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I built my SaaS app fast. Now it's marketing time.

vincanger on February 26, 2025

A few weeks ago, I gave myself the challenge of building and marketing a SaaS app to $100 in 1 month. While I've slightly missed the mark since i...
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Matija Sosic

This is amazing - our whole team is already using it for blog posts! This is what I got for an interview with a SaaS founder 👇

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Isaiah • Edited

Nice post.
Good luck on this:

Reddit replies and maybe some posts -- I have to be careful here to not get seen as direct marketing or spam

Reddit's pretty aggressive with any kind of marketing. I did see some success with people who marketed via telling stories with their posts.

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Martin Šošić

You should add building in public under that list of marketing ideas, including this blog post :D!
The question I often get is "I made an app (SaaS), how do I market it now?". And then I start writing about finding relevant communities, being part of them, sharing about it, writing content that is valuable on its own but also mentions your app, ... . If you document all this stuff in details through your blog posts, this could be a great replacement for what i usually write, I could just share the series of articles you wrote! It is also much better when there are real examples like in your case vs me talking generally. So yeah, that would be exciting to see: you documenting each of your steps as youa re doing it, regardless if step fails or not. So I am excited to read more!

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Hardik Gohil • Edited

Awesome tool 🔥🔥

I've also made a simple app called LetterLens - an open-source text analyzer for quick character and word counting.

Try it out → letter-lens.netlify.app

GitHub → github.com/HardikGohilHLR/letter-lens

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Milica Maksimovic

I love the "clay art" images!

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Benny Schuetz

Great project. Keeping my finger crossed that it turns out successfully revenue wise.

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Lin Wang

This is amazing. Keep it up!!!!!!

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Mihovil Ilakovac

We need more examples of banners it generated! The styles are nice. Did you fine tune some models for this?

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Mihovil Ilakovac

OG image generation is nice

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Filip Sodić

Bitchin' thumbnail

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Digvijay Shelar

Loved it !

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Herche Jane

First of all, congratulations on completing this challenge! It is not easy to build and launch an application in one month and successfully launch it. As a programmer, I am really happy for you.