UserTake is at $50 MRR, finally got my first paying customer! We're on the board 🎉 #buildinpublic

Back to marketing for the first time in a couple of months. Now to decide whether to focus on cold outreach or double down on SEO. I know which one I'd rather be doing

Trying to fix Google oAuth allowed origins with custom domains / subdomains in 1 hour blocks each evening was painful. The perks of not having large chunks of time. It's done though, Usertake now has Google auth. Now back to marketing #buildinpublic

I've gotten Google auth up and running only to find out there is no API to add trusted javascript origins for vanity domains and no way to add wildcards for each customer subdomains? Is there any other way around this apart from serving assets from the app domain?

What's the one thing indie hackers know you should be doing that you can't motivate yourself to do?

For anyone doing sales demos, reminder to focus on selling the desired outcome, not the features. Same goes for landing pages actually

What do people use for UI components these days? I came really close to buying Tailwind UI in the early days but resorted back to my go to library, Ant Design

What's the most important thing founders want to improve on this year apart from the obvious MRR?

Had over 50 signups for UserTake in the last month. Unfortunately mostly end users of a single customer so no new "business" signups. My watermark brought in 3 referred visits to the website from those though so hopefully it eventually converts with more end users #buildinpublic

Wasn't really expecting this but my other side hustle in maintenance mode got a new customer adding another AUD $15 MRR - a signup from May 2022 🎉 Bookly costs 9c per month to run and has made a little over $2k to date #buildinpublic

How many Indie Hackers still write unit tests with very little customers? Seems hard to justify until you get traction

How many founders sketch up their new feature designs in Figma / Sketch? Or do you just keep tweaking the CSS until it feels right, like a serial killer?

Any parents here trying to build a side hustle? How much time do you manage?

When it's time to do cold outreach

Me perfecting my product instead of looking for customers

A good psychological trick for retaining users is the idea that the more data or time you've invested in a product, the more likely you are to stick around. For example, there's better/cheaper cloud platforms than Heroku but there's no way I'm setting that up again.

What's the best Twitter CRM out there these days?

I tried chat GPT for some marketing related inspiration but found the responses a little generic. Anyone else had better luck using it for their business?

Probably one of the hardest things about being a solo founder is that you have to wear all the uncomfortable hats. It's crazy how much going out of that comfort zone teaches you though

Scary Movie was doing AI hands before it was cool

Don't charge $10 for your SaaS. I made this mistake with my last side hustle. The most overhead comes from the cheapest customers