How I Made My First Crore - Full Breakdown!

I started working in 2008. It took years of building, selling, failing, and repeating systems to make my first crore. This is the exact path I followed, step by step.

If you do not want to read the full story below, you can watch this older video where I explain everything in detail, including a complete breakdown of how we made close to ₹3 crore by selling small digital tools globally.

I started my professional journey in 2008. Like most people back then, I began with services. I was building websites, fixing issues, handling support, and doing custom work for clients. In the beginning, it felt good because I was learning fast and earning at the same time. But very quickly, reality kicked in.

Complete Breakdown of Sales till 2013

Within two years, I realized how taxing this model really was. My entire day was spent talking to clients, fixing problems, answering emails, resolving bugs, and building websites from scratch. There was no real break. Even when money came in, I felt exhausted. Every rupee depended directly on the number of hours I worked. If I slowed down, income slowed down. If I stopped, income stopped completely.

By around 2010, I had a very clear realization. This was not scalable. This was not sustainable. This was not how I wanted to spend the rest of my life. Selling services meant selling time, and time is always limited. No matter how good you get, there is always a ceiling.

That is when I decided to change my approach completely. Instead of building for clients every single day, I decided to start building my own products. The idea was simple. Build once, sell many times. Instead of doing the same work repeatedly for different clients, solve a problem once and let multiple people pay for that solution.

Back then, websites were still very new for most businesses. A lot of companies did not even understand how websites worked. Building websites was confusing, technical, and fully manual. There were no no-code tools, no drag-and-drop builders, and no AI to help you. Everything required effort and deep technical understanding.

Sales Dashboard Stats from 2013-2014.

At that time, the best tools available were Joomla and WordPress. They were powerful and widely used, and they are still relevant even today. Naturally, most of the demand revolved around these platforms. So we went deep into them. We started building websites using Joomla and WordPress, and very soon we noticed a pattern. Most clients were facing the same problems again and again.

Instead of fixing the same issues repeatedly for different clients, we started building plugins, components, and templates. Small digital products that solved very specific problems inside these CMS platforms. Our work shifted from pure service delivery to problem identification and solution building.

We spent a lot of time on forums, reading complaints, understanding pain points, and observing what users were struggling with. Once we found a simple but common problem, we built a small product around it and started selling it. The logic was straightforward. If one person has this issue, there are hundreds or even thousands of people with the same issue.

This is where the power of digital products became clear to me. You build once, and you sell the same solution to multiple people without repeating the work. Income slowly decouples from time, and scale becomes possible.

Initially, we sold individual products. For the first couple of years, that was our only model. Over time, we realized that some customers found individual products expensive, while others wanted access to everything we built. That insight led us to change our pricing strategy.

We introduced bundled offerings. Yearly access plans and lifetime access plans became available. Customers could pay once and get unlimited access. This single decision increased revenue significantly because it matched different buying behaviors and budgets.

Black Friday played a massive role in our growth. Every year, we ran aggressive Black Friday campaigns with heavy discounts, especially on yearly and lifetime plans. During those few days, sales used to spike massively compared to regular periods. Those events alone contributed a big chunk to crossing major financial milestones.

Almost all our customers were international. Most of them came from the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. We were earning in dollars while operating from India, and that currency difference made scaling much faster once systems were in place.

This is how I made my first few crores. Not overnight. Not instantly. Slowly, through repetition, systems, and consistency.

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But I want to be very clear about one thing. None of this was easy. There was no automation. There was no AI. There were no advanced tools. Everything was manual. Coding was manual. Support was manual. Customer communication was manual. Every email, every fix, every update required time and effort.

That is why I strongly believe this. Money does not come from motivation or shortcuts. Money comes from systems. You build systems, you follow them daily, and you stick with them for years. That is how real wealth is created.

I have already created a very detailed YouTube video explaining this entire journey step by step. If you want a deeper breakdown with visuals, you can watch that video through the link shared.

Now, I want to teach this process to others. I plan to help people understand how digital product businesses actually work, how to identify problems, how to build solutions, how to price them correctly, and how to scale them over time. I have already created a free waitlist. You can sign up at no cost, and whenever the course is ready, I will personally notify you.

Sign up here - https://soam.vip/digitalproducts-waitlist

I also conduct Zoom classes. Those are absolutely free. If you sign up there, I will keep you informed whenever a session is scheduled. Everything I have learned over the last 18 years will be structured into clear systems, including my Business OS and Digital Products OS.

This journey took time. It took patience. There were no shortcuts. And this is the real, unfiltered story of how I made my first few crores that fueled the rest of my companies.

Let me know in comments if you have any questions, I personally check and respond to everyone here :)

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