How I made $1k revenue in 8 days?

[sarah1972]

Hi guys,

I am Bahauddin Aziz and I am building fastreach.io, it is a cold emailing SaaS aimed to make hyper-personalization at scale.

I am sharing a story on how I made the first few dollars with this business with just an alpha product by independently doing lifetime deals.

So basically, since the inception of the idea, instead of going and building the product, I created a landing page and offered a prebooking lifetime deal at $99 and then started with the marketing of it.

I got several thousand visitors in just 2 days (thanks to Reddit) and then it happened, someone bought the LTD. It was so fucking exciting that we sold it in just the second day.

Next, I started building the product. With days n nights of coding, I built the alpha version of it and then invited around a 100 people to join and try it. Got amazing response with signups and then I proposed a lifetime deal to them (for $199) and limited it to just 3 days.

People were damn interested and this pushy timeline made them make a quick decision. Hence getting me several purchases.

I didn't wanted many lifetime customers, but I got few bucks and a ton of validation

 

[613jono]

@sarah1972 Awesome work man, congratulations on getting the first paying customers and getting that validation! Time to get the next 100 Upward and onwards

 

[sarah1972]

@613jono thnx man

 

[dariusz1990]

@sarah1972 Which subreddits worked best for you?

Did you get clients from any other website? Producthunt/FB/other?

 

[sarah1972]

@dariusz1990 this itself

 

[joyfulspirit68]

@sarah1972 This is amazing.

I'm in your Slack group and am cheering on your success.

Way to go!

 

[sarah1972]

@joyfulspirit68 Thanks man

 

[scarletbeast]

@sarah1972 love it! what are you using to build it?

 

[sarah1972]

@scarletbeast the stack is nextjs + nestjs

 

[klkent]

@sarah1972 I currently learning nestjs, mind if you tell me how you do the authentication part? Congrats on your achievemnt by the way

 

[sarah1972]

@klkent there is a whole doc for that

 

[klkent]

@sarah1972 I mean the lib you use

 

[sarah1972]

@klkent yeah dude, me giving you that information can be a vulnerability, nestjs has a doc for it, you can refer that

 

[klkent]

@sarah1972 Ok, thanks

 

[jerry3166]

@sarah1972 nice try, do you think which way is more suitable for involving new users, by AD or from seo?

 

[sarah1972]

@jerry3166 As of now, I am just doing stuff manually, talking to more and more people who has the problem I am solving.

 

[sunbakedguppy]

@sarah1972 And I'm guessing those conversations are happening in this sub or are there other places you frequent to find out what are the problems people are having to help solve it?

 

[sarah1972]

@sunbakedguppy I talk everywhere, fb, twitter linkedin here as well

 

[gpochat]

@sarah1972 Heyyyy you! I have had this same idea for a while now and me and my business partners were just talking about it today! Glad to see this is something people find is useful

 

[sarah1972]

@gpochat coolll, are you gonna build it?