Luke

Bootstrapping SaaS with AI. Sharing lessons on product, growth, systems and building profitable software.

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

@KameronLoe @kaizen000000000 Science doesn’t say everything came from nothing. The point the guy was trying to make was that space are time are directly correlated. At the moment of the big bang space and therefore time was created, so there can’t not be a ‘before’

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

@Priya_Upadhyay_ Claude maintain my app

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@pcshipp You might be giving away too much for free.

If you have 206 active users, it must be useful, find out what users are doing with your SaaS and limit results or create a highly valuable feature behind a paywall

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

@StevenCravotta Hard paywall and hope they forgot to unsubscribe FTW

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

@ky__zo Spent too much on marketing 😂

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

@thsottiaux Hardly anything now. Clear prompts work wonders.

It struggles at one shotting UI, but changing bit by bit works.

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@HotepJesus @RoundtableSpace Exactly, I haven’t used it but it doesn’t seem like a well built app. Highly suspicious of its traction

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

@markproduct Beautiful design

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

@manojdotdev It depends on the use case.

I imagine it would be hard to create an intricate full stack but for a simple app, I’m sure it’s manageable

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What is the key to retaining customers for SaaS?

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

I’m late to building my X account

But I have been building with AI since GTP beta, through to codex 5.4

I have learnt many things along the way and I guarantee if you have a great idea, it will work.

Lateral thinking and persistent is the serious key to being profitable

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@Priya_Upadhyay_ Marketing is easier is the service is genuinely good

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

@aryanlabde Because ideas and building don’t exactly go hand in hand with marketing / business.
Ideally you want to build in public but with agents this a seriously risky move.
What is the new way of creating a profitable SaaS business?

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

@adahstwt It depends on your niche but .com is the front runner. Commercial B2B would hesitate for a .dev to put trust into but it wouldn’t bother a tech startup

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

@49agents I was literally asking chat GTP to code for me and tell me where to place it.
Half of the time it didn’t work so I had to come up with work arounds but it made the MVP after a year.
Sounds crazy but it’s got me into the space I want to be in

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

I created my first SaaS using ChatGTP, from beta to 3.2

I had 0 coding knowledge and made 900% + ROI in my first year

It was a painful task but persistence certainly pays off

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

Developers creating agents are like firemen burning their own house down

[Naval @naval]

Software was eaten by AI.

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

@johnbuildss SaaS won’t die it will just expand.
The trick will be how you market

[Luke @xLukeLabs]

Growth stories often highlight new features.

But the SaaS winners obsess over removing friction.

Like ditching mandatory onboarding calls.

Less friction means faster user trust and higher retention.