh you know $100 a month uh this is going to be a place where we just really build great businesses um no no courses no no like selling information or anything that like that it's just going to be an open Forum where everyone can can chat and the last thing I'll be doing is partnering with creators and so this will uh be quite a big Initiative for us um they'll be I'll be talking about this more in the coming weeks but um we have some exciting things planned with some big creators um and this is just part of the flywheel that I'm looking to create where we build software creators and that kind of funnels back into the agency allowing us to build even more meaning mean f softwares for the world so I hope this this was helpful um if you ever want to reach me or you know contact me feel free to um hit me on Twitter I'm most responsive on there um and if you are interested in building any software um whether you're a business owner or you're a Founder looking to get started um feel free to reach out through the site and I'm happy for myself or the team to chat with you so this is the first video I'll be making I'll be aiming to shoot weekly videos like this really raw um give you the inside look of what I'm working at working on or working at and um I hope that you enjoyed so I'll see you next time

Channel: Jacob Klug

Views: 8,689

Keywords: agency, business, software, no code

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Length: 11min 37sec (697 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 06 2024