Andrew

Stream of consciousness of one developer. I build weird things.
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Flippa listing: CV Builder SaaS making: $4.4K/month, 75% churn

Key metrics
Location: Netherlands
Age: 4 years
MRR: EUR €3,784
Total Active Subscribers: 210
Email Subscribers: 17,877
Page Views: 12,223/mo
Overall Churn: 75%
Asking price: $57,056

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Dear fellows freelancers, what is the most effective way for you to get clients?

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All CRMs I've seen are too coroprate (even Korporate): just to add a new lead you need to fill 20 fields and create a separate company entity. So for myself (for freelancer) I designed a very simple CRM:
* fast adding leads
* minimum filters
* based on text files
* self-hosted

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@onzzes Really cool art!

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@moudoka1 Ah, I see. That's great! Glad to see you're upgrading lots of things:) I just thought that you could leave the current version live until you finish all the upgrades, and then just switch to the new store. So you don't have to pause the money flow and make clients wait.

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@growzillaagency Totally agree. One step every day will take you much further (and easier) than doing 10 steps once a month.

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Chasing a goal or nurturing the dream - is it the same?
Probably. Anyway, it's a long run, and taking small steps every day makes the goal closer. Whether it's a #business, a personal goal, a new skill - whatever. Just keep the progress. And track it!

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@growzillaagency That's true. Not seeing the results very often kills motivation. On the other hand, discipline should be added to the mix, too, and work together with motivation.

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The hardest part when moving toward the goal is staying consistent. It's easy to get distracted or lose focus. That's why I'm growing my virtual tree to see results every day (or, at least, once per 2-3 days:))

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@growzillaagency Exactly!
Do you work with a team or with AI? :)

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Bad Advice: never ever write down technical requirements. No matter if you use AI or have a dev team. Use only vague descriptions like "make a website".

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@moudoka1 It's always exciting to upgrade the store:) Just out of curiosity: why did you decide to pause your store while updating it? Due to technical reasons or something else?

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@AndreaBell9601 @ShopifySupport Whoa! Well, yeah, welcome to Shopify. Any updates from them?

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@Abigail7866 @growzillaagency Well, yes, but if you don't have traffic, you won't get conversions.

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@simplydt @hridoyreh Exactly. Sometimes there's even no need in differentiated features - just disable redundand features, improve marketing/SEO and UX

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@SimonHoiberg I've never had success with AI customer support (even with Google's one). Hope it really works differently for you!

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@bygregorr @SimonHoiberg I especially love the idea of rebooting the whole server by pressing a physical button or unplugging the cable:)) No fancy web UI with 100s of pages until you find this "reboot" button.

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@sher_mish_ @SimonHoiberg Complexity depends, too. A small SaaS tool that schedules Twitter posts may not need complicated routing. But in general, yes, if you need "deep networking", AWS might be a good fit. But each project should be estimated separately.

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@BenToFound @SimonHoiberg I think you're right, most people just accept it. AWS and other cloud solutions definitely have their own cons, but if your business or app is small (or if you're just testing how it goes), a VPS/Raspberry/a similar platform will be absolutely fine.

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@fedirnikovai @SimonHoiberg Yes, but the idea may not be unique. The way you fix the problem can and probably should be unique. Or it should be better/more convenient than the competitor's way. Many factors can differ between similar products.

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@jaredjameshq @SimonHoiberg That's true. Just an idea is the top layer of the business. But the real business can go deeper. You never know until you learn this specific business from the inside.

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When you do small steps every day, you may not notice them. It looks like you did it yesterday. But if you compare it with day 1, you'll see the difference.

I didn't get back to the #MVP today, but completed the daily #goal. Still working on the #app design.