Timeline for Selling a Micro-SaaS
A detailed timeline of selling a micro-SaaS on Acquire.com, including pricing strategies (and foibles) and lessons learned from building and selling a calorie tracker without a large audience.
Jared Rhizor
Jared Rhizor is a maker, founder, and software dev. This is his blog.
Latest posts
How to Grow a Newsletter
A transparent look at growing Poach, a newsletter for VCs, to $250 MRR and 350 subscribers. From cold outreach to paid acquisition experiments, learn what worked (and didn't) in building an audience of early-stage investors.
Building a Waitlist (The Wrong Way)
A cautionary tale about building a SaaS waitlist the wrong way. I followed the standard bootstrapper playbook: find a problem, verify search volume, run ads for waitlist signups, then build. But after spending a month building PresetBot, an Adobe Lightroom preset API, I discovered my 250-person waitlist was mostly bots. Learn from my mistakes about the importance of real customer validation and…
Six Months of MealByMeal
After six months of running MealByMeal, an AI-powered calorie tracking service, I evaluate my initial hypotheses about user retention, SMS-based tracking, and voice logging. While some assumptions proved correct, others revealed unexpected challenges and insights about building in the health tech space.