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I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

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Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

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Post by stets »

craze3 wrote: post #9

I thought this was a pretty good article that didn't over-sensationalize SaaS products, while still explaining how they can lead to success. It sucks that the OP's website didn't "blow up", but then again, most micro-SaaS's are not meant to go viral like that. One point I would add is that there should be more promotion other than just posting on HN + PH. If that's where your launch stops, you may not be realizing yo…

Thanks for your comments. I am OP :-)

My site went down for a bit while this is front-paged, but is back up now. Definitely I think it could be more of a success if I put more effort in (duh?).

Definitely there is a need to promote across multiple channels and ideally own your audience/create your own content because then you have traffic generation on demand.

The name is weird, I shipped anyways. earlybird.com and earlybrd.com were not free. I have spelled it out many times. It's annoying and sucks.

Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

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Post by _bxg1 »

polote wrote: post #2

Going to be down voted for that but after all those discussions of HN readers it is disappointing to see that click-bait titles works the same here than everywhere else

Maybe it's changed, but the title I see doesn't feel clickbait-y. It actually made me think the author was going to have completely failed; I'm glad to see there was some modest success.

Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

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Post by polote »

craze3 wrote: post #9

I thought this was a pretty good article that didn't over-sensationalize SaaS products, while still explaining how they can lead to success. It sucks that the OP's website didn't "blow up", but then again, most micro-SaaS's are not meant to go viral like that. One point I would add is that there should be more promotion other than just posting on HN + PH. If that's where your launch stops, you may not be realizing yo…

> Lastly, why does everyone here seem to care more about post titles than actual posts nowadays?

The point of a title is to provide some kind of summary or teasing of what the posts talks about. If you try to guess the content of the article from the title you will fail here.

I don't want to criticize the content of this post, but we have this kind of content very often on the homepage, so it is not like we would have missed a super interesting thing

Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

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Post by stets »

codenesium wrote: post #12

I think everybody has to learn this lesson. Treat it like a learning experience and you haven't lost anything but time hopefully. Earlybrd.io is currently down and I wanted to check it out. Hug of death.

Yeah, I am getting pwned pretty hard. Thanks for your kind words -- putting up a temp page now

Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

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Post by rodolphoarruda »

I was following this same path until yesterday, when I gave up. I have the mock-ups and all the notes with me, but I won't go ahead because I know it would be too much of an effort. Web dev has become rocket science for those who started in this business in the late 90's, at least IMHO.
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