Our donation widget is integrated on the website of our newest NGO client. From registration to go-live in less than 24 hours—the second time this week! 😎
Took a day off yesterday for Christmas stuff. Raisenext didn’t.
Another nonprofit registered after lunch! 🥂
We connected directly through live chat.
The customer found a few bugs and a missing feature.
My co-founder jumped on an immediate night shift—like last Friday—to get it all live.
Customer is happy.
Product is stronger.
That’s how we try do it with every single customer.
My approach to great onboarding:
The best improvements don’t come from UX theory.
They come from watching users fail,
then talking to them,
then fixing exactly what they didn’t understand.
I’m doing this on purpose…
I hope I’m right.
Now back to coding and improving one onboarding issue I just discovered—this time, something I experienced myself when using a new tool for the first time 😜
It's one of those days that makes all the hard work worthwhile.
A large NPO started using our donation form over the weekend. Today's call showed:
✓ Quick wins to ship fast for easier onboarding
✓ They loved our donation widget and touchpoint tracking.
✓ Strong demand for donor self-service (reduces support load).
I am building for these moments:
- Seeing people use what we build
- Understanding what resonates
- Selling the future (features / pain killers) ❤️
B2B SaaS founders (teams of 1–3): What’s your biggest headache right now?
1⃣ Support inbox chaos
2⃣ Bug reports scattered everywhere
3⃣ Messy feedback-to-feature-request flow
4⃣ Keeping users updated (roadmap/release notes)
5⃣ Something else?
I’m building releasebird around this and want to sanity-check with a few founders.
@TimoBuilds_ I probably have a 24-month runway but also three kids. I aim for $10k MRR plus visible traction (also having a great co-founder. So must be good for both of us).
Not sure if it’s smart, but it ensures I can stay in the game forever with a try-fail-repeat approach.
On the way from €1.5k → €10k MRR 🚀
Here’s the software I use every day (wrapped up without thinking what I missed) as a bootstrapped SaaS founder:
Claude Code · IntelliJ · ChatGPT · Gemini
folk CRM · Canva · X · LinkedIn
Releasebird · SaasToast · Sintra
Slack · Spotify · AWS · MongoDB
No magic. Just hustling.
@chrissyinspace Keep hustling if you love what you do—I’ve always had my MacBook next to me for over 15 years. But plan relaxation times into your day and week.
Sidenote: I try to work as little as possible from my phone, as it mostly annoys the people around you who deserve your attention.
@1Umairshaikh Unfortunately as full stack software developer for more than 20 years I also agree that the hard part is marketing 😅
Building is together with AI pure fun.