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Artem Smirnov
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I don't hate user interviews but your tool will help me build a landing page for every niche I can think of, then I'll get their emails and ask them for an interview.
User Persona Generator
Understand your audience without 50 interviews
Artem Smirnov
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"Just show up every day" is sooo boring, let's make it a game!
Tweet Streak 30
A 30-day long gamified Twitter growth challenge
Artem Smirnov
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How I got my first 5 customers without a landing page
2.5 months after the first commit and 1.5 months after getting my first customer, I'm finally at $100 MRR with 5 customers for my Twitter DM tool.
Although I have a landing page now, all of my customers came through DMs. Some of them contacted me, but I found and contacted most of them myself using the same tool I'm selling.
Every customer has unique requirements. For example, the last one...
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Anyone can come up with dozens of ideas. Micro SaaS HQ provides deep analysis and all the necessary details for you to get started. And if you're still not feeling comfortable, there's a community to support you, answer your questions, and provide initial feedback.
Now there's literally no excuse for not trying your own micro SaaS.
Micro SaaS HQ
Profitable Micro SaaS ideas, supportive community
Artem Smirnov
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Cold email and cold DMs. Warm, if you have a good network.
What can be the best user-acquisition strategy for a B2B SaaS business during the early stages?
Rachit Nigam
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Artem Smirnov
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Great idea, will definitely use it when I finish my own website!
Famewall
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Artem Smirnov
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I think it strongly depends on your customer. Super-busy people from Wall Street probably won't bother. 1-person businesses would be happy to do some sales for you to get a discount from you.
SaaS B2B Referral Program Discussion
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Artem Smirnov
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Share your last failure
Everyone shares their wins and successes, and many of us feel like losers and shut down. Or is it just me?
Let's share our failures and what lessons we learned from them.
Artem Smirnov
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I had to drop a project that looked like a sure win. There was a definite demand from the target audience. But when I started to interview a user from the most promising niche, it turned out they already have a tool built by the biggest player. Learned this only after I built the tool.
Lesson: don't start building before you have a list of customers ready to pay you. Unless you are building...
Are you building in public? Drop what you are working on and one lesson learned from your journey!
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Artem Smirnov
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Hi, your productivity is truly amazing! Do you continue working on older projects while pushing out new ones, or do you put them on autopilot?
I'm Alyssa X, a serial maker. I've built and shipped 10+ products. AMA.
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Artem Smirnov
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That the ones who use us keep telling us that everything's great, and the ones who leave us don't tell anything at all.
What is the most annoying thing when you have to gather user/customer feedback?
Tasos Valtinos
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Artem Smirnov
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Create a bunch of CPC ads targeted at different interests / groups, run them for a week or two, see what gets better CTR. Gather emails, ask them for a quick interview, ask them who they are and what they liked in your ad.
Discovering the right users for a SaaS product.
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"I reached out to a few people and talked with them" how did you know whom to talk to? I keep having side project ideas but what stops me is that I can't figure out how to reach the potential users...
How I built a #2 Product of the Day in 2 hours
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Artem Smirnov
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What's your LinkedIn strategy?
If you're active on LinkedIn, what's your strategy, and how does it work for you? I see some people posting articles and even motivators every day, but wouldn't it be more useful to spend this time on expanding your network and cold messaging?
Artem Smirnov
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We are working on a language learning app, and the biggest lesson so far is that we needed to focus on our main USP instead of throwing in as many benefits as possible. Part of it is being afraid to focus on a specific niche and "lose" the rest of the market. I would strongly suggest to have a mentor look at your landing page so that a fresh and experienced pair of eyes could spot things like...
Show & Tell: Share with others what are you working on and one lesson you learned from it. GO 👊
Sharath Kuruganty
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Artem Smirnov
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And https://indieworldwide.co/founders-club/
Do you know other maker's communities?
Juan Sarmiento
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https://make.rs/
https://kern.al/
https://getmakerlog.com/
Do you know other maker's communities?
Juan Sarmiento
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Incentivizing churned users for interviews?
I know that paying your user for an interview is considered a bad idea because it might affect what the user is telling you. But how else do you get the churned users to answer your questions? I'm talking about the ones who used your product for a while but left before finishing their free trial.
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I wish I could join you, but I'm fully busy with another startup.
One question: how are you not afraid to invite total strangers to become a cofounder? Aren't we supposed, like, know each other for some time, make sure we're on the same page, get along well, stuff like that?
Growth hacker (5 years experience) looking for a technical co-founder to build a SaaS
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