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Re:Cofounder Mode: A tactical guide to finding a cofounder on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @02:14PM (#41861994)
In my opinion, it’s easier to find a co-founder on some platform for finding co-founders, like https://indiemerger.com, where there are developers and marketers and you can find suitable candidates.

I had to launch 24 products in 4 years

Posted by AlexandrBel on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @04:10AM
from the self-post dept.

I could have stopped in 2021 or 2022 after many failures, but I kept building.I know indie makers who managed to become successful very quickly, but in 90% of cases it does not happen quickly.I have learned from my experience and many other indie makers that 3 years is the time it takes for any indie maker to start earning enough to work on their projects full time.I am still building new...

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Re:Show HN: Get painkiller ideas based on real people's problems on Monday February 19, 2024 @04:46AM (#39427804)
Thanks! 50 to start with, then there will be 3-5 new ideas every week.
Re:Show HN: Get painkiller ideas based on real people's problems on Monday February 19, 2024 @04:32AM (#39427722)
Hi all! Over the past 3 years, I have launched more than 22 products and only a few of them have been successful.

My main mistake was having the wrong ideas. I came up with ideas for products that didn’t exist yet and thought that someone would need it. But it was not so.

It was only when I changed my approach to finding ideas and started looking for people's pain points and solutions for them that I was able to launch successful products.

In Painkiller Ideas, I collected 50 ideas that were validated by searching for mentions of the problem, this is what people really need.

Re:Show HN: ReplyGuy – AI Reddit auto replies for lead gen and brand p... on Friday December 29, 2023 @01:15AM (#38802234)
Usually it is up to 2 hours.
Re:Show HN: I automated replies to Reddit and Twitter using AI on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:18PM (#38073455)
I already had an offer the day after the launch of the project.

Show HN: I automated replies to Reddit and Twitter using AI

Posted by AlexandrBel on Monday October 30, 2023 @11:17AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://replyze.com/

Hey HN,I found a good way to promote my product AnyToSpeech on Reddit and Twitter. I tracked mentions of thematic keywords that I could respond to and propose my project. And it was quite effective and brought me new customers.But this took me 1-2 hours every day (that’s more than 30 hours a month). And I decided to try to automate this using AI. And I succeeded. This is how Replyze.com...

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Re:I made $3k in 16 attempts to launch my SaaS on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:52PM (#35344087)
It's weird that no one has reported this issue yet.
Re:I made $3k in 16 attempts to launch my SaaS on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:31PM (#35343725)
I regularly keep in touch with some clients, but they are unlikely to tell you how to get people to buy a subscription :)
Re:I made $3k in 16 attempts to launch my SaaS on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:12PM (#35343379)
I also thought that I would quickly refuse a lifetime deal and already refused. But after 3 weeks I decided to temporarily return them, since there was not a single sale of a subscription, and the extra money will not interfere with me now.
Re:I made $3k in 16 attempts to launch my SaaS on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:06PM (#35343278)
I don't think it's enough. My target audience is marketing agencies. I have several clients with whom I communicate regularly and find out what they need. There is also another audience, these are single startups, I also keep in touch with them, but they are not ready to pay a lot
Re:I made $3k in 16 attempts to launch my SaaS on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @11:58AM (#35343143)
Yes, but I've tried making products for non-competitive niches and they've all failed. And only when I made a product in a competitive niche did sales appear.
Re:I made $3k in 16 attempts to launch my SaaS on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @11:57AM (#35343120)
Thanks!

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