i'm begging you: - find 20 startups that raised a seed round 3 to 9 months ago (ignore any raise that happened <3 months ago) - pick the 5 that sell to the same kind of customer - find their founders on X - read their last 100 posts - pull out every question someone asked them about the product (skip the ones the founder replied to) 1. why do all this? [bookmark this right now, you’ll forget this by tomorrow] because the replies under a founder's posts are people telling you, in their own words, what they want. - people asking for alternatives - anyone annoyed about the price - "does it do X yet?" type questions - people who signed up, got stuck, and gave up put all of it in a sheet. that sheet is now a list of possible customers, the problem each one has, and the exact phrasing they use for it. next problem: 2. how do these people end up noticing you? - take the 10 questions that come up most - make one useful piece of content for each - leave your product out of it - answer the question better than the startup did - tag the startup when you post it. if it helps their users, their team reposts it and you borrow their audience - if an alternative does something better, tag them. - if your answer needs 2 or 3 products chained together, write that down. that combo is your tool in step 4 >important< someone asking whether an AI tool can do a thing? - record a 30-second clip of you doing it. when the complaint is pricing.. - line up 5 alternatives and show what each one costs once you add everything up. if a workflow keeps tripping people up.. - build a free template that handles it. do this for 30 days. 3. then check which posts sent people to your profile. - ignore likes - more bookmarks than likes means people plan to come back. repeat that topic - replies that ask a follow-up question count more - anyone who went and used one of your templates - and note which problems keep bringing in people you haven't seen before drop the topics nobody bit on and keep going on the ones that pulled people in. 4. now build a free tool for the problem that came up most. one small tool is enough for now. the full SaaS can wait. - put the link in your bio - drop it under conversations where it fits - send it directly to the people who asked for exactly this - ask users what they still can't do with it now you've got: a) an audience that cares about one specific problem b) a list of people who have already said they have it c) a free product they have a reason to try d) feedback from real users on what to build next 5. now add a paid feature. dm your 20 heaviest users first with the price and two lines on what it does. > 5 say yes, build it. > fewer than 5, the feature is wrong, the price is fine. Goal: - $10/month - 100 paying users - $1k MRR that's the target. the order is the whole trick: customers first, then what they wanted, then distribution built around their problems, and something to sell only at the end. If you read till here, reply “I’m a reader” helps me understand if I should keep my content this long. a like, repost or a reply also encourages me to keep posting. ✨