🔥How I reached $764 in revenue in 2 months with my first SaaS

[strength01]

This is my first time launching my own SaaS. I planned to develop it with a friend, but he refused to work with me because I'm not a developer. We disagreed on what was more important: development or marketing.

My results after 2 months from scratch:

- Website: SocLeads

- Product: Scrape emails from Google Maps, Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, X, and YouTube with keywords and hashtags

- Revenue (total): $764

- MRR: $370

How did I achieve this?

I hired a developer who made me an MVP for 1 month and $1300. Then I started studying marketing. Before that, I only had experience in enterprise sales. SaaS marketing was new to me.

I used several channels and got the following results:

- Google Ads (1,153 visits, 8 paid users, $600 costs). I'm waiting for a $500 promotion from Google, but they ignore me. How do you get it?

- Reddit (653 visits, 3 paid users, free)

- IndieHackers (281 visits, 2 paid users, free)

- Product Hunt (177 visits, 14th place for the day, 2 paid users, free)

I will be glad to receive feedback and any suggestions for marketing.

 

[twinboys]

@strength01 I really like your idea and your niche. I believe there are a lot of people who will use your service.

Try to target shopify owners and Facebook users. I think you might have a lot of clients

 

[strength01]

@twinboys Where can I find them? Maybe some kind of community or subreddit?

 

[twinboys]

@strength01 There is a subreddit called shopify, you can start from it. But I highly recommend Facebook and Tiktok as there are a lot of shopify people there, because a lot of them make their sales from Ads on those platforms.

You need to target them, I never did it personally, but I think it's a great idea that can help you get more profits.

 

[strength01]

@twinboys Thank you! I'll definitely try it

 

[catbus]

@strength01 Congrats

May I know which API you are using for social media scraping?

 

[strength01]

@catbus At the moment I am using ChatGPT API. The rest is my development.

 

[teamoyeshua]

@strength01 What do you mean ChatGPT api? I think he meant where are you getting your data? I’m impressed with the functionality for only paying $1300. Where did you find your contractor?

 

[hessville47]

@teamoyeshua I'm guessing a freelancer

 

[emoore5009]

@strength01 Very cool! Are you tracking any metrics for your customers conversions using Socleads? Also is that you in the video haha

 

[strength01]

@emoore5009 Video generated by AI.

I think it's too early for metrics. If you ask for a specific metric that can be calculated over 2 months, I will calculate it. I can say that 3 users switched from a cheaper plan to a more expensive one.

 

[emoore5009]

@strength01 Impressive! And holy shit that video was created with AI and nothing else??

 

[strength01]

@emoore5009 Only voice and speaker generated by AI

 

[mariejbsm]

@strength01 Can you provide link to where you made your video? That’s super cool

 

[strength01]

@mariejbsm https://www.heygen.com/