Starter Story From Zero to $42K/Month in 90 Days with AI | Starter Story
Sep 29, 2025
CJ Zafir, Founder of CodeGuide and AI startup visionary, shares his journey from launching an innovative tool to generating $42K in monthly revenue within just 90 days. He discusses the critical issue of AI hallucinations in coding and how he personally tackled this problem. CJ reveals his marketing strategies, including a successful landing page and transitioning waitlist signups into paying customers. He emphasizes the importance of being AI-native and offers valuable advice for aspiring entrepreneurs on validating ideas and optimizing growth through content.
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Waitlist Validation Before Building
- CJ validated CodeGuide by launching a landing page before writing any code and collected thousands of waitlist signups.
- He built the product only after seeing strong interest from real users.
Bridge Existing AI Tools To Reduce Hallucinations
- AI coding tools still hallucinate and assume details, creating a need for knowledge-base overlays.
- Positioning as a bridge to existing AI tools lets you tap into their audience instead of reinventing one.
Built From A Personal Time-Saver
- CJ discovered CodeGuide while automating his own time-consuming AI documentation workflow.
- He turned prompts into a sequence, saved seven hours, and launched a landing page that gained 1,800 waitlist signups in two weeks.