Abishek⚡
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I got rejected by VCs for being non technical, so I learned to code and shipped stuff in 2 months 👀 $480/mo - 💜 (free) -
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🚀
@ProductHunt
launch for WAITFORIT is LIVE 🚀
i got chewed out by chinese beaver 😩
for building a waitlist manually 💔
when I should've used 💜
👈 please break the upvote button
(i will love you forever if you do)
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I went from not knowing how to code to shipping a SaaS in ~3 months, while having a day job.
This is what I did everyday👇
8-9AM: tweet/social media
9:30-5: Work
5-7PM: Catch up w/ GF, Eat, Wind Down
7-11PM: Build 🚀
+ weekends :). It isn't glamorous, but it pays off.
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I went from not knowing how to code, to launching a SaaS in ~3 months, while having a day job.
as promised, Here's how I did it👇 (+ resources, bookmark for later)
- Did Javascript/HTML/CSS course w/
@Codecademy
- Watched JS tutorials from
@GreatStackDev
- Built a basic weather
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I failed in public with my 2nd product 💔
👀 18k unique visitors
👷 3 months of work
😥 $1000 in revenue
$1K after months of work isn't worth it 😔
oh well, onto the next project 💜
#buildinpublic
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Hi, I'm Abishek ⚡
3 months ago I was depressed, chasing VC money, with no skills.
I decided to change my life by learning how to code in the nights, after my day job as an EE. 👨💻
Since then, all this happened 👇
- Shipped 1 SaaS ()
- Launching SaaS
#2
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Got new friends so I'll reintroduce myself😄
4 months ago I was depressed, chasing VC money, with no skills😔
I decided to change my life 🛣️
I would finish my 9-5 job, and learn to code from 7-11PM, everyday👨💻
then, all this happened 👇
- Launched Quillcap
#10
on
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we're in ✅ this IS a huge deal for me
why? cuz I spent the last 8 months
- battling depression
- recovering from a failed company
- learning to code
- starting a company in the US as an immigrant
- building 7-11PM after my 9-5
- growing to ~4K from 0
- shipping 2 products
-
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my 8 month
#buildinpublic
journey👇
from 0 coding skills/followers → $1K revenue while working a 9-5
september → no skills, depressed, 10 VC rejections, 1 failed biz
october → learned to code, shipped 3 small apps
november → started building , 13
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I hit ~$400 in revenue 🤯
thank you javascript 😍
I started learning to code 6 months ago in the nights after my day job
if you're wondering whether it'll be worth it, this is your sign 💜
#buildinpublic
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so this happened this morning.
@marc_louvion
is an absolute legend and he is the key reason I got started with building in public. Story time 👇
~2 months ago I was chasing VCs, and depressed, with no skills. I was on Twitter and I saw Marcs tweet about a Livestream he's doing
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I can't believe it 😭
I'm actually making internet $$$
took 4 months, working 7-11PM everyday after my 9-5
- learning to code 💻
- launching first few products 🚀
- growing to 2.6K on X
#buildinpublic
🐦
now, all that work is starting to pay off 💜
next stop $1K MRR 🚀
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I hit $630 in revenue today 🤯
6 months ago - I was learning to code after my 9-5 making a to-do list app with 0 followers
Today - I'm earning 💰 week by week, and we are 3k+ strong 🔥
Thank you to the 23 happy customers 🙏💜
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In 4 months I managed to
- learn to code 💻
- ship 2 SaaS products 🚀
- make my first internet dollars 💰
- gained 2500+ followers 🧑🤝🧑
while having a 9-5 job
but I also screwed up ALOT along the way
3 things you should STOP doing (bookmark for later)
1. Stop dreaming BIG
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I'm building 6 SaaS products in 6 months (1/6 launched 🚀)
Hero Section for
#2
👇What do you think?
Launching early next month!
( hit follow for cookie 👉 )
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3 months ago
- Chasing VC money
- Lost, Depressed, Dejected
- 0 Coding Skills
- 0 SaaS products
- Lonely, no connections
3 months later
- Life is meaningful ♥️
- Shipping products in 1 month 🚢
- 2 SaaS products 🚀
- Found my tribe 👫
An incredible 2023 ⚡
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200 to 700 followers in 6 days 🤯
absolutely mental ❤️
building in public works
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look ma I did it 😭
first ever payout as an indiehacker 💜
6 months of hard work → learning to code,
#buildinpublic
on X, and shipping 2 products, while working a 9-5
was 10x harder cuz I'm an immigrant in the US - it's not easy to sell stuff if you're not a citizen
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I made my FIRST SALE EVER with 🚀
but this didn't come easy 👇
I didn't know to code 4 months ago😔
I got rejected by VCs because I was non-technical⛔
I had 2 followers on X...
so I decided to change my life → learn to code in the nights after my 9-5
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hello, I'm Abishek 👋
today, I launched my 2nd product - on
@ProductHunt
✨ 👉 (help me get to
#1
😭)
but 5 months ago was very different → I didn't know to code, I was depressed, I was chasing VC money, and I had 0 followers
I
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i swear i'm gonna cry 🥺
I just sold my first premium plan for - $69 💜
please stop doubting yourself and ship that side project 🙏
#buildinpublic
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2 months to learn to code
+1 month to launch 1st SaaS -
+1 week to announce 2nd SaaS - (sign up now!)
All while having a day job
Up next 👇
- Incorporate my company
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I got featured on
@ProductHunt
newsletter 😮
I wanted to say, I truly appreciate you guys 💜
It's making me teary eyed :'(
5 months ago I was was alone in my room
wondering if learning to code will be worth it
And YOU made it all work out. Thank you for that :'( 💜
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from $50 → $600 in ~3 weeks with my 2nd product 😍
But 6 months ago, I had nothing
- 0 followers
- no coding skills
- beaten down with 10 VC rejections
- depressed/dejected
I had enough and decided I was going to change my life
took 6 months of daily grinding, while
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I went from knowing 0 code → shipping apps that made money, within 6 months 💰
all while working my 9-5 👀
how you can do it too 👇 - bookmark 📑
#buildinpublic
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my life changed in just 3 months ❤️
- Learned to code
- Launched 1st SaaS (Quillcap)
- Building my 2nd SaaS 👉
- 0 to 1600+ followers
- 50 to 20k+ impressions a day
thank you javascript
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3 months ago I didn't know how to code. I decided to go learn and in October, I challenged myself 👇
- Ship 6 products in 6 months
2 days ago, I announced my 2nd SaaS product ❤️
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1M impressions in 90 Days 😱
I started learning to code, and posting on
@X
in Sept 2023 😍
All that made it possible 👇
- Make 2 SaaS products 🚀 (sign up pls )
- Launch within 1 month 🚢
- Build an amazing community 🧑🤝🧑
💜
#buildinpublic
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I STARTED A COMPANY 🥳
4 weeks, so much 💲 countless lawyer convos
I'm an immigrant in the US 🗽and it's insanely difficult to do this
BUT this gives me a path for my O1 visa to stay here, so it had to be done
please support & hit notify (Product
#1
)👉
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Goals for 2024 👇
I will post progress updates every month
- Start my company
- Build 6 SaaS products in 6 months (4 to go)
- Scale one SaaS to $500K ARR
- Sell Quillcap on
@microacquire
- Start a community for makers
- Get my visa (H1B/O1)
- Prioritize health
- 10K on
@X
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oh my GOD guys my first payout is in 4 DAYS 💜
am I officially an indiehacker once this hits my bank account?
i can't WAIIITTT 🚀
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I can't believe it...
a VC that rejected me 6 months ago, wants to talk 🤯
what changed in that time 👇
- learned to code after my 9-5 💻
- shipped 2 products 🚀
- made internet money 💵
-
#buildinpublic
to 3k+ followers 🧑🤝🧑
should I update y'all on how it goes? 👀
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I feel like I've failed
I've been working 9-5 and indiehacking from 7-11PM every day since September
but this past month - I haven't been able to build at all
cuz my day job has gotten very demanding
this is me - 1AM, dark outside, I got there 9 AM the previous day.
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8 years building 15 products in stealth 🕵️
Result - 0 customers/revenue/followers ❌
6 months to learn code & ship 2 products
Result - $1300 revenue, 800 users, 4K followers ✅
just ship stuff 🚢
#buildinpublic
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I'm on month 2 of building 6 SaaS products in 6 months.
Announcing it on Monday, but, can you guess what it is before that?
Here's a hint 👇
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my cute little waitlist creator made $790 😭💜
so close to $1K 🙏
do you think I'll hit it this week? 👀
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I have 1 year until I get kicked out of the US
so I'm betting on myself, and starting a company
the mission? build stuff that helps people 💜- specifically, indiehackers
my first product 👉
(❤️ if you could sign up, or share w/ indiehacker frens!)
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3 months ago I didn't know to code 😔
Today → I have 2 SaaS products 🚀
what I did everyday (+ weekends) 👇
8-9 AM - Post on X
9-5 PM - Day Job
7-11PM - Build 🚀
I promise you I'm NOT special
But I put in the work everyday, and you can too! ✅
#buildinpublic
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my indiehacker stack for
Drop your project + stack below 👇
🎨 frontend -
@tailwindcss
💻 backend -
@nextjs
🌐 hosting -
@vercel
💾 db -
@supabase
📈 analytics -
@umami_software
💌 email -
@resendlabs
🖌️ graphics -
@canva
/
@AppPika
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4 months ago
- 0 Coding Skills
- 0 SaaS products
- 0 Followers
- Lonely, Depressed, Chasing VCs 😔
4 months later
- Made my first $$ with 💰
- 2 SaaS products 🚀
- Grew to 2700+ followers 👫
- Got 1.5M+ views
just get started ⚡
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I learned to code, launched 2 apps, and made $$$ within 6 months
while working 9-5 👀
what you don't need
❌ CS Degree
❌ Bootcamp
❌ Leetcode exercises
What do you need 😀
✅ Show up & code everyday 🪓
✅ Ship small projects 🚢
✅ Build an audience 🧑🤝🧑
✅
#buildinpublic
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September - 10/10 VC rejections, 0 followers, don't know to code 😔
Today 👇
- 1M+ post views 👀
-
#10
on
@ProductHunt
for 1st SaaS 🥉
- 1900+ followers 🧑🤝🧑
- 2nd SaaS 🚀 soon -
all while working a 9-5 💜
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I just hit 11k site visits on 😲
but I made SO MANY mistakes while building this 😔
3 things I wish did better 👇 - bookmark this 📑
(p.s I'm launching on
@ProductHunt
in 4 DAYS → hit "notify me" )
1. Start SEO from Day 1
50% of
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you're at $1k MRR
you get a VC deal $300k for 15%
Do you take it, or bootstrap all the way?
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i grew from 100 to 4K followers in 6 months 🚀
3 tips to grow your profile while building something 👇
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The
@ProductHunt
launch effect part 1 👀
We bagged
#4
on Saturday, and close to 600 Upvotes now.
As a solomaker, and competing with the top 3 which were all multi-person teams, I'm super happy.
the website traffic was CRAZY 🔥
full stats coming soon ✅
do you want a
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#buildinpublic
starts update - March 2024
waitforit 💜
-
#4
on Product Hunt 🥇
- $414 revenue 💰
- 15k views 👀
- 267 users 🧑🤝🧑
quillcap ✍️
- $0 (free product)
- 2k views
- 400 users
X (Twitter) 👇
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my indiehacker stack for
What's yours? 👇
🎨 frontend -
@tailwindcss
💻 backend -
@nextjs
🌐 hosting -
@vercel
💾 db -
@supabase
📈 analytics -
@umami_software
💌 email -
@resend
🖌️ graphics -
@canva
/
@AppPika
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after making internet $$ for the first time 💵
It hit me - there is no job / salary in the world that would make me give up building a company and making my own money. Even if it's 1/2 what I used to make
The 9-5 mind cannot understand this
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December has been insane 🤯👇
🚀 Launched
👷♀️ ~175 MAU on quillcap
🏗️ Building
👀 ~600k impressions
❤️ 4.6k likes
🧑🤝🧑 +1200 followers
Most important 👉 Helped 5 folks get started on their indie hacking journey
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someone CAME INTO MY backyard and did this (sound on) 😩
can anyone ID this person? 👀
is LIVE on
@ProductHunt
🚀 (6 hours left to vote)
we're 30 upvotes away from
#1
- please help me get there 😭💜
👈
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guys I think I cracked the reddit algo too
Surprisingly the comments are VERY NICE & supportive
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I hit 1M impressions again 👀
that converted to ~40K site visits for my 2 products 🔥
here's the secret sauce on how I write my posts 👇 + examples
(📑 bookmark for later -
#buildinpublic
)
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Sign in page for 1st vs 2nd SaaS ✨
about 1 month apart
how can I improve for ?
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i just hit $156 revenue with pre-launch 🎉
took 5 months of "hidden" work 👇
- learn to code from 7PM to midnight everyday 💻
- ship 2 SaaS - 1 free, 1 paid 💵
- build 2700+ followers on X
- while working my 9-5
please learn to code, it's not too late!💜
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I need to start taking SEO seriously 😤
Can you guys do me a favor?
Drop your favorite resources where you learned 👇👀
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My indiehacker marketing kit for building 6 products in 6 months 👇
(bookmark for later)
Product Marketing:
@X
Screenshots:
@AppPika
Product Demo Vids:
@screenstudio
Graphics/Banners:
@canva
Launches:
@ProductHunt
/
@devhunt_
Engagement Videos:
@animstats
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babe wake up
@ProductHunt
slid into my DMs 👀
you have NO idea how much I love the PH team 💜
Please upvote - we're so close to
#1
😭
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I'm building 6 SaaS products in 6 months (1/6 launched)
and I'm super excited to announce SaaS
#2
👇
- Create beautiful waitlist components to embed into your website in seconds.
Sign up now! ⚡
Repost if you want to get early access ❤️
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after I launched
I just realized how much of the landing page (like the hero, auth, etc) is a complete waste of time and money when you look at conversions
I'll do a blog post on my learnings soon and post it on Waitforit :)
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June 2023:
- building in stealth
- DM 400 users, 0 replies
- 0 coding skills
- chasing VC money
Jan 2024:
- building 6 SaaS in 6 mos (
#2
)
- bootstrapping a company 💰
- users reaching out 🥰
- 100% technical 👨💻
You can do this too ❤️
#buildinpublic
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The best part about
#buildinpublic
💜
Makers support makers 🤝
appreciate everyone who plugs 🙏🥹
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You just got a massive exit
What do you do with the money?
A - retire, chill on a beach forever 🏖️
B - build more businesses 🚀
#buildinpublic
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2 months to learn to code
+1 month to launch 1st SaaS -
+1 week to announce 2nd SaaS -
How I did it 👇 (+ resources, bookmark for later)
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guys I actually made money while I slept 😭
cross this off the indiehacker bucket list ✅💜🥹
(p.s 30% off ends in 24 hours 👀👇)
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this notification stopped me from giving up
It was late Feb, nothing was going well
- My 9-5 became 9-9 for 1 month straight
- Felt "X" burnout
- Hadn't made a single $
- Legal stuff keeping me from building
I was lying on the floor rethinking all - I was about to give up
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I just hit 24K views for 🤯
100% from tweeting
@X
- 0 ads
- no SEO
- no cold DMs
#buildinpublic
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What do you struggle with the most when building a product?
- Coding
- Design
- SEO
- Email Marketing
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4 months ago → my first
#buildinpublic
post learning to code
1 Week Ago → my first SALE with 🌈
believe in yourself and just get started 🚀
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holy shit guys I'm so close to 4K 🤯
Early December - I was at a 100 followers
Indiehacking has been the WILDEST ride ever
And there's so MUCH more I need to tell you, soon 💜🔥
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me: I failed & I'm moving on
LS 20 mins later: absolutely fucking not
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portfolio update - March
waitforit 💜
- $620 revenue 💰 (↑ 360%)
- 10k views 👀
- 400 users 🧑🤝🧑 (↑ 40%)
quillcap ✍️
- (free product)
- 2k views
- 420 users
X (Twitter) 👇
#buildinpublic
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I moved from Vercel Analytics > Umami cuz I hit the cap constantly
now I hit Umamis cap 🤡
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from ~50 ➡️ 2000 followers in 3 months 🤯
all I did everyday after my 9-5 👇
Learn >
#buildinpublic
> LAUNCH 🚀
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September -
- 0 coding skills 😔
- 10/10 VC rejections
- 0 followers
Today 👇
- 1M+ post views 👀
-
#10
on
@ProductHunt
for 1st SaaS 🥉
- 2400+ followers 🧑🤝🧑
- 2nd SaaS 🚀 end of month -
while working a 9-5 💜
YOU CAN DO IT TOO 🚀
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I grew from 100 → 2700+ followers in 3 months
all while
- learning to code
- working a 9-5 job
- indiehacking 7-11PM
steal my strategy👇
(bookmark for later)
#buildinpublic
The Secret Sauce
It's funny, there's nothing secretive about this, getting👀is simple, you just have
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55 followers away from 3000
I was literally at 100 back in December
What the hell guys 🥹💜 how are you making my dreams come true 😭🔥
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just hit 20 paying customers for waitforit 🤯
that means prices are going up 👀
BUT, I'm keeping it 30% off for 24 hours more on all plans (lifetime deals)💜 👇
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100% self-taught, 4 months is all it took ✅
- No CS degree
- No boot camps
- Not a software engineer
But I did all this 👇
💻 Learn to code
🎖️ Launched 1 SaaS -
#10
on PH
🏢 Started a company
🚀 2nd SaaS closed beta -
you can do it too 🎯
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it happened 🤯
1000 followers 🚀
I was at ~50 followers just over a month ago...
Chatting with
@adamc0dez
on how
@X
and
#buildinpublic
is going.
So much has happened since then, and I'm gonna recap all that tomorrow. 🙏
thank you everyone who's joined me on the crazy journey
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From an idea in my notes 🤔
To paying customers 🚀
all it took was coding after my 9 to 5 - every single day 💻
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6 months ago I was lucky to get 100 views a post 😔
now I'm averaging around 3-5k 💜
and we're 3500+ people strong
I owe so much to you guys 🙏
#buildinpublic
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me in 2023 -
- make a business plan & pitch deck
- worried people will steal my idea
- don't know to code
Result → $0, 0 followers, 1 dead company
me in 2024 -
- Idea → Post on X
- Ship MVP
- Talk to users →
#buildinpublic
Result → $850+, 3500+ followers, 300+ users
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It took 9 separate tries to get this product demo down for 👇. Fumble one word = had to re-record the entire thing, at 11PM last night.
(LIVE on PH, please upvote/comment! )
At one point I accidentally said "Susan" and I have no
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launched on
@ProductHunt
last Friday!
How did it do? 🤔
🏅
#10
Product of the day
🎖️
#111
Product of the week
❤️112 Upvotes
✨~70 new users
👀~700 unique visitors
🤟 ~100 new followers on
@X
The craziest part was what I had to do to get it featured on
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12 hours days for 4+ months
building till midnight, after my 9-5
that's what it took to
- learn to code 💻
- launch 🚀
- make $$ with 💰
- grow to 2700 followers 🧑🤝🧑
- get 1.5M views ✍️
the secret? show up everyday 🌴
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anotha day anotha dollar
jkjk i'm not flexing - you guys have no idea how much it means to me.
knowing my product is helping someone is the best feeling 💜
I just want to build stuff & help people 🙏
#buildinpublic
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I've launched 2 products on
@ProductHunt
and been in top 10 twice.
my latest product Waitforit got
#4
Day Rank🏅and also 👇
70k day views 👀
5k day visits 📈
300+ user signups 🧑🤝🧑
50+ reposts ✅
3 tips on how I prepped my latest launch (+ bookmark for later) 👇
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