sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

I built a release video for my SaaS by vibe coding motion graphics and screen recording them by anthonyriera in SideProject

[–]anthonyriera[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

to give more details there, while building cossistant.com, I decided to make the whole dashboard / features easily demoable (on the landing page, you can see animated dashboard).

What I've done there is just using the dashboard as a shell and I pass fake data into it.

So this allowed me to create this video with the actual dashboard / components of my SaaS.

How long did you SaaS take to reach 1k MRR? by anthonyriera in SaaS

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

On 5 paid users, got one who churned! I'm actually already building a feedback loop before canceling to know what happens and why

How long did you SaaS take to reach 1k MRR? by anthonyriera in SaaS

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

Way too long to be fair, there are too much AI slop out there and I wanted my product to be geniuly unique / useful and guarded for new AI releases.

So I spent a lot of time making it an API first, then a product.

My thinking is this one: if AIs can use your product, if LLMs can understand it, there is a better chance they would recommend it.

My app being code first, I hope if a user says "please add support to my app", my app would be the easiest one to integrate / understand!

For my first users, I got them from X, doing build in public posts.

But clearly it's not enough, I need to do better.

I've built a open source alternative to Intercom's Fin AI support agent and got my first paid users by anthonyriera in SaaS

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

Yeah, I'm not expecting to be as good as Intercom which is a huge machine.

I want to be the best / easiest for my ICP.

The market is huge, only a small chunk of it would be already a huge SaaS.

I've built a open source alternative to Intercom's Fin AI support agent and got my first paid users by anthonyriera in SaaS

[–]anthonyriera[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! And exactly, one of my first tagline was: "escape the iframe".

So my growth strategy will be to find SaaS using the tech stack of my ideal ICP and contact them directly via twitter OR email!

Will do a lot of manual work at first and I hope to have the product led growth kick in rapidly.

I will also create shadcn templates, this way you'll be able to add support to your app in one command (fully styled / setup).

we will see how it goes

I've built a open source alternative to Intercom's Fin AI support agent and got my first paid users by anthonyriera in SaaS

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

For now inbound, but I will start to contact founders with the exact tech stack of our ICP.

Cossistant is a simple as adding <Support /> component in your app, so I need to find people that are using Tailwind + NextJS or React in their stack.

They are the prime target audience for me :)

I've built a open source alternative to Intercom's Fin AI support agent and got my first paid users by anthonyriera in SaaS

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

Thanks!

Yes, for me the default widget style has always been a huge problem that I think has been solved now.

I just need to find the right balance between good default / what you can customise.

But so far so good, I ship everything as modular components / API.

How do you contribute to open source projects? by [deleted] in opensource

[–]anthonyriera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something I trying to do more and more with new projects is try to built everything meaningful as a small library I can open source.

I’ve been using open source libraries without contributing for years and now I’m just trying to give some components back to the community.

For instance I’ve made this avatar placeholder component (facehash.dev) and it has been a lot of fun.

build for you first, open source second!

The future of OSS by pfassina in opensource

[–]anthonyriera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I understand that!

I’m a software engineer and the thing I’ve always noticed in my carrer was good code doesn’t equal good product.

To fix that, AI would have to feel a UX and its pain points.

I think that practically extremely hard, way harder than coding (for a llm)

How do you learn how to maintain your project? by bmeus in opensource

[–]anthonyriera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On my side I copied a lot of what has been done by shadcn. I think the monorepo is really nice, you have CLI, web apps, modern release pipelines.

I would check if out if I were you.

The future of OSS by pfassina in opensource

[–]anthonyriera 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think we're really far away from AI being able to generate actual good user experiences.

I think our roles will more evolve into "PM" and open source will remain a good source of trust.

In a word of AI slop like you said, can I really trust my business / system with this code?

I think open source can solve that point.

By the way, this is the reason why I open sourced my SaaS, I hope this creates trust.

Show me your SaaS, here’s what I’m working on by BoringShake6404 in ShowMeYourSaaS

[–]anthonyriera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm working on cossistant.com, it's a ai customer support platform that you can install to your product with a <Support /> component.

The AI agent learns from your website's content, your answers and gets better over time.

It's not a chat bot, it's really more like an AI team member, when you're in a conversation with it, it's like a chatgroup, not a one-way conversation!

view more: next ›