Study your customers' behavior. I lost money on this. Here's the story.
A few days ago, I released my first micro-SaaS. It’s an internal linking WordPress plugin based on truly understanding your website's content. It analyzes your content and suggests smart links based on the context of your article, even down to a specific paragraph. The entire site gets stripped of HTML, every article is broken down into paragraphs and sent to an AI to be saved into a database. From there, it's analyzed to offer you the best internal linking options based on your content. Basically, everything Google loves :)
You’d think, well, what could possibly go wrong? We scan an article once, spend X cents, and that’s it. Bullshit! Study every possible user behavior before you start calculating your unit economics.
I’ve been working with WordPress for a long time, but I either forgot, didn't know, or maybe both :) but WordPress autosaves your article while you’re writing it right in the editor, and it does this once a minute. Consequently, as you write, the content changes, and the plugin started firing off dozens of requests to the server every minute demanding to re-index the articles. Simply because people don't write articles in Word, it's way more convenient for them to write directly in the admin editor, and that makes total sense!
And I already had about 50 real clients; I had handed out free access (like an idiot :)). And when I opened the API stats (the money spent) on the evening of the second day, I was fucking shocked :) hahaha, those ~50 clients chewed through an amount of my balance that I'm ashamed to even admit.
The moral of this post is this. Always put yourself in your customer's shoes. Try using your software / SaaS from scratch as if you are seeing it for the first time. What seems obvious to you might not fit into the behavior of your potential user at all.
Best of luck, everyone.
P.S. The free test is still working, if you want to get the best internal links for your project for free please request it here: https://linkmesh.co/#pricing
