My own agency toolkit became a real sale within 48 hours of launching
I run GHL agency audits as part of my client work, and I turned my internal process into a 100-point checklist. I gave it away free on Reddit as a lead magnet, and built a companion tool (SnapAudit) that runs the same audit automatically and spits out a branded, client-ready report — the kind of thing that used to take me 3 hours per prospect.
Within 48 hours of posting, I had my first paying customer at $27, plus a handful of people voluntarily tipping on the free version.
Then the post got removed for tripping a self-promotion filter and I got banned from that subreddit — so now I'm looking for other places where people building/running agencies hang out.
If you're running an agency (GHL or otherwise) and want the free checklist, happy to share — and would genuinely love feedback from other indie hackers on where else to find this audience.
This resonates a lot, we run into the same GHL agency pain from the other side, fixing what audits like yours flag. The 100 point checklist idea is smart because most agency owners don't realize how much revenue leaks from broken workflows until someone spells it out. On finding your audience beyond Reddit, GHL specific Facebook groups and the official HighLevel community tend to have real agency owners, not just tool builders. We run hireghlpro.com for the implementation side, happy to trade notes if useful, since we talk to this exact audience daily
Getting a paid customer within 48 hours is a much more interesting signal than the subreddit ban.
As you look for the next channel, are you mainly trying to reproduce that first sale — or learn whether the same agency pain converts when the audience isn't coming through the original Reddit context?
Mostly the second one — trying to learn whether the pain is real enough to convert regardless of channel, not just a fluke of that specific subreddit's audience. Testing a couple of GHL/agency-specific Discord communities right now for exactly that reason — different context, same "GHL agency owner" audience. Too early to call it yet, but if it converts there too, that's a much stronger signal than the Reddit sale alone.
That’s a much stronger test than simply trying to find another place to promote it.
If the same agency pain converts across different contexts, you’ll have a cleaner signal that the sale wasn’t just channel-specific.
I’d be interested in hearing what you learn from those tests. What’s the best email to reach you on?