TL;DR By scouring the web and collecting microdata, you can use clues left by your competitors' customers to build your product around their weaknesses. Their weaknesses, your UVP.--- One year ago my friend Massimo Giacchino put me on microdata. I merged that with what I know best, competitive intelligence, to rebuild and relaunch a product I already had in my portfolio. The … [Read more...]
On coronavirus
I think that the entrepreneur's job is to fight entropy: entropy towards churn, towards things breaking, bad relationships with coworkers, etc. These things are bound to happen, sooner or later. It's just entropy. As an entrepreneur, coronavirus is just another thing that was unavoidable in this reality, that we have to fight. When you think about entrepreneurship in this … [Read more...]
SaaS minimalism
I'm a STRONG advocate that, at whatever point you are in building your SaaS, you don't need 99% of the things you think you would need. This is especially true when you are starting out a new business. This is an ongoing list of those things. Things you probably don't need in your SaaS right now Paid adsIf you can pay to get customers, it does not mean that you have a … [Read more...]
How I would grow getrewardful.com
I recently started looking for a software that would setup affiliate and referral programs for my SaaS. Rewardful does that. What I like is that it takes care of tracking conversions right inside Stripe, which is the payment gateway most SaaS use in the background. This is a quick post on how I would grow it. It’s very polarised to what I know. As a background, my first SaaS … [Read more...]
On shutting down, weighing and boredom.
As you know, I run a portfolio of software products. My portfolio now includes Cart, Scrapebook, Timelygigs, Dealflow, Adagio and Groouply. I have so many SaaS that it's difficult to even remember them. As I blogged in the past, I love have multiple software products for different reasons. My approach is to ship a lot of products and see how they do, instead of focusing on just … [Read more...]