Celebrity chef Alison Roman opened her brick-and-mortar grocery store First Bloom in the Catskills in 2023 and plans to open a second location in Brooklyn later in the year.
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Amy opens video with Alison Roman — and Leonard, her enormous cat — in Alison's kitchen. They discuss First Bloom, Alison's independent Catskills grocery store she opened in 2023 without a full plan, and her upcoming Brooklyn expansion. The conversation takes a delightful detour through co-op culture (both agree they'd never participate), and Alison describes her habit of offering unsolicited butcher-shop cooking advice to strangers — only to be dismissed 80% of the time as 'just a lady.' Amy likens it to being a doctor on a plane nobody asked for. Alison speaks warmly about Greta, describing her as one of the hardest-working, kindest, funniest people she knows, with a natural hospitality energy. She then offers her question for Greta: how has working in restaurants shaped her as an actor? Amy reveals she too was a restaurant person — a waiter for years in New York — before the pair wrap with artichoke preparation advice and a fond goodbye to Leonard.
Celebrity chef Alison Roman regularly pipes up at butcher shops to save strangers from terrible grilling decisions. Eight out of ten times, they are completely uninterested. She compares it to being a doctor on a plane who nobody asked for.
Bhanu grew SiteGPT to $13,000 monthly recurring revenue entirely through organic channels, spending nothing on paid marketing.
More than 1 million people have visited SiteGPT's website since launch in March 2023, all through organic channels.
Approximately 90% of SiteGPT's Google search traffic comes from the free tools Bhanu built, not the main product pages.
Bhanu sold his first SaaS product, Feather, for $250,000 so he could focus fully on the faster-growing SiteGPT.
SiteGPT has generated approximately $500,000 in total revenue since its launch in March 2023.
The average customer lifetime value for SiteGPT is approximately $1,700 to $1,800, which Bhanu considers unusually high.
SiteGPT receives around 50,000 visitors per month, of which about 200 convert to leads and 60 start free trials.
SiteGPT hit $10,000 MRR within its very first month of launch, driven largely by early traction in the AI chatbot space.
Despite strong download numbers, PropGPT could not push past $1,000–$2,000 MRR due to poor product retention.
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