I'm 30. I built an AI startup called GojiberryAI to $3.5M ARR. Got accepted into YC.
If I had to start from 0, here's exactly what I'd do:
1. Sell it before I build it.
No code. Just a simple slide deck (mine was 6 ugly slides) explaining the problem, the solution, the outcome, and the price. I made my first $10k that way, before writing a single line.
2. Pick a painfully specific customer.
Not "B2B SaaS." Something like "founders at 20-person SaaS companies about to hire their first SDR." So specific that the right person reads it and thinks "that's me."
3. Start outbound on day one, but only to people showing intent.
Not scraped lists. People engaging with competitors, changing roles, raising money, or publicly posting about the exact problem I solve. That's the gap between a 1-2% reply rate and 25-40%.
4. Lead with value, never a calendar link.
Send a blueprint, not "got 15 minutes?" Let the resource do the selling, and the trial becomes the obvious next step instead of a pitch.
5. Pick ONE channel and go deep.
For us it was outbound first, then Reddit (10M+ organic views), then LinkedIn lead magnets. I wouldn't touch a second channel until the first one was clearly working.
6. Talk to customers every single day.
The product doesn't matter until you understand the problem better than they do. Spend 90% of every early call listening, not demoing.
7. Only build once people are actually paying.
Then keep it dead simple and price it to sell itself. We landed on $99/mo with a free trial, so the funnel runs without me dragging anyone onto a call.
8. Do this relentlessly for about 12 months.
That’s roughly how long $0 to $2.5M took us.
Bootstrapped.
No outside funding.
Most founders don’t lose because they can’t build.
They lose because they build too early, sell too late, and quit the channel before it compounds.
This is an insane Fable 5 UI/UX hack.
This "Taste" skill completely kills generic AI-slop and gives Fable 5 the tools & instructions needed to ship beautiful design.
This might just be the best AI skill I've ever used.
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claude fable 5 can scrape thousands of sold homes and finds the patios with zero shade in 100°+ heat. then it mails the owner a postcard with the fix rendered into their own backyard
here's the system you can sell to contractors:
- scrapes every home sold in the metro in the last 12 months (recent buyers spend the most)
- vision-reads the listing photos, skips the 64% with cover already
- measures the sun on each patio, hour by hour, off google's satellite data
- renders a louvered pergola into the owner's actual backyard photo
- prints the diagnosis on the postcard: "your patio takes 11 hours of direct sun a day. saturday it hits 97°."
- QR opens a heat report for their exact address with a booking link
every install is $6.5k to $18k, one close covers months of retainers and homes sell every single day.
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Gojiberry AI just hit $3.5M ARR.
11 months ago we were at $0.
This is the second SaaS I've built. The first one I sold at €500K ARR.
This time, we moved faster. Here's exactly how we did it, so you can do it too.
The core principle that changed everything:
We used our own tool to grow our own tool.
Gojiberry AI finds high-intent leads and engages with them automatically.
We run it on ourselves. It works insanely well.
Here's the full breakdown:
1) Outreach (the engine)
- LinkedIn: 5 accounts, 30 connection requests + 30 DMs per account per day.
Only targeting warm leads showing real intent.
Connection acceptance rates and reply rates are insane when you do this right.
- Cold email: 6,000 emails per day. 295,000 sent in 90 days. 900+ opportunities created.
41 domains, 123 inboxes, plain text only, no links, no images, 2-3 email sequences max.
Total infra cost: ~$600/month.
The offer is always the same: a valuable blueprint. No pitch. Just value first.
2) Inbound (the compound effect)
- LinkedIn: 6 posts per day across 6 accounts.
6 days/week = lead magnet content. 1 day/week = founder story.
Last 7 days: 788,187 impressions.
- Reddit: 14.8M+ views in 12 months. The trick: warm up the account, post 3x per week, tell real stories, offer blueprints, and never debate the haters.
- YouTube: Long-tail SEO content targeting competitor keywords. It's starting to rank.
- SEO: 50K visitors/month and growing fast.
3) Paid ads
- 10 LinkedIn influencer posts/week (~$500 each).
- Facebook retargeting + acquisition
Scaling paid ads aggressively right now.
4) Demos
5–8 per day. ~70% close rate to free plan. Mostly sales teams.
5) UGC
We post 1200 UGCs per month across social media. From time to time, one goes super viral.
What actually worked:
→ Using our own tool on ourselves (this alone is a cheat code)
→ High-intent outreach > cold outreach. Every single time.
→ Lead magnet posts on LinkedIn that generate thousands of comments.
One post added $5K MRR in under 24 hours. Cost: $0.
→ Replying to every single comment.
→ Speed. Every delay kills momentum. We removed friction from every step of the funnel.
→ AI helping us do 10x more than we ever could alone.
What's not working:
- We need to delegate more
The path from €0 to $3.5M ARR is not glamorous.
It's 18-hour days, boring repetitive work, testing things that fail, and doing it all again tomorrow.
But if you do the right things every day, good outreach, real value, fast follow-up, it compounds.
And one day you wake up and you're above $3M ARR.
The goal now: $10M ARR.
LFG. 🔥
PS : We created a free 0 -> $1M ARR GTM course.
Want to receive it? RT + comment GTM below.
Claude Fable is finally back!
it can now watch the meta ad library for the businesses that just turned their first ad on and mails them a finished, better version of it
here's the system you can use to run an agency:
- watches the meta ad library for businesses that just started running ads
- pulls each one's google business profile for a mailable address + real photos
- vision-checks the current ad, rejects the weak leads
- rebuilds it into the ad their industry actually runs, not a stock template
- prints a before/after postcard: their flat ad next to the recut + a QR
- mails it to the owner, then makes their content every month
one system that lands you new local biz clients every week.
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Google Gemini Omni just landed on getimg
One model for cinematic video generation
→ Prompt a scene
→ Add realistic motion
→ Turn references into dynamic visuals
From idea to video, faster.
Now on getimg
📎90 days of Paperclip 📎
It’s been just 3 months since we launched and we have:
400k downloads
69k Github Stars
10k DAUs
2k commits
90 contributors
WE‘RE MOVING AT A PRETTY GOOD CLIP 📎📎📎
Thanks for building with us!
🚨 SHOCKING: this Claude bot finds local businesses with ugly websites or none at all, rebuilds and their mobile apps, then emails the owner a postcard...on autopilot.
here's how you can use this Claude-based Shipper system to land clients:
- scrapes every local business in a city in real time
- filters by review count + rating + last update date + site quality
- pulls the strongest photos and copy from their Google Maps listing
- samples the brand palette from the business's own visual identity
- AI rebuilds it into a brand-matched website + mobile app
- writes a postcard quoting a real reviewer + what they loved
- mails it to the owner by first name with a preview QR
every step from discovery to brand-matching to outreach is automated.
reply "SHIPPER" + RT and I'll randomly send free credits to try it out.
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