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2mo ago

Solo SaaS builders — how do you actually split your time between building and marketing?

I've been heads-down building for the last few months, and now that I'm past my first launch I'm hitting the classic problem: every hour spent writing code is an hour not spent talking to users, posting, or actually finding people who need what I built. For those of you doing this solo (or with a tiny team) what's your actual split? Is it a strict schedule (mornings = build, afternoons = marketing), or more reactive depending on what's on fire that week? Has that ratio shifted as you've grown, or gotten more lopsided one way?

Trying to figure out if I should be spending less time in the editor right now, or if that's premature.

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2mo ago

What is the most important thing - Business wise- in the AI age?

The most valuable thing you own in the AI age isn't your AI. In my opinion, It's your data model. My 2nd vote would be Sales!

I've been building business software for the last year, and I keep watching companies make the same expensive mistake. They add an AI tool for support. Another for writing. Something for invoices. A notetaker. Each one is genuinely good at its job.

And each one is a silo.

Six months later somebody asks a simple question "what did we actually sell this month, and which of it got collected?" and there's no answer. Not because the data doesn't exist. Because it exists in eight places, in eight shapes, and nothing reconciles.

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23d ago

How much is “enough” for a Figma handoff?

This randomly crossed my mind while working today.

Obviously, this probably depends a lot on the size of the design and development teams and how they work together.

And of course, the more organized a Figma file is before handoff, the better. Flows, states, edge cases, notes all of that makes things easier for developers.

But getting everything perfectly organized takes a fair amount of design time too.

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2mo ago

How do you build an audience before launch when you have a pipeline of products?

Hey PH Community!

My team and I are in an exciting position we ve built a pipeline of multiple products that we plan to roll out one by one over the coming months.

Before we start launching them officially, our goal is to build a solid base of early followers, waitlists, and subscribers for each product so we can hit the ground running on day one.

For those who have successfully launched multiple products or built strong pre-launch momentum:

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1yr ago

Crowdsourcing a Vibe Coding Playlist!

Is it truly vibe coding if there aren't tunes making the vibes...well...vibey. Thought it'd be fun to put together a YouTube playlist of what everyone listens to when building! I'll take all the links and make a playlist on YouTube after a couple of days :)
Just drop the link and tag the tool that you mostly use. I'll start!
I vibe with Black Coffee and mostly use @Cursor!

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2mo ago

What’s the cheapest thing you’ve done that measurably changed a metric?

Mine today: put the audio track of a carousel post as one of the items inside the carousel, rather than picking a generic background song. If you hear a song and want to know which one it is, you swipe until you find it. Costs nothing, takes no extra work, and it turns passive audio into a reason to keep going. I'm a solo founder with basically no audience, so most of what I can do has to be free. Which turns out to be a decent constraint it forces you to find the mechanics rather than buy reach. What's yours? Small change, real difference.
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5yr ago

Hello World! Bootstrapping my app

Hello World! My Full-time IndieHacking Journey started in the last few months. Now making it public. The intent is to build a $5K MRR by the end of 2021. I'll build, pivot, rebuild in public. Will share progress and ask for feedback. Following Pieter Levels. #buildinpublic My first product is building a NoCode Product to understand your Customer Sentiments with every Form submission. Focused is on those companies/products that need intelligence with every form submission. A product that can tell them about the customer sentiments, any kind of profanity and better customer insights with every feedback, issue, query, etc before it's too late for them. The app is currently building, https://nocodeform.co/ and will share all the progress on Twitter. You guys can be part of that journey and share feedbacks, https://twitter.com/sanketmakhija/ Also created a Ship Page: https://www.producthunt.com/upco... Happy to discuss more on this. DM is open!
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1yr ago

What "rules" do you stick to when you do cold emailing/outreaching?

I believe many companies or individuals get first leads when reaching out to someone. What techniques or tools did you use? Feel free to share your experience.
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