@marclou@levelsio@DanKulkov@nico_jeannen come on, i've been looking at @levelsio and questioning my existence since like 2014 or whenever he got famous first time for his 1 startup per month challenge, but i've been trying to build/ship all the time
I don't hate writing code tests anymore! @GitHubCopilot does it for me.
For many years I hated to write tests for my code.
I confess I was avoiding that by any means, even when the fixes for 1 feature broke the other feature in the update, but we didn't know and released ๐คก
1 year ago I started coding my AI project part-time.
What I see looking back?
+ took me 450 hours to build MVP
+ 8 months to find product-market fit
+ 1 week to sign first $1000 client and get traction
#buildinpublic
@koslib Thanks Kostas! I think learning new tech stack during the development process made everything 2x slower, cause my background was mostly PHP. The MVP I planned was not just a proof-of-concept, it had quite a lot of features to launch more confidently in the market.
@stat_biz We found product-market fit by tons of testing. We tried quite a lot of acquisition channels, tested positioning a lot. Trying to find working (1 channel+1 product+1 avatar) chain. Talking to potential customers, partners. Eventually, one of the potential partners gave us an idea
@stat_biz Thank you, Yuma! Your message felt like a "welcome" to #buildinpublic community ๐ฅฒ and my first real comment here
My SaaS idea was to build an improved version of existing app which was quite successfull. I was struggling to get sustainable marketing channel.
$5000 from @awscloud
$2500 from @OpenAI
$1300 from @GoogleAds
$330 from @supabase
$300 from @googlecloud
$150 from @pinecone
what a time to be a web developer, i am happy to succeed with my projects to pay them more later haha
I am building my own AI sales rep #SaaS with blackjack and webhooks for almost a year now (part-time). Inspired by Chatbase. After endless tests we finally found product-market fit. I will be sharing my discoveries here.
@mo_tawfik89 I was following one online coach at high school with tens of thousands of subscribers, he posted that heโs looking for a web developer, I thought there was no % chance, but still applied. Got the job ๐
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