Dean McPherson
@dean_mcpherson
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Building stuff on my own terms. No VC. Dad of 5. All with Diony. • •
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@misha_saul
We've just had our fifth - but even with four young kids we're a circus everywhere we go
People are so surprised to see a family with more kids than adults
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Typeform are one of our largest competitors - and I see this kind of take all the time. I should probably be bandwagoning for the attention!
The reality is though I think their pricing actually makes heaps of sense for B2B SaaS, and ours is quite similar at Paperform.
Settle
Who the hell is paying this much for Typeform?
$60 for 1000 responses is wild.
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@joshmanders
AWS is the standard - no one's getting fired for using AWS. Tbf it's de facto for a reason.
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Look ma, I'm in the paper
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So cool to be one of the first interviews up on bootstrappers!
@microacquire
@agazdecki
- thanks for creating a place for stories like ours 🙏
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So I did something a little bit impulsive today.
I bought a very early stage app - and I'm not exactly sure what I should do with it the
Here's how it went down, with full details of how much...
I've been following
@Timb03
for a few months now, and love his content
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@simonsarris
The worst thing about this one (other than how common it is), is that it's the wrong way around. It's nearly impossible to really understand anything remotely complex without doing it first
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I'm really looking forward to the day
@levelsio
has kids and sells the indie chad's on elite dadding
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I'm 35 today.
I honestly don't normally think much of birthdays, but this one feels like a milestone now that it's here.
A lot has changed over the past 5 years.
I don't have any advice, there's no B2B sales jokes here, but I do want to say that my heart is full of
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📈 Dubble's September
#buildinpublic
Update 📈
Here's the numbers:
🔁 MRR $1452 (+$234)
💵 Cashflow: $2622 (+$382)
🏃🏻♀️ Active Subs: 289 (+32)
👥 MAUs: 2835 (+164)
📄 Guides created: 2,529 (+29)
So what's happening?
We increased prices in the first few days of the month (which
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I just published my thoughts on the future of app dev!
#react
#web
#future
#js
#developers
#opensource
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Well that escalated quickly - that's 84M AUD (~60M USD) processed on
@PaperformCo
forms through
@stripe
🙀
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@GergelyOrosz
Notion's only real advantage is momentum. They're executing well, and have done an **amazing** job at growing a fanbase/community around their product, especially in younger audiences. If they can hang on to their **cool** status then they'll be fine in the long run
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My most unholy of creations
did someone say react component in a blade file
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I promise I'm not going to turn into a running account, but I ran my first half marathon today and want to clap myself on the back just this once.
I've never been a runner (or much of an anything sport/exercise tbh). I've run a couple of 14K runs over the past few weeks, and I
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@markdalgleish
I think the secret success of tailwind is that it stops you from abstracting beyond utility. The idiomatic way of abstraction is to rely on your component system, if that's not good enough, then for the vast majority of use cases, you probably shouldn't be abstracting anything.
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Ok so here's what I'm thinking for dm•new (the app I bought off
@Timb03
a few days ago)
1. People claim their handle, and get a link they own (like dm•new/dean)
2. That link can go directly to DMs on X, or to a link-in-bio style customisable list of links
3. You can also
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I'm not going to build it I swear but who would buy a transparently priced, high quality intercom alternative, specifically targeting SaaS businesses?
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@agazdecki
@TechCrunch
We pitched them when we hit 1m ARR bootstrapped - can't say the rejection was unexpected, but it was communicated that if it wasn't a round then it wasn't news they were interested in.
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OK I'm going to do something a bit crazy
Dubble () made $1024.05 of sales in January
We receive our next payout in 26 days, on March 1
The first person to guess the March 1st payout amount to the *exact dollar* - we'll give you the lot!
Deets below 👇
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Looking for alternatives to Gumroad? Here's the list:
1. Paperform
@PaperformCo
2. Sellfy
@Sellfy
3. Payhip
@payhip
4. Podia
@podia
5. Samcart
@samcartapp
6. Sendowl
@SendOwlHQ
7. Shopify
@Shopify
8. WooCommerce
@WooCommerce
9. Hyax
10. Ko Fi
@kofi_button
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**NEW SAAS ALERT**
Finally got around to getting into a somewhat releasable state. If you ever write docs, take screenshots, onboard remote employees into systems or do SaaS customer success - grab free early access now!
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@amasad
Probably tbh. Easiest business in the world, putting sensible abstractions and defaults on battle tested (but convoluted) systems
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Rome wasn't built in a day
@PaperformCo
has processed 318M in payments for our customers - we did 9M in August alone
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@FounderKyle
Infinite! It's the bootstrapped way. You get profitable, and only spend within your means.
Even my side project has an infinite runway, it already covers it's overheads, has no employees, and I don't need it to pay me a dime - because it's a side project.
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Reserve your handle now for dm•new, first in best dressed, link in comments 👇
If you haven't been following along, yesterday I bought dm•new from
@Timb03
- the full details are below.
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@tylertringas
In all seriousness, it's apparently a faux pas in some circles to send scheduling links. Personally, I think it's ridiculous, and egotistical to care.
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Unpopular opinion: have kids. Heaps of em. They're the best.
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@Vjeux
@notbrent
do you know any Sydney based RN devs? Guys behind
@pokewhereGO
looking for help. Built w RN, >2mil downloads
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@markdalgleish
The big benefit I found being self taught is that code has always been a way to get the job done, not elevated to an end result in itself. But maybe it's just a personality type thing too
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Dubble is live now on Product Hunt!
Dubble is an amazing tool for people who hate writing docs and teaching people how to use software.
Be the kind and generous hearted person you are - go and show some love pleaaase 🙏
AND there's 50% off Dubble Pro forever.
Link below 👇
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This is such a boss move from fly - in
@calebporzio
's write up on crossing 1m in GitHub sponsors
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@randfish
Definitely true. It's death by a thousand cookie consents.
Maybe we need an explicit DO_TRACK header/browser setting, so that people can expressly ignore all cookie consents, warnings etc in perpetuity.
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And the winner is.....
@nathanjmurphy
!!!
A month ago, we decided to try something fun, and give away February's payout for to the person who guessed closest.
Nathan's guess was off by just $4.
OK I'm going to do something a bit crazy
Dubble () made $1024.05 of sales in January
We receive our next payout in 26 days, on March 1
The first person to guess the March 1st payout amount to the *exact dollar* - we'll give you the lot!
Deets below 👇
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January Update for
Current MRR = $348 USD
💵 $123 net new MRR in Jan (⬆ 54.7%)
🌎 2,981 new visitors (⬆42% vs previous period)
📧 510 registrations
💳24 new subscriptions
1,880 guides created!!
#buildinpublic
#bootstrapped
#saas
#indiehackers
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Met my wife in 2008
First date April 2009
Married 2011
@PaperformCo
2016
Baby
#1
in 2018
Baby
#2
in 2019
Baby
#3
and
#4
in 2021
@dubble_so
in 2022
Baby
#5
in 2024 👶
A big new year ahead with my lovely
@DionyMcPherson
♥️
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What are you working on today?
Drop a link in the comments and I'll give you feedback on your LP
#indiedev
#indiehacker
#solopreneur
#buildinpublic
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@joshmanders
@LaravelLivewire
LiveWire is cool, but it's not a front end framework killer. The latency problem of pushing client state to the server doesn't have any real solve outside of trying to be clever and fake optimistic updates in an ad-hoc way.
Still a great 80/20 solution for a bunch of use cases
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We increased our user onboarding form conversion rates for Paperform by 24%
Here's what we did:
🧵
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So long MVP. Hello Minimum Loveable Product. — The Happy Startup School — Medium
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@nicklockwood
It's in just about every content genre I engage with on twitter now. Super basic "edu-posts" and engagement bait, I guess it must work.
What's your favourite variable?
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Who are the best people in the indie saas community to follow on twitter?
Preference for actual doers over yet another thread of best free tools
@arvidkahl
@dagorenouf
@damengchen
@dr
?
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We grew Paperform from nothing to 3M ARR with no funding, no audience, no social following and no cold emails.
The secret? Good product, better service, and patience!
SaaS takes time, so chill ✌️
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I'm thinking of building
@dubble_so
in public, at least for the early days - is this something you want to see? What aspects of early stage SaaS would you be interested in hearing about?
#indiehackers
#buildinpublic
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The great thing about bootstrapping SaaS is that if you don't grow for a while life just goes on
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BIRD APP FRIENDS
ASSEMBLLLEEEE
🙏🙏🙏
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@nocodelife
@ModernAfflatus
@LeeLaunches
@_docwilliams
@AppSumo
@TrueReply
@stepocampbell_
@HainingMax
@jelanisince94
@mariepoulin
@ErikIsrani
@edmundamoye
@whit4th
True that, I tuned in something like 5 HOURS in, and
@_docwilliams
was in boss mode
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Just recorded this demo of how to create a form for
@NotionHQ
with
@PaperformCo
in 1 minute, from scratch.
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@VicVijayakumar
Throw the PDF generation into lambda and call it a day. I'm all for the "sidecar" model, monolith for simplicity, bail out to lambda for any unpredictable compute needs
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http://t.co/kgDboRi5HK
Im all for arts degrees. Learn how to think and communicate, and you'll be useful
#education
#tech
#startup
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I've been building and running a bootstrapped b2b SaaS business for the last 7 years, growing Paperform nothing to 3.5M ARR without a dime of funding.
I'm starting a new substack (and perhaps video series?) on bootstrapping a new product from the very beginning through to
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Sydney startup
@townske
wants to help travellers be locals in every city:
http://t.co/tfQi1Cjrjd
#travel
#startupaus
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finally launching Dubble on PH next week
for all that is good and decent and kind - go this page and click the "Notify me" button
If you ever cared for me at all
Upvote my launch when you get notified
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Midjourney is pretty great at making beautiful illustrations for landing pages!
Prompt below
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You know you've been in global SaaS too long when your an Aussie but you think in USD
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You zig I zag
You release an AI wrapper
I release an eSignature service
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LETS GOOO
Paperform is growing up! I still work more from the couch than my desk though
Massive shout out to
@JohansonGroup
and
@TrustVanta
for breaking down the SOC2 elephant into bite sized pieces 🙏
Paperform is officially SOC 2 Type I certified! 🛡️💪 We're proud to offer this compliance to all users, especially our Business and Enterprise customers. Thank you to
@JohansonGroup
for guiding us through this process.
Read more in our blog post here: .
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@VicVijayakumar
💯 I suspect any professional developer who's worked from solo indie projects through to a team in a larger org AND been on call to put out fires would make the same call.
I've run stuff in prod on linux boxes, fargate, lambda, vercel, CloudFlare workers/pages...
When I build
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@ThePeterMick
@bonjourdomain
Dean I am, I do like green eggs and ham.
I also make SaaS businesses for fun and also to feed my many sons.
by ☀️
by 🌙
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Hey America this is how us-east-1 feels to Aussies
Hosted in Sydney:
Hosted in North Virginia:
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Massive shoutout to
@dctanner
@danielkempe
@rbluethl
@heyshounak
@DhravyaShah
and everyone else who pitched in with amazing ideas the other day!
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Come and ship something you can be proud of with great people
We're looking for two senior devs to join our small team with big dreams
Ideate, design, ship, analyse, repeat
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