Luca Ardito

founder w/ one exit (five figures, $0 ads).
building + + more in public.
real SEO + growth experiments 📈
no AI hype

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

public challenge 🫡

i sold my first saas for 5 figures with 0€ on ads. now i'm trying to do it again, 3 times at once

by december 1st:
- €500 mrr with candidatefalcon
- 5 shopify apps live (1 in review)
- launch weafar, the app i'm building for me and my girlfriend

rules: no ads for now, growth from google. real numbers every few days, and if i miss i'll post why

follow along

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@shreyasnivas @bot thanks! have u tried grok bot too? if so, what do u prefer: claude or grok?

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

grok @bot has been my X growth manager for 11 days

oct 15: 290 followers
today: 375

it doesn't post for me. i still write and post my own posts, but it helps me a lot.

it does basically everything else:
- drafts posts in my own voice
- finds posts from bigger builders so i reply in the first minutes
- checks what formats are working on x twice a day
- tracks views on every post and tells me what flopped
- pings me if i forget my daily challenge update

not magic. i did not unlock X payments yet with it.

goal: 1000 followers by end of november

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@_JacobArcher @bot good luck! 5k is a big goal!

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@sifxtreme @bot so far, never had to refill it

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@RareSamir @bot has it helped u for LI too?

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@martinlecl @bot grok is not posting for me, i post everything myself. it simply helps me drafting and searching for things that work

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@therichardbrien @bot yeah, have u seen similar results?

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@Elphax89 @bot i know it could be better, but it could also be worse

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@thekuchh @bot true, but when (if) that happens i'll find another growth tactic
until then, i'll stick with this one!

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@0xbossj @bot why not?

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@grok @CandidateFalcon @weafar_app @ShopOpsy1 hi guys, grok suggests we say hi to each other!!
@PaulShipsAI
@hazem_ozmen
@malin0256
@ShantMele

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

400+ followers 🎉

oct 15: ~290
today: 407

all from building in public every day:
@CandidateFalcon, @weafar_app and @ShopOpsy1

big goal: 1000 by end of november
next stop: 500

@grok who's building in public and close to 500? help me connect with them

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@SSShken the very customer who reported the problem was the one first one who bought it

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

wrote down the whole story of how i sold my first saas
a startup i closed after 1 year, 2 failed tries at raising, a NATO job i didn't get, and a first customer who had to tell me my payments were broken 😅

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

https://t.co/8Vxir7r8Bp

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@acecreamu exactly!

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@grok @weafar_app @CandidateFalcon @ShopOpsy1 @alvinchidera1
@Prem_deep_pd
@otoclip
@vamshi_builds
@ritesh_hiremath
@kseniam0s

hi guys Grok suggested us to connect to each other!

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@grok @CandidateFalcon tag them

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

google just sent me this 🥹

@CandidateFalcon hit 600 clicks from google search in the last 28 days

a month ago the same 28 day window was at 398. no viral posts, just seo and fixing boring stuff

@grok who else is growing a saas with seo? help me connect with them

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@_maddox1337 @weafar_app @CandidateFalcon @grok @ShopOpsy1 soo true

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

day 5. slow sunday, went to church

@weafar_app: redid the whole new layout + a new landing page. started working on social content too
@CandidateFalcon: working on new youtube videos

@grok who's building in public on a sunday? help me connect with them

@ShopOpsy1

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@lovelycodes_ 💯

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

sunday numbers 📊

followers: 319 to 376 this week
https://t.co/BsxNNIqXGA google clicks: 178 to 230
impressions: 9,453 to 12,120

money side was red tho
revenue £12.99 + $19.99, week before €81.98
2 subs ended after 1 month, 2 more cancelling
mrr €252 to €215

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@grok @weafar_app @CandidateFalcon @ShopOpsy1 can u tag them with their handle @ ?

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@grok @ShopOpsy1 @CandidateFalcon @weafar_app @LucaCaponeX
@itschrisanto13
@Abdulmuqeet002
@frmtradedrm

hi guys let's connect! what are u building?

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

day 4, part 2. late night edition

@ShopOpsy1: my age verification app probably goes live tmr
@CandidateFalcon: some backend fixes + kept testing the games
@weafar_app: finished the redesign. didn't even wait for sunday

@grok who's building in public on a saturday night? help me connect with them

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

@xanderlluca @CandidateFalcon @ShopOpsy1 @weafar_app age verification, yeha let's connect!

[Luca Ardito @lucaardito]

day 4 update, saturday edition

@CandidateFalcon: tested both new prep types i launched yesterday, harver and plum
@ShopOpsy1: almost done testing my next shopify app, launching it soon

@weafar_app gets my sunday