Week 1: List My SaaS - Made $500+ in just 2 days of launch

Hey indiehackers,

From now onwards, every week, I’m planning to share about our journey of building and launching List My Saas

I will write about the things that worked for us, mistakes we made, and the lessons we learnt.

Let’s kick off

TL;DR - This week’s highlights
→ We built and launched list my saas on Twitter and on our newsletter
→ Launch tweet went viral and it brought 500+ visitors to the site
→ Made $500 from our products and services in less than 2 days from the launch

🚀 Introducing List My SaaS

List My SaaS is a list of 115 directories and launch platforms for makers and indiehackers to launch their saas and get their first 1000 users.

✅ What are the tasks we did this week?

→ We completed compiling the list and designed the website
→ We started launching on Twitter and on our newsletter

🔥 Launch tweet went viral

My launch tweet got 11k+ impressions and 500+ link clicks.

How?
→ I’ve did build in public for listmysaas right from day 1 of building it.
→ Every day I shared updates about the list, site design, and how I’m building. This is how I created buzz about list my saas
→ On the launch day, I posted a tweet in the morning that we are launching today. This boosted engagement on my account and also made people recall about the launch
→ And then I posted the launch tweet.
→ Many makers from the community retweeted the launch tweet and it started getting link clicks.

💰 Our bet on upselling paid products brought $500 in 2 days

Our list of is completely free. So we had to find a way to monetize it before we launched.

Generally directory websites make money through featured spots and sponsorships. But that takes times as they need to get a good amount of traffic. And it can be very inconsistent.

So instead we decided to up sell our own paid products and services.

We had 2 products to up sell:

1. Reddit launch kit ($19)- A collection of reddit post ideas that founders can use to launch their SaaS on reddit.

2. Done for you launch service ($149): since many founders don't have time, we also offered a service where we launch their saas on multiple Platforms.

Deciding to up sell our paid products really paid off for us

💸 Revenue breakdown of list my saas

Launch done for you service: $447 (3 sales)
Reddit launch kit: $133 (7 sales)

📊 This week in numbers

Unique Visitors: 850+
Sessions: 1,000+
Revenue: $500+

🧠 Biggest lesson I learnt this week

If you’re building a directory, don’t just wait for traffic and then monetize it with sponsorships. Try to sell a digital product or offer a service.

It's always good to have multiple monetization models. You can minimize the risk.

🗓️ What’s next

We got a couple of feedbacks on our list from the visitors.

So, this week we are planning to add
→ Filters, categories, search bar to make the list more accessible and
→ Add more details about the directories like backlink type, pricing, and how to list.

And once these are done, we are planning to launch on other platforms.

That’s it from my side for this week. I hope this post helps you to learn something new.

Also, if you are a saas founder who want to get the first 1000 users, do checkout List My Saas