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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

Senja just hit 300 customers and $7.4K MRR If I could start again from zero, I'd fix these 12 mistakes.

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

5 months

Imagine thinking name validation is a good idea

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

Can devs please chill 😐

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

i don't need much

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

10 months

3 years ago, I bought myself a base M1 Air after saving $1,000 for over a year. Using that laptop, I built and launched my first startup. Today that startup is doing $15K MRR Spending that much on a laptop hurt... but it ended up being the best investment I've ever made.

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

I've been creating images for our blog using AI (Midjourney), and the results have been beyond mind-blowing 🤯

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

4 months

Us: We can no longer trust Paddle, so we're moving to @stripe Stripe: no. I'm so tired man — 1/6

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

Never do customer support before bed 😅

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

5 months

@wesbos My initials are unironically W. O. W

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

4 months

WE ARE SO BACK!!!!

Wilson Wilson

@euboid

4 months

Us: We can no longer trust Paddle, so we're moving to @stripe Stripe: no. I'm so tired man — 1/6

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

3 years

I recently found this gem: saaslandingpage(dot)com. It has almost 700 examples of beautiful landing pages from around the web. As someone who struggles to build landing pages, this was something I needed 😋

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

3 months

I can't believe this is available for free. @posthog has written an insanely comprehensive handbook that shares exactly how their company operates at each level. Engineering, design, marketing, operations etc. LOADS of ideas to steal for SaaS teams

Handbook - PostHog

The single platform for engineers to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features. Product analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, CDP, and more.

posthog.com

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

14 days

IndieHacking in Nigeria. A day in the life. ✨ 1. Go to desk 2. Random power cut. Turn on generator 3. We're out of diesel. Fuel prices just 2x'd so no point 4. At least you're laptop is charged ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 5. Boot up computer 6. The Wifi isn't working. No explanation it just

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

4 months

I'm honestly so tired of it all. So tired of being on the "high-risk list" for literally everything, even shopping?? So tired of wanting to put things into the world, but not being able to because of where I was born. I want out, and I've never wanted it more.

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

B2B hits different 😵‍💫

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

5 months

Other fun misconceptions about names: - people have >2 names - people's names don't have numbers - people's names do not have spaces - people's names do not change - people's names have no "bad" words At we only have one, unvalidated name field because

Senja - Collect, Manage and Share Testimonials

The easiest way to collect testimonials and add them to your website. Get started for free.

senja.io

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

5 months

@rhh4x0R I'm 100% doing this the next time this happens

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

$1k MRR!!! 🥳 Finally filled in the bar after almost a year of trying 🎉 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

Our little startup just crossed $2,000 MRR 🥳 → 11 months to get to $1,000 → 40 days to get to $2,000

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

If your ads don't look like this what's even the point?

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

reached $4K mrr! 😄

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

My SaaS is about to cross $300 MRR, and I still don't have: - password reset - a billing portal - change email - a knowledge base - dark mode Best to worry about these once people actually need them 😅

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

Senja is now at $10K MRR!!!! Took over a year but we're finally there 🥰

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

My expectation when starting to build in public: $0 → $5KMRR in 6 months 🤑 Reality: $0 → $100MRR in 8 months 🙈 Building a startup isn't half as easy as I thought it would be 😅

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

We're running an experiment When someone hit a limit in our app we'd show them this massive paywall with 4 plans and dozens of things to read Now we're only presenting - one plan - with one cta - and as little to read as possible This will either tank or skyrocket conversion

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

3 months

Building a SaaS full-time over the last 2 years has made it crystal clear to me that I do my best work when I have zero distractions. Thanks to Senja, I now have my own little office!

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

In love with 's new 404 page 💜

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

Now at $1500 MRR and I'm only just adding password reset 😅

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

A company with $5M in funding is using my product 🤯

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

MOM! DAD! WE MADE IT!!!

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

After over a year of Indie hacking, we've finally hit my first Indie Hacking goal for ... $5K MRR 🥳 Biggest learnings: # #1 . Ship fast, fail fast Since we released Senja, I've updated the app over 2,000 times. We're working in a very competitive market

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

I spent the first 6 months building my startup without MRR. So, I thought I'd write a post highlighting everything we did to break out of absolute zero. Some notes about: 💜 Finding your selling points ⚡️ Improving onboarding 👀 Acquiring more users

From $0 to $250 MRR. How we broke out of absolute zero.

My New Year's resolution for 2022 was to start a business that can support me and my family. I've been logging about my journey on Twitter since January...

www.indiehackers.com

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

9 months

2 years ago: → Earning $0/mo → 20 followers → Zero experience building/growing a business Today: → Business is making $17K/mo → Building an app with 12,000+ users → 730+ customers, 12,000+ users All started with one tweet:

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

Senja got me my first monitor!

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

After: → 6 months of development → 1200+ hours of work → 260 signups → 3 pivots Senja has finally gotten its first paying customer!!!!

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

Senja just got its first agency customer 🥳 +$300 MRR 💰

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

11 months

My favourite icon library is hands-down — 1300+ free icons — Export/Copy as SVG, PNG, JSX, Data URL etc — SDKs for React, Vue, Angular and Svelte 🥰

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

@seantconrad Have more friction? This isn't friction, this is a complete wall!!!

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

There are only two kinds of startups. Those that charge $29/mo and those that charge $30/mo

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

I'm slowly getting better at creating abstract illustrations for my blog with AI (Midjourney). Here are some of the most recent ones:

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

3 years

Dedication is writing a 1000 word long newsletter every week for 3 subscribers 😂

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

GPT-4 just localized my entire app 👀

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

Been grinding nonstop for a week so I almost didn't notice we passed $100,000 ARR for 🎉

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

7 months

✅ $20K MRR The road to $50,000 begins ⚡

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

4 months

No idea why we've been given the boot Even appealed with 6 months of statements from our bank and Paddle. No dice @stripesupport One of the only possible reasons I can think of is that I'm a Nigerian registering with a UK business account If that's the case I'm extremely sad

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

Stopped working like a maniac and started taking care of my health. Prev: — Wake up by 8/9 — start work with 2 coffees — work non-stop till 9 pm — eat instant ramen for dinner — in bed by 1 am Now: — Wake up by 7 — eat 3 healthy meals/day — work in sprints till 6/7pm — exercise

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

Building a Zapier integration for my SaaS right now so I can say we support over 5,000 integrations 😂

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

One year ago I thought charging $10/month for was way too high. Fast forward 1 year later and someone just paid $990 upfront to use the same product 🤯

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

Crazy how much of a difference using icons can make.

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

We've hit $6,000 MRR for !! May has been the best for growth so far, and I reckon that's because we went all in on marketing & customer success — more experiments — better help guides — improved onboarding — engineering as marketing Next stop, ramen 🍜

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

8 months

Only one box left 🔥

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

The key to making images like these are using image prompts. Format: Image url + object you want to be integrated into the design. This input image + "purple heart" produced these illustrations 👇 Input image // Output

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

10 months

It feels CRIMINAL how we've grown without sweating the small stuff — Password reset at $1K MRR — Made app responsive at $7K MRR — Set up caching at $10K MRR — Fixed our pagespeed score at $15K MRR (it was 27 😅) Building a good product comes first. Everything else comes later.

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

I have no words. Senja, the business I've been working on non-stop for the last 10 months just crossed $500 MRR!!! Some thoughts:

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

3 years

localhost:3000 is now my most visited website 😂

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

8 months

Two years ago, I used to lose my mind if we got 5 new customers in a whole month. Now we're consistently getting 5 - 10 per day 🤯 Compounding growth is real!!!

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

Senja hit $3.5K MRR 🥳 I usually don't share half milestones, but this is _really_ big for us because it's half of our ramen goal 🍜

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

10 months

When I started building Senja as a dev project last year, I was terrified that it would die as just another unfinished side project. Which is why I still can't believe that today, a company valued at $150M is integrating with us as their dedicated testimonial tool. Introducing

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

X doesn't want your links to get clicked. Still can't believe link previews went from this... to this. — Zero context and doesn't look clickable Going to build and ship a micro tool to fix this in a couple hours 🫡 #buildinpublic

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

January build in public report 💜 💰 $3940 total revenue! (+46%) 💸 $2643 MRR (+105%) 👀 16.7K visits (+77%) 👋 590 signups (+35%) 🤵 50 new customers (+78%) 💔 1 churn I didn't think it was possible to double on

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

$100 MRR 🥳 Things are finally looking up for us! Since we: - Improved our UX & onboarding - Doubled down on our unique selling points - Started talking to users in our community ...we've started getting customers with less effort. Next milestone: $200!!!

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

So this tweet blew up 😅 If you’d like to support a project without crappy name validation rules, I’m currently building to make testimonial collection, management and sharing fun!

Senja - Collect, Manage and Share Testimonials

The easiest way to collect testimonials and add them to your website. Get started for free.

senja.io

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

6 months

Heavily considering switching from Vercel to @Cloudflare Pages. Anybody using it in production?

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

11 months

I get ~ 1 DM a day from someone asking about my tech stack. I picked it when we where at $0 MRR. Now we're at $13K MRR and not a single thing has changed. Here's what we're using... — Svelte + Sveltekit: Site and Widgets — Postgres + Hasura: DB and API — Firebase:

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

December build in public report 💜 💰 $2,726 total revenue! (+131%) 💸 $1289 MRR (+55%) 👀 9.4K visits (+8.4%) 👋 436 signups (+66%) 🤵 28 new customers (+55%) 💔 1 churn First $2K month!!!!

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

Are you even a startup founder if you’re not constantly sleep-deprived 😅

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

10 months

Almost missed this, but Senja has now crossed $100K in all time revenue 🎉

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

Just shipped what I think might just be the most beautiful testimonial widget ever. → built with

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

4 months

Getting a visa is extremely difficult. It takes months of careful planning to get a visa for literally any other country, even other ones in Africa?! So traveling for conferences to learn, or meeting up with people just doesn't happen for me.

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

4 months

Since starting this business, we've had back-to-back admin problems because I'm Nigerian. It's the #1 reason why @helloitsolly and I still haven't met after growing to doing business for 2+ years and growing to $30,000+ MRR.

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

In case you were thinking about adding Google sign-in to your app:

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

7 months

ONE THOUSAND 🤯 !!!! It took - 2 years of building - hundreds of improvements and experiments - a dozen times when we almost gave up but, today 1,000 people are now paying for our SaaS.

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

Centered hero vs left aligned?

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

After working almost every day for a year on my startup, I'm finally taking my first vacation. It's absolutely incredible seeing it run itself like I'm still there. This is a completely new feeling 🥹

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 month

2.5 years of grinding with @helloitsolly later... And we've finally hit $40,000 MRR for @SenjaHQ 🥳 Wild journey, but we're only just getting started 💪 #buildinpublic

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

Senja is now making more than it costs to run it! Finally, profitable 🥳

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

10 months

How to start running circles around your competitors. 1. Find your competitor's reviews on G2/Capterra/Trustpilot etc 2. Paste the URL into 3. Examine why people choose your competitor from their pains and how they can improve 4. React accordingly 🦾

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

1 year of building → 100 customers 🎉

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

May report for 💜 💰 $6,809 total revenue! (+30.7%) 💸 $6,112 MRR (+21%) 👀 16.5K visits (+14%) ✍️ 886 signups (+68%) 🥰 57 new customers (+78%) 💔 4% churn Marketing month was (obviously) the best month we've ever had for growth 😆 Growth so far has

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

Senja's MRR growth so far: — $0 → 100: 6 months — $100 → 1,000: 4 months — $1,000 → 5,000: 4 months — $5,000 → 10,000: 4 months Took a really long time to break out of zero but now it's growing pretty consistently!

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

Never posted this, but 6 months ago I completely ran out of runway. I was *this* close to going back to a regular job. No joke, I couldn't even pay my internet bill. It was building in public, and finding our first customers on Twitter that kept me going at that time.

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

Ironically, since we increased our prices, growth has gone up 📈 and not 📉 What's even scarier is that people are still telling us we're charging too little 😅

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

10 months

Name a better pricing page headline than this. I'll wait 😏

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

4 months

Need to register for a business bank account? Sorry! A few we've applied to have rejected us because I'm Nigerian. And the banks that do support us don't even list on the Nigerian app store...

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

It took 1 year of working together but it's finally done! Today we hit ramen profitability for 🍜

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

I only need read access to Twitter lol.

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

How to 500x conversion

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

Just one more square 👀

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

7 months

We just shipped a beast!!!! Get more visitors to convert 🤑 — Introducing the Testimonial Toaster by Senja

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

A big competitor signed up using their ACTUAL business email address and has been trying out our product over the last few days. Not sure how to interpret this 😂

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

4 months

$30,000. Twitter makes it look easy but WOW, getting here was hard. It took 2+ years of — grinding almost every day — trying lots of things and failing a LOT — lots of burnout + times when we were this 🤏 close to abandoning everything. But we made it! @helloitsolly and I

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

On February 6th last year, we released into the wild. Today it crossed $3k MRR 🥳 → 11 months to get to $1,000 → 40 days to get to $2,000 → 25 days to get to $3,000

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

5 months

Thanks to 4 changes, we've added $8,000 extra MRR over the last 3 months. Now Senja's growth is on a completely different trajectory. Here's what we did so that you can do the same ↓

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

Shipped! Senja is now one of the fastest testimonial embedding tools 🔥 — Pure HTML embeds (no more iframes) — All widgets are now <45kb gzipped — Lazy Loading support + instant renders

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

Paddle just got *really* good — SaaS pricing that just works. No more separate plans for each tier — Create addons easily (finally!!) — Flexible coupon structures — Invoices as a payment option for subscriptions My wishlist for the last year delivered in one fell swoop.

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

9 months

Just configured my dream Vscode setup

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

Aaaand it's done. is now built entirely with @framer . Took a little longer than I expected, but now we're churning out content 4x faster than before and updating the site every single day 🔥

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

First time founders using after using their "business email" instead of their gmail.

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

1 year

Senja now ranks #1 organically for testimonial collection tool. Here's how we're approaching SEO: #1 . Building backlinks on autopilot...

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Wilson Wilson

@euboid

3 years

I got another SaaS idea! - absolutely zero validation - related to what I'm building atm - can be built in under 5 days - low cost and maintenance - can launch on PH and use it to market Senja I'll start building and documenting everything I do tomorrow. #buildinpublic

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