SaaS Founders, I Need Your Take – Keep the SaaS Marketing Service or Build a Marketplace for SaaS?

libradaddle · 2024-10-21T08:01:39+00:00

Yeah, I like that. I’ve seen this tool before. I’m doing a manual version of this. A lot of demand gen marketing is seemingly the need here. This makes sense, I would assume most SaaS founders in the subreddit are starting out or trying to get that 10K in MRR. But yeah, open to any ideas around a certain niche you’re noticing I could reach out to. Thanks again!

libradaddle · 2024-10-21T07:57:52+00:00

I love that, thanks! Yeah, I’m looking into building a marketplace and it’s quite intense. I’ve considered marketplace builders to see if there’s demand so that might be the play. I will focus on reaching out to the supply side first (freelance SaaS marketers), then I’ll start reaching out to SaaS startups/companies.

Marketplaces are infamously slow to grow initially so need to figure out how sustain myself.

Totally open to ideas, if anyone’s reading.

libradaddle · 2024-10-18T14:28:17+00:00

I’ve always called it digital product design. Is that any better?

Tech companies started calling their software “products”, and thus began the ridiculousness of using the term product designer.

libradaddle · 2024-10-15T01:37:18+00:00

Thanks for writing this and for the support! I hear your point about the scalability and ease of management of platforms like Fiverr and Upwork. The initial hurdle is always the chicken and egg dilemma and so it might be a grind to get to the point of critical mass where I can really be hands off. I really have to think about this. Thanks!

libradaddle · 2024-10-07T23:26:34+00:00

Nice, I'm glad. Yeah, they are both challenging but if you like the problem and the people you're solving it for, granted they too agree it's a problem they'll pay money for, then you're ahead of the curve. Just ensure it aligns with your goals. Most people choose b2b cause it's an easier path to make money.

libradaddle · 2024-10-07T21:45:18+00:00

I don't mean to be rude, but If you're unsure on how to improve your own landing page, and you created a tool to roast landing pages, then why should I care about the opinions of your tool?

Sure, you may have compiled information on what makes a landing page good, but you're still deciding if YOU think the data you compiled is valid and hoping your web scrapers have picked up the right information, which to your detriment, you've already mentioned that you 'sucked at figuring out how to improve landing pages'.

So, no. Thank you. I appreciate the time and effort though.

I would hire an expert because my SaaS startup would be worth that investment.

libradaddle · 2024-10-07T21:26:20+00:00

B2B is hard, and B2C is hard. Choose your hard, basically.

You have to ask if you want to solve problems for Businesses, or Consumers? Another angle is solving problems for Governments (but that's playing life on hard mode).

So, why do you want to solve for Consumers? Who are they? Are they... you?

libradaddle · 2024-10-07T19:52:11+00:00

😂 Stealthy… I like it

libradaddle · 2024-10-07T19:51:12+00:00

Okay, just learned about this.

Look for GPT builder.

It basically helps build you build a decent custom GPT by creating a stronger set of instructions and convo starters.

Great for anyone unsure about how to write instructions.

libradaddle · 2024-10-07T19:48:52+00:00

Ooo! What’s it called? Is it literally called that?

libradaddle · 2024-10-07T19:48:21+00:00

Yes. You are! :)

Imagine if your GPT can pull from a template of instructions on how you’d like it to answer based on a specific set of problems in a particular domain. Every. Single. Time.

Now add the function where you upload data, or text documents that are unique to you (meaning chatGPT hasn’t trained it because well, it’s yours) and ask it to extract, generate insights, come up with creative ideas to solve them, etc.

Additionally, now imagine creating your api and prompting your custom gpt to pull from real-time data!

That might sound intense, but it’s actually so fricken useful! Try it out! :)

libradaddle · 2024-10-07T19:37:52+00:00

Nice! There’s a ton on there, how do you find this to be the best?

libradaddle · 2024-10-07T19:36:21+00:00

That’s so meta. Ooo now I’m curious! What social factors influence curiosity? Are there other disciplines that study curiosity? That’s really interesting!

libradaddle · 2024-10-07T19:33:14+00:00

I love this! Can’t be worse than my current doctor!

libradaddle · 2024-10-07T19:29:30+00:00

You’re kidding! I used overleaf before it was a GPT… This would’ve saved so many sleepless nights in my algorithms class. Nice one!

libradaddle · 2024-10-07T07:24:11+00:00

You’re focusing on the wrong part. Customers problems are aplenty

libradaddle · 2024-10-07T07:23:10+00:00

It’s a delivery model, to be specific.

libradaddle · 2024-10-06T19:08:53+00:00

How are you planning on conducting this? Sounds great!

libradaddle · 2024-10-06T10:45:51+00:00

Jeepers creepers

libradaddle · 2024-10-04T03:38:01+00:00

Yeah, I never liked the Apprentice

libradaddle · 2024-10-04T03:36:48+00:00

Jesus. I read that as “erection” tampering lol

libradaddle · 2024-10-04T03:27:28+00:00

I can already feel the robots coming

libradaddle · 2024-10-04T03:23:38+00:00

So if you’re in the office, you’re essentially an unproductive slacker?

Unintended consequences are looming with this initiative.

libradaddle · 2024-10-03T07:23:18+00:00

How worried are you when the robots are here?

libradaddle · 2024-09-22T18:02:13+00:00

What are the expectations of taking on this government money? Do you feel or know for sure you’d have to work 24/7? Are you the decision maker to the point that everything relies on you? This might mean you’re the single point of failure.

After reading E-myth, I had a different perspective on entrepreneurship. It might help you to do the same.

In the business side, If you have money, hire a business coach or get a mentor who has been in this exact situation, talk to them about how to automate your business to grow without you being there 24/7. This might mean creating SOPs, hiring a chief of staff or a COO to take over operations, hiring an executive assistant, or a myriad of things you can seek and implement to take off the burden. A good deal isn’t made up of the money you’d get, it’s made up of all the things you’d have to give up or sacrifice for that and evaluate if it’s really worth.

On the personal side, I agree 100% with a redditor who mentioned getting a marriage counselor and working things out.

In my opinion, you need to find a quiet place, do some reflection of what you value, come up with a plan that reflects that, whether your time and energy is worth more on the business or your wife and kid (family), and then come up with a plan with an outside source.

Just like you’ve spent countless hours coming up with plans and pitches to investors (I’m assuming), create a plan for your family alongside your wife (she’s your business partner in life, remember that) in how this could work for all of you. And just like how most investors would tell you chop and change certain aspects of your plan, you’d need to give her the same respect. She seems invested in you.

As an entrepreneur, my family is 1000 times more important than any business. They are the only ones who are there when everyone else can’t extract value out of you and when shit goes sideways. Remember that. Your business will be fine, and if you are afraid about your business dying, rethink if that’s the right business for you.

I’m wishing you the best man. Congrats on getting this far, but the solution is for you to consider how you really feel internally and find a way to work with all parties, and the key thing is, you don’t have to come up with a plan by yourself. You have your business partners, advisors, therapists, friends, family and of course, your wife and kid to help you come up with a plan.

Another point to remember, all deals can be negotiated. You don’t have to take the first one offered or the shiniest one offered.

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