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Even if I die, my product will keep working for years 🤞

Even if I die, my product (ScreenshotOne.com) will keep working for years 🤞

Because:

  1. I ordered and now use a separate credit card with a high limit for all expenses related to it.
  2. I automated payouts to the same bank account that the credit card is charged from.
  3. I optimized expenses and increased the profit margin to ensure that the project is profitable and will stay profitable when growing.
  4. I built a Kubernetes cluster with autoscaling and also set up Google Cloud Run as a backup. In addition to that, there is a GPU server for backup and for customers with GPU rendering demands.
  5. I wrote a lot of content to make sure that the site stays relevant in Google for years.
  6. I am lucky that ScreenshotOne is one of the answers in ChatGPT and other LLMs on the question of what is the best solution in my niche. Probably to Google.
  7. I partially open-sourced parts of the product and want to open-source more if possible.
  8. I have found affiliate partners who promote the product for me.
    9... What else I can do?

And I keep improving. Ideally, I want to create autonomous AI agents that quickly respond close customer issues by updating the code. But there is a long road to go.

We are at almost $5K MRR and growing!

Since I strive for operational excellence and efficiency, I am curious at what point I will need to hire. Currently, I am not overwhelmed by support issues and tasks.

By the way, if you are curious more about my journey, please, subscribe to my newsletter.

on March 19, 2024
  1. 2

    Goal added. Thanks 😅

    1. 1

      You are welcome 🙏

  2. 2

    Wow, just a great one!

  3. 2

    Wow, congrats on the $5k MRR!!!

  4. 2

    Amazing. dump question. Is this LemonSqueezy?

    1. 1

      Thank you! No, it is ProfitWell integrated with Paddle.

  5. 2

    This is great. I think screenshot is one of those capabilities that is required by many apps but its an overkill to do it right, especially related to reliably & securely doing it for production use.

    Curious about the multi-language SDK support. Are those built manually or generated from a spec such as OpenAPI?

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      I built them manually and I have an OpenAPI specification. But if I were to start again, I would just generate them from scratch.

  6. 2

    Do you maximize the SEO? Which is the evergreen traffic stream.

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      Yes, it is my the only focus now.

  7. 2

    I love it, This can and will cause generational wealth

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      It is not the goal, but I like that idea.

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        I am automating everything in my business, creating AI tools to help me work and be a one-man army. I want to use these to make tools to help disabled people to run business and build wealth

  8. 2

    You're almost hitting $5k MRR.

    WELCOME BACK TO TWITTER!

    1. 1

      Thank you! Yes, I am finally back, just crossed $5000 yesterday!

  9. 2

    Wow, this is awesome and inspiring. Great work!

  10. 2

    It's fascinating how you've essentially made your product future-proof and growth-ready. Setting it up to thrive even in your absence is a huge thing, not just for the product's sustainability but also for peace of mind.

  11. 2

    Amazing work making your project future-proof! Why not create a custom GPT for your tool so people can access straight from ChatGPT?

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      Thank you 🙏 What would be the use case for the custom GPT?

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        Maybe let people on ChatGPT test your take screenshot api. Let them input the url to take a screenshot from. I wouldn't use ChatGPT for that but there are way stranger use-cases available on the custom GPT marketplace.

        And add some notes to the bot that tell the users about your paid plan. Might get a few leads from there (and some backlinks at the very least when your custom GPT is listed)

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          The idea of getting backlinks that way is damn good. Thank you!

  12. 2

    Wow, Dmytro, your dedication and foresight are truly inspiring!

    1. 1

      Thank you 🙏 I am trying to do my best!

  13. 2

    The level of automation is truly impressive!

    1. 1

      Thank you! What do you mean about auto withdrawal?

  14. 2

    Most people, including me, won't even think about it. I wonder what made you think about it and prepare for the worst. Is it the war that's going around you or something else, Dmytro?

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      Thank you for reading, Piotr.

      Yes and no.

      But I think about that as an exercise of how to make my business resilient and survive whatever might happen.

      I plan to live till 120 and wish you the same no matter what!

  15. 2

    Amazing level of automation.
    You can also set up auto withdrawal to your card. 😌
    Seriously: lack of support automation

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      Thank you, my friend!

      What do you mean by auto withdrawal?

  16. 1

    Wow! Good work. Which affiliate are you using? And what is your strategy to get more affiliate partners?

  17. 1

    wow! now go and have a vacation :D

  18. 1

    Wow, that's truly inspiring, awesome metrics. I think there are still some potential opportunities with LLM that could be explored in ScreenshotOne

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    „I am lucky that ScreenshotOne is one of the answers in ChatGPT and other LLMs on the question of what is the best solution in my niche. Probably to Google.“

    I wonder when are we going to start paying for this? 🤔

  20. 1

    Congrats on the $5k MRR!!! I hope that my SaaS also reaches the same level.

  21. 1

    Trying to do the same thing but with different approach - backend on ethereum L2 and decentralised hosting on ipfs ;) should work as long as infrastructure, downside is that you can not build everything with this stack (yet;))

  22. 1

    Wow, what a niche product!
    Simply idea which covers really a paining wound :)

    I like the background automation.

  23. 1

    I feel I did the same, only issue is although I have a couple of products which are self-sustaining, they are not really generating revenue for me