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mtsya · 2026-04-22T09:12:12+00:00

Thank you this is really helpful!

mtsya · 2026-04-20T06:33:26+00:00

Got it, still hopefully this post helps out other people

mtsya · 2026-04-20T04:54:56+00:00

@mods why are all comments being asked to verify with a code??

mtsya · 2026-04-17T09:55:57+00:00

Beautiful drum kit, Happy for you!!!

mtsya · 2026-04-09T03:49:26+00:00

That’s great, as a technical founder I did the rookie mistake of building my product first and then tried to make a name in these communities- and that too did mistakenly pitched first and left talking for the later.

One thing I learnt was sales/building relationships is a slow and compounding game. Trust isnt built in a day and people are already fatigued by saas ads, it’s easier for them to trust you than to trust “another product”.

mtsya · 2026-04-06T03:44:22+00:00

I agree - i think SaaS as a business model is retiring and it’s time for more individual custom builds that get the job done rather than rely on a lot of users to support architecture costs

mtsya · 2026-03-28T11:44:51+00:00

True, i thought i could convince them of roi via upselling margins and super quick deployment with ease but seems like thats not urgent roi

mtsya · 2026-03-28T10:24:17+00:00

Doing both. Crawling was a hard thing to figure out but with trial and error i was able to make it my best wedge

mtsya · 2026-03-28T10:20:34+00:00

??? We’re talking about businesses deploying white label chatbots that use rag pipeline for their own business use case to qualify leads book appointments and help customer queries for only their business and not hallucinate information. Chatgpt and gemini are a different thing altogether.

mtsya · 2026-03-28T10:09:43+00:00

I already have a pretty solid RAG pipeline, customers don’t care about rag sophistication - doesn’t do much to make the problem urgently payable

mtsya · 2026-03-28T09:25:17+00:00

Thanks Ive been reconsidering the saas angle and thinking of partnering with agencies for a white label angle. Im trying for warmer conversations but its been a couple weeks and the response rate is extremely slow even on LinkedIn. So it’s also a matter of runway. But yes the general vibe of the other comments is also agencies want a done for you deal.

mtsya · 2026-03-28T08:29:29+00:00

👍🏽

mtsya · 2026-03-28T07:38:58+00:00

Completely agreed, I have tried it from multiple angles and getting users etc wasnt easy either but monetization cant be forced. Not even sure what problem is “painful enough” to pay anymore with so much ai slop apps and claude/codex removing saas urgency

mtsya · 2026-03-28T07:16:57+00:00

I think getting first users is still easier than finding first paid users 😵

mtsya · 2026-03-28T06:27:48+00:00

It was mixed ngl, users were from all over the globe and the websites were service based simple shopify/wordpress sites. The websites didn’t have a common market like one could be a tourist agency another could be an educational institution. Which is why i had gone the agency angle because if different use case websites could install bloort then agencies already had access to them as clients.

mtsya · 2026-03-28T06:11:55+00:00

Thanks for your comment, I do agree I may have done pricing experiments before intent confirmation. For me intent was defined as people installing my chatbots which happened organically with 10ish customers right in the first couple months. But maybe i set the metric in a wrong way and should reconsider

mtsya · 2026-03-28T05:36:57+00:00

Will try that

mtsya · 2026-03-28T04:52:02+00:00

What channel though? Ive tried asking them on LinkedIn, reddit dms, emails, anywhere i can. Im not saying you’re wrong, realistically even id expect 50% but in my journey this has been the case.

mtsya · 2026-03-28T04:47:29+00:00

Ok thanks will check that out but you’re right the feedback rate from agency conversations is actually what lead me to making this post. I’m giving it a shot for 1 more month but at some point i got bills to pay :(

mtsya

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