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Durable retweeted
Really enjoyed chatting with @julianweisser about the Durable and some of the less ambitious businesses I've started on the journey.
- how we launched a grew to millions of users
- why I think everyone in the world should own a business
- door to door window cleaning sales
Thanks for having me on!
James Clift built an Al website builder in a week, 1 month before ChatGPT.
It hit 1M users in 3 months.
Then he went after a harder problem: running the whole business for SMBs, not just building their website.
3.5M people have since signed up to start an SMB on Durable. Solo, with 6 engineers.
Solo Founders Podcast ep 29 is live with @jamesclift of Durable.
25:17 An AI website builder, a month before ChatGPT
26:16 Why 1M users was the wrong company
35:50 "Choose harder problems — it probably already is obsolete"
10:24 3.5M signups, more than half brand new
01:02 Owning a business, easier than a job
45:01 The co-founder math
53:53 What door-to-door teaches you about fundraising
1:08:52 The case against (and for) solo
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Durable retweeted
F*ck jobs. No one likes them anyway.
Durable helps you turn any skill you already have into a real business.
RT + reply "Durable". 100 people get 100% off.
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The best businesses don’t just chase customers. They make it easy for customers to find them.
A great lesson from someone who’s actually built a cleaning business. 👇
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Find out what your customers are actually searching for.
Durable's Keyword Research agent ranks the terms by impact, then turns any one of them into a page.
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He lost a job to a competitor with a better website. Not better work. Better website.
So he built one.
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Durable now translates your entire site into other languages. Pages, SEO metadata, all of it.
Add a language in your website settings.
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$1000 a year for a website that never brought in a single lead. Rob had been putting up with it since he bought the business.
He rebuilt his website on Durable in 30 minutes. Logo and everything.
Published it at 9pm, then woke up to his first inquiry.
Now his inquiries are up 50% since, while his revenue is up $3000-$5000 a month. durable.com/customer-stories…
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You can't stop mid-job to answer messages and chase bookings.
Website, bookings, and customers in one place so you don't have to. Here's how Cindy, a cleaning business owner runs hers on Durable.
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Americans are starting 2.5x more businesses than they did in 20210.
the entrepreneurship revolution is happening.
many on (@DurableAI)
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Durable retweeted
We have 3m+ users at Durable
90% of them are solopreneurs
They're HVAC technicians, yoga teachers, porch decorators (v profitable), and thousands of other services.
AI is creating millions of opportunities for people to become business owners.
Everyone is an entrepreneur, even if they haven't tried yet.
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Your next customer isn't Googling you. They're asking ChatGPT who to hire.
Durable's SEO & GEO shows you whether customers can find you across AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity, plus local search and Maps.
And because it's built into Durable, everything that helps AI read and recommend your business is handled for you automatically.
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The business getting picked over you usually isn't better at the work. They're just easier to find.
Built into every Durable site. Start for free: durableai.link/SEO_GEO
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First, our palette builder helps you create a beautiful initial theme in 30 seconds. Choose a color that resonates with your brand, and it selects the secondary, accent, and neutral colors that complement it. Tweak one, and the rest automatically adjust to match it. More than half of our users are happy with their site after this first pass.
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Then, if you want to go deeper, our color engine makes it effortless. When you change the color of a component, it instantly adjusts the rest of the page to match.
It’s aware of the position, transparency, and color of every element on the page—aligning everything to your palette while enforcing good color theory and protecting you from issues like black text over a dark image.
With Durable, building a site no longer needs to be a compromise between speed, and beauty.
Live now. durable.com
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Your website’s colors determine whether your visitors stay or bounce, before they read a single word.
With Durable, you have full creative freedom over your site's palette, but won't spend hours matching colors across every component👇
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Every tweak to your site becomes a juggling act between one component, and everything else. This is why website builders force you into a small set of palettes. The more freedom they give, the more frustration they create.
At Durable, we set out to change this. We built a color engine that adapts to your edits in real time, ensuring your site remains beautiful and legible no matter what; while giving you the creative freedom to change any color as you see fit.
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Most AI website builders don’t understand color: you’re forced into generic palettes that everyone else uses, or confronted with building your own palette from scratch (you’ll borrow that online anyway, too).
Even if you find the colors that match each other, your brand, and your taste, you still need to:
• Ensure that buttons, text, and overlay colors stand out from the background while being complementary
• Find text and header colors that catch your eye, without being jarring
• Enforce consistency between images, buttons, text, and every other element on the page
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New in Durable: Blog Agent.
An AI agent that runs your blog for you:
- Studies your business
- Finds the topics worth writing
- Runs competitive and keyword research
- Writes posts aligned to your SEO and GEO strategy
Set your tone and posting frequency once. It writes the rest on autopilot.
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