Hey HN!I've spent the last year building aicofounder.com together with my brother.It's a platform that helps founders research and plan their product before jumping into building.Most startups fail because they build something nobody wants. Founders often assume that what they're building is valuable, then they sink months into it only to quit after realizing there's no real need for...
Hello HN.I’m Felix and I’ve spent the last months building Buildpad together with my brother David.What is it?It’s a platform where you research and plan your product with AI. I like to simply describe it as an AI co-founder that guides you through phases from idea to product.What’s one cool thing about it?You can do simple market research by searching through social media discussions like...
It took me 7 months of different ideas, marketing methods, product changes, and working my ass off just to get my first paying customer.That’s 7 months of effort for $20.It was incredibly hard to reach that point, and it was the greatest feeling in the world.But once you go from 0 to 1, something changes.1 month after getting my first paying customer, I hit $1,300.3 months after, $4,5006 months...
It wasn't until around 150 users that we launched on Product Hunt and got our first paying customers.
Not everyone who gave feedback ended up being an active user, but they were all part of our target audience. Otherwise their feedback would've been quite irrelevant.
"Feels like a group of people agreeing to follow each other on social media so they can tell others they have X followers." made me laugh not gonna lie, but it's actually a nice community of founders. Currently at 140k members.
My SaaS has 10,000 users now.In the beginning, when the goal was to go from 0 to 100 users, I had no following and a plan to grow without spending any money on marketing.This path is 100% possible. I’ve gone through it myself, so I know it works.It will require time and effort from you, because if you’re not spending money, that’s what you have to spend, but it’s absolutely worth it in the...
7 months ago we launched Buildpad on Product Hunt and ended up in #4 place.
The top 3 products were all VC backed companies that spent a lot of money to get their traffic. My co-founder and I never raised any money and the only reason we managed to claim a top 5 spot was because the community got behind us and supported us.
So today, 7 months later, we’re hoping that we will be able to do it again.
Let's make Product Hunt a place for bootstrappers again. We appreciate every bit of support we can get to take on the corporate giants.
We're hoping to help founders with the problems they experience on their journey of building products.
I've been there myself in the beginning and I've made the mistakes. Sharing what I've learned from my experience is the least I can do to help those who are starting out.
And if the people who read the posts need more practical help, then they can get that by finding out about our platform.
So, I'm hoping to help people with a bonus of having some check out our platform.
A fair exchange in my opinion, but maybe I'm wrong.
I see so many people making this same mistake when trying to build the product that’s going to make them passive income.You find what you think is the perfect idea for a product, then you do a little market research and find out someone else has built it already.You conclude that it’s over. It’s already been done so you have to start all over again and find a new perfect idea. That’s the first...
Everyone wants to know how to get their first users because going from 0 to 1 is the hardest part.I know because I’ve been there myself, we all have.Since I’ve passed this point I feel like I owe it to the community to share how I did it.It’s what I would’ve wanted to know when I started out and was struggling.So, here is the simple path I took to reach my first 100 users:- We wanted to solve a...
So developing the basic version of this app took about 30 days.I did it together with my brother and we also did marketing for it together.We constantly work to improve it and the growth has been crazy for us the last few months.The idea started as just giving AI memory to make it easier for ourselves to build our products (didn't exist in LLMs when we started). Then we continued to improve...
The reality is that I get on calls with customers almost every week who tell me how Buildpad has helped them shape and build their products. Many of them are very happy with the help they get. We have multiple founders who have built and launched their products with Buildpad, and we have founders who have started earning money from their products built with Buildpad.
I find that this is more important than the story leading up to the creation of Buildpad.
Now, you're free to be skeptical of our approach, but as I mentioned, my brother has previous experience building a successful business.
You’ve probably heard that you need to talk to your target audience before building, but I think you need to hear it again.I’ve spent the last 11 months building projects with my brother, many of which failed, but one of them recently hit 4,900 users and $9,000 revenue in 6 months after launch.My brother had previously built a business with his friends that was going well, but he wanted to try...
My brother and I have built this SaaS together that has now reached $2,600 MRR in 6 months since we launched it.We started out building projects together in March of last year. He had previously built another business with two of his friends that he wanted to move on from, and I was completely new to entrepreneurship.Together, we started building and marketing our first simple software...