I Shipped my First SaaS - A Free AI SaaS Course Inside


Hey Reader,

A couple years ago, I made a bold move.

I left my corporate 9-to-5 to become a Tech Educator. Starting from scratch was challenging, I had limited social proof and only had testimonials from my past colleagues.

Existing social proof tools were charging $75/month ($900/year!) and were overly complex plus they stopped improving the product.

Thatโ€™s when I decided to build my own solution and Ship my First SaaS called as ProofyBubble.

๐Ÿฉต ProofyBubble shows real-time visitor and purchase activity, building instant trust through live notifications that create urgency and FOMO.

Youโ€™ve probably noticed those engaging bubbles on my website - thatโ€™s the โ€œBubbleโ€ in ProofyBubble ๐Ÿ˜‰

It didn't have a name then but was just a solution to help me launch and build trust with all of you with the Next.js Course.

The results were immediate ๐Ÿคฏ - we saw a significant ๐Ÿ“ˆ jump in revenue when we started displaying website traffic, waitlist signups, and sales data.

Iโ€™ve since integrated ProofyBubble across all my websites, and the impact has been incredible:

  • Newsletter subscribers grew significantly
  • Sales increased ๐Ÿ’ฐ
  • Course launches gained momentum with social proof โšก๏ธ
๐Ÿšจ ProofyBubble is 50% off for a limited time so check it out here if you'd like to automate your social proof.

I'll be sharing my learnings next week on my Youtube channel so subscribe so you don't miss out.

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Weekly Snack: A Free Course to Ship Your First Full Stack AI SaaS

I recently shipped a completely free 9-hour long AI SaaS course on my Youtube channel.

In this 9-hour long AI SaaS course, you'll learn to build and deploy a Full stack AI SaaS from scratch called Sommaire.

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What will you build?

Sommaire AI allows you to transform your PDF's into beautiful visual summaries reel like Instagram.

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Here's what you'll learn:โ€‹
๐Ÿ“ Clear, structured summaries with key points and insights w/ Open AI and Gemini AI

๐ŸŽจ Beautiful, interactive summary viewer w/ progress tracking with React 19

๐Ÿ”’ Secure file handling and processing w/ Upload Thing and Langchain

๐Ÿ” Protected routes and API endpoints w/ Next.js Serverless functions

๐Ÿ’ฐ Flexible pricing plans (Basic and Pro) w/ Stripe

๐Ÿช Webhook implementation for Stripe events

๐Ÿ“Š User dashboard for managing summaries w/ Shadcn UI

๐Ÿ“ฑ Responsive design for mobile and desktop w/ Tailwind CSS

๐Ÿ”„ Real-time updates and path revalidation

๐Ÿš€ Production-ready deployment w/ Vercel

๐Ÿ”” Toast notifications for upload status, processing updates, and error handling

๐Ÿ“ˆ Performance optimizations

๐Ÿ” SEO-friendly summary generation

๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ Markdown Export that can be converted into a blog post

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I hope you'll check it out and ship your own SaaS!

๐ŸŽ‰ Perks of being on the Next.js Course Waitlist! ๐ŸŽ‰

Since you're already on the Next.js Course waitlist, you're in for a treat!

I'm opening the course early for waitlist members, which means you can start learning before everyone else ๐Ÿ˜‰.

You'll get first-hand access to everything I've discoveredโ€”from building real-time features to crafting engaging user experiences.

One ask before you scroll,

What are your top questions about Caching in Next.js that I have to cover in the course? What confuses you? Simply hit reply to this email and let me know!

Stay tuned!

๐Ÿš€ Latest Frontend News

Wanna Self-Host your App without spending hundreds of dollars? Coolify is a great option! It's an open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.

โ€‹SuperTokens are a Open-Source alternative for Auth. You not only get support for frameworks but also, embeddable UI.

Wanna Build an AI Agent? Look into Cline which embeds into VSCode and builds it all for you.

โ€‹Real-time SERP API for easy SERP scraping Scrape organic results, ads, related searches, inline questions and get structured results in JSON format.

A headless open-source Emoji picker component for React.

Netlify is now an official deployment partner of Tan Stack, read hereโ€‹

Wanna learn how mask-image support would work for Tailwind, watch this great educational video!

Make your SaaS app look good with Customizable Theme Presets for your boring Shadcn and Tailwind Sites.

Great Education by Lee Rob on Why your Next.js Sites can be slowโ€‹

๐Ÿ‘€ Keep an eye out for next week's newsletter where I'll share a Cursor Competitor that's really good.

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๐ŸŽฅ Weekly Youtube Videos

Check it out and subscribe to my channel โ†—๏ธ for more Frontend, Leadership and Career Development content.

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