Eric Smith
@ericsmith1302
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Bootstrapping through life, one SaaS at a time. - https://t.co/LlmDbrCgjI $92K MRR - NicheScraper: $18K MRR - https://t.co/Ym4bXN4Ptm: $8K MRR - (Ex-Instagram Eng)
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Joined May 2013
Imagine being the person working at Cloudflare who accidentally brought down like 20% of the internet And I'm over here stressing when I accidentally push a bug into AutoShorts Could always be worse lol
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Really hoping this A/B test ends up being stat sig 😭 Haven't seen metrics move like this since adding an annual plan
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Anyone with a ChatGPT PRO subscription still waiting for their Sora 2 invite code? Feel like I’m the last man standing over here
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AutoShorts is about to unleash a level of disruption on par with Sora 2… Can’t wait to announce what I’ve been cooking up the past few months 🧑🍳
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Idk what's wrong with me. Every time I make a simple one-line change, the ego in me is like, "This is too simple to test. Yolo it into production". And every single time I break something. EVERY TIME. You'd think years of doing this would have taught me a lesson, but nope.
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Made some really cool tweaks to AutoShorts that I was SOO confident would reduce churn. I decided to A/B test the change... just to boost my ego and measure how right I was. Ended up doubling churn -__-
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Honestly every “successful” SaaS I’ve built came from the same premise I’m not a natural marketer (I’m actually quite bad) so I force myself to think about marketing before building Like I know it’s recommended to pick a product that solves a problem and that’s supposedly all
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How do I compare GPT 4.1 mini to GPT 5 nano? I can see that GPT 5 nano is faster, but is it smarter than 4.1 mini? The comparison shows Intelligence vs Reasoning, so I can't really evaluate the two on the same metric? Or am I being dumb?
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do not automate customer support with AI when you are starting out talk with every single customer as much as possible people will literally tell you what they need
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Long time since making an update. Here's how https://t.co/g3DUX1T2O0 did in May! ✅ $138K revenue. ✅ Solo. ✅ Bootstrapped. ✅ $97K MRR (remember MRR != Revenue) Currently spending 3-4 hours a day on the business. Primarily answering support emails and building whatever
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How do we feel about those “onboarding tooltips” that walk users through features of a SaaS? Has anyone A/B tested how it affected their churn? I personally don’t like them as a user, but curious if anyone’s seen a net positive from implementing one
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For a long time people would comment on my Facebook ads asking why we don’t offer an annual plan. We do, but it wasn’t very prominent I guess and people would miss that option. Made some tweaks around making the annual plan more prominent and revenue has grown from $100k /mo to
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Affiliates make the world go round ❤️
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After 7 years of being a bootstrapped "founder", there are so many things I love about the lifestyle. But the biggest perk of all is how much time I get to spend with my Daughter and Wife. I get to be there for everything, and I feel so grateful all the time. It can be
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How I reduced MRR by $30K MRR /s 1. Build a GPT wrapper before ChatGPT exists 2. See viral growth 3. Get cocky and move to new projects 4. ChatGPT launches 5. Watch and cry as the business slowly fades away 6. Shrug it off and keep working on new projects This one is
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Remembering that 5 years ago I ran this ad for NicheScraper and it absolutely slayed Man I miss the days when meme formats like this worked so well 😁
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