What are your biggest questions about growing a SaaS product?
Sharath Kuruganty
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Drop them here and let the experts in the community answer your Qs!
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Karthik Kamalakannan@imkarthikk
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Below 10K MRR. How to balance between acquiring new customers and upselling to the existing ones?
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There are many.
What are the best channels for distribution?
Where to find your audience?
How to balance between product and marketing (from a solo founder perspective)?
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@csaba_kissi
1. Twitter by far is the best one. I hear LI is for B2B products.
2. I think the most important is what are you doing to find an audience more than where.
3. My simple answer is to start building in public. You don't have to do marketing in a way.
Usersnap
How to make decisions on new features, improvements and pricing?
How to balance time building & growing it as a solo founder?
@matthew_browne1 Yeah timeboxing is probably the way to go. Doing 20 mins of it every day is better than doing nothing. And it will compound over time
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@fscholz As a founder, I gotta say, it's hard. But it's doable with proper systems in place.
My suggestion: Split the week into two parts where you can focus on growth activities and building the product. Also, do things that don't scale when it comes to growth like - hosting a Twitter spaces, sponsoring a NL, contributing content for a publication, write Twitter threads, run campaigns that involve your customers
These may not give you direct ROI but the growth effect will compound over time.
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@fscholz Get yourself one of these https://timechi.com/ and timebox everything.
@5harath Thanks for sharing your ideas, Sharath! Yeah, I've heard some people do 1 week sprints. One week building, one week marketing,... I've found building in public is very helpful in making sure that I talk at least a little bit about my product.
I like your suggestions, I'll use some of them 👍
If there are several competitors in the market, how do you find your unique value proposition that makes your users stick to the product?
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@sallysbrain new employee onboarding if done bad they wont connect with product and eventually take time to feel connected or may leave due to frustration. just my experience , tell me what you think?
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@sallysbrain Doing mostly manual stuff works. For example, I DMed people I know who are long-time supporters individually introducing my SaaS product Shoutout when I launched on Product Hunt.
Also, host a Twitter space or a clubhouse works as well.
@rishabh_sharma8 I very much agree. The further you are from your user, the harder it is to remember the mission and vision. After a while some tasks seems like an annoyance rather than helping move the machin forward. SaaS creates a giant gap between the user and the team.
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@sallysbrain Doing things that don't scale & building relationships online.
Unicorner
What's the best way to grow a userbase pre-revenure?
mainatain proper systems in all channels and go forward.
How to get SaaS customers?
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One thing that I want to fix is to increase net promoter score. I think it's important to a SaaS product like Vance AI (https://vanceai.com/), which is at the very beginning of market growth.
Testing the right platforms for distribution.
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Vectorly
How to predict LTV and retention rate on early stage when you haven't got enough data. Also it affects on the understanding CAC in paid channels to scale the distribution.
How to promote my product rightly? What channels to use?
How to scale efficiently?
how to target the right audience?
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@marcus_carswell I guess there is no text book way to find the right audience.
But here's my tip: Focusing on creating content consistently will for sure help you find your niche.
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