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

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.

That’s when I decided to build my own solution and Ship my First SaaS called as ProofyBubble.

You’ve probably noticed those engaging bubbles on my website - that’s the “Bubble” in ProofyBubble 😉

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 🤯 - we saw a significant 📈 jump in revenue when we started displaying website traffic, waitlist signups, and sales data.

I’ve since integrated ProofyBubble across all my websites, and the impact has been incredible:

• Newsletter subscribers grew significantly
• Sales increased 💰
• Course launches gained momentum with 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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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:​
📝 Clear, structured summaries with key points and insights w/ Open AI and Gemini AI

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

🔒 Secure file handling and processing w/ Upload Thing and Langchain

🔐 Protected routes and API endpoints w/ Next.js Serverless functions

💰 Flexible pricing plans (Basic and Pro) w/ Stripe

🪝 Webhook implementation for Stripe events

📊 User dashboard for managing summaries w/ Shadcn UI

📱 Responsive design for mobile and desktop w/ Tailwind CSS

🔄 Real-time updates and path revalidation

🚀 Production-ready deployment w/ Vercel

🔔 Toast notifications for upload status, processing updates, and error handling

📈 Performance optimizations

🔍 SEO-friendly summary generation

🗂️ 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!

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🎉 Perks of being on the Next.js Course Waitlist! 🎉

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 😉.

You'll get first-hand access to everything I've discovered—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!

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🎉 Exclusive Early Access Alert! 🎉

Want to see how I built ProofyBubble? Join my Next.js course where I'll share everything I've learned about building real-time features and creating engaging user experiences.
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​🚨 Early Access Opportunity: I'm opening the course early ONLY for the Waitlist members, which means you can start learning before everyone else 😉.

Don't miss out - click this magical link to join the waitlist and get early access! 💖
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Stay tuned!

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.

​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.

​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 here​

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 slow​

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

Check it out and subscribe to my channel ↗️ for more Frontend, Leadership and Career Development content.

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