I often see people struggling to reach this figure, or it takes two years. I have generated around $10m selling SaaS in the last 4 years and bootstrapped everything under my SaaS marketplace PitchGround & my own SaaS FirstSales.io Today, I will share simple strategies for hitting your first $10,000 to $20,000 in MRR in less than six months. This can be applied for most online niches but works best for SaaS. 1) Build in Public on Twitter, LinkedIn & Reddit.
Refrain from building your startup in stealth mode; you are wasting so many marketing opportunities. 2) Create 5-type of content frameworks:
- Do a weekly giveaway post for your product.
- Create content behind the sign-up wall; you can only access the content if you share your email.
- Create 1x Reel per day, 2x Tweet per day, 1x Twitter Thread per week, 1x LinkedIn post per day & 1x YouTube Long form video per week. You can repurpose the reel on YouTube.
- Create Value content around product categories. For example, if you're selling a growth-hacking product, talk about different growth-hacking strategies, even if your product doesn't offer those features. Awareness is a critical part of reaching more audiences.
- Do one collaboration post each week. 3) Create a community
You can start building your community at least six months before you launch your product. As a benchmark, wait to launch your product until you hit 2k members in your community. This strategy alone can help you cross $10k in MRR within weeks of launching your product because you have already built the trust factor with your audience. 4) Narrow down your use cases & outreach.
For the first 6-12 months, narrow your use case to focusing on just 1-2 ICPs at the most, and ensure all your copy revolves around that niche. Now you can start outreaching out. Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator to narrow your ICP and scrape that data is easy. Put that data in your favorite email enrichment tool to get the email. Now is the fun part, use FirstSales.io to launch an outreach campaign. Please do not sell them your product; instead, invite them to your community; this will increase your reply rate & future conversion rate without burning leads. 5) Collaborate with a few Micro-Influencers
This is a highly underrated strategy because everyone wants that GIANT big launch. Wait to launch big. Launch your product/services MULTIPLE times with multiple micro-influencers, even if it generates as low as 5-10 customers. This adds up in no time. If you do all the above-mentioned strategies, I can guarantee you will build a $10,000 MRR to $20,000 MRR business in no time. Remember, there is no shortcut in life to hard work and producing results if you wish to choose the path of entrepreneurship. If you have any questions, then please let me know in the comments below
Building a community, especially from scratch, is tough. Sometimes it feels like figuring out the elements of a spell What have you seen work really well?
Hi everyone I'm Matthew, and I'm building Whalesync, a no-code tool that lets you 2-way sync data across apps like Airtable, Notion, & Bubble. This has been one of my favorite places on the internet for years, so I'm very grateful to get to do an AMA. I've launched 7 products on PH (some more successful than others ) but it's always been a fun ride. Ask me anything about no-code, going thru YC, going the VC-backed route, building a remote company, or startup SEO.
Hey, PH community! I'm Mac, a full-time CEO :). In my free time, you can catch me playing basketball and sailing. I used to travel the world, but since I ve got two small kids it s much harder now to pack all stuff into a small backpack ;) Before I founded WebWave, I was a software developer and created websites for clients as a side hustle. I was ace with code, but lacked the imagination and creativity to design great websites. It helped me to realize engineers only slow the process. So I started creating a tool for designers so that they could make websites in a friendly and familiar environment. Since then, we have bootstrapped WebWave to over 500,000 users and 30 employees and now got #1 Product of a week on Product Hunt! Our superpower is that WebWave looks and feels more like a graphic design tool, Figma, Canva, or Photoshop, rather than other website builders. More here:
https://www.producthunt.com/post... And now, let's chat about all the things around bootstrapping and managing the company, the SASS market, developer experience, UX and UI, web design, productivity, community building, and beyond. I am here to answer any and all of your questions in the next 48 hours. So fire away!
I'm new to Twitter and want to utilize it for my product growth, however, I struggle always with what to post something that it's worth tweeting and can help my page acquire followers. Would be interested to know how you find content ideas for your Twitter page.
What are some unconventional tips and tricks that people might not know? To start, my colleagues and I always check G2.com and Getapp.com to find competitors. By reading the reviews on those sites, you can gain a deeper understanding of your customers. Then we click his/her username to see what other apps he/she is using, and it gives us a clearer picture of their work process Would you mind sharing yours with hunters here?
Research has shown that employees spend hours (up to 3.6 per day!) search for information distributed across their tools/apps/silos. How much time do you estimate you waste every day just searching or chasing after people asking where to find something? Pssst...Collato helps you find information instantly, using AI-powered search to instantly give you and your team the knowledge you need (no matter which tool it's referenced on). We're live today on PH! Go show us some love https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Some tech leaders have called for a pause on the development of advanced AI systems like GPT-4.5 and GPT-5.
What do you think? Sources:
- https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/s...
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a...
We are actively seeking affiliates to join our program at https://www.netjet.io/en/ . With a generous 40% recurring revenue commission, we are eager to expand our affiliate network. While we are already utilizing directories and paid advertising, we are also interested in exploring creative strategies that have proven successful for others. Your innovative ideas are welcomed!
This is a roadmap, more on market research, not customer research.
This aims to eliminate "wasting time" on complex market research and thought processes. So, you can just have an overview of strategies and platforms.
What has worked for you in landing your first few customers? We've just launched a public beta with a couple of initial customers and looking to onboard more. I'm curious what worked for others, especially in b2b saas space. P.S. Apologies if this topic has already been explored but I haven't found anything relevant.
We've seen a lot of growth in AI comment generators lately auto-creating comments and replies based on available info. Do you think apps like these are positive or detrimental to community-focused platforms like Product Hunt? Fwiw, we're aware that many folks are already choosing to use these kinds of services on Product Hunt. We're actively working on ways to address it, but I'm curious how our community feels about this type of engagement. Please vote (and explain your thoughts)!
