How I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months

Re:How I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months by LenP on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:57PM (#29813300)

This is actually an underserved niche, speaking from personal experience. Kudos to OP for acting on it! Family always comes first, I can’t help but think that OP could likely have 10-20x’d MRR with just a little more focus on marketing?

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Re:How I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months by HeyLaughingBoy on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @04:04PM (#29814923)

> This is actually an underserved niche

I find this comment very interesting.

The vast majority of SaaS businesses that are shown/sold/started here on HN are complete mysteries to me in terms of their domain and customer base. It's rare that I see a business about which I can say "OK, I can see a need for that product." This one is yet another example: I simply can't fathom ever finding a use for this feature.

Please understand, I don't mean this in a negative sense. OP has definitely accomplished something to be proud of. It's just that my section of the industry (embedded systems) is so far removed from general web apps that I have no context for the use cases of a lot of what is introduced here.

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Re:How I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months by lloydjones on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @05:20PM (#29815899)

Any site that gets traffic from social sharing on Twitter / Facebook.

The visits via those sources are competing with other tweets/posts in the feed. If there's a visually compelling social image, the likelihood of the URL being visited and/or shared increases.

Source: https://buzzsumo.com/blog/how-to-massively-boost-your-blog-t...

(Obviously this doesn't 'prove' that a more-visually-compelling image does better than a basic one, but it seems like it'd follow, given the inclusion of the image at all performs better than no image).

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Re:How I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months by simantel on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:22PM (#29817849)

Yeah, it seems competitive with Bannerbear, which is an open startup and is at 150x OP's revenue: https://bannerbear.com/open

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Re:How I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months by rgbrgb on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @02:39PM (#29813833)

That’s why there was a buyer!

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Re:How I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months by joemasilotti on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @02:51PM (#29813998)

Maybe! I just didn't have the appetite. And I know that the folks who bought it do – so let them grow it to what it can be.

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