Building startups in public. On the road to true financial freedom
There's a version of building a SaaS where you spend months perfecting the product, craft a careful launch plan, run some ads, and hope the numbers come in. I've done that before. It rarely goes the way you picture it. With Local Leads, I wanted to
Local Leads started as an internal tool at our agency. We built it to solve our own problem, finding qualified local business leads fast, and it worked. We've been using it to run outbound for ourselves and clients for a while now, and that proof-of-concept is
Building a product is rarely a straight line. Most founders will tell you their first idea wasn't their best one — and that the real value only revealed itself after a few hard lessons. Local Leads is no exception. My business partner and I have pivoted the product
As of January 3rd, 2024, when you follow the recommended metadata image process for NextJS as described here: Metadata Files: opengraph-image and twitter-image | Next.js API Reference for the Open Graph Image and Twitter Image file conventions. It will look like everything is working but no provider will
I am sure you have seen people talking about their successes all while bragging about having spent $0 on it. Startups and products with no marketing spend and free tools only. A lot of the time these people are finding genuine success which is fantastic, but I still find it
Every week my cofounder and I brainstorm new features for our products, and in cases where we are not finding traction, we brainstorm completely new product ideas. SaaS web apps are our bread and butter, but we decided to branch out and try some new things this time around.
AI Tools are all the craze and that is dominated by ChatGPT wrapper tools. What are the pros and cons of jumping on this train?
How our SaaS spawned a Marketing Agency and why it made all the difference.
Quick workaround for stale state in React. Make a few minor changes to fix any existing setup.
Winning the challenge to be the first to 1000 unique visitors to my blog.
With NextJS apps there have been countless times when I need to upload a file to some other service and have to hold it locally.
Speed is the one advantage that startups have and you need to be taking advantage of it.
As a startup, speed is critical to success and staying ahead of the competition. That's why Supabase has become a popular choice for startups
I set out to build our first microtool in 5 days. It took me approximately 20 days of full time work and I don't regret it in the slightest.
Having mentors is important in all parts of life. The startup world is no exception as you do not have the luxury of spending time making trivial mistakes or operating aimlessly.