$800 this semester from a micro-saas built in minecraft parents thought he was just playing games after school teacher called mom asking “what’s your son’s business” that’s how she found out her 8 year old sells software subscriptions to classmates the video shows a kid on his laptop - minecraft open, but the debug menu and code editor in the corner tell a different story. stacks of books behind him, stickers all over the laptop, glasses that make him look like a tiny professor. this child isn’t playing. he’s testing in production he built an actual saas model before learning fractions how it started: classmate complained the game was boring after you finish building everything. he said “i can fix that” and built a mod pack that adds 50 new features. friend wanted it too. then another friend. by week two he had more requests than he could handle so he built a system the product: “minecraft plus” - a subscription mod pack he updates every month with new features based on what customers request pricing (written in a notebook his mom found): → one-time mod purchase: $5 → monthly subscription to minecraft plus: $3/mo → custom feature request: $10 (gets added to next update) → bug fixes: free he has 34 “subscribers” paying $3/mo = $102 monthly recurring revenue plus one-time sales and custom requests bringing total to $800 this semester payment: cash at lunch, or parents venmo his mom “for school supplies” the venmo notes are how the teacher noticed. too many parents sending $5-10 with comments about “tommy’s minecraft service” his development stack: → customer research: asks classmates during recess what features they want → feature requests: tracked in a google doc ranked by how many people asked → development: describes what he wants to claude, claude writes java code → testing: copies code into mod folder, runs minecraft, tests in-game → bug fixes: describes errors back to claude, gets fixed code → deployment: airdrop to customers’ laptops during lunch → support: free fixes if something breaks after minecraft updates he doesn’t know java. he knows his customers. claude handles the code, he handles the business the update cycle: every 2 weeks he releases a new version. subscribers get it automatically via a shared google drive folder. he learned about “software updates” from watching his dad’s phone most requested feature last month: a mod that lets you build 10x faster. added it in one afternoon. 23 new subscribers that week second most requested: animals follow you around like pets. sold as a standalone for $5 before adding to the subscription his best month: $180 in march when minecraft had a big update and all his mods broke. charged $2 per fix, fixed 40+ customers in one week. he called it “maintenance fees” after hearing his dad complain about car repairs the teacher wrote in the email: “your son shows remarkable entrepreneurship.” recommended him for the school business fair mom asked what he’s saving for “a better laptop so claude runs faster” the minecraft is still open the google doc has 47 pending feature requests MRR keeps growing $3 at a time