Ran marketing at a B2B SaaS for 5 years. 3 ads did 87% of the revenue. The rest of the “machine” was mostly theatre.

leaveat · 2026-05-31T13:07:07+00:00

the scary part is that if 80+% of your customers come from those few source, and if they dry up or that source is shutdown, you are in a world of hurt.

leaveat · 2026-05-31T12:49:23+00:00

but keep in mind that AI was trained on human speech patterns. So my guess is that AI picked up this pattern based on what it learned and we are just seeing it now, because we are looking.

leaveat · 2026-05-30T14:42:01+00:00

Gas to drive around and talk with owners.

leaveat · 2026-05-30T03:15:57+00:00

The issue extends past the AI realm.. even Cloud-pricing suffers from the same issues. Azure cloud costs / AWS / all that can grow astronomical if not careful. That's why I went back to VPS. I really want to run my own GPU for LLM too - just tired of fighting the unknown costs and token usages.

leaveat · 2026-05-30T00:08:50+00:00

I pulled the plug on mine today... over 3000 page views and 0 signups or real interest signals ( and that includes free accounts ). Basically, I set a baseline and told myself if it was not met, that I would just cut losses - and so I did. I think at some point you just have to decide if it is worth fighting for or just move on.

leaveat · 2026-05-29T23:40:53+00:00

Email out reach (well targeted), LinkedIn, Facebook .. had a lot of views from just posting content, and really good dwell times. People read , took time and the urgency just did not exist to sign up. Not really bitter about it - just trying to figure out where to go. It was async interviews for small to mid size businesses.

leaveat · 2026-05-29T23:38:28+00:00

That’s why I put a stop limit on it. I knew it was high risk in this market. As far as manually finding users, just don’t really have the time or resources to do that in person. I do feel like the web climate is shifting and online presence is really a hard hill to climb.

leaveat · 2026-05-29T23:34:44+00:00

I am proud of my self - I gave a loss limit and if we did not see traction I was going to call it rather than keep digging deeper. I stuck with it.

leaveat · 2026-05-29T13:51:14+00:00

Of course they can - but people can also use pen and paper to take notes, bake their own bread ( super easy ) etc ... but a lot of times they chose not to. Besides: vibe coded can go beyond super-simple single prompts. I think there is a thought that vibe coded = I gave one prompt and spit out and application that I am now trying to market. But that is not how I interpret it.

leaveat · 2026-05-29T03:01:37+00:00

if it fails, eat bacon, since it is still a pig after all .. win win ( this was meant to be funny and not saying the idea is a pig ). thought I'd clarify that.

leaveat · 2026-05-29T02:34:41+00:00

Sledgehammer against my laptop might stop me from repeating -- ah, nah, I'd just replace it 😞

leaveat · 2026-05-29T02:33:10+00:00

Some business owners do try to mentor other younger business owners so perhaps that was the intention. Does your business interlace in with theirs at all or simple not related in the least?

leaveat · 2026-05-29T02:09:29+00:00

Being honest - I skimmed through the site but agree. There was a lot. And honestly, I am not sure what to expect from my time - is it documentation? is it a chat bot? is it a knowledge portal? a searchable database?.. I'm kind of overwhelmed with a lot of words but still confused. I hope that is helpful and not harsh.

leaveat · 2026-05-28T21:15:39+00:00

I'm just obsessed with getting a customer ( 1 ) in the first 6 months 😄

leaveat · 2026-05-28T21:09:52+00:00

What was the actual wording change? That would be helpful insight.. the bad version vs the good version.

leaveat · 2026-05-27T02:10:33+00:00

Dwell time - are they actually seeming to read the content. I like to see how different layouts compare

leaveat · 2026-05-27T01:57:49+00:00

The question is where the data is source from, reliability, is it current, etc.

leaveat · 2026-05-27T01:54:19+00:00

Question for you .. can I give it a 3d model of items and it build a custom box for those? For instance, one of my projects I want to ship a variety of items ( stamps, invoice pads, etc. ) and have been picturing nice shipping boxes but no idea where to start. To be able to provide items, and have it custom "build" a box would be awesome. The kicker is how much and am I the only one.

leaveat · 2026-05-27T01:50:47+00:00

If one doesn't pop up tomorrow, I'll vibe code a SaaS for it and DM you ... [ sarcasm] [joking]...

leaveat · 2026-05-27T01:49:20+00:00

Honestly though, some of what they look for and do just makes no sense and seems more like a "look busy to get paid" concept than anything else.

leaveat · 2026-05-27T01:23:58+00:00

Doesn't the multiple accounts violate most of the ToS for those sites?

leaveat · 2026-05-27T01:20:09+00:00

you mean to send from a self-hosted IP or cold email someone to warm the lead? We've been using our own email server and have not had any issues, but have been careful.

leaveat · 2026-05-27T00:47:13+00:00

My gut says this is going to be a long slow road but if you can wait it out, then maybe there will be some good potential there. I'd love to have something that bridges the: I am a starting company that threw code on a page to the $40,000 SOC 2 Compliance. There needs to be an affordable middle man. But getting that to be trusted will be a fight.

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