John Joubert

I build startups.
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[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

🚀 I'm launching Robotomail on @ProductHunt today!

This is my 5th startup since my first launch in 2021 (which I sold 18 months later), and my 4th this year!

Every AI agent should be able to handle email, but all the existing options sucked.

So I built Robotomail. One API call. Real mailbox. Full send and receive.

I'd really appreciate your support today! Check it out 👇

https://t.co/eo9m20IIaq

P.S. A comment or repost would mean the world to me ♻️

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

MRR for one of my products is heading in the right direction, but it's a sloooow saas ramp up. 📈

I'm reminded of a post I wrote in 2022 called:
Is your self-worth tied to MRR?

And my answer has remained the same.

No.

What's yours?

Saas is hard and often lonely. Find a community and a tribe, and keep building and sharing 💪

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

I think focus is important but even more important is to give yourself options.

If you didn’t try new things you wouldn’t have found the ones that worked.

And the success in one area can often lead to success in others.

Most of your recent projects are linked and feed off each other 👍🏻

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

@Greg_TheBuilder @marclou Best of luck! Rooting for you 💪🏼

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

@Greg_TheBuilder @marclou 🤦🏻‍♂️ so many typos in that reply. Apologies!

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

@Greg_TheBuilder @marclou That where the hard work comes in... I don't think there is a silver bullet for that.

Easiest but problem most expensive is try paid ads to get 1 paying customer. From there work backwards to figure how to repeat that with other channels

I won't lie, it can be a grind

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

@Munyah_Wacho @marclou Agreed 💯

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

@marclou 💯Here’s my philosophy:

If you can get 1 customer, then you can get 10

If you can get 10 customers, then you can get 100

And so on...

It then becomes a function of hard work + time 👍🏻

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

@tibo_maker link please 💰💰

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

@levelsio Actually just checked my settings and I have it set to 'high' - apparently max is not supported

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

@levelsio Have you added the effort level in the settings.json?

Set "effortLevel": "max" in ~/.claude/settings.json

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

@ChanningAllen Yeah that’s been my experience lately too.

Although there is probably a balance you can strike between being to open and completely silent

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

So does this mean that building in public is more of a liability than an asset? 🤔

[Channing Allen @ChanningAllen]

@FarzaTV The problem with your ideas isn't that they're nonsense, the problem is they're so NOT-nonsense that you're getting copycatted to hell by all the big players. Distribution is the moat in the AI era but it's hard to outdistribute Google etc and still reach venture scale 🤷‍♂️

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

Finally seeing some MRR movement 💪 📈

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

Interesting how fast you can go from a leader to a follower in this space 😅

Love Claude and super glad they added this, but Codex has had it for a while no?

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

How do you keep Claude working until the job is done? Claude Code helps with this in a few ways, including one we shipped recently: /goal.

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

@Shpigford Wishing you tons of success with this new project! I have a feeling it's gonna be huuuge 🔥🔥

[Pete @petecodes]

John sponsored High Signal today 😀 Check out his PH launch

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

@simplydt Thanks for the kind words!

[John Joubert @johnjoubert]

Sent an email to customers to let them know about the Product Hunt launch and got this reply 😍