Being a founder/builder is a lot of work and can take its toll on your health. What's your strategy for staying healthy? I'm a walker and can easily crank out 15+ miles a week, eat only plants and hit the gym 3-5x a week. What's yours?
For 15 years I built ecommerce stores for clients at my agency in Italy. Good business, good clients, but always trading time for money. Last year I took a problem I kept solving manually for clients, writing product descriptions, and turned it into a SaaS product.
The transition from agency to product was harder than I expected. A few things I learned the hard way:
Your agency clients are NOT your SaaS target market. They want custom work, not self-service tools. Different mindset entirely.
Pricing is a completely different game. In agency work you price by the hour or project. In SaaS you price by the value delivered and underpricing is the default mistake.
Marketing yourself feels wrong. After 15 years of marketing other people's businesses, promoting your own product feels awkward. You have to get over it fast.
The loneliest part is making decisions alone. In agency work the client tells you what to build. In SaaS, you decide and you live with the consequences.
Being bootstrapped is a superpower, not a limitation. No investors means no pressure to grow at all costs. You can build what actually matters.
I'm still early in this journey and learning every day.
I've tried using tools that automatically take notes during my Zoom/Google Meet calls, but none of them have stuck. A full transcription is overkill and summaries often miss the most important points. Additional context: Most of my calls are fundraising-related conversations with founders. I would prefer NOT to have a "bot" join a call and ideally the notes could automatically be shared in a specific Slack channel with my team. I'm curious what tools people are using and for what use cases. I'd appreciate any recommendations. :)
Hey makers What are you launching in 2023 here on Product Hunt? I'll be launching LeadDelta Product Hunt V3 as soon as our Team functionality is released, so it will likely be shipped here in January / early Feb 2023. https://www.producthunt.com/prod... I also wanted to launch my Product Hunt checklist. But that's a side thing. Your turn
From ChatGPT & Midjourney to AI feature in Notion, Bing of even Hubspot, generative AI a there, but do you use is daily to help you at work ? At Gryzzly we make a big use of chatgpt to help us in copywriting for landing page and for SEO keyword idea. Changed a lot of things for us, next step is to try plugins to analyse our customer datas and build recomendation for ICP analysis. Curious to read your thoughts on that and your tops and usage !
