I forgot how good this feels: First $39 with pre-order, without a finished product.
As context, I used to be a Notion creator, in total I made over $50k (including selling the business).
That was like 3 years ago. But the one thing that I really missed, were these Gumroad notifications. I remember waking up in the morning and checking how much I've made while asleep.
Now I'm back baby :D
It all started with Hermes Agent. I started using it and wanted to create a dashboard for it. From that idea, I was thinking, why don't I build my very own all-in-one app, that I will use to monitor basically everything in my life from tasks, notes, goals, to finances, health, recipes and more.
So I started building it.
After a month in, I decided, why not turn this into a product. Similar to a Notion template, I could sell this as an "app template". For sure a lot of people would like to do the same: building their very own all in one app.
**The idea is simple, instead of 100+ hours and $200+ in AI spend, you get a pre-built codebase with step-by-step instructions, that you can deploy and edit to your liking.**
This is how [Solum OS](https://getsolumos.com) was born.
It is still not ready, I have a lot to work on before I can officially launch it (fixes, features, onboarding & video guide, etc.), but I decided to build the landing page, and add a "pre-order" option.
And bamm, after two days, my first pre-order came.
This gave me a huge motivational boost, so I can keep building, and soon launch it.
Reddit was a big part of this, so huge thanks for the community!
u/daniel7_m · Templates & no-code
