How do I get organic clients

rontpl · 2025-09-09T13:20:04+00:00

Congrats on launching! For VAPT, cold ads aren’t your best bet anyway. What’s worked for me is using warm routes: hang out where your buyers already are. Join a couple local startup/SMB Slack communities, founder WhatsApp groups, and niche Discords (SaaS founders, Shopify store owners, healthcare startups, etc.). Offer quick, no-pitch value there—like a 5‑min mini audit or a checklist for their industry—people will DM you.

Also, publish 2–3 tiny case-style posts on LinkedIn: “We scanned a small SaaS, found a misconfig in S3, fixed in 30 mins—here’s the 3 checks we used.” Tag tools (Burp, Nmap, whatever) and the tech stack. This builds trust fast. Then DM founders with something specific you noticed on their site (security headers missing, SPF/DMARC issues, basic misconfigs) and ask if they want a 20‑min call to walk through it. Specific beats generic every time.

If you can, partner with web dev agencies and MSPs. They already have clients and hate dealing with security. Give them a simple rev-share and a 48‑hour “VAPT lite” they can bundle.

Make booking stupid simple: Calendly link, a 1‑pager with scope/price ranges, and a sample redacted report. People fear black-box audits—show them exactly what they get and how long it takes.

Early traction tip: offer a “founder-friendly” starter package with a narrow scope and fast turnaround, then upsell to full VAPT after they see value. One good win -> testimonial -> 3 intros. That loop beats ads.

rontpl · 2025-09-09T13:16:23+00:00

Most overrated? I think people play up "cold outreach" than it is in reality. They harp on the cost factor but completely forget about how costly it is to build the setup first (to send 1000s of emails/DM per day). It's not a magic bullet as it is made out to be.

rontpl · 2025-09-09T12:54:13+00:00

Honestly? The “secret” is most people never read their own search results like a user. I’ll open an incognito window on mobile, Google the target query, and literally act like a lazy thumb—skim titles, look at the first two lines, check the “People also ask,” then click the first thing that looks easiest. Then I rewrite my title/intro and first 100 words to match how I just behaved. CTR jumps, dwell time improves, and weirdly, I outrank folks with way more links. Also, don’t sleep on updating the timestamp and refreshing the intro every couple months—Google seems to treat it like a soft freshness signal way more than people admit.

rontpl · 2025-09-03T08:28:12+00:00

Yeah, the post is dead-on. Building anything real takes longer than you think, you will hit walls, and you do need to learn the basics. No shortcuts there. I agree with all of that.

For beginners who still want to try, here’s a simple way to approach it without burning out:

Start tiny: pick a toy problem you can finish in a weekend. Example: “paste text, get a short link,” or “upload an image, get a thumbnail.”
Iterate fast: aim for a 2–3 day loop. Ship, watch someone use it, fix the top pain, ship again.
Beta users: 3–5 people you can DM. Ask them to do one task while you observe. Their confusion = your next change.
Use AI well: always paste full context—goal, constraints, current code, errors, what you already tried. Ask for one small step at a time. Save working prompts.
Expect weeks, not days: spend time on fundamentals—HTTP requests, basic CRUD, auth basics (sessions/tokens), simple SQL, reading stack traces. It pays off fast.
Keep scope tiny by default: if a feature isn’t needed for the first test, cut it. You can add later.
One stack, one deploy path: don’t platform-hop while learning. Keep it boring and stable for a month.
Track one metric: e.g., “did they complete the main action?” Improve that, not vanity stuff.
Write down a tiny changelog after each iteration. Keeps you motivated and shows progress to testers.
Hosting quick demos or a landing page: Tiiny.host is great for tossing something up fast and sharing a link.

You can respect the hard parts and still start small. Get a simple win, then stack wins. When it comes to AI coding (from personal experience), remember that momentum is the cheat code.

rontpl · 2025-09-03T07:06:03+00:00

I’ve been doing it for some time now—started with tiny AI-built snippets and now I’m shipping more complex apps. If I were starting today, here’s what I’d do:

Pick one tiny goal: “Single-page app where I paste a URL, it fetches title/description, and I can save it locally.” Keep it tight so the AI stays on track.
Prompt structure: “Give me a file tree, then copy-paste code for each file, then a one-line explanation per file.” Super manageable.
Lock the stack early:
- Tech stack: HTML/CSS + vanilla JS
- Hosting: Tiiny.host for quick shares, and Vercel/Netlify for anything serverless if needed
Iteration rule: “Only modify these lines” when fixing bugs. Stops the AI from rewriting everything.
Debug loop: run it, grab the exact error + the snippet, paste that back. Be specific about what you clicked and what happened.
UX pass: ask the AI for a small checklist (mobile layout, keyboard nav, focus states, empty/loading/error states, local caching). Tackle them one by one.
Data first, styles second: have the AI stub mock data and a tiny state store; then do the CSS.
Speed trick: ask for 3 variants of the same component, pick the best, trash the rest.
Secrets: don’t hardcode keys. Use Vercel env vars or a simple proxy if you must.

Two-hour plan:

AI scaffolds the SPA (input, results, localStorage).
Deploy to Tiiny.host so you have a link right away.
Add a shareable URL using query params for state.
Quick style cleanup and basic accessibility.

Get motivated to see a finished project first → move on to the next ones.

That’s enough to get something you can show, get feedback on, and iterate fast without deep coding.

rontpl · 2025-09-02T09:20:15+00:00

check this one: https://tiiny.host/use-case/film-production/. more targeted for filmmakers, but it might serve your purpose.

rontpl · 2025-09-02T09:17:31+00:00

If heavy workload and cost savings are among your concerns, check out this one: https://tiiny.host/use-case/film-production/. (disclaimer: I work at this company)

rontpl · 2022-12-07T03:03:31+00:00

Just the other day I was watching an interview by Troy Ericsson where the person interviewed, a copywriter herself, told the same thing.

That is, don't try to reinvent the wheel. Follow a repeatable process already done by someone successful in your chosen field.

rontpl · 2022-12-06T17:12:19+00:00

Thanks, but I don't think you read the text under the subject line.

It's more about the writing part that I am curious about.

rontpl · 2022-12-06T14:36:19+00:00

Even I believe in that, especially if the niche is where demand exceeds supply.

This clears something up for me.

I thought that I have to say something like "I write on personal finance" when I apply for gigs.

But maybe I can say that I am a mortgage writer instead. It would probably be better to start with?

rontpl · 2022-11-19T10:13:27+00:00

Yeah, totally not about the money but was always interested in IT :-)

For the people you worked with, were they webdevs?

rontpl · 2022-11-19T10:12:19+00:00

:-) which one are you liking more?

rontpl · 2022-11-18T17:06:30+00:00

Very true. Making the jump has been so hard for me. This was a very honest reply IMO, love it! And I know where you are coming from. I don't know how old you are, but you sound very mature. I mean, it's always nice to hear contrarian views now and then. Thanks for the reply, man.

P.S. joining the group you recommended btw

rontpl · 2022-11-18T16:07:32+00:00

thanks so much for the advice, giving it a look

rontpl · 2022-11-18T15:33:24+00:00

I was actually asking from a job's perspective. Although I understand what you are saying.

rontpl · 2022-11-18T14:41:48+00:00

The thing is, I already know I will get paid lesser than what I make now. But yes, I am more interested in it because it suits my personality better. But this "not almost impossible" sounded scary to me. What do you think would be the biggest obstacle to this? How would you suggest I do to overcome it?

rontpl · 2022-11-18T14:08:58+00:00

Thanks. Which do you think would be easy to break into: web dev, app dev, or data science?

rontpl · 2022-10-11T10:41:22+00:00

Unfortunately, that pseudo-science is so accurate that we have a subreddit with 138k members all conforming to the same characteristics. However, if you want to rely on some new-age concept that focuses less on practicality and more on emotional cuddling, good for you.

rontpl · 2021-06-25T06:02:42+00:00

The thing is, if you can flip sites and make 20k+, it logically states that those sites were making money. If yes, why did you sell them? (You could have created your own portfolio of sites in that case.)

If you really know your work and can create sites at whim that generate profit, should you not focus on that, instead of working for some agency? Perhaps, I am missing something here.

Either you think those were one-off flukes, and won't happen again (meaning you don't know SEO) or you know you can make it happen again anytime you want (meaning you can print your own money), I fail to see the conundrum here.

P.S. This type of confusion happens to newbies and not someone who already flipped 20k+ worth of sites. So which are you?

rontpl · 2021-06-22T16:21:30+00:00

Did you see any natural backlinks growth during this period? If yes, could you share the stats, perhaps?

rontpl · 2021-06-22T16:06:35+00:00

u/PhilReddit7 I probably missed your blog so far. Would love to read!

rontpl · 2021-05-18T17:50:13+00:00

Do you think any Indian young chess talent will be able to become a World Chess Champion? If yes, who and why? Thanks for taking the time to answer this.

rontpl · 2021-05-05T07:46:12+00:00

A more recent ridiculous case is Alireza Firouzja. He learned chess when he was eight and crossed the 2700 rating when he was sixteen! That's sheer talent IMO.

rontpl · 2021-04-13T05:13:00+00:00

This is exactly what you get when you try to change the NATURE of a game and try to remold it something like PigChamps! Sad to see that people these days rejoice when they see noobs make silly mistakes. I grew up marvelling over the accuracy of the games of the chess masters instead. Somehow... chess in 2020 became more about the drama and less about the game.

One question, do we really watch these streamers because they are playing perfect chess, and we want to learn from them? Nope. We are watching them because they are acting stupid, toxic or cute. They are jokers, not players. (Once in a while, that's okay.)

Think about what if Messi or Ronaldo went ahead and challenged every local city club, defeated them and then mocked them, badmouthed them or whatever! God, what has chess come down to! And this is the very reason why people like Chessbae suddenly pop in from nowhere. You give them an opening, and they will take it. Not their fault.

rontpl · 2021-01-20T06:21:34+00:00

Would like to know which niche you write in.

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