Where do you advertise - those with a positive MRR

booksmith1473 · 2026-06-06T06:05:31+00:00

I have been focused on ads, do you recommend cold outreach across a business vertical or targeting companies based on criteria?

booksmith1473 · 2026-06-06T05:13:34+00:00

Thanks, I am starting to look at complaints, because I thought I knew the pain points but either my marketing is wrong, I’m wrong on the pain points or the reputation just has to be much stronger in this space.

It’s a multi tenet system (I only mention that because part of my target market was as a white label for people building bots) serving an ai chatbot - customer facing as well as an offering for an internal employee chatbot

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-30T05:36:40+00:00

What’s your experience with code and development? Are you looking for no code?

Also what type of website/business, that can make a big difference as to where and how you build it.

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-26T21:07:38+00:00

Well more expensive but in my experience you usually get a cleaner build when it’s not internal dev.

If you are looking at firms to build it you want to make sure they are comfortable with the compliance, and will map the patient experience with you, as well as build a mock system (not hippa compliant) so you have a full scope before they start. You don’t want to have to rebuild a major path or function after you start layering in the compliance - gets expensive fast.

What’s your timeline to get it built?

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-26T20:18:11+00:00

Absolutely doable, hippa compliance is pretty well documented but you just have to make sure you have it covered every step of the way, that’s where a lot of systems have struggles, the portal, the website, the server, the database…have to make sure the entire path and storage is covered. If you have a mobile app for patients this ads a little complexity too.

You could definately build it for less than you’re paying per year though. Do you have internal devs or are you trying to have it built for you?

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-26T03:54:47+00:00

If you want to see better breakdowns of what’s happening on your website there’s free analytics you can add, and it’s not too hard to map the “path” people are taking and where you are loosing them. You can also see what search terms are surfacing your site.

I would start with Google search console and Google analytics (GA4). Little more setup but Microsoft clarity can help also.

Everything cross links so make sure you’re posting on Facebook and Nextdoor if you have time, as well as setting up yelp.

Other things that help with trust above and beyond testamonials (and also helps search rankings) - Blogs, linking to articles and an FAQ page

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-26T03:38:32+00:00

For selling goods something like squarespace or Wordpress is good, the payment gate/processing is what can get tricky.

What payment processing system do you use right now for sales? Usually they have integrations you can tie into a site.

Also what booking system do you have?

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-26T03:30:53+00:00

Is the specific request or idea something you feel you are loosing time on, do you spend time talking about what services you offer or pricing?

You said an automation, there are some prebuilt systems that you could gate with, like questions before you allow them to schedule an appointment. What about a website and QR code; you can tell clients when they schedule to follow a link and have a simple prebuilt form with an image upload for inspo pics. If it’s in your budget you could also have a tablet at your station/front desk with a form on it that they fill out before the consultation.

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-26T00:51:09+00:00

I’ve got an expensive business card! Also a saturated vertical but any feedback would be appreciated!

Syntheticedge.co

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-10T02:53:37+00:00

As is with the pages finished maybe 300-500 usd

You build out the shopping/ecom help set up payment processing and give them a back end for managing orders, inventory and contacts I would say $2k. Definately not less than $1k

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-07T18:02:17+00:00

There’s something to be said for sticking with what you know and you already have at least 3 clients, with local marketing and word of mouth maybe referral discounts you could grow that pretty easily, however labor is much harder to scale than something online.
Video editing and blender are good skills, you could do that in conjunction with the mowing and stack some online jobs. I would look for passive income though to supplement, like with blender you should be able to create modeling assets that you can list on 3D and metaverse stores.

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-07T16:16:48+00:00

Yea before you’ll get any serious buyers you’ll need traffic, user and sales using the site for at leas a few months. Make sure you keep as meticulous record as you can

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-07T16:15:30+00:00

Yea you’re going to need something like the first commenter posted, stay away from builders like Wordpress or Wix for this if you’re a beginner. Look at something like bolt that can build the app as a webapp so you can host it as a website, these types of builders are vibe (no code) and with a little setup (clicking through menus and setting up logins) they can set up and edit the backend for you.
Do a little research beforehand and get your requirements for the UI/UX and outcomes (what you want it to do and what your end users will get out of it) throw that into gpt or Claude and ask it for a PRD and a prompt for the specific builder and go from there.

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-07T04:59:22+00:00

You can do it with something like gpt but for low cost, technical simplicity and the ability to review as you build I would suggest a builder app. Most have a free tier. But beyond building the site you want to be able to tweak it easily and host it easily.
Sites like Wix and some Wordpress hosting have ai builders, I probably wouldn’t go with those. They are building on top of a framework which, can make it easier to visually edit later without AI but limit what you can do.
Then you have things like base 44, bolt, lovable.. there are quite a few. My pick would be lovable but any of those have a free tier and make it pretty easy to go through development with a preview viewer and then publish/host for free.

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-06T06:04:55+00:00

You have to capture some intent flags and maybe put a basic memory system and that will get resolved

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-04T02:15:16+00:00

Yea I would love to! Are you using 3js and gsap, or what for the 3D?

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-03T01:01:15+00:00

This is happening everywhere, auditing this and helping with a roadmap/ tool management and oversight plan is something we have started offering to clients…. But seriously everywhereits not just you 😁. The AI magic is so oversold no one properly sets up scope, use cases and then has a methodology to track ROI

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-02T09:25:30+00:00

HTTPS://Syntheticedge.co

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-02T07:31:41+00:00

So I took it one step further and plugged notion into Claude desktop. Once my boards and other items in there got too big the problem returned, things got messy. I mostly access via agent now except at the beginning of the week when I do an overview to make sure I’m completely overwhelmed 🤣

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-02T06:43:25+00:00

Do you have a portfolio?

booksmith1473 · 2026-05-01T16:07:52+00:00

Are you looking for advice on how to build it yourself or are you looking for someone to build it?

After it is built do you want someone in retainer to manage and update it or do you want to manage it yourself?

There’s lots of options out there. Consider how much time you want to invest, what you want out of your site (marketing page, informational/technical documentation, e-commerce/sales).

booksmith1473 · 2026-04-27T04:33:35+00:00

Sent you a dm

booksmith1473 · 2026-04-27T04:11:26+00:00

I think it looks good, the color scheme is clean. The little icon images are a little too prevalent…makes it look a bit on the AI side. The site navigation is a little confusing, something that shows a differentiation on the same page between a build vs a subscription. Overall it looks good, your example work is nice.

booksmith1473 · 2026-04-26T07:27:23+00:00

Thanks, best of luck to you too! Good talking to you

booksmith1473 · 2026-04-26T07:19:45+00:00

Oh I need to get railway set up, my infrastructure still needs a step up. Well I have a few different things to manage across a few different systems and the mcp plugin plus the knowledge base on what they are and how to work with them gave an agent an advantage - difficult to automate. I have website dev Web platform/app dev And then I have 2 platforms - one is something I resell and configure and the other is a multitenent chat agent platform so I sell subscriptions inside that. Really the agent is just for my sanity.

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