twool
AI-written Twitter warmup messages
2.5 months after the first commit and 1.5 months after getting my first customer, I'm finally at $100 MRR with 5 customers.
Although I have a landing page now, all of my customers came through DMs, some contacted me, but I found and contacted most of them using the same tool I'm selling.
Every customer has unique requirements. For example, the last one wants English-speaking leads with Gumroad link in the bio, but not those who sell adult content. Another one needs 3 different audiences with 3 different generated DM styles. For now, I have 5 scripts that I run every day. This is because when I asked them to pay for an unfinished product, I promised that I would add any feature that they would request.
As a result, I'm creating the most flexible Twitter DM tool. It's easy to generate a DM using GPT, but the most interesting part is how to find relevant leads. I don't know how to make automated onboarding that would cover all these diverse requirements but I hope that ChatGPT will be helpful here, too.
With 3 paying customers and a growing following on Twitter, I decided to create a landing page so that my "viral" tweets could convert to visitors.
The page, https://twool.io/, is really minimal. I reused a cheap React-Tailwind template that I bought for one of my previous projects. Right now, there's no logo, no testimonials, nor other essential elements of a landing page.
But there's one thing that is the most important: you can leave your Twitter handle and fill out a short survey so that I can contact you and let you in. I've already got one contact, let's see if he converts into a customer.
Yesterday I discovered a nasty bug in the twool (my AI-driven Twitter DM tool) that made it send messages to some unexpected accounts, including the ones I had contacted before and a big competitor account.
Guess what? Nothing terrible happened. Twool sends kind words so people are never angry. For the same reason, they don't block you even when they see that you're going to sell something to them.
I got my first customer for my current project.
I don't have a community.
I don't have a brand.
I don't have a logo.
I don't have a landing page.
I don't have a domain.
All I have is a buggy prototype that does one thing.
I was DM-ing various people (using the tool that I was promoting, twool), and found 5 people who agreed to pay me for using an MVP. One of them got excited enough after seeing the MVP, sent a bunch of DMs right away, got many replies the next day, and subscribed.
My next step is to get a few more customers, use their feedback to improve the prototype, and open it to the public.
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Glad to hear that you got paying customer. Can you please share the different social media channels you used to reach the potential users. Also, did you text them via your personal handle or the company handle
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Great! Can you share the DMs you sent?
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There are too many messages, I can't find the one I used. The main thing is that you shouldn't be afraid to ask for money. Many people will love to look at your MVP out of curiosity, but you have to find real users who need your thing so badly that they would pay even for a crappy prototype.
Another rule: never sell right away, ask a few questions first. Figure out if this is the right kind of customer. Then mention your tool casually, e.g. "I'm asking because I'm checking demand for a tool that does X". Then something like "Theoretically, how much would you pay for it if I made it ideal for you?". Then divide this by 1.5-2 and offer to give access now and promise to add all features that this user will ask for, plus 30-day moneyback (say that it'll be easy to request a refund since you're using Stripe).
It's a funnel like everywhere else but you have to send a lot of messages. This is why I used my own tool since it does exactly this.
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Thanks for the reply. What would you say is the motivation of your early customers? Is it that they invest in you building the product now or is it that they pull so much value out of it already that they want to pay for it right away?
Also, did you present them with exclusive options (i.e. either pay and use or not use at all)?-
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I think the motivation of the one who is paying me is that he's about to release his own product and wants to DM many potential users.
I'm warning them that I'm prefilling their accounts with potential leads so it's kinda a hint that it won't work without my active intervention. But I think nobody would want to pay me without trying it first. So it's kinda 1-day trial.
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Congrats Artem. It's super interesting the way you are building and growing this!
Congrats! Keep it up!
Congratulated earlier in our Micro SaaS HQ community and just saw this one. Congratulations again. We need more stories like these. Rooting for you to reach to $1K MRR with this. Pure hard work.
Congrats on reaching the $100 MRR
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Yes, I had doubts about this one.
On the flip side, I'm helping people to connect with each other, mainly those who don't know where to start with DMing. My DMs are like icebreakers, the rest of the conversation is always genuine.