I quit my job to vibe code a LinkedIn outreach automation tool from scratch, and made ~$10K 🚀 Here’s what I learned👇 Ok so, $9.6k in 6 months isn’t exactly retirement money just yet (far from it), but creating a SaaS business with almost 50 active users from nothing in 6 months since launch, is something I’m proud of nonetheless. For some context, last year I worked in sales and got a warning from LinkedIn for automating sending messages, so I decided to create my own safer LinkedIn automation tool instead (zen-mode.io), using Claude and Claude code. I was so convinced in myself and what I was doing that I quit my job before I even had a single customer. Some will say this is stupid and risky, but that’s just who I am 🤷‍♂️ Below I’ll talk more about how to actually launch a business like this yourself (based on my own experience so far). 1. Validate the fuck out of your idea I see a million SaaS founders think their idea is solid gold. Usually it’s the most minor, easiest thing to copy, and they just spend a weekend vibe coding it. You really need to look at the actual market for your niche. Don’t create something if there’s no tangible demand for something like that (unless it’s truly unique and everyone will want it, but that’s a unicorn and doesn’t likely exist). If loads of businesses have done it and done it well, and you don’t have any unique angle, don’t waste your time. The best businesses iterate on what already exists rather than create something unique. 2. Build in public Start building your audience before you even launch. Get on X, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn and wherever else you can go - post what you’re building, why you’re building it, and create a waitlist in your site for it. Try to build a community around it from day 1. If you don’t, you’ll spend all your time building something and then suddenly realize you are not getting a single customer. Marketing and distribution is harder than building and just as (if not more) important. An average product with a big audience always outsells an amazing product with no audience. 3. Dogfood your product 🐕 You should be the number one fan and biggest user of what you’re building. Build something you would genuinely use/need yourself and get great value from. If you’re benefitting from it, so will others. 4. Never stop iterating There are always new features that can be added, design improvements, backend hardening etc. Building products doesn’t have an endpoint - don’t do something for a weekend then leave it and expect people to just flood in at any point. 5. Optimize for GEO and search Pretty obvious one but you need to apply best practices from day 1 for this. There are tonnes of online resources for how to do this properly, just ask your LLM. 6. Start off with lifetime access deals and/or beta testers The most important thing for new businesses is getting users to stress test your product. It might look great to you but you’d be surprised about the hundreds of possible edge cases that seem to come up. Giving people lifetime access early on (maybe first 1-2 months) helps validate your idea without the immediate pressure of trying to get people to subscribe 7. Ignore the haters So many people will try to shit on you and your product, but they probably look like wojack and live in their mom’s basement. Hate often comes from projection, jealousy and insecurity. Just ignore them. 8. Look at what other people did There are plenty of success stories of people growing businesses and audiences online, and many books too - do some studying and get out of your comfort zone. Learn what works and apply it to your own projects. So far following the above steps have been really useful for building zen-mode.io, hope you find it useful too! 🙌

Pushing this back until tomorrow - needs to be a perfect/massive launch and at a good time for Europe/US (too late in the day now) Stay tuned! 😮‍💨

Why is anyone still building on PHP/Wordpress any more in 2026 anyway?

Launching something VERY exciting later today 😮‍💨👌 stay tuned

Based on my own experience, in order to run a decent sized, quality SaaS business, it’s likely going to run you at least $500-$1000 a month when you combine all subscriptions you need (database, hosting, tooling, APIs etc.) - plan accordingly

Seriously who is searching for this, you weirdo 😂

This is very relatable. I have a great product that works well for around 50 daily active users, but a few people churn because they say it’s too complicated to use (even with step by step guides and all information provided). The onboarding and user experience of your product is absolutely fundamental to growth and retention. Learning the hard way right now, but focused on building out the onboarding piece and building the easiest to use, most effective GTM growth tool in existence. Try it yourself and let me know if you think it’s easy/difficult to set up for your own LinkedIn outreach automation workflow (completely free trial for 14 days) - zen-mode.io

“How’s your churn rate lately?” The churn:

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just run linkedin outbound bro i dont get why anyone trying to sign b2b clients is doing anything else right now REFERRALS: - great until your best client goes quiet - you cant turn them up when you need 3 more clients - zero say over when the next one shows up PAID ADS: - you pay before you know if anything converts - the form fills never answer the phone - stop paying and the calendar goes empty HIRING AN SDR: - $100k+ a year once you add it all up - 3 months before they book anything - gone in about 18 months - 50 messages a day on a good day LEAD GEN AGENCY: - $8k a month on a 3 month lock in - the same apollo list 10 other agencies are emailing - a VA checks your campaign once a week AI SDR TOOLS: - $900 a month - sub 1% reply rates - your brand on every bad email it sends LINKEDIN OUTBOUND: - 65 million decision makers logged in this week - filters for who changed jobs, got promoted or posted - inmails land without a connection request - a reply inside 90 days refunds the credit - replies come in the same week you start sending linkedin right now is where cold email was in 2016, before everyone piled in i put the whole system and how to run it with your LLM in one place comment "LINKEDIN" and ill send it to you (must be following)

Saturdays in SW6, London 🍕🍻🤌 Happy weekend all 🫡

When you start getting some customers and traction in your business, there are some great days, and some really bad ones too where multiple people randomly cancel. What hurts more though is when it’s not something wrong with the product itself, and not fixable. When you get feedback like “this part was bad” it’s easy to then go and work on that. When the feedback is “we’re stopping outreach for a few months” then, in a way it’s great because it’s not your fault, but still sucks that there’s nothing you can do about it either 😅🤦‍♂️

Commuting on a Friday be like

Quick back story about myself, why I created zen-mode.io and my results so far 👇