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Five Core Principles of Building Startups The Lean Way 🐆
1. Idea -> validate -> build
Don’t write a single line of code before first validating your idea.
Set up a basic waiting list and see if anyone joins. Then contact anyone who signs up and find out their core problem
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How I validated my SaaS before building it 🏗️
Rewind 10 days ago and I had several ideas but didn’t know what to choose. I wanted a way to validate the idea before building so I could quickly iterate through each idea till I found the right one.
My solution?
Waitlists ⏳
I
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Day 2 of building
- Fixed a few UI errors on the landing page
- expanded on the landing page
- Began formatting data for training AI model
Tomorrow can start the fine tuning process 🚀
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Why you need to promote your SaaS on Reddit
- 73.1 million daily active users
- Organically ranked traffic ->followers don't matter
- Engaged audience actively interested in niche
#buildinpublic
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How to use Reddit to boost traffic to your site 💥
3-step process:
- Research / find relevant subreddits
- Hooky title
- TELL a story
1. Research / Find relevant subreddits
Go into communities on Reddit and make a list of all the subreddits that apply to your SaaS.
You can
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if you score 80/100+ in these questions you have a good SaaS idea 💡
YC looked at its 100 biggest companies and used the data to come up with these questions.
Rate each question 1-10, 1 meaning no / poor correlation and 10 being yes / high correlation .
Here we go:
1. Do
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Monday morning 🌅
What are you working on and why should it exist? 👇🏻
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- 65,000 impressions
- 100+ signups for
- New network of people who help me every day
Start building in Public today, it will give you all the motivation and momentum you need.
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What’s a controversial opinion you have about indie hacking?
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Do you prefer to work early mornings before work
OR
Late nights after Work?
#buildinginpublic
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This is the reason you keep giving up too early
The Dunning Kruger effect describes the feeling of joy you get when starting a new project.
You feel excited, like this new idea will be the one, you have finally had your Steve Jobs moment.
You haven’t.
Give it a few days
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Top 3 lessons from building my first SaaS
- Moving fast is one of the biggest challenges 💨
- Concentrate on functionality then aesthetics 🔧
-The support you get when building in public is insane 🥳
Thanks to everyone for the journey so far 🚀
#buildinginpublic
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Day 6 / 100 building 🖊️
Not a great day…
Took me forever to learn how to pass data using the Link component in Nextjs, of course the solution was one small line of code which took me 4 hours to realise… 🤦🏻♂️
But this is what it’s all about. Showing up
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Huge news for 🍾
We have been accepted into University of Galway’s incubator programme. Thanks to everyone who has followed so far 🙏🏻
Day 16/100
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Day 4 /100 🎬
Today was a productive day 🚀
- Built API endpoints for LLM
- Gathered more training data
-Got the broken confetti feature working 🥲
- Designed the user input form
Tomorrow will start on the user input UI which will be used to gather data for the LLM 🤖
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In Reddit we trust 🙏🏻
How to use Reddit to boost traffic to your site 💥
3-step process:
- Research / find relevant subreddits
- Hooky title
- TELL a story
1. Research / Find relevant subreddits
Go into communities on Reddit and make a list of all the subreddits that apply to your SaaS.
You can
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I tried to do everything and failed
Over 27 days I tried
- Launching my 1st SaaS
- Building a 2nd startup in an incubator
- Youtube
- Newsletter
- Post on X..
- Social life etc…
It all fell apart today.
Learning to focus and sacrifice has been very difficult.
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Would you rather work 60hr work week but make 20k mmr
Or
Work 20hr work week and make 5k mmr ?
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What motivates you to work
🌅 Early mornings
🦉 Late nights
🏝️ Entire weekends
on something with 0 guarantee of success?
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Day 11/100 building
Spent today modifying the current LLM I have setup.
Currently looking at other text models and testing to see what generates the best results.
Biggest issue is LLM writing cringe posts 😬
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Another late night coding 😴
Sometimes you feel this is the most exciting project and other times it feels like an endless grind.
All part of the journey I guess…
#buildinpublic
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Day 1 of building
- Setup landing page and email wait list
- Linked to Supabase database
- Hosted with Vercal
This took me all day to do but it was my first time working with tailwind, daisyui and nextJs.
Tomorrow I will start work on the AI model!
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SaaS Idea recipe for young founders with little domain expertise 🔬
1. Think of every job you’ve had (+ internships + life experiences).
2. What are problems or opportunities you’ve been in a special position to see?
= automatic founder market fit
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This is why it is really important to post in the right subreddit (and as many as you can)
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Thank you to
@BWinningPages
for the Roast
Do you think this is a solid improvement?!
#buildinpublic
Before + After for LaunchCopy (
@jack_mitchell01
)
Bro has really been putting in the work on LaunchCopy - I see his posts often in the Build in Public community TL.
Thought he deserved a complimentary roast + redesign for his efforts.
Notable changes:
→ Switched to a color
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Software devs are wizards in disguise🧙♂️
A friend is changing websites and was planning to manually upload everything.
Solution? A couple of Python scripts and the help of a WordPress plugin, weekend saved :)
Going to celebrate with a beer 🍻
#buildinpublic
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Struggling with
#SaaS
marketing?
I just dropped a video revealing the marketing stack that got 250K+ impressions for my SaaS! 📈
✅ Launching tips
✅ Effective cold outreach
✅ Building in public secrets
✅ Reddit as a goldmine
Watch now:
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Day 20 / 100 building
Today was sick, cracked the LLM and feel it is producing good outputs
Now using same method for reddit & hacker news.
When we launching will have product hunt, Reddit and Hacker News included.
Will start sharing copy tomorrow!
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Random startup idea of the week
Browser extension that reads docs and then answers specific questions.
Example: Should I use Nextjs server components or an api endpoint for managing customer preference data
Would this work, 👍🏻 / 👎🏻
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@DanKulkov
If you were bothered you can link notion to a site with their API and it’s very cheap. API is kind of hard to setup tho
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I got over 250k views with this Tech Stack 👇🏻
#buildinginpublic
Struggling with
#SaaS
marketing?
I just dropped a video revealing the marketing stack that got 250K+ impressions for my SaaS! 📈
✅ Launching tips
✅ Effective cold outreach
✅ Building in public secrets
✅ Reddit as a goldmine
Watch now:
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Day 21 / 100 building
- Built out some of the Ui for Reddit and Hacker News, will finish tomorrow
- Tomorrow I start the Reddit and Hacker News specific LLMs
Slowly getting closer…
#buildinpublic
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I need your help 🫵🏻
I got accepted into a 6 week start up incubator program but I have one problem…
I don’t have any problems to solve!
Drop in the comments any SaaS business ideas you would like see built. Focus on the problem and whichever one gets the most likes, I will
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Day 10 / 100 building 🚀
- Spent 90% of the day working on my first YouTube video
- Messed it up so hard to record it twice
- Minor Ui changes to launchcopy
#buildinginpublic
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I validated my startup idea before building it
Thanks to
@marc_louvion
for inspiring me to start my youtube journey
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Just setup my indiepage ->
Building my first SaaS today, thanks
@marc_louvion
for the inspiration.
#buildinginpublic
#indiehackers
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Day 18 / 100 building
- Added more animations to the Ui
- Gathered data for fine tuning
Starting to feel product hunt isn’t enough, should also offer hacker news and reddit
-> Researching this now…
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Flights booked for Thailand in June ✈️
The beginning of my digital nomad arc begins…
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Day 24 / 100 🔨
The model is finally ready to launch, so aiming to have everything done THIS Friday!
- Landing page
- Bug fixes
- etc
Monday is also the first day of a startup incubator in doing where I’ll be working on my next SaaS
#buildinpublic
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@marc_louvion
Opinion on AI product pricing, you kind of have to charge a subscription because of on going API costs?
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Day 28 /
#100DayChallenge
90% done but feels like I have 99 things to do
Decided to take a lean approach and do things manual in the beginning if it means launching sooner.
Also cutting down and focusing on 3 things instead of 6.
Now launching in 1 week
#buildinpublic
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Day 12 / 100 building 🔨
Today was awesome
- Launched my newsletter -> 🖊️
- Started integrating Stripe and user auth 💂
It’s all coming together (slowly)
#buildinpublic
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Insightful for anyone looking to grow their following
After 3.5K followers and ~ $35K from X, here are 8 tips to grow on X when starting small.
I started with 100+ followers at the end of last year. When I was struggling to grow my business, I decided to give X a try and see what I could achieve.
What I learned along the way
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Day 5 /100 building my first SaaS 👷
Spent the day building out the UI that gathers information from the user which will be sent to the API
Super productive week, still aiming to launch this Friday 🚀
Signup to my newsletter for deeper insights 👉🏻
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Nothing!
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Just finished building Hacker News UI for
Excited to start the LLM for it today!
#buildinpublic
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Day 9 / 100 day challenge
- Refactored code to be much simpler, this should make integrating payments easier
- Added loading skeleton and other UI improvements
The grind continues 🫡
#buildinginpublic
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Need a good SaaS idea?
Read this 👇🏻
Help me out.
What marketing task you would love to outsource to AI?
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@sama
Not convinced this is the the optimal workflow for software engineers? I’d rather 10x copilot than a buddy to chat to
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@arvidkahl
I feel like only someone who’s never built a business wouldn’t appreciate a milestone like 1k MRR…
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How many others wanted to be a YC founder but recently are going down the indie hacker route?
28 founder rules that they never teach you:
1. Cash-flow is like an "exit" every year
2. Networking events are 99% a waste of time
3. Your mental health is always at risk
4. You most likely won't make life changing money but will probably make "car changing" money or "house
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Startup ideas are like puberty, they're meant to come naturally
The best way to have startup ideas is organically. By launching side projects you put yourself in a position to find the best problems to solve.
The best solutions = most painful problems
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@starwardshar
I’m unconvinced people will want to talk to Ai.
Thibk about Google, you search an answer and read it, 10/10 experience.
If AI is capable of that why do I need to have a fake conversation with it?
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@brunobrasilweb
-> LLM trained on 100’s of successful product hunt launches that writes the copy you need to have that crucial first launch 🚀
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@AdiKumarSaroj
I’m building -> an LLM that is specifically designed to write launch copy for product hunt. Hoping to launch this Friday 🚀
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How Notion templates can save you hours when building your SaaS ⚡️
Through building I have created a Notion template that literally saves me hours.
It includes everything from ideation, app architecture and marketing.
Here’s 3 tips on how you can do
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Day 13 / 100 building
- Continued progress with integrating stripe and authentication with supabase
-> I want to have Auth when a user pays rather than force them to create an account
Thoughts on this approach?
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@father_mihai
It’s like posting on YouTube, you start with a title and thumbnail before making the actual video.
Coding is a given, ability to distribute isn’t. posted a video on this topic today
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@dantannor
Waitlist -> organically ranked traffic -> interview signups and learn their exact problem
THEN
Build
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POV: you look foward to a 3hr train ride because it means you have 0 distractions when working…
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19 / 100 of building
- Spent today fixing a bunch of Ui bugs and refactoring code.
- Tomorrow we start the last stretch of the LLM, should have some the near final result near the end of the week…
#builtinpublic
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So many ideas…
absolute killer for many startups right now?
Say hello to GPT-4o, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time:
Text and image input rolling out today in API and ChatGPT with voice and video in the coming weeks.
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How to come up with your next SaaS idea (the YC method)
SaaS Idea recipe for young founders with little domain expertise 🔬
1. Think of every job you’ve had (+ internships + life experiences).
2. What are problems or opportunities you’ve been in a special position to see?
= automatic founder market fit
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The 🐐 of marketing books
The deeper I go in marketing, the less curious I am about tactics and the more curious I am about psychology.
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@dagorenouf
@nico_jeannen
If the hardest part of entrepreneurship is uncertainty and he works 100 hours a week, wouldn’t he be better off with a job
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@larsnatus
Don’t spend too much money before getting any validation-> talk to your prospective users first
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@SaidAitmbarek
@pxue
@mntlmodels
@AsmithaRathis
Congrats to
@pxue
,
@mntlmodels
and
@AsmithaRathis
Setting goal on winner of May 2024! 🚀
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@DarayuthH
Today I was working on my YouTube channel:
Can’t wait to get back to coding tomorrow
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At least someone likes it 😂
I validated my startup idea before building it
Thanks to
@marc_louvion
for inspiring me to start my youtube journey
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Do you think it’s possible to be rich and have total freedom?
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@hakukonevelhot
@jainilnf
Congrats Pete,
Working on , an ai model that writes copy for launches on product hunt!
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Day 3 / 100
Here’s what happened today 🔥
- Began implementing the model into the app
- Spent an insane amount of time trying to add a confetti effect when a user signs up to the waitlist (and failed)
Anyone know how to setup confetti over a certain part of the page?!
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Have you ever wondered if you give up to early?
The 100 day challenge by
@noahkagan
is a challenge where you commit to a goal for 100 days before quitting
The idea is to stop yourself from quitting too early.
Here is my personal challenge and results after 21 days👇🏻
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Day 8/100 building
Building the Ui to emulate a product hunt post so users can see what the copy looks like in action.
Was planning to launch on Friday but I think that is super unlikely!
#buildinpublic
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@siya_hx
Landing page -> validate idea -> jump in
Recording a YouTube video on this topic today!
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Day 17/100 of building
- Spent this weekend working on YouTube and newsletter, but still found some time to code
- Focused on testing the LLM -> comparing the difference between ChatGPT and Lama.
- Getting super excited with the results I’m getting…
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@AdiKumarSaroj
@apkcodes
@__mattnorris
@Soham_Asmi
@codestirring
@yanfernads
@sergey_kaplich
@shafrazi
@antdh
Appreciate the support Aditya 🔥
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