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Dad of three, building and launching things. @TagParrot

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Who else is building a product that they actually use themselves?
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My SaaS just hit $1.9k MRR. I don't even use Typescript! 🤯
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Who else is building a product that they use themselves?
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Who else is building a product that they use themselves everyday?
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How do you resist the urge to start building every new idea you have?
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Been asked to redesign our son's pre-school website. It's built in wix and looks like it's from 1980 🤦‍♂️. Wish me luck.
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I'm chasing $100 MRR when I have a 6 figure salary at work 🤔 ....some people think I'm crazy!
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2 years
Who else is building a product to solve your own problem? Showcase them below 👇
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How did you get your first paying customer?
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2 years
No building in public for me today. Spent the day helping my wife push this little cutie out. 😍🥳👶🐣 We are overjoyed with love ❤️ Can't wait for his two brother's to meet him tomorrow. 😁
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At the start of this month, the idea of getting passed $400 MRR would have been incredible. $801 MRR 🤯 I literally am in disbelief. Thank you to everyone who has helped to support over the last 2 weeks. You are amazing, very kind people. 😍
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2 years
Who remembers when Flash websites were the cool thing?
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Today I made the very difficult decision to close Tag Parrot, extremely sad, but it felt like the right thing to do. I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the kind and supportive messages I have received today. Time to reflect for now.
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I launched my product without adding dark mode! AMA
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2 years
What's the story behind why you started building your product?
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2 years
Who is building a SaaS aimed at Twitter users?
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250 users and no one has asked for email/password login. In the early stages of a product you don't need to build everything.
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300 new followers from one tweet.... Was it the MRR or the lack of Typescript? 🤔
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My SaaS just hit $1.9k MRR. I don't even use Typescript! 🤯
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🗓️ October update for @TagParrot 💰 $8,175 MRR (+$3,646) 👋 828 new users 🤑 204 new paid users (24%) 💵 27 expansions 👍 12 reactivations 😭 66 churned paid users
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🗓️ August update for @TagParrot 💰 $4,669 MRR (+$1,283) 🙋‍♂️ 673 new users 🤑 154 new customers 💵 12 expansions 👍 7 reactivations 😭 68 churned customers
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🗓️ June update for Tag Parrot. 💰 $1,131 MRR (+$807) 🤯 🙋‍♂️ 527 new users 🤑 93 new customers 😭 11 churned customers 🗃️ 130,097 total pages indexed 😀 Incredible growth not sure how I will match this in July. Word of mouth really pays off big time in customer acquisition. SEO
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🗓️ August update for @TagParrot 💰 $3,474 MRR (+$1,968) 🙋‍♂️ 1,018 new users 🤑 217 new customers 😭 31 churned customers 🤯 Crazy month, 130% growth, $2k+ of new business, good expansions to Pro plans and a few reactivations. The upgrade conversion rate is 21% 🤯 Blown away 🤩
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2 years
That feeling you get when you come out of a work meeting and realise you got your first paying customer. 🥳🎉🤩
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2 years
As a fellow Brit, this is one of my favourites. 😜
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2 years
What's the biggest mistake you have made building a product?
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1 year
This is crazy, one more customer before I hit my initial $200 MRR goal! 🤯
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So @TagParrot hit a milestone last night, two days after the one year anniversary. Officially hit $150k ARR. 🤯 With all the new competition on the market, still over 20% growth in the last 30 days. To think my goal for 2023 was only $200 MRR. Aim higher people. 💪
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2 years
What are you working on right now? Reply with a screenshot or link to your project.
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1 year
What should I update this to now? $5k $10k Or delete the whole thing?
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2 years
I promised I would launch by the end of this week. So here goes... Introducing: TagParrot 🚀 🔗 Sync your website sitemap. 🗃️ Preview all your Open Graph Cards ⚠️ Review issues with missing meta tags and images. 🔥 Automatically request indexing on Google Link below 👇
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After a 10 week impromptu break from here, I'm finally back. 👋 It's been a stressful few months, but glad to be coming out the other side now. ⚠️BREAKING NEWS⚠️ As of this week I'm now officially a FULL TIME solopreneur. 🤯 It just got serious, wish me luck. 💪
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2 years
What's your most common useless git commit message? 👉 "updates"
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1 year
SaaS founders using Stripe, how are you dealing with all the tax complications? Debating if I should just migrate now to a MOR.
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2 years
Who is building a SaaS aimed at Twitter users?
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2 years
How did you get your first paying customer?
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8 months
🚀 Tag Parrot: Launch Day 🚀 👋 We are live on Product Hunt. 💪 The biggest Google indexing tool, 1k+ happy customers, 5M+ pages indexed. ❤️ Please help give one big push to get us to #1 today. RT, vote, comment, you've got this. 👇 Link in the first comment
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2 years
Why do we need deodorant that lasts 72 hours?
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2 years
What are you working on right now? Reply with a screenshot or link to your project.
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1 year
Not a bad way to start my 40th weekend. 🥳 Now time to turn off the notifications.
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1 year
Double celebration this morning. This little ones 3rd birthday 🎂 & Tag Parrot hits $1,000 MRR 🎉
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1 year
Lot's to celebrate today 🥳 1) Passed $15k ARR. 2) Over 150k pages sent for indexing. 3) 300 Clicks in 28 Days.
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🗓️ July update for @TagParrot : 💰 $1,542 MRR (+$429) 🙋‍♂️ 603 new users 🤑 72 new customers 😭 39 churned customers (ouch) 🗃️ 270k total pages indexed to date 😃 Amazing growth in new business (+$728). Finally v1 release deployed, a big item to get ticked off behind the scenes,
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While its great to be able to share recent success updates in reality the actual story looks very different. About 3 years ago I started this solopreneur journey. In this time I have built 7 products only two of which are still alive and only one has actually made any money.
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Am I the only one who doesn't use a design tool when building a website?
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Who else launched a new product in 2022?
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Love it when copy cats can't even write their own hero text.... "Struggling to get indexed by Google? Let us automatically get your pages indexed in less than 48hrs." 🤦
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Very excited to finally share with you all some details of my brand new project I have started working on 🥳 @RoostCRM
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It took 49 days to reach $100 MRR Only 4 days to go from $400 to $500 MRR 🤯 Thank you to the amazing supportive community especially @dobroslav_dev , @MrNick_Buzz & @huwdev who helped greatly with the recent bumps. And thanks also to SEO doing its thing....
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🗓️ April update for Tag Parrot. 💰 $324 MRR (+$120) 🙋‍♂️ 117 new users 🤑 19 new customers 😭 3 churned users 🗃️ 48,380 total pages indexed 😀 Overall continued consistent growth, SEO starting to play a role in customer acquisition. 😭 My time and focus has been dragging
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2 years
My 2023 goals is to build a micro SaaS product and grow to $200 MRR. Deciding on an idea was quick. I used a product which had some core problems. 1. User on-boarding, too complicated. 2. Missing key features. I have ideas to fix both of these. Let's go...👨‍💻
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1 year
My wife surprised me with a weekend away. Can you guess where we are 🤔
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2 years
I'm glad I decided to move away from building a tool which was 100% reliant on the Twitter API.
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$400 MRR 🤯 This is incredible. Continue to climb the staircase, although next month will be a larger churn than usual. Let's hope I don't have to celebrate 400 twice 🫣
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It's crazy that my little SaaS that I built is now indexing over 100k pages every 7 days 🤯
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2 years
TagParrot just hit 10 paid users 🤩 Overjoyed with happiness right now, thanks for the support everyone 🥳
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2 years
There must be 4 people somewhere that could make my day 😁😁😁😁
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#BuildInPublic mode = extreme
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Exciting news.... Google has acquired Tag Parrot for $10,000,000 🤯 They were blown away by how quickly we got pages indexed 🔥
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Who else is dogfooding their product to help market their product?
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What is it you love most about building in public?
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It's been a crazy week. I never expected to ever launch a product so quickly. It has been an incredible learning experience. Huge thank you for all the support and kind words and new connections I have made in the community.👋 Now 300 followers double what I had 10 days ago. 🤩
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🥳 Tag Parrot is officially one today. What a year it has been. A huge thank you to everyone that has supported me on this journey. Its been a long road testing out ideas and going no where, until last year when suddenly things started to take off. A quick project to build a
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@mistermeenr @AndreyNovikoov Love this, it looks super clean. One question, why the Google calendar icon not the Google icon?
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1 year
LogSnag by @ImSh4yy has become my 2nd biggest monthly expense, (cloud bill is 1st of course). Some people may think it's too much to pay, but the amount of time and effort it saves me everyday is worth paying the £1.90 per day. I basically run my business from this product 🤯
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2 years
Am I the only person who has launched a product that hasn't used ChatGPT in the last month?
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1 year
What are you all working on right now? Share your great projects 👇
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2 years
I could get used to this 🤩
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The whole Twitter API change is crazy. They could have created a nice fair tiered system with different rate limits and had tons of developers immediately upgrade. Instead they choose to shut down every chance of any small project growing and push the whole community away. 🤬
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Year 1: Half hearted building in the dark occasionally. 😭 Year 2: Take Twitter seriously and start building in public. 😁 Year 3: Put all the learnings into practice and smashing through the $100 MRR 🎉 Keep pushing forward, don't give up and keep doing it in public. 👍
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MMVT is officially LIVE on Product Hunt 🚀 The place to find inspiration from the best makers on Twitter for what goes viral. From idea to product in a few hours, 7 days later launching. It has been a crazy fun week.🔥 Thank you for all your support.
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2 years
I'm an expert at slow Twitter growth, without a plan or consistency. 0 to 1,285 in 13 months! AMA
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Great way to kick off December...🥳 Thanks @ChartMogul for offering such a great platform for free for so long.
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2 years
What's everyone building this week? Pitch your product in 5 words.
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2 months
Not a bad view to catch up on some work on holiday. ⛰️
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Not just one launch today, we are going 2x 🤯 Tag Parrot is also launching on the new Uneed 🚀 platform as a new alternative to PH. You should definitely check out Uneed its very slick and while you are there leave a vote and comment. 😀 Link in first comment 👇
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Well last night was fun, its good to push yourself and set yourself a challenge every now and then. MMVT - A showcase of inspiration for the most engaging viral tweets from other makers. Comment if you want to be added, will be adding a form later today. Link below👇
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I'm in the mood to build something fun. Over the next few hours I'm going to #buildinpublic and see how far I can get in one evening. A brand new project, just for fun..... 🔥
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🥹It took 5 months to get 150 Followers. 📈It only took 2 months to get the next 500. ❓What changed? 👋 I started turning up every day and engaging. 📊 People say "consistency is key". ✅ They are right. Just be yourself, engage, share what you can and ask questions. 👍
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So, it happened a few days earlier than expected 🤯 1,000,000 pages indexed via @TagParrot 🥳 Over 450k just this month. Thank you to everyone who has shown their support for me and the amazing customers who have used Tag Parrot on their own indexing journeys. ❤️
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2 years
Life of a side project solopreneur on parental leave doing customer support. 😂
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@KevHinh I've got a comfy office chair. 😜
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2 years
New Toy Alert 🥳🎉 Productivity levels will temporarily drop while I play with this one😂🤣😂
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My wife's art website, doesn't get tons of traffic and most of it came from Instagram. I tested TagParrot to get all her pages indexed and she got an instant jump in impressions. Google is now her #1 traffic source 👍 Now I need to fix the rest of her SEO issues 😀
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Life is so busy right now with 3 kids, my business, wife's side business, me building a new product, etc... but not having a boss, means my Monday morning can now look like this. 😁 🚴
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1 year
My pizza game is about to get serious, my wife only went and surprised me with this beast today. 🍕😁
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2 years
Getting very close to the new baby arriving, due date on Sunday. 🤩 We are all very excited. 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 ❤️ Although I'm not sure I'm quite mentally prepared yet to have a tini wini baby again. 👶
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2 years
Are you backend or frontend developer at heart? Maybe a bit of an all rounder🤔
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2 years
25 hours till my first ever product hunt launch for MMVT 🚀. Pushing myself in a short space of time has felt great. The outcome is hopefully a useful free resource for the community. But I'm pretty sure I'm missing some great makers? Tag them here and I'll add today 😁
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Last day at the office 😁
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2 years
That feeling when you type....
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8 months
Thanks all who gave their support yesterday on X, PH and Uneed. ❤️ You are amazing. We hovered around 10 most of the day and ended up 14 on PH. 2 on Uneed. Sadly I was offline all evening after some unexpected news. 🙁 For my 1st proper launch I am very happy. 🎉
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1 year
I just sent out my first ever product update email... ...5 mins later we get our first Agency Plan customer 🥳 This email thing really works 👍
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2 years
Happy Monday everyone 😀 What are you working on today? Reply with a screenshot or link to your project.
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2 years
What product from an indie founder can you not live without now?
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This is satisfying...
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1 year
Seems like many people are now building Google indexing tools, I've come across a new one every week for the last three weeks. 🤦 The good news, none have solved the onboarding process like Tag Parrot 💪
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2 years
OMG.....who is it going to be, to make my day even better! 😁
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3 months
Long weekend to relax and have fun. No laptop, no phone signal. Camping with friends and 2 of the 3 kids at a music festival in the Highlands of Scotland. ❤️
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I spent the first year of my Twitter journey, obsessing over checking my follower and tweet stats. I've realised recently I just don't care anymore. 🫣
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