Today, I've set my goals for the next 365 days.
🎯 I'll deliver a SaaS product.
🎯 I'll bootstrap it to at least $5K MRR.
🎯 I'll transform most of my bad habits into good ones.
That's it - pinned.
Screenshot this.
What's your goal for the next 365 days?
#buildinpublic
If you are a solopreneur and want the reach for your SaaS, here you go.
I've spent a lot of time on Reddit and have made a list of subreddits that were most helpful for spreading the word about my SaaS.
On Reddit, you can get 100,000 views on a post in a few days and a lot of…
$800/month in Eastern Europe:
🏠 $300 for a large apartment
🥦 $400 on groceries (healthy stuff)
💪 $100 for gym and some casual hangouts
➕ Free: Relaxing vibe and stunning nature for chilling
I received my first ever acquisition offer.
GPTs Hub has received its first offer and scheduled discovery call.
For 4 effective months:
- First paid customer
- First acquisition call
- 1,000 followers
- 2 shipped SaaS
Today's lesson: Your SaaS with a nice UI will get…
You put a lot of effort, but your tweets have no impressions.
I wish someone had given me these tips at the beginning.
You have an incredible feature in front of you, completely free - Advanced Search 🔎
👉 Steps to find the right content you need:
- Go to x.…
Do you personally use your own SaaS?
I just realized that I use mine every day, for all the coding tasks, but I think that's not the case for all SaaS founders.
My two SaaS/apps just crossed 1,000 users with only 1 hour of marketing total, over these past three months.
They've been running on autopilot while I've been focused on 2 new products.
Honestly, it's a pretty wild 🤯
Before: Waking up at 6 AM for grinding 🧑🏭
Now: Payment notifications at 6 AM, while I'm sleeping
But, if I had given up a few months ago, when it was boring and tough - there wouldn't be these notifications.
Life is simple.
I built 6+ projects by May 2023, including a Twitter competitor 🤡
0 users, depression, burnout and stuff like that were the logical outcome.
But, at the end of May, I found building in public world and started actively participating in that movement.
Up to now:
- Over $1200…
I tried for months to get paying users..
👉 Until one of my experiments took off.
Starting out is always tough and a bit depressing, like it is for most newbies. I ran a ton of experiments back then.
I started experimenting a lot on Reddit and it led to not just one, but a…
$5,500 MRR in just 3 days
It's a SaaS converting tweets to AI-voiced videos and posting them on platforms like TikTok.
It's always the same formula for success:
Validate -> Feedback -> Build or Not
7 tips they shared for SaaS guys looking for success:
-> Spot a Real Problem:…
Struggling to get your first paid users for your SaaS?
A well-known feeling to many.
You need to spread the word about your product to get users - nobody knows your SaaS exists.
Here are 8⃣ high-quality sources that can bring you your first paid users:
- Hacker News
- Indie…
My first tweet was exactly 259 days ago 👀
Up until then, I was pushing stuff without public exposure.
In the past 259 days, I:
- Shipped 2 SaaS/apps
- Almost 1,000 active users
- Got my first paid user and on the road to $1K MRR
- Currently 2 new products/SaaS on the way
It could bring you 100k visits or someone could steal your idea.
> What is it?
That's
#buildinpublic
.
2021/2/3 (ghost):
- Built 10+ apps
- Less than 100 total users
- Made $0 from SaaS
2023/4 (5 months + public):
- Built 2+ apps
- 400+ users
- 100,000 views on 1 app
- Made…
⚔️ Challenge - build a SaaS and launch it in 30 days?
All steps documented - including upsides and downs.
We make and apply decisions together.
$0 invested 💸❌
Who's in?
#buildinpublic
#saas
#challange
Me: Working 15 hours a day, 7 days a week.
>> Revenue is increasing day-by-day.
People: Oh, you're so lucky, you sit in a chair, click around and make money.
Guy who made a SaaS based on a VS Code extension claims to have 26,000 users.
The extension has about 7k installations (max 1.5k unique).
What a time to be alive.
Lies everywhere.
If you work with Next.js, this is for you.
It's hard to find a good open-source repo for some great examples of clean code and well-organized architecture.
👉 Here are 10 open-source repos excellent for catching some real-world examples:
• dub - /dubinc/dub
• Calcom -…
I found , a SaaS with the exact same purpose as
@dgut_
's .
Even the naming format is the same.
I'm curious about what you think of this way of choosing an idea?
#buildinpublic
🎯 I achieved my initial goals.
June
• 0 followers
• 0 SaaS projects
July
• 300 followers
• Componefy SaaS in progress
Also, 5+ connections with people who run $1M ARR SaaS businesses.
Make your plan and take action immediately!
#buildinpublic
30% have given up.
This morning I was cleaning up the list of people I follow and realized that...
30% of the people with whom I started the journey at the beginning of June have given up.
Do you think something could make you quit?
#buildinpublic
Nothin' special, just trying to call X algorithm
to reach:
- SaaS founders with < $1k MRR
- Founders with gross volume < $20k
- Open-source contributors
- People with less than 1k followers
Comment if reached.
X ain't the main spot driving traffic to my apps.
- 1000+ users
- Adding $100+ MRR in just a few hours
- 201k+ eyeballs on GPTs Hub
Believe it or not 👇
Reddit's been bringing in way more than X.
Might flip in the future as the crowd here on X gets bigger, but that's how it's…
I'm cancelling all my Webflow subscriptions.
It was good, but as pages got more complex, it's not beneficial to keep using it, at this point.
Moving to Next.js + TailwindCSS.
If you know any elegant templates, share pls
Co-founder as a good or bad thing?
It's pretty hard to make it as a solo founder.
I even think the success rate is terrifyingly low.
What we see here on X is just less than 5% of the total number of people who are trying every day.
It's amazing how much more potential we can…
I got my first ever customer, just now.
After months of hard work, perseverance and lots of ups and downs.
SnippetHub Lens AI starts its story here.
I promise this customer will be extremely satisfied with his decision.
AI Test Storm is coming really soon!
Open source will win.
PDFToChat app, fully open-sourced.
- Next.js 14 (app router)
- LangChain for RAG
- Pinecone for vector DB
- Clerk for Auth
- TogetherAI
You don't have an excuse to build an AI wrapper now.
Your SaaS is dead if no one knows about it.
Mistake I made was that I focused too much on development and neglected the other side of the project - exposure.
After changing the strategy, I increased the traffic by almost 👉 50%.
Let's present your SaaS below 👇
#buildinpublic
How I made $0 in 6 months >>>
I focused on:
🗑️Launching "Vitamin" services - which are totally
optional to end-users
🗑️Target a lot of niches = Target no one
🗑️Developer oriented approach
DO NOT do this if you want to move away from $0.
Instead:
✅ Look for…
The tech stack means nothing to the users of your SaaS.
A lot of questions on the topic of appropriate front-end technology here on Twitter.
Angular, Vue, React or anything else - it doesn't matter.
Deliver your product ASAP!
What's your favorite framework?
#buildinpublic
The goals are clear:
💰 Stable MRR of $50k to $100k
🛏️ Wake up when I've had enough sleep (9 hours)
🥩 Clean eating 24/7
🏡 Buy my first property from SaaS revenue
🧑🤝🧑 And what? -> Getting married (soon)
@ProEvilz
Yeah, I see people saying this has become the norm now.
Personally, it's my first time seeing these kinds of questions across application forms and I totally disagree with asking such questions for a job role..
Just 3 months ago, I was seriously questioning whether to invest even another minute into the SaaS I launched.
I kept going, even when no one noticed my SaaS 😴
I worked on improving it, seeing great potential in SnippetHub Lens AI.
Now, I'm getting
@lmsqzueezy
notis for good…
Just turned down a VC intro request for SnippetHub.
The plan is to bootstrap everything:
- No VCs
- No big team
In these 8 months, I've asked myself countless times:
"Am I doing something wrong?" and "Will I make it?"
🎯 The trick is to fail fast and efficiently, then make…
Biggest mistake - not doing SEO from the start.
Don't do this.
You're driving away tons of potential paid users.
💡 What did I figure out?
70% of paid users for SnippetHub are from Germany and they all come from Google.
Churn rate for them is less than 5% over these three…
If you want to launch a SaaS, but you're afraid the niche is full:
Do it and don't look back
I heard that the number of GPT directories is equal to the number of stars in the galaxy 💫
Well, reached:
- 1,600 unique visitors
- 117 registered users
-…
One-time Purchase vs. Subscriptions
I've read a lot of discussions on this topic recently.
One-time seems like a much easier approach, while subscriptions look like better for the long run.
What's your go-to option?
Software engineer here, stepping into the
#SaaS
world and ready to
#buildinpublic
. Expect code, insights, ups, downs and everything in between. As I take off on this journey, your support can fuel the adventure.
Hit that follow and join the ride! 👀
I still can't believe people are capable of lying 24/7 🤥
I try to skip 99% of it on my timeline, but this is sci-fi.
2mo ago: Poor boy energy..
Today: $500k/mo agency from basement
Ayoo, leave some money for us 🤙
Got my first ever request for a VC intro call 👀
Big VC player and investor in many big apps we use.
In 2022:
- 0 users
- $0 from products
A year later:
- Over 1000 users
- Going to $1000+ MRR
You can't succeed alone.
My goal of 300 -> 500 followers is easier with a tribe I'm a part of.
We're 10 members, all offering quality content.
Mutual support is key.
📢 We're looking for 10 new members.
Drop your brief intro in the comments.
#buildinpublic
Do not launch SAAS just because
IT SEEMS INTERESTING!
Do not make the same mistake as 99% - including me.
If you don't want to spend a few years without a single user, learn from others' mistakes.
Invest your time in finding painkillers.
Your nice-to-have SaaS is shit.
I woke up and realized that this is the last week of the year 2023.
Almost all goals have been achieved.
- Launched 2 products/SaaS
- Got the first ever paid customer
- Got 1,000 followers
But this is just calm before the storm ⚡️
Have you achieved your 2023 goals?
👉Secret behind the smartest coder/engineer in the team?
Smells like an AI Lens within VS Code.
Final round of production build testing for SnippetHub Lens AI is here.
This is something I have been using for my own needs and has a ton of use-cases, so we can define what…
Removing FREE plan does NOT work.
As I promised, I'm going to share the results of removing the FREE plan, which I did as an experiment for SnippetHub.
Here's what happened:
- 70% drop in users subscribing after signing up
- 80% drop in signing up overall
Initially, there was…
Heading to the coast, like Italy 🏖️
- Build a SaaS
- Bootstrap it to $1,000
- Sell it for $35,000
- Cover your costs with $7,000
- Enjoy the $28,000 profit
- Sunbathing
Is it really that hard, guys?
is live.
Currently, sits at 459 active GPTs.
👉 Submit your GPT and make it a trending by upvotes.
Some cool features are coming soon.
What would you like to have the ability to do when it comes to the GPTs directory?
#buildinpublic
#GPTs
If your goal is to grow your account here on Twitter, this is for you.
I just did - over 120% growth in just a month!
🎯 Here's a simple rundown of the Top 11 tips that I wish someone had told me earlier:
- Balance your Followers and Following - Keep a good ratio to avoid…
SnippetHub has been accepted for Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub.
- $2,500 of OpenAI Credits
- $1,000 of Azure Credits (eligible for Azure GPT models)
Cool, cool 👨🏭
I'm pretty sure 90% of solopreneurs here are living under a false belief:
- Well-known folks get all of their users from X ❌
I learned this the hard way and realized that most of my SaaS users are actually coming from SEO, besides Reddit.
While you can convert users from X,…
I need everybody else in this SaaS journey to promise not to give up in the next 6 months.
You can get that first $100, $1000, or $10,000.
Survive that main phase of boredom.
Persistence doesn't guarantee success - but not being persistent guarantees failure.
👉 < 1k followers?
Connections and engagement are crucial
I made 2x in followers in just 14 days - after I started seriously with engagement and posts.
Recipe: 30 replies and 3 planned tweets per day.
Introduce yourself and share your current project 👇
#buildinpublic
Stealing ideas - worried or not?
I post a tweet about a new idea I'm working on, and then...
A follower, who commented some cool stuff, an hour later:
“I've come up with a great idea...”
So much fun here.
Finding a painkiller idea remains a mystery to the $0 MRR/revenue club.
You have complete data about market gaps right in front of you.
-> Go to Acquire(.)com
-> View Listings => Browse the marketplace
-> Search for a niche
-> Open the top 20 results
-> Analyze the…
@marc_louvion
One-time purchase model totally depends on the marketing founder's doing, so those sales are way more dependent on you.
If you happen to take a break from marketing for like 2 months, that wouldn't just be churn, it could end like a total collapse, because the risk is so much…
If I could do it, so can you.
1. yr - $0
2. yr - $0
3. yr - $2,000
4. yr - $40,000
5. yr - $85,000
But with a lot of ups and downs.
Few years with negative income.
Then I shaped my skills and the income exploded.
9-5 and bunch of clients.
This year, I found about the SaaS…
Connections can 10x your progress.
Without a network, achieving post engagement is painful.
We have a limited group of SaaS builders, open to 10 more members max.
Want to join?
Leave your brief intro in the comment.
#buildinpublic
Be patient.
2018 - I started journey
2019 - Hit 5-figure income & built my 1st ML shit
2022 - Hit 6 private projects (no users ofc)
2023 - Found solopreneur world, shipped 2 products, got first paid user
2024 - Road to fat 6-fig income
Making history in 2024 or nothing.