Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedMaor Shlomo: belief
6 Jul 2025 Lenny's Podcast Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
“I would say, "Hey, write a post, paste the link back, send me an email with the link and I'll give you credits.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Maor Shlomo
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Jul 2025
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
Transcript context
…That is really great advice. It aligns with what I often see with traditional growth engines. There's like SEO, there's pay, there's sales, there's reality, word of mouth, and usually a company grows mostly through one, and LinkedIn interestingly was your vector of growth. Also, just this incentives piece is really interesting, a really cool tactic. So the tactic here is incentivizing people to share what they built on Base44 and they get credit to build more. I've never heard of that before. How do you actually do that? Do they send screenshots or something? How do they get credit for- Literally early on they sent me emails and I would take them, again, with an app and an LLM. Support is a whole different topic that we can speak about for hours, like, how do you run support when you're solo, which is a huge topic. But they would send... I would say, "Hey, write a post, paste the link back, send me an email with the link and I'll give you credits. " So at some point I automated that because I couldn't really manage the whole thing. But, yeah, because you couldn't really connect to the social APIs and so on. It was hard. So i was like, " Just send me the post." I know exactly what you mean with the support challenges of being a solo person. With a newsletter of a million people, I get endless little things just come up. I am really curious to hear you solve... Let's not get into it. In terms of being solo, actually, I haven't asked this yet, how long were you actually solo? When did you actually hire your first second person into the journey of the six months?…
Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.