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...]
Our podcast
Just a quick announcement. We now have a podcast! It's called "Maker Mindset". I talk about building, launching and running a portfolio of profitable SaaS products. Go to https://rubini.solutions/podcast to start listening to it. It's mostly solo episodes and mostly for my own therapy, but I think what I discuss is useful to anyone on a similar path. You can subscribe to it … [Read more...]
About proxies
A lot of our products are created around collecting data. A useful technique for that is web scraping. Web scraping is essentially a form of data mining. Pretty much any information that you can see on a web page can be retrieved (scraped). We scrape a lot of data and I am personally very knowledgable about scraping because I have been doing it for years now. Proxies When … [Read more...]
The human component
There are more and more companies that try to hide behind people and complexity. Instead, there's something to be said about working in public and putting a face to your product. Yes, it's risky but it can also help build a powerful personal brand. You probably already know that one of my company's core principles is transparency. For me, that means that we share our journey … [Read more...]