Early in July, Gabriel (@gabolecointer - my co-founder and CTO) and I had the idea to pre-sell a one-time fee access to ManyRequests, our SaaS, in order to fund the development costs.
We successfully did that! In total we got 60 customers (some customers bought more packages as they run several businesses) and we've given them special perks (such as access to a private mastermind, lifetime access to our SaaS, and future access to Wordpress themes to build their productized service / tech-enabled agency).
This was a fun experience and I will relate shortly more on how we did that.
We will spend those $8k on the following this:
Let me know if you have any questions!