Andrew GazdeckiSerial Entrepreneur Driving Startup Acquisitions

How a Weekend Hackathon Turned Into a SaaS Success Story

30 Apr 2025

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This is a YouTube video titled "How a Weekend Hackathon Turned Into a SaaS Success Story" featuring Faisal Khanzada discussing the origins of a project started as a weekend hackathon on Wix around 2015, which evolved into a premium SaaS product. The content is a monologue or single-speaker narrative recounting the project's development and growth.

So let's do a weekend hackathon and put this together on wix just to see how that works on a larger scale. Maybe we'll learn something. And yeah, we put it together, put it on Wix. That was probably 2015, I guess, early 15, and it was, you know, really side project. It was just there. We didn't touch it for a long time and it kind of picked up. So people were started to using it. It was a premium model. You could create two free sliders and then it was like a premium version of that, very affordable, for like less than three bucks. But yeah, people kind of started buying and it kind of took off.