Kourosh is a self-taught developer who is running two SaaS businesses while working a full-time job in tech. He answers some questions about learning to code, how he's making $6k MRR from AI apps and how he juggles this with a full-time job.
Can you tell us what you’ve achieved so far as an entrepreneur?
So far, I've built two startups. The first one is called MeetWaves.com, and it's a community analytics tool. The second one is called UseVoicy.com, a speech-to-text tool.
I started Waves during university, and it was the first product I ever built. In the beginning, we were creating micro-communities for students based on their interests. A user would fill out a short form, then we would match them to five or six other people in a WhatsApp group chat. We would close each group chat after three or four weeks.
That picked up really, really quickly. We grew to 1,000 users without any marketing within weeks. Then companies heard about this, and we received inbound requests from real companies asking us to build these micro-communities for them.
We told them that we had software to do this, which we really didn't, so we closed our first contract for about £2,000 just by essentially faking it - and started monetizing. Now we're at $4,000 MRR.
My second product is Voicy and I started capturing subscription payments for it in February of 2025. So far, we are nearly at $2,000 in MRR, and it's slowly growing.
