Reached $5k MRR with my SaaS! 🎉

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Thanks! Persisting is key!

By building in public on twitter. I was very transparent and open with what I was building. my first 75 customers came from twitter.

Also, could you let us know about the 1st dollar you earned and how many months/weeks/days later did that happen and how did you convince/manage to get your first paying customer?

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great! hope you enjoy it.

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It's a bit different every week. Recently been updating my website to better reflect what the tool can do. Trying to rank for keywords. so doing SEO research and adding some guides and blogs. next im going to work on some engineering as marketing ideas.

Thanks for the encouragement! Glad to hear you listen to pod! I'll try to keep it going! Helps to know there are people enjoying it.

Thanks! See you out there!

thanks! hope so!

Hey, thanks.

I'm mostly focusing on marketing now.
Affilate program is one of my main focuses. getting high quality Notion creators sharing Potion.
And then SEO. My next strategy here is to create some engineering as marketing free tools that could hopefully bring in a lot of traffic.

thanks! trying!

Thanks! I appreciate the kind words.

yeah, let's do it!

Yeah, I've been working on this front. made multiple youtube videos. and getting the SEO stuff into gear.

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prob 85% on the main tier. rest on second tier. just a couple customers on the highest. It's been the same.

Im mostly focusing on affiliates and SEO currently.
I have messaged some people that I think would make sense to be an affiliate.
Most of my customers come via twitter and building in public.

thanks!

Thanks! These were the main things that got me past the plateau.

• I got a new affiliate that has been killing it.
• I started spending more time on Potion again and fixed some issues in the product that made some users not convert.

thanks!

thank you!

yeah maybe some ways i could expand to other platforms. Could be a big lift to support different data sources. almost like a whole new business. that is alot of the work, recreating all the ui.

I hit some plateaus first 6 months of this year and got burned out. I kind of got distracted with another project but it actually helped for me to have some time away. So then when I came back to focus on it I had more energy and motivation.

thank you!

Well so Potion is defintely for the Notion niche. users of Notion already create all their content there and love to use Notion. so this is actually the easiest way for them to create a website where they are already at. easier then learning some website builder where you only interact with it once a month.

It first started out by building in public on twitter. thats where I got my first 75 users. then launched on product hunt and that went well. now i get he majority of my customers from Google or affiliates.

Thanks for these ideas! I can definitely improve on this.
your saying 900px is too big?

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thank you!

Thanks you!

Thanks!
My customers are all Notion lovers and mostly proconsumers. they have little businesses online or they want to create a portfolio. Here is a list of differnt kinds of websites people build with Potion. https://potion.so/notion-websites

These were the main things that got me past the plateau.

• I got a new affiliate that has been killing it.
• I started spending more time on Potion again and fixed some issues in the product that made some users not convert.
  I haven't seen the benefits of v2 much yet. but that will compel things forward soon.
  For you, I'd try to look where are your customers getting stuck, why aren't they converting, where is the bottleneck in onboarding? is is a traffic issue? You might need to have some good data to find the problem and may need to talk to some customers.
  For me it was mostly that my product had some issues that was not allowing as many people to convert.

Thank you!

thank you!

Thanks!

Thanks! Sorry but I have a friend who is building that exact same thing. So I don't feel comfortable sharing too much here.

Thanks! Appreciate it. It's been a lot of fun. I've just tried to be as open as I can on Twitter to hopefully give value to people.

Thanks! You can find me here. https://twitter.com/noahwbragg

Thanks! These were the main things that got me past the plateau.

• I got a new affiliate that has been killing it.
• I started spending more time on Potion again and fixed some issues in the product that made some users not convert.

I used Notion myself and looking to build on a platform like Potion. here are some of my thoughts on wanting to build on a platform: https://noahbragg.com/blog/why-im-building-a-side-dish.
So I saw people trying to create Notion websites in this really complex way. That showed there was demand. So I tried to think of ways to make it a lot easier for them!
Motivation has been hard some times. Progress (like seeing the biz grow) really helps me keep motivated. So the times where it isn't going as well is when motivation is hard. I took a step away from the biz beginning of the year because it wasn't going like I wanted. that did give me new energy when I came back. Having goals to hit helps a lot too!

Taxes is not something I think about much. 😅
About 85% of the MRR goes straight to my pocket. I'm sure taxes will take some more out. Currently all the money is what I'm living on. So I'm not reinvesting into the business other than my time. I have considered paying around $600 a month to have a SEO agency write content and work on that front for me. I might do that later down the line.