Snapshot · My First Million
Sam's List, an accountant ranking site Sam Parr started from a tweet asking for accountant recommendations, is on track to do around $500,000 in revenue this year under its new majority owner.
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Shaan Puri traces the origin of Sam's List — a website that exists because Sam tweeted asking for accountant recommendations three years ago, received 300 replies, called 30 of them to understand pricing and specialization, and then immediately wanted out because it was too much work. He tweeted 'who wants this website?' A woman named Kimmy replied. She went through all 200-300 accountants, convinced them to share the site with their clients for reviews, and now has a functioning marketplace with a TikTok presence featuring nerdy accountants that draws both accountants and people looking for accountants [1] — Shaan Puri "Sam's List: ~$500K revenue this year: Sam's List, an accountant ranking site Sam Parr started from a tweet asking for accountant recommenda…" 59:37 . Revenue is tracking toward $500K this year, though Shaan notes the business model needs tinkering — accountants are not natural salespeople and often fail to follow up with leads. Financial planners, by contrast, are exactly the opposite and are clamoring to get on the platform. Shaan's takeaway: Kimmy should add an award show and expand to financial planners. The segment ends with both hosts marveling at the award show industrialization happening around EY's Entrepreneur of the Year — so many winners across so many categories that it's almost become meaningless.
Sam tweeted asking for a good accountant, got 300 replies, called 30 of them, and then gave the whole thing away because it was too much work. The woman who took it over — Kimmy — is now on track for $500K in revenue and has a TikTok following of nerdy accountants.
Sam built Algrow from zero to $14,000 in monthly revenue within just six months of shipping his first MVP.
Algrow reached over 10,000 users in roughly six months, driven almost entirely by organic Discord community growth.
Sam acquired his first 400 users entirely through Discord communities, without paid advertising or traditional outreach.
Algrow added exactly 480 new paying customers in its most recent month, demonstrating strong ongoing growth.
Sam's Stripe dashboard showed over £10,000 in revenue in the last four weeks, equivalent to roughly $13,000–$14,000 USD.
Sam gave all early users free access so they could show the tool to friends, turning them into live demos and advocates who helped the product spread virally.
By silently screen-sharing his tool in Discord voice chats rather than posting links, Sam attracted curiosity without violating no-self-promo server rules.
Before building Algrow, Sam and two friends made over $10,000 in revenue through affiliate marketing for RizzApp by posting faceless texting story content.
Daily content drives traffic to a waitlist landing page; those email subscribers become your first 100 customers because they already trust you and want to solve the pain you address.
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