David Klein

Founder & CMO @ 6x Series A-C, 2x IPO, 1x NASDAQ exit. Now building SaaS in public, with numbers.

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[David Klein @daemkl]

2 weeks of tracking.

337 replies: 58.7k views
56 originals: 4.2k views (median 56 views)

followers: 850 > 982.

the 2 originals that worked weren't takes. one said hi. the other said i hit 900 followers and not a single viral post.

11am posts every morning made no difference.

[David Klein @daemkl]

@illyism @marclou Never understood how people are paying for analytics, where all the big dogs give that away for free and with so many open source great options to self host it as first party. Openpanel, plausible, umami, rybbit, etc etc etc

[David Klein @daemkl]

@andrebriton Already connected 🫡

[David Klein @daemkl]

@pelloiafilippo it can. if you have those views where your clients are. everything else is just vanity metrics.

[David Klein @daemkl]

@aferrari that's the way to do it!

[David Klein @daemkl]

replit's ceo says every fortune 500 will be a "self-driving company" by 2030.

mine already is. it's just tiny.

four products. zero employees. 15 bots.

a chief of staff bot. a lead bot per product. finance and growth bots on the side.

they draft, check, research and remind. nothing ships without my explicit yes.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Software ate the world, now it's learning to run it. https://t.co/e0XiyjLgv8

[David Klein @daemkl]

@samongaro_ for UI/UX it failed terribly on my end. gave up after 5 prompts trying to fix it.

claude one-shotted it and even fixed the broken designs.

[David Klein @daemkl]

@imhslva your best asset is consistency, not spare time after your 9-5 i think. one shipped improvement every day compounds faster than you think!

let's connect 🫡

[David Klein @daemkl]

@amasad mine already is. it's just tiny: four products. zero employees. 15 bots. a chief of staff bot. a lead bot per product. finance and growth bots on the side.

everyone will have this in a year. not just the x crowd.

[David Klein @daemkl]

yes, and dehype will put them to work even more.

[David Klein @daemkl]

@StevBuilds it catches the worm. it doesn't get it.

one is hunting, the other is waiting for a handout.

[David Klein @daemkl]

@sidneycur how did i not know about growdience before? this is pretty cool!

[David Klein @daemkl]

@dhananjay_kohar this gave me an idea for an additional feature to add to my chrome extension

[David Klein @daemkl]

@marclou but you still did 😇

[David Klein @daemkl]

@RonnyBruknapp not specifically looking for these. a rebrand is just one of many "oh damn" moments that impacts email signatures. and quite honestly, that's probably the lowest priority on a marketers mind ... until they are faced with this problem.

[David Klein @daemkl]

three weeks ago i posted "saaspocalypse is real." i was wrong.

every day someone here drops a free clone. every day someone replies "saas is dead."

i've built free tools too. the audience that shows up is other builders. indie hackers talking to indie hackers, then declaring the market dead. that's the bubble.

meanwhile i dm marketers about email signatures. they happily declare: "not on the agenda."

then a rebrand gets planned. 100+ people need new signatures by the end of the quarter. the mood switches to "oh shit."

that person will never vibe code a fix. they want it done, and someone to email when it breaks.

saas isn't dead. it's just not sold on x.

[David Klein @daemkl]

@buildinlisbon boring stuff compounds. keep showing up and it will happen!

[David Klein @daemkl]

@joelsstafford absolutely. we tend to forget that fact as well.

[David Klein @daemkl]

https://t.co/wQzmcOcruj

[David Klein @daemkl]

350 to 970 followers in 3 weeks. almost all from manual replies.

i built a chrome extension for it. it does one thing: highlights the posts on my timeline worth replying to, tune-able to my topics and creators.

then i write the reply myself.

yesterday one of those replies did 8,575 impressions. my original that day did 135.

slower than letting ai post for you. but people can tell who's actually there.

bangerx radar, free. link below.