Zero to SaaS

He adds 30 new sign-ups to his SaaS. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY! 🤯 This is the story of how Dennis Smink is scaling his server management tool. 1. The Start Dennis used several tools to host his websites, but it was always a pain for him. He could never find a tool that would cover the most basic stuff. Until he scratched his own itch! At one point in 2017, he got so sick and tired of it, Ploi was born! 2. The Launch After a failed ProductHunt launch, he started posting in a Laravel community and asked "colleagues" to test his newly created product. It worked. From here, it started growing from word-of-mouth. 3. The Growth The first paying customers came from "nailing" these 3 things: 1. Listen to your customers 2. Stay transparent (e.g., use a public roadmap - we used Upvoty) 3. KISS, don’t overcomplicate things 4. Biggest Takeaway Validation is the most important thing for Dennis. If you get some friends or colleagues to get to work with your product, most leads will come from mouth-to-mouth channels. 🤓 Read his full story: https://lnkd.in/eutcPaEG

From being fired to building a thriving AI product in public Read Fernando Pessagno's case study on building aiCarousels: ✔️ Argentinian product designer with a passion for coding ✔️ 9 months ago, just 1 day before his vacation, he was fired ✔️ Started building his SaaS during a 10-day #buildinpublic challenge https://lnkd.in/eAYhtW3R

How Kilian Valkhof is scaling his web browser for developers (Polypane) ☑️ From web agency to "scratching his own itch" ☑️ Started with a scrappy first version ☑️ Launched a successful PR campaign ☑️ Word-of-Mouth marketing 🤫 His growth hacks, strategies, and more... https://lnkd.in/eETAFZcm

How Dennis Smink scales his server management tool Ploi with 30 sign-ups per day! 🧠 The Founder My name is Dennis; I am a 33 young developer from The Netherlands 🇳🇱 I am currently working on Ploi, a server management tool that makes managing your sites and servers a breeze. 💡 The idea I’ve used several tools to host my websites, and my customer's websites, but it was always a pain for me. I could never find a tool that would cover the most basic stuff. At one point in 2017, I got a bit sick and tired of this, and decided to start scratching my own itch. I needed a decent way of hosting my own websites, and servers and keeping them safe. That’s when Ploi was born. 🚀 The launch I started a little Dutch Laravel Discord community a while back (which is fairly large nowadays) and started asking colleagues to test the product. Basically from there, it started going from mouth to mouth. Obviously, I did all the startup stuff, in order; - Product Hunt - BetaList - SaaShub 📈 The numbers We’re doing an organic growth of 20~30 signups per day, maybe 5 to 10% of that converts to an actual paying customer. Most find us via search engines. Read the full case study: https://lnkd.in/eB9s8JAY

How Bilal Ararou sold for over 137k in Life Time Deals with Nuelink (and is now rapidly scaling to $10k/mrr) 🧠 The Founder I'm Bilal, a Moroccan product designer turned entrepreneur. I started as a freelance product and web designer in 2009, then founded Kreatinc, a web agency, in 2016. We’ve designed and built SaaS products for clients from Australia to the US and in between. 💡 The Idea Nuelink was born out of an internal challenge we faced. We were using social media primarily for recruitment, but our job offers on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook weren't attracting quality candidates. In response, we developed Nuelink, a tool designed to not only manage social media but automate it as well. 🚀 The Launch In June 2022, we started sending out the beta invitations. Over 100 people from the list signed up, and we received an overwhelming amount of feedback. People loved our automation features, which were ironically a secondary feature back then. As a result, we shifted our focus to adding as many automations as possible. 🔥 Biggest growth hack? Right from the get-go, we knew SEO was super important, so we made sure to give it a lot of attention. And it's started to pay off! Our website's getting more and more organic traffic, and people are starting to notice us. Besides this, building free tools and partnering with products is a great growth hack. 📈 The Numbers We’ve made $140.8k in revenue in the past 12 months, and growing with 25% month over month. We’re expected to hit 10k monthly recurring revenue in the next few months. 🤓 Read all about how the strategies and more... https://lnkd.in/eAEcRzp2

How Marie Martens scaled Tally to $100,000 MRR 🤯👇 🧠The founder(s) I’m Marie, co-founder of Tally. I founded Tally in 2020 together with Filip Minev, technical co-founder and partner in life. Tally is an intuitive form builder (you can just start typing as in a text document) and we offer unlimited forms and submissions for free. 🌱 The idea: We wanted to make form building easy, beautiful, and free without limits (so there are no limits on the number of responses, input fields, or forms). We’re also big fans of the notion’s editor approach and wanted to create a fast, seamless, and fun form-building experience where you start from a blank page and can create any type of form by just typing text or adding blocks. 🚀 The Launch: In March 2021 we felt ready to launch on Product Hunt. We had a small community of 1.500 users and released some of the crucial features to be able to compete with other form builders out there. Our launch was a rollercoaster and we ended as product #4 of the day. We doubled our user base (from 1.500 to 3.000 users) after the launch and Product Hunt has been an instrumental step in gaining exposure. 📈 The numbers: We recently reached $100K MRR and have 250.000 users. 🤓 Read all about how the strategies and more... https://lnkd.in/eFuVTm2m

This “simple” AI-powered Chrome extension by Ruslan Halilov for Google Meet is doing $3k/Month The story... 👇 https://lnkd.in/egVjuX-e

How Jeremy Redman makes $100,000/Month with TaskMagic! In this case study, we learn how Jeremy is doing over $100,000 in MRR with his “Zapier alternative” TaskMagic and how he sold for over $1,000,000 in Life Time Deals on AppSumo. 🧠 The founder: I’m a tech entrepreneur and content creator based in Los Angeles. Started in the trailer park, paved my own way, and found myself years later with an office on Sunset Blvd. I’ve started 3 six-figure tech companies and 1 seven-figure tech company (TaskMagic). 🌱 The idea: As our customer base was mainly non-technical people, we asked them to send us short videos on what they wanted their flows to be. After lots of miscommunication, we thought there had to be a better way. We then created a way for people to record their clicking, typing, and copying/pasting to create their automation automatically. 🚀 The Launch: In the summer of 2023, we launched on AppSumo and became a tool of the year nominee. It was one of their most successful campaigns of all time, grossing almost $1 million dollars. 💰 The Numbers: In 2023 we crossed $1.2 million in revenue and were on pace to at least double that in 2024. 🔥 Growth Hack: The only growth hack I know of, truly, is listening to customers. When customers feel listened to, they buy. When customers feel like you’ve delivered, they will refer other customers. 80% of our revenue comes from referral revenue. So, take care of customers and listen to them. We're using Upvoty to collect feedback. 🤓 Read the case study: https://lnkd.in/ebGYMH5m

How Sebastian Bowkis got 11,000 users for his new AI Software almost “overnight” In this case study, we learn how Sebastian Volkis, founder of ChatIQ, acquired 11,000 users for his AI software product and grew to an MRR of $3,000 within 30 days. 🧠 The Founder My name is Sebastian, I’m the founder of ChatIQ. I solo bootstrapped to over 11.3k users as a nontechnical founder. I built an MVP, launched it, scaled it, learned how to code, improved the product, and kept scaling. ChatIQ helps businesses reduce churn, increase retention, and scale by managing customer support through AI chats and automated support ticketing. 💡 The Idea When ChatGPT3 was launched, I had the idea to train it on website data and essentially create a chatbot that would understand the entire business and be able to give customers basic information instantly. I wanted a way for businesses to be able to reduce the number of emails that they were getting from customers and knew if customers got this info fast and felt like they weren’t being ignored, the chances of them remaining loyal customers would increase. The Launch 🚀 I followed up with all the businesses that I've spoken to during my research and tried to sign them up for the product. I was getting a few people to join in, averaging probably about five per day, using an email called LinkedIn DM. I had also spent six months building a YouTube channel, so I had an audience to start marketing to. This allowed me to start bringing on some early users. 📈 The Numbers In the first 7 days, I got 985 users, £299 MRR (delay due to trials) In the first 14 days: 2389 users £576 MRR First 30 days: 5867 users: £3498 MRR First 60 days: 9237 users: £7,225.29 MRR 🤓 Read his full case study (including the 3 best ways to get customers) at https://lnkd.in/eNiN4FX2

How Yannick Veys and Samy Dindane scaled Hypefury to 7 figures! 🧠 The Founder I’m Yannick, and I’ve been an entrepreneur for over 15 years. In the past, I helped a Dutch startup grow to over 3M ARR. Today, my focus is Hypefury. I co-founded it with Samy Dindane, and I manage all our marketing initiatives. 🌱 The Early Days I met my co-founder Samy on indiehackers. He came up with Hypefury to scratch his own itch. It was around August 2019 that scheduling had become mildly popular on Twitter, and he observed there was no tool to schedule threads. He tweeted about it. That was it. There were no elaborate business plans, strategies, or anything. One weekend, he sat down and coded the MVP. He picked the name “Hypefury” from a GitHub name generator. It was finished in 3 days, and he shared it with the first circle of users. When it started getting traction, he realized he wanted to grow into a business and set out to find someone who would take care of growth and marketing. He shared this on IndieHackers, and I saw potential in the app. That’s how we came together and started the business. 🔥 Best Growth Hack We started with just SEO and affiliate marketing. Doing affiliate marketing in the beginning is a great way to get more traction. You’re outsourcing your marketing to tons of people who you only have to pay when they sell something. 🧐 Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/dAyeU-AD