I've launched my first product, yea another GPT wrapper 🤣

Hey IH community,

This is my first post here so I want to share a bit of my background first.

I've wanted to be an entrepreneur since starting my Business Administration degree.

And I've always hated 9-5 (more like a 9-7 here in Spain).

I've never wanted to have a boss and do a job I didn't care for.

So in 2016, I started freelancing, learning how to code and focused on building Shopify stores.

Fast forward to today, I've been somehow successful in building those stores, I landed as clients of some USA A-type celebrities, and I've worked with some well-known American and international brands. I've hired people, I've fired people, I've partnered with other freelance and I've gone back to working solo as that's what I like most.

I love to be the owner of my time and schedule and especially to do whatever I want.

But along the journey, I've always thought that I didn't like what I was doing. I was selling my time to solve other people's problems (and sometimes what problems...), I've never liked the unreliable source of income that is freelancing even if you sell retainers, and now that the family has grown (1.5 yo boy) I want to change my life to something more reliable.

I know, starting a new venture is not the most reliable thing to do, it's better to get a job but I want to do it on the side while I can and see if it works.

This is not the first time I try to build something, these years I've tried to build many startups for different verticals, reverse logistics, fitness, personal safety,...

A lot of unrelated businesses based on my observations, personal problems, clients' problems, etc.

So re:the project I'm building, while building Shopify stores I've always observed that the most successful ecom review their data routinely and use their analytics as a base to grow and know what to do next.

I've also seen that most ecom owners, especially the SMB owners almost never check their data. They install Google Analytics and never look at it, probably because:

• they are too busy working on their day to day tasks and can't add more to their plates.
• You might know how to sell candles but not how to analyze data
• It's complex to get insights from Analytics tools and the learning curve is steep

So I thought, now that GPT exists, why can't I connect Analytics data to their API to let GPT explain the data to ecom owners and suggest some actionable things to do based on that data.

Things like "if most conversions happen on X product after people landed on Y blog post and that post is about Z matter, you should double down on that matter and expand the content with a series of posts or pages related to that thing".

It looked good to me.

I wanted to try it.

So I started building a few months ago, I didn't know anything about building a SaaS, and I didn't know how to work with a backend stack as I've been focused on building fronts for Shopify as well as other tasks like email marketing, migrations, etc.

It took me WAY more than I thought because I didn't have enough time and it was complicated for me to learn all of these.

I've built it using a combination of:

• Node.js
• React
• MUI
• Google Analytics API
• Open AI API
• BullJS
• Heroku
• ioRedis
• And I even used Stripe API to set up the payment gateway

OMG, I'm reading all these and I barely know what all these tools are haha.

I don't know if that's the best set up, if I've done things correctly but man it seems to work at least at a small scale.

Now that it's somehow built:

• I'm dealing with bugs
• making the insights better as they are still somehow basic
• creating a GTM strategy
• trying to find product-market-fit
• ...

But my main focus is to get the first 100 e-commerce owners that want to help me make the tool useful, I have ideas but I'd prefer to get the input of the people that will benefit the most.

I know, I should have done it the other way around, first find the audience, make a waitlist, and build.

But I don't know, I wanted to build something once and for all.

I've focused the tool on e-commerce sites as that's the only thing I know even if it works for sites that are not ecom, but I think that ecom (maybe indie hackers too) are the ones who could benefit the most from it.

I didn't even know about this community until a few months ago, I've been very isolated from every social media and online site apart from my e-commerce building biz.

I was doing my work and then out of the Internet.

But now that I've discovered the community I wanted to share the tool with you and get feedback about it.

I'd like you to be honest, like brutally honest.

I'd try to handle every criticism. 😅

From the idea to the name of the SaaS, how it works, its pricing, ideas to get some ecom to test, whatever you can tell me to improve it and hopefully make it helpful for someone.

And I know, it's probably another GPT wrapper but I hope to make use of GPT capabilities to make the lives of ecom owners easier.

Building a business is hard by itself so if the tool can help them go in the right direction I'll be happy.

This is the URL: https://www.tryfocusiq.com/?utm_source=IH

Thanks for reading, I'm here for whatever you need. 💪

TL;DR

After nearly a decade building Shopify stores, I've built an AI tool based on GPT that helps ecom owners simplify and understand their data + get insights about what to do next.

I'm looking for 100 e-commerce owners that want to help me make the tool useful.