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How to lose 7 potential customers in 3 days step by step tutorial
Hi there!
Long story short, a friend of mine gave me the idea for a SaaS, a website where you input a website and it automatically spits out the best blog post to rival your competitors keywords.
I made it to be so much more than an AI content writer, it actually automatically gets data from your competition, keywords, where they rank, where they don't and create the blog posts in such a way that it competes with their traffic. If you want to understand more: https://seoheister.com
Now for the fun part, despite having some traction i decided to launch the product on PH and a few communities i knew.
All of that took 3 days, from contacting people, creating posts, marketing and so on. But to my surprise, i didn't got any customers. I shrugged it off and said that it was bad luck or i am just really bad at it.
UNTIL!
I woke up to a support ticket from a guy saying this https://imgur.com/a/hgmkuoQ
I forgot to change the api keys and price keys.
How did this happened? Well i don't push my .env to git, i store my keys securely and in test mode i use the .env, and i forgot to change them in the secure environment.
Then i checked my logs to see how many times did this error happened, and to my surprise it was called 7 times at different hours of the day.
That's the story!
- Jugurtha 2y agoA good problem to have. Now do a Show HN with the link to your website, or you can resubmit the link you shared a couple of days ago as a Show HN, which is better for this. It'd be useful to be more deliberate with the language/messaging/copywriting you are using, whether in the original link you shared here or on your website. If you'd like to hear a thing or two, you're welcome to send me an email; I'll reply if it matches the email address you'll put on your HN profile/bio.