- Business model
- Productized Service
- First revenue
- First $5K retainer renewed in week 3
- Current revenue
- $18K-$25K MRR
- Time to launch
- 1 weekend
The story
She'd been losing clients to 'we don't know what you're doing.' One weekend in Lovable produced a per-client portal with logins, deliverable uploads, and a weekly status post. Zapier syncs everything from her existing tools so she never duplicates work.
Why this matters
The exact stack behind it.
These are the tools they actually used — and why each one earned its place.
Founder stack — what they used
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- Lovable
She needed a branded client login by Monday. Lovable shipped it in a weekend with auth and uploads already wired in.
- Zapier
Kept her existing tools — Zapier mirrors deliverables into the portal so she never duplicates work.
- Attio
Tracks every retainer renewal and the portal-driven referrals coming in.
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- Business model
- Productized Service
- Build idea
- Build a client portal
- Tool to start with
- Lovable
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