SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

Post by jason-grishkoff » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 7:52 AM UTC

SwellJoe wrote: post #67

XERQ wrote: post #53

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Have you considered charging by number of fans per outlet, instead of a flat $1/credit? Seems to me the value is in the blog's reach, similar to CPM in advertising. It goes against the simplicity of your platform, so you could make it very simple: $5 for high traffic, $3 for medium, $1 for low (or a variation of that).

I think there's a risk of this becoming a payola or pay-to-play sort of situation. I don't know that you're wrong, but it makes the model seem more predatory of musicians. Here's what I like about the very small flat fee: 1. It is small enough for even modestly successful musicians to cover it. It isn't a monetary barrier to entry. 2. It is likely large enough to prevent the shotgun approach. This is one of the bigge…

Post by jason-grishkoff » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 7:55 AM UTC

sp527 wrote: post #88

I think another important lesson to draw from this is that you should build things for domains and problems in which you have a legitimate interest/curiosity. That was something I took away from this that's difficult to accept, because it means you're probably going to be limited if you want to work solo.

Post by mherrmann » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 8:05 AM UTC

Post by erikb » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 2:11 PM UTC

theunixbeard wrote: post #101

1.) Build an audience (~6 years) 2.) Build your business (a few months...) That's the winning formula. I wrote about this at length regarding Ryan Hoover & Product Hunt: https://medium.com/@theunixbeard/product-hunt-s-rise-d49249a... The title was "Product Hunt's Rise: An overnight success 1,834 days in the making"... Same exact story here except growing Indie shuffle took closer to 2,190 days!

Post by erikb » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 3:10 PM UTC

theunixbeard wrote: post #118

erikb wrote: post #117

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It's funny how this blog post probably explains quite well how the indiehackers (the site this article about indie shuffle is hosted on) guy builds his community.

Quite meta! Would be nice to hear csallen's thoughts on it. Once big difference I think is that csallen is focused on writing specifically for the Hacker News audience as a way to bootstrap traffic from an existing large audience. Product Hunt didn't really use that strategy from what I can tell. Similarly to Indie Hackers, I wrote my Product Hunt article with the aim to bootstrap off of Ryan Hoover's large existing…