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My cofounder and I have bootstrapped two software products that are generating revenue today with minimal involvement on our side. The first product is a B2B o
by sarora27 4y ago
My cofounder and I have bootstrapped two software products that are generating revenue today with minimal involvement on our side.
The first product is a B2B onboarding platform. This product generates approx. $100k/year.
Our second product is a microsaas that turns google drive folders into a hosted, searchable wiki with one click. This product is making $2k/month.
Both products require minimum support and continue to sustain themselves.
One thing to note is that we did work full time on both of these products for like 1.5 years during the pandemic. At the time, it was definitely not the best income stream we had created but became so after we both got "real" jobs again.
- scyzoryk_xyz 4y agoWhat’s the name of the Google drive folders product?
- sarora27 4y agohttps://kbee.app https://kbee.app Please let me know if you have any feedback on it!
- dicriseg 4y agoGreat landing page. Did you create that yourselves? The one thing I seem to struggle with is creating a nice looking landing page - it's just not something I'm good at. If you used a third party, any chance you'd say who that was?
- thesandlord 4y agoCo-founder here. We originally made the landing page in Webflow. This worked ok but had some negative SEO benefits because our main app was forced to be on a subdomain. We remade the page using a Tailwind template, which coincided with migrating our app to Tailwind. I highly recommend just using a template unless you are a designer, plenty of free or low cost ones out there. I like these: https://cruip.com/ https://cruip.com/ Most important thing is having a good CTA, value props, and testimonials. Took us a lot of work to refine these. We also worked with a graphic designer to make the art assets / logo / etc. I'm sure she would be happy to have more clients, DM me (see bio) for info.
- dicriseg 4y agoI really appreciate the detailed response and the advice. Thank you!
- codethief 4y agoDamn, great landing page! Took me 2 seconds to understand your product and its value!
- satvikpendem 4y agoIt auto-pops up a sign in link to Google when I visited it on Firefox, and it looks like it does the same on Chrome except Chrome blocks the pop up. Definitely fix that because I got a real sketchy feeling when it asked me to sign in upon immediately entering the page, not even clicking anything.
- 5amdotis 4y agoif you block `play.google.com` they disappear :)
- sarora27 4y agothank you for the feedback! we will address!
- ad404b8a372f2b9 4y agoI think there was an update either at google or firefox recently because a ton of websites have started behaving like this for me seemingly out of the blue.
- daviding 4y agoTypo on "..and *everythign* in-between!"
- ad404b8a372f2b9 4y agoThat's impressive, how did you go about marketing those?
- sarora27 4y agoThe b2b saas was a grind tbh. Lots of cold emailing directors & VPs. Classic top down sales motion. For Kbee, I actually wrote up our journey here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/our-journey-from-idea-to-producthunt-5e69031138 https://www.indiehackers.com/post/our-journey-from-idea-to-p... Would love to know what you think and if you have any follow up questions :)
- sohnakukkar 4y agoHow do you find companies for cold calling? Where do you find phone numbers?
- sarora27 4y agoI didn’t do cold calling though maybe I should have. Instead, I trawled LinkedIn and used tools like hunter.io to find email addresses and then cold emailed folks. Fwiw, Apollo.io seems to do a good job surfacing contact info as well.