felixheikka

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Show HN: aicofounder – Make something people actually want(aicofounder.com)
1 points by felixheikka 1y ago|0 comments
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by felixheikka 1y ago
Previous Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42430923 I can easily say that Buildpad is significantly different to what it was back then. It was essentially just a chat interface back then with different phases. I
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Show HN: I made an app to help you find problems with real demand from Reddit/X(buildpad.io)
1 points by felixheikka 1y ago|1 comments
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by felixheikka 1y ago
Thank you. Here it is: https://buildpad.io
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by felixheikka 1y ago
$33k revenue Stripe image since it's HN: https://imgur.com/a/0aDJOG4
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Took 7 months to get my first customer. 8 mo to reach $33k revenue. Keep going.
6 points by felixheikka 1y ago|4 comments
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by felixheikka 1y ago
I'm with you there 100%
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by felixheikka 1y ago
Thanks!
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by felixheikka 1y ago
No problem. We kept the MVP free because we wanted to get more people through the door who could provide the valuable feedback we needed. It wasn't until around 150 users that we launched on Product Hunt and got our first paying custom
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by felixheikka 1y ago
For the curious, my SaaS can be found here https://buildpad.io
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by felixheikka 1y ago
It works well for products targeting founders since they're very active online. However, there's no problem to find social media communities of gardeners, lawyers, content creators, etc., to be active in. Not everyone who gave fee
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Reaching my first 100 users without money or audience (at 10K users now)
35 points by felixheikka 1y ago|11 comments
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by felixheikka 1y ago
Hey everybody, 7 months ago we launched Buildpad on Product Hunt and ended up in #4 place. The top 3 products were all VC backed companies that spent a lot of money to get their traffic. My co-founder and I never raised any money and the on
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by felixheikka 1y ago
My co-founder had a $30k MRR SaaS before this.
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by felixheikka 1y ago
We're co-founders of https://buildpad.io We're hoping to help founders with the problems they experience on their journey of building products. I've been there myself in the beginning and I've made the mistak
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by felixheikka 1y ago
Glad you liked it. We use Stripe for subscriptions.
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by felixheikka 1y ago
Absolutely. Idea validation and continuously gathering feedback from users is something we've focused a lot on, and it's made all the difference. What makes the problem real is that a significant amount of people actually experien
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by felixheikka 1y ago
MRR proof because who trusts a random guy on the internet: https://imgur.com/a/NdybW3R
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You're overcomplicating it. Just solve a real problem.(Got my SaaS to $3,6k MRR)
8 points by felixheikka 1y ago|10 comments
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The steps I followed to get my first users (at 5k now)
2 points by felixheikka 2y ago|0 comments
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by felixheikka 2y ago
Yes it's the same app, but like I said in that post we reached $2,000 revenue, not MRR (monthly recurring revenue).
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My app makes me $2,700/month after 6 months
3 points by felixheikka 2y ago|2 comments
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by felixheikka 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'm not used to writing on HN so it's good to know.
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by felixheikka 2y ago
I prefer to look at reality here instead of an analogy. The reality is that I get on calls with customers almost every week who tell me how Buildpad has helped them shape and build their products. Many of them are very happy with the help t
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by felixheikka 2y ago
It helped us a lot in narrowing down what the actual problem was. Getting confirmation from real people that the problem existed and what their feature requests and objections were also helped us a lot with the direction to take the product
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Talking to people before building took me from failed projects to $9K in revenue
5 points by felixheikka 2y ago|8 comments
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My brother and I built a $2,600 MRR business in 6 months
1 points by felixheikka 2y ago|0 comments
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by felixheikka 2y ago
Yes, here's the Reddit post to give you a better idea of how it was framed and the tone of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/indiehackers/comments/1ea1cpd/lets_...
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by felixheikka 2y ago
Nice investigation. We did reach $2,200 revenue within two months. We also reached $1,000 MRR within two months. There's a difference between revenue and monthly recurring revenue. You think posting about my journey two times in 60 day
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by felixheikka 2y ago
No problem! It took some extra effort. We had to post it a few times in different subreddits to get people to respond. What helped us though was offering feedback on their projects in return.

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