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I singlehandedly built a small business HR SaaS - https://www.hrpartner.io https://www.hrpartner.io - over the past few years and grown it to a stage that I can
by cyberferret 7y ago
I singlehandedly built a small business HR SaaS - https://www.hrpartner.io https://www.hrpartner.io - over the past few years and grown it to a stage that I can now take a salary from it after 3 years of living on savings. I DO have a co-founder now who joined in May of this year, so strictly speaking I am no longer a one person business, but I created all the 50,000+ lines of code (and 200+ database tables) of my system myself.
EDIT: It has actually been a bit of a family project, with my wife helping out with voice overs and my son helping out with video production etc.
- domlebo70 7y agoAwesome. What were the big mistakes you made along the way?
- cyberferret 7y agoThanks. I guess the biggest mistake in the early days was doing 'scattergun marketing' and not focusing on where our users actually were. Once we narrowed down and marketed to HR managers and business owners via LinkedIn and Capterra etc., we saw great results. Another mistake was probably not sticking to a marketing avenue long enough. We would sometimes change our website completely a couple of times a month, so we never really knew what was working or not as we didn't have enough quantitative data. Nowadays we just rarely make sweeping changes, but instead make small tweaks to our marketing and watch analytics for patterns. I do blog about some of these learnings over at https://devan.codes https://devan.codes