Phil Goodbread

🧠 Sharing my SaaS journey from minute 1
🛠️ Building the TypeScript Knowledge-Hub 👉

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

"When I build, they'll come." - every indie hacker ever

Oh boy was I wrong...

~6 Weeks ago I launched https://t.co/Jhi5ADLmTc

Here is everything I did and learned along the way. The hard way.

🧵 Thread

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

@tunguz Sorry but this is Villa del Balbianello in Italy (Lake Como)

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

@TweetsOfSumit Well deserved! I use the product (almost) daily and love it!

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

@ThePrimeagen Cradle by Will Wright, amazing power-scaling system, feels like reading a video game

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

Holy f*ck. First internet money. No turning back from here, right?

[Marc Lou @marclou]

10 years as an entrepreneur and 1 takeaway:

Don't you dare give up.

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

@marclou I love the reflection and realization!

You already live the life you want, a higher number doesn't change anything.

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

18% :)

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

9% Done ✅

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

Goal: 1000 Newsletter Sign Ups
5% Done ✅

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

16% - I synced some subscribers that signed up via GitHub

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

crossed 1k clicks in 3 months:

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

Getting there :)

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

@marclou @thepatwalls I volunteer as a tribute

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

@sandro_vol Great workflow!
My alias is yolo 😂 and I like using git worktrees for parallelization.

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

We have accounts and challenge progress tracking now. Leaderboard next?

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

Fair is over - batteries are empty and need some recharging on the weekend.

But was a great talks with customers, potential customers and partners!

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

4/4 So I have not captured a single lead.
So I validated there is no interest?
Or is my landing page too weak?

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

Small update on my reddit ad campaign to validate an idea.

[Phil Goodbread @phil_goodbread]

3/4 But people are dropping out of the funnel