From a $6.90 newsletter to $3M API: How a non-coder built Memelord | Jason Levin

Jason Levin is the CEO and founder of Memelord, an AI-powered meme creation platform. He started Memelord as a $6.90-per-month newsletter sending subscribers to a Google Slides deck and grew it to $100K ARR on Bubble without hiring engineers. Levin then raised $3M to build Memelord into an API-first product.

Memelord uses agents, which are becoming its primary users, to create memes. The platform's "no UX is the best UX" approach allows for hyper-personalized software just for itself. Levin also discussed his hardware hacking projects, including a bedside keyboard that creates Linear tickets without waking his wife.

The platform has generated hundreds of thousands of emails through its free tools section and uses AI models like OpenClaw to create memes. Levin emphasized the importance of creativity in building products and shared his thoughts on AI being able to be funny, but humans still being funnier.