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I hope it's not a fools errand, as I'm currently attempting to do just this. I have a SaaS product that currently profits about £400/ month, and I have about £2
by MattBearman 11y ago
I hope it's not a fools errand, as I'm currently attempting to do just this. I have a SaaS product that currently profits about £400/ month, and I have about £20k saved. I'm aiming to be living from my web app in 9 months.
If you're interested I'm doing a completely transparent blog series about my progress - https://blog.bugmuncher.com/2015/10/22/from-side-project-to-profitable-start-up-part-1.html https://blog.bugmuncher.com/2015/10/22/from-side-project-to-... and https://blog.bugmuncher.com/2015/10/22/from-side-project-to-profitable-start-up-part-2.html https://blog.bugmuncher.com/2015/10/22/from-side-project-to-...
- baobaba 11y agoHi Matt, the second link gives me a 404, but loving the honest writing in the "I'm Scared" post.
- MattBearman 11y agoAh balls, here's the correct link https://blog.bugmuncher.com/2015/10/29/from-side-project-to-profitable-start-up-part-2.html https://blog.bugmuncher.com/2015/10/29/from-side-project-to-...
- swcoders 11y agocould you please tell us suspense or do we have to wait for other month? :)
- nicholas73 11y agoThat's for your links. It will be good for me to follow along. Do you think a manual sales approach would help you? Like, find customers you think would like your product and cold email/call them.
- MattBearman 11y agoI do think it's a good option, as I only need another 6 subscribers to the top end plan to reach profitability. In fact I've recently been trying a cold email outreach campaign, so far I've only sent about 90 emails, 50% open rate, 12% clicked through, but no sign ups. There will be more about that in part 3
- christopherDam 11y agoThanks for really nice article.
- swcoders 11y agoIf some one interested Part 3 https://blog.bugmuncher.com/2015/11/03/from-side-project-to-profitable-start-up-part-3.html https://blog.bugmuncher.com/2015/11/03/from-side-project-to-...
- 55555 11y agoYour timeline is very realistic and I think you will succeed.
- jxm262 11y agoThanks for this. One of the reasons I come to HN is to get good advice and see posts like this :) I'll be following your project, good luck!