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I don't want to hear about the first dollar you made. I want to hear about how you went from $40,000 to $80,000 MRR. That's the key area. This post is just an ego stroke for a guy who made $1.00 ($.96 after fees).
I've crashed and burned on SaaS enough that I'm very into the landing page approach -- don't build the product, but convince people you have so that they can click the "buy now" button. That way you feel more confident that the market exists while you're actually building it. After all the projects I've failed at, nothing is harder for me to do than spend 200+ hours on something without having a clue whether it will…
I'm not sure why this is on the front page. I mean, $1 that you just made yesterday doesn't really indicate product/market fit, nor seem very noteworthy in general. If anything, it seems more like a midway point in the journey of what you might expect to get there. You might have to pivot several times after realizing traction is not stable or perhaps not scalable vis a vis marketing efforts, as has been my experienc…
The first dollar is usually the hardest though. This is a true account of one person's experience and I think a lot of people don't understand what that feels like. 200+ hours to cheer for $1 and some people don't even get to the dollar.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
On vitamins vs painkillers: conversely, do you think if you are able to build a vitamin product that does make your worklife better/easier, wouldn't it be a harder barrier to entry for newcomers? i.e., greater entrenchment? I'm currently doing customer development on such a product. I've burned my fingers previously building nice-to-have products and don't intend to repeat my mistake. With this one, I'm validating th…
First let's level set: the benefit of taking vitamins is that if you take them regularly, at some point in the future you will be better off than you are now (in other words there is no immediate perceived benefit - it requires an investment). Alternatively, a painkiller has immediate physiological benefits. Assessing a service as a painkiller vs a vitamin is not totally black and white - generally I would say a serv…
I will take you up and reach out to you. I'm not selling anything yet but would love to get feedback from you on my hypothesis.
I've crashed and burned on SaaS enough that I'm very into the landing page approach -- don't build the product, but convince people you have so that they can click the "buy now" button. That way you feel more confident that the market exists while you're actually building it. After all the projects I've failed at, nothing is harder for me to do than spend 200+ hours on something without having a clue whether it will…
Any recommendations for quick and effective landing page solutions? I assume something like MailChimp for email sign-ups?
In 1998, before people had much of clue about what represents success and how big things can get given time, I built a software product and posted it to the net. Within a week or so there had been a handful of sales at $100 each. That looked like failure to me at the time - "that's a trickle of money - extrapolating maybe $25,000 per year? Not enough to pay my bills. I need to get a job". Today that sort of start loo…
What type of software product did you make back then that warranted $100 sales?
I've crashed and burned on SaaS enough that I'm very into the landing page approach -- don't build the product, but convince people you have so that they can click the "buy now" button. That way you feel more confident that the market exists while you're actually building it. After all the projects I've failed at, nothing is harder for me to do than spend 200+ hours on something without having a clue whether it will…
Any recommendations for quick and effective landing page solutions? I assume something like MailChimp for email sign-ups?
There was a post a while ago on Reddit where someone built this little project:
Basically lets you add a fake buy button easily and emails you when someone attempts to buy.
I'm not sure why this is on the front page. I mean, $1 that you just made yesterday doesn't really indicate product/market fit, nor seem very noteworthy in general. If anything, it seems more like a midway point in the journey of what you might expect to get there. You might have to pivot several times after realizing traction is not stable or perhaps not scalable vis a vis marketing efforts, as has been my experienc…
That "Zero to One" customer is a big deal. You can now ask that customer why did they buy it in the first place? Why did they take their credit card out of their purse/wallet, type their info in, and click buy? What would keep them as a customer, etc. The next step is to get to 10 customers, then 100...
Regardless, it would be much more interesting to hear why the customer took out their credit card and entered their payment information. Unfortunately, that's not what this article is about.
I'm not sure why this is on the front page. I mean, $1 that you just made yesterday doesn't really indicate product/market fit, nor seem very noteworthy in general. If anything, it seems more like a midway point in the journey of what you might expect to get there. You might have to pivot several times after realizing traction is not stable or perhaps not scalable vis a vis marketing efforts, as has been my experienc…
Is this enough data to produce a valid scientific experiment? No, but that's a high bar that would disqualify pretty much every conversation anyone is having anywhere about anything :-D
Took a look at the site https://www.placecard.me/ and went through the flow of making a card and couldn't see a single place to pay for the template or order prints. Its possible I hit some kind of A/B test but i think the call to action might be buried too deep in the process.
It should be the case that if you pay for a template you get a preview link where the PDF has a watermark on it, and the only way to remove that watermark is to pay. I agree it's way too many steps and am trying to figure out how to make it easier and more seamless without delivering people something they don't actually want.