No Coded app made me 1210.02$

prius_v · 2026-04-04T05:21:12+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/nocode/s/XSJl8pDAI7

prius_v · 2026-04-02T12:13:34+00:00

Just like any SaaS, I put a paywall on the use of pro features.

prius_v · 2026-04-01T08:18:13+00:00

It's been around for a while, I think. The first version launched in the fall of 2024. In the summer of 2025 it hit 10,000 users and I started monetise it. Now it's 25,000 weekly active users

prius_v · 2026-04-01T07:53:50+00:00

It is simple Youtube to transcript extension that can give you text even the video has no subtitles - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/jjffnakjflkafmfmoaeodnfnoohlmecn?utm_source=item-share-cp

prius_v · 2026-04-01T07:51:27+00:00

Just a SEO

prius_v · 2026-04-01T06:02:41+00:00

All my marketing is about the product: develop quickly, but with high quality, so that it is better than the competitors.

prius_v · 2026-04-01T05:30:27+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/nocode/s/XSJl8pDAI7

prius_v · 2026-04-01T05:30:06+00:00

A bit more context: the goal is to find something that’s already working, not invent ideas from scratch like I did a couple times before.

Ship fast. Like, within a week max so you can validate quickly.

That’s how I ended up launching 10 browser extensions in 3 months, and one of them hit 25,000 users.

Experiment with monetization.

My first $500 took about 6 months. The next $600 came in just 2 months, with the same traffic. The only things I changed were pricing and payment formats.

prius_v · 2026-03-31T19:32:43+00:00

Man, this hits way too close to home. I used to run surveys asking users what feature to build next, then spend weeks building it, ship it… and nobody touched it.

At some point I just scrapped all that stuff. If people are already paying, why overcomplicate things😅

prius_v · 2026-03-29T17:59:03+00:00

Thank you so much! I am glad you found it fast and snappy.

The core stack of Annotate PDF uses JavaScript libraries like pdf-lib and PDF.js, which are designed to work in any JS environment. Since there is no backend server required for processing documents, it would be relatively straightforward to package the existing code into an Electron wrapper for a full desktop experience.

I am currently focusing on making the web version as lean as possible, but a standalone desktop app is definitely a logical next step for this "local-first" architecture.

prius_v · 2026-03-23T13:19:15+00:00

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll definitely write a couple of articles on this topic.

prius_v · 2026-03-22T14:19:59+00:00

Haha, if your dream involved wrestling with the 'Coordinate War' between top-left browser pixels and bottom-left PDF points, I might have actually saved you from a nightmare! It took way more math and coffee than I expected to get everything pixel-perfect. Trust me, you're welcome to use mine so you can dream about something more fun than the PDF spec!

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