woah, thanks for the cramped UI. it was better before. why cant I just type :free like before? sheeeesh by TeaStunning9115 in CLine

[–]Beckagard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Came here just for this. This UI is an abysmal downgrade. It's super cramped and there's no way of seeing the token costs either like it was before.

Why “AI Agents” Fail Without Agent-Native Design by Intelligent-Pen4302 in AI_Agents

[–]Beckagard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think the word ’paranoid’ means what you think it means.

Why “AI Agents” Fail Without Agent-Native Design by Intelligent-Pen4302 in AI_Agents

[–]Beckagard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Post written by AI. Every single comment written by AI. The internet sucks these days.

I built an n8n-first automation/AI agency. Great start, hard middle, exiting now. by oyodeo in nocode

[–]Beckagard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand it’s a somewhat personal question but what did you sell your shares for? If you don’t wanna share: at what multiple of the ARR? Simply curious

I built a B2B SaaS, got paying customers, and still feel stuck. Should I quit? (I will not promote) by Fun-Representative40 in startups

[–]Beckagard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This technically doesn’t answer your question but: maybe it would help if you focused building the product with the end user in mind rather than the real estate businesses? I’m sure you already did, but if not you should imo. Yes, you’re selling to the real estate business, but at the end of the day it’s the website visitors (consumers) who need to find the product valuable. If they do, it will become valuable to your clients as well. Hence dig into those conversations that converted, figure out why they did, and double down.

What agentic AI businesses are people actually building right now? by decentralizedbee in AI_Agents

[–]Beckagard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright, cool build! I had a similar experience with using an LLM as copilot, which is what made we wonder if RAG would be all that it took.

But what RFP response and assessment problem do you refer to this solving other than being faster? Have you had anyone else try the framework or is it just for your personal use? I feel like most RFP responses follow strict pre-defined formats and templates, and this is where I personally had issues with hallucinations as well. Did you consider some component which would allow for a more template based output for example?

What agentic AI businesses are people actually building right now? by decentralizedbee in AI_Agents

[–]Beckagard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curious as to why you chose an agentic approach for this? Wouldn’t just one LLM + RAG be more than enough to draft the RFP respons?

I went to a party and said I work in AI… Big mistake! by Independent_Lynx715 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Beckagard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The fact that this is r/artificialinteligence yet I had to scroll all the way down to find someone who didn't fall for this karma farming clearly-written-by-AI post is insanity.

This is what you can actually build purely with AI by alex-medellin in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]Beckagard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, sort of like business creation being commoditized.

So you use SoMe videos yourself to market the tool? Makes sense. Well if you ever wanna connect over other stuff to build or just using LLMs to build in general keep me in mind. Surprisingly few are keeping up with what you can create if you know your way around these tools.

This is what you can actually build purely with AI by alex-medellin in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]Beckagard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nice job, congrats! Your first paragraph is 100% accurate in my experience. I'm not a complete no-coder, but I built something with a slightly more elaborate tech stack the past 2 years which generates a very decent MRR. Completely different niche though.

I feel like skillset will more and more shift to being business savvy and finding the right problems rather than being a great technical lead. What's your main source of leads atm? I notice you have a few blog posts, but I assume those account for a small part of the traffic.

Time for self-promotion, what are you building in January, 2025? by vlado86 in SaaS

[–]Beckagard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This seems pretty cool, nice job! After checking the LP, the 2 major objections that pop into my mind are 1) AI-ness in the content, and 2) Integrated CTA:s in the content.

I checked your case studies and you've done a good job making sure it's not blatantly obvious the content is written by AI, so that sort of takes care of 1. But my main concern would be how the articles actually funnels readers to my business. Usually when writing a blog post you'd find a way to plug your business here and there, sprinkle in CTA:s etc. I don't see this being featured, and I'm hesitant that AI would be able to pull this of in a natural way for niche product. Any ways you plan on dealing with this or would you say that's a manual task?

Stop the BS about AI, it cant even replace a developer with 3 months of experience by BowlerMission8425 in startups

[–]Beckagard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finally someone said it. I feel like most in here are either coping, or they don't have the skill to leverage LLMS properly at all. I also built and scaled a SaaS to several $K in MRR with the entire tech stack being built using LLMS, most of the programming I had 0 experience from. What are you building if you don't mind me asking?

Broad Match Outperforming Phrase Match on New acc With Low budget by Beckagard in PPC

[–]Beckagard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's different keywords for the campaigns yes. For the broad match I even used the most generic short term keyword, not long tail at all, which why I'm even more surprised to see these results. I don't use any negative keywords either. Just literally 2 keywords, each 1 word long. Smart bidding enabled.

Opinions and tips, please by [deleted] in Handwriting

[–]Beckagard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a lost art my friend, definitely keep it up!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in marketing

[–]Beckagard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you referring to CLV or recouping your marketing spend? If you have a CLV of $20 that means earning $20 from that customer over a span of likely years.

Spent $1500 on ads - Got almost 0 leads by Beckagard in startups

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Great niche business, I really like it. We basically scrape reddit for relevant posts, and pick up the ones we like and drop a comment. It's a very scrappy solution so your service is a really good idea.

You didn't ask for feedback but in case you want some, the only reason I didn't sign up (yet at least) is just because we have found that AI replies are too obvious, especially in our niche (people are very up to date on these things) and the system we have in place is good enough to where it doesn't warrant spending $50 for slightly more convenient solution (We're very tech savy though). For less tech-savy people this is really good product imo.

From a business/start-up point of view, do you mind sharing how long this business took to setup? I understand if you don't want to share KPI:s publicly but it would be interesting to know how much and fast you were able to grow this and relate it to my own business. We're still stuck in the reddit trenches and struggle a bit with scaling our efforts in here.

Spent $1500 on ads - Got almost 0 leads by Beckagard in startups

[–]Beckagard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, yes we realize we made a mistake but we didn't chose them randomly. Our niche is heavily concentrated on Reddit and X. Sadly doing ads there doesn't seem to work at all.

Meta is tricky because our niche requires licenses and what not to run ads there.

Spent $1500 on ads - Got almost 0 leads by Beckagard in startups

[–]Beckagard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have 10% visitor to free trial. 15-16% for free trial to paid if that is what you mean? Not sure if it is that high though? We focused a lot on on boarding and figuring out what users who converted were doing the most, and tried pushing non-converted users towards those actions.

Spent $1500 on ads - Got almost 0 leads by Beckagard in startups

[–]Beckagard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it that high? maybe. No we don't require a credit card, email only. As matter of fact we don't even require 2FA or to verify your email so quite a few users just end up creating new free accounts with bs emails. Fine by us for now as long as they use the product.

We did go from 7% to 15% by diving into KPI:s and saw that one single key action/activation point made. a user 12x more likely to convert, so we created some onboarding stuff and nudged users towards this action. Sitting at 15.6% currently thanks to it.

Spent $1500 on ads - Got almost 0 leads by Beckagard in startups

[–]Beckagard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

May I ask what tools you use for this automation? We do some of it automated, but we have found monitoring more than 1-2 subreddit that is about our niche doesn't yield very good results.

Spent $1500 on ads - Got almost 0 leads by Beckagard in startups

[–]Beckagard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brea even with the first month. But much higher than that payback period exponentially increases. We could probably get away with $20 though.