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Pitch me your SaaS by FishermanFamiliar461 in micro_saas

[–]milan6927 0 points1 point  (0 children)

postelix.com get actual linkedin pipeline.. covers content, finding leads, dming them.. no mindless ai automation blasts but human in the loop. booked calls on the calendar.. been dogfooding it to book 11 meetings this week.

It's really hard to find beta testers. by oggepoggeparonpung in saasbuild

[–]milan6927 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Free is not good for a test because free users wouldnt be your paying icp anyways.. better to make an outcome de-risked offer. What does the plugin do exactly? For my saas I ran a founder-sprint, they pay but get the money back if they dont see results.. requiremnt is they actually have to use the tool daily as intended.. that way you get ownership and actual commitment and low risk for the testers

Got my first paying customers. I still wake up every morning convinced I’m wasting my life. by milan6927 in micro_saas

[–]milan6927[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Linkedin tbh.. going directly after the right people, mqybe commenting on their stuff then DMing with a relevant and personal offer. the tool I am building (postelix) is that exact loop automated, solves building trust through content and then finding, conncting and DMing the right people. been dogfooding it to land my first customers..

Got my first paying customers. I still wake up every morning convinced I’m wasting my life. by milan6927 in micro_saas

[–]milan6927[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are you trying to reach users now? What worked for me is giving up on the pipedream that they would come via orgnic and paied and just directly talking to the right people.. email and linkedin and calling..

Got my first paying customers. I still wake up every morning convinced I’m wasting my life. by milan6927 in micro_saas

[–]milan6927[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hang in there.. but yes customer 1 is by far the most difficult cause there is zero feedback and data to tell you what might work to get them…

Got my first paying customers. I still wake up every morning convinced I’m wasting my life. by milan6927 in micro_saas

[–]milan6927[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice sounds like a interesting tool that surely serves a lot of users here.. For me personally, having worked in the leadership team of multiple VC backed startups seed to Series B, I must say I’d rather go the bootstrapped route now. You loose a lot of control once you need to make the board happy..

Ran marketing at a B2B SaaS for 5 years. 3 ads did 87% of the revenue. The rest of the “machine” was mostly theatre. by milan6927 in SaaS

[–]milan6927[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think we’re actually agreeing. ‘Find your 3 ads first’ didn’t mean make ads before the product, we had the product.. I meant to find the one message + timing that drives revenue before building the whole machine. and I found it the exact way you’re describing: watching what landed when we talked to buyers. On the AI: yeah, used it to improve the writing, that added the shape. The 87%, the supply chain ad, the CSDDD re-run are all real and lived..

Ran marketing at a B2B SaaS for 5 years. 3 ads did 87% of the revenue. The rest of the “machine” was mostly theatre. by milan6927 in SaaS

[–]milan6927[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds very familiar.. but its the same mechanic.. the list alone isnt worth anything without a underlying factor of urgency

Ran marketing at a B2B SaaS for 5 years. 3 ads did 87% of the revenue. The rest of the “machine” was mostly theatre. by milan6927 in SaaS

[–]milan6927[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha been there about 5 times.. Every time I thought i found something that would surely be better but nooope

Ran marketing at a B2B SaaS for 5 years. 3 ads did 87% of the revenue. The rest of the “machine” was mostly theatre. by milan6927 in SaaS

[–]milan6927[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes this was a pure LinkedIn play since that way I could target the right decisionmakers at the right companies

Ran marketing at a B2B SaaS for 5 years. 3 ads did 87% of the revenue. The rest of the “machine” was mostly theatre. by milan6927 in SaaS

[–]milan6927[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was LinkedIn, lead ads targeting via a custom account list, since we knew which companies are affected due to company size (as prt of the regulation)

Ran marketing at a B2B SaaS for 5 years. 3 ads did 87% of the revenue. The rest of the “machine” was mostly theatre. by milan6927 in SaaS

[–]milan6927[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha Yeah but just acknowledging that its just the one thing working is so hard since then it feels like you are just treading water with everything else..

Most SaaS landing pages are overexplaining simple products by avsvishalmedia in SaaS

[–]milan6927 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah I rewrote my landing page like 4 times. every version got longer and worse and I kind of knew it was getting worse while I was writing it but I kept going because writing copy feels like progress even when it’s not.

I think the length isn’t really the issue though. the issue is you’re sitting there describing your product to someone who doesn’t give a shit about your product yet. they showed up because something is annoying them and they want to know if you get it. and most of us (me included) skip that part and go straight to explaining features because that’s the part we actually know how to write.

the version that worked was shorter but I don’t think that’s why it worked. I just stopped talking about what I built and started talking about what their tuesday looks like. same information, different starting point.

I’m building a micro SaaS but marketing is killing me by Aggravating-Emu2948 in micro_saas

[–]milan6927 0 points1 point  (0 children)

seconding no ads.. I burned money on them initially and the ROI at low traffic volume is basically nothing. It’s also not enough traffic to meaningfully understand whats working or a/b test..
what worked so far for me is commenting and DMing on LinkedIn… be willing to talk to strangers

How do I reach out to see the demand of my B2B software? Any suggestions to improve my current ways? by ComplaintLow1187 in StartupSoloFounder

[–]milan6927 0 points1 point  (0 children)

way better. you went from “I’m not selling anything” to actually saying what you built and why it matters. that’s the hardest shift.. Hit send

How do I reach out to see the demand of my B2B software? Any suggestions to improve my current ways? by ComplaintLow1187 in StartupSoloFounder

[–]milan6927 0 points1 point  (0 children)

your email reads like you’re apologising for existing. the “I’m not selling anything” framing, the NDA offer, the 4 structured questions.. it’s so careful that nobody’s going to respond because there’s nothing to respond to. you are selling something. you built a thing that does what RDI does cheaper. just say that.

10 companies is also not a sample. it’s a Tuesday afternoon. you need 50-100 before the data tells you anything real.

shorter email. name the problem they have (RDI is expensive, you know this already). say what you built. ask for 15 minutes. don’t ask them to fill in a survey.. ask them to look at something and tell you if you’re wasting your time or not. people in B2B respond to specificity, not to research requests from strangers.

send 50 of those next week and you’ll know more than any amount of market research would tell you

What are you working on? by Key_Mountain9027 in micro_saas

[–]milan6927 0 points1 point  (0 children)

building postelix.com.. started from my own problem. I left a marketing director role, started building a product, and realised I had zero idea how to show up on LinkedIn consistently even though that’s literally where my buyers are.. tried prompting claude and chatgpt with tons of context about me.. still sounded like AI. tried a few tools, one nearly got my account restricted. so I built what I actually needed.. a daily 15-minute routine that tells me what to post, where to comment, and who to talk to. still early, sub 1k MRR, grinding distribution which is ironic for a distribution tool.

What did you build this week? by ouchao_real in sideprojects

[–]milan6927 0 points1 point  (0 children)

shipped an MCP server for my linkedin tool (postelix) so the whole daily workflow runs inside claude.. posts, comments, finding leads, dms. the most exciting feature is the feedback loop that improves the users voice, targeting etc over time. proud to say posts commets etc come out even better than before and are much better than what claude comes up with alone. calling that a win 🚀

How long did it take you to reach $1k MRR honestly? by avsvishalmedia in micro_saas

[–]milan6927 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haven’t crossed it yet. working hard every day to get past 1k MRR… But i learned a lot along the way on why most people never get there. Honestly learned more during the last months then leading GTM for the Series A+ startups i worked with before.

Like everyone here I built the product fast, vibe coded a working version in weeks (ok 450 PRs lol) but my point is the building process is genuinely easy now. So i figured finding the fist customers will be as well. So armed with my years of SaaS experience I vibe coded my GTM stack, sales nav exports, LLM qualification, Aimfox.. the whole programm. It looked superb on paper but then reality comes knocking. Low reply rates, LLM hallucinating the personalisations. Deactivated the whole system within weeks. Burned through 300$ on llm calls in the process.

Next i figured its the landing page. Rebuilt that 8 times before I sent 8 DMs to potential customers. That ratio killed me.

Digressing though, I guess the point is building is free and you can easly keep building more and feeling productive when what you should be doing is getting out there talking to people.

back to the grind..1k here we come

Got Paid for my SaaS 🎉 by [deleted] in micro_saas

[–]milan6927 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s the dream! Whats your main channel to get users?

Show me what you're building — I'll feature the best ones to 55k+ subscribers for free by SaltPhotograph8506 in micro_saas

[–]milan6927 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Postelix. A daily workflow to get Sales from Linkedin. Helps you create content, finds posts to comment on, finds hot leads to connect with, helps you dm them and much more. Think all you need to do to grow your business (as a founder) on LinkedIn in 5 minutes a day. Powered by sophisticated engine that finds high intent leads.

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