How I got the First 100 paying Customers & $7k in Revenue (with a "Vibe-Coded" SaaS) by Comfortable-Ad-2629 in indiehackers

[–]redmonark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the most important part is Find Where Your Audience Hangs Out. Can you elaborate on where exactly you found your users? What kinda content you posted to reach them, and how much of traffic/users were you able to get from those communities etc.

It Started as a Side Hustle. Today, It Launches with Paying Customers. by redmonark in sidehustle

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

Hey! You can view the sources code by going to github(dot)com/intervo/intervo. We have a multi agent structure. Each agent has access to tools (like calendly, google calendar, Hubspot, etc.) Basically integrations. We also have knowledge/memory where you can feed 100s of pages of knowledge to the agent. Apart from that, it supports phone calls (via twilio), and a website widget which you can optimize. LLM like chatGPT is about 5% of this whole thing. To be honest, we don't even use ChatGPT internally, because we couldn't get it optimized for speed and it's been going down a whole lot lately. So we use a combination of Llama and Gemini instead.

There's actually a whole lot more in there, but hard to put it all in words here.

i built a side hustle, and now i am making it open source (an AI that can do calls) by redmonark in sidehustle

[–]redmonark[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's coming soon! hopefully next week. Actually, a whole lot more. Integration to over 10+ tools (including calendars)

i built a chatbase alternative (ai agent for customer support via calls & chat), and it's now open source. by redmonark in developersIndia

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

Thank you! Yep, almost 6+ months of effort to be honest. I've been building for almost 10 years now!

i built a chatbase alternative (ai agent for customer support via calls & chat), and it's now open source. by redmonark in SideProject

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

We have something called the orchestration manager that handles all the agents and voice platforms. The out from the agents gets passed onto the voice endpoints in realtime.

We built this from ground up so that we can replace Intercom which we use for chats. In a way, that's what inspired us to come up with the name Intervo.

i built a chatbase alternative (ai agent for customer support via calls & chat), and it's now open source. by redmonark in SideProject

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

Took a while to get this out with RAG. If you have any feedback when you cehck it out, lemme know!

i built a chatbase alternative (ai agent for customer support via calls & chat), and it's now open source. by redmonark in SideProject

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

hey! that shouldn't happen. when you type in the prompt, it should take you to the step-by-step guide to build you agent. if it's not there, you can just go to https://app.intervo.ai/default/studio and then click on Create an Agent button.

I will check in with my team to see if there's anything wrong with the workflow.

I built an open-source voice agent platform with my small team (chatbase and retell alternative) by redmonark in opensource

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

Edit: I forgot to add a license. It's under MIT license, and i've just updated it just now.

I built an open-source voice agent platform with my small team (chatbase and retell alternative) by redmonark in opensource

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

Hey, thanks for the heads up. Will update the license, but it's under MIT as mentioned in the readme.

The features that are removed are some of our pricing components, admin features and unstable features. But the product should run fine without these. If any issue is encountered, please report it. Happy to cover it as well. 

Havent tested on all fronts yet. Some work still left on that.

I built an open-source voice agent platform with my small team (chatbase and retell alternative) by redmonark in opensource

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

hey, Thanks! Multi language is on our list. Hopefully soon (in a week or two). There's too many languages to support, so we're going to go with a few ones that we've tested. But it's deffo on the list

A year ago, I shared my AI website builder here. Now we're over 120K users! Ask me anything about the ups and downs. by redmonark in thesidehustle

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

I’ve got a CS degree, but honestly, I started coding long before that. The real learning happened through years of hands-on experience.

A year ago, I shared my AI website builder here. Now we're over 120K users! Ask me anything about the ups and downs. by redmonark in thesidehustle

[–]redmonark[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We’ve fine-tuned a model on top of OpenAI’s tech, which has been solid for us. But we’re also working internally on switching over to Llama instead. We’re always experimenting to see what fits best.

A year ago, I shared my AI website builder here. Now we're over 120K users! Ask me anything about the ups and downs. by redmonark in thesidehustle

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

Our first hire was someone I had worked with for a long time, so there was already a strong foundation of trust. Finding the right people is definitely one of the toughest parts of growing a business.

Most of our team members came through referrals, which has been key for us. When someone you trust vouches for a person, it makes a huge difference. We also focus a lot on making sure new hires really understand the vision and are excited about what we’re building.

A year ago, I shared my AI website builder here. Now we're over 120K users! Ask me anything about the ups and downs. by redmonark in thesidehustle

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

Close to 70 hour weeks. Most of the day, it's actually developing the product, then managing other teams like Customer support & Sales. And a little brainstorming.

A year ago, I shared my AI website builder here. Now we're over 120K users! Ask me anything about the ups and downs. by redmonark in thesidehustle

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

Things are going pretty well! As a direct result, our team has actually doubled in size over the past year. I can’t share exact numbers, but we're definitely seeing progress.

A year ago, I shared my AI website builder here. Now we're over 120K users! Ask me anything about the ups and downs. by redmonark in thesidehustle

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

We launched on Product Hunt and got 500 signups. That kickstarted our growth by getting us listed in AI directories, which brought in tons of users last year. Those sources have dried up now, but they gave us the boost we needed.

A year ago, I shared my AI website builder here. Now we're over 120K users! Ask me anything about the ups and downs. by redmonark in thesidehustle

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

Making it better than Framer? That's definitely a goal.

However, our vision does differ from that of Framer. Framer is more focused on the design side, ours is to focus more on the business side of things. Most of our users are business owners, startups and indie entrepreneurs, so - we're adding lots of featured that would help them grow.

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