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After having worked at many startups for two decades, most recently as CTO, I had finally started building my own SaaS ( https://persumi.com , a blogging/audio platform and https://rizz.farm , a lead generation platform) in 2023. So for 2024 I'd love to start monetising them and turning them into real businesses. Fingers crossed.
Everyone I ask for advice tells me to just start with 10 a week and see where it goes after a few months. So that's what I'm going to do.
Dev wise, going to try and develop plugins for more marketplaces as a means of improving the visibility of the product (confluence, slack, mattermost, etc).
I was one of many, many people laid off in 2023. I have about 6 months of unemployment, and my state supports entrepreneurship in its unemployment system; so, I am giving myself 6-ish months to release a product enough that it can start taking income and see how it goes. That’s my mission for 2024 :)
> Commit to regular posts on LinkedIn and Twitter, even if I think I'm cringe every time I do it. Is this what people that create all Twitter and LinkedIn cringe content tell themselves? Why do it? You really can't come up with any way to market your company that feels good? Can't you think a bit more about the problem and frame it as "what can I do that is net positive, doesn't make me feel like crap while doing it…
The fault here is on the platforms, they reward these practices, or maybe they just don't interfere and that content is really what drives people to interact with the content.
Either way, when you're playing a game, you reinforce what's working. When you watch your competitors eating your cake, unless you manage to come up with a strategy of your own, you end up going down that route sooner or later.
> Commit to regular posts on LinkedIn and Twitter, even if I think I'm cringe every time I do it. Is this what people that create all Twitter and LinkedIn cringe content tell themselves? Why do it? You really can't come up with any way to market your company that feels good? Can't you think a bit more about the problem and frame it as "what can I do that is net positive, doesn't make me feel like crap while doing it…
For the past 3 years, I was the kind of "it has to be done in a weekend", now I am trying to focus on getting it right, explore possibilities, reflect, and then execute.
I also set longer deadlines for myself now (3-6 months instead of a week or two).
> Commit to regular posts on LinkedIn and Twitter, even if I think I'm cringe every time I do it. Is this what people that create all Twitter and LinkedIn cringe content tell themselves? Why do it? You really can't come up with any way to market your company that feels good? Can't you think a bit more about the problem and frame it as "what can I do that is net positive, doesn't make me feel like crap while doing it…
Well, cringe is subjective, especially when they've a different target audience. I can't blame them if it's working. The fault here is on the platforms, they reward these practices, or maybe they just don't interfere and that content is really what drives people to interact with the content. Either way, when you're playing a game, you reinforce what's working. When you watch your competitors eating your cake, unless…