MRR.report (002) | I only needed one thing for €4,639 MRR

MRR.report 2nd week's update, 20240614

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I. Featured Long Read

1.1 One Comment Changed My SaaS Strategy

Here are areas to improve for the homepage based on the feedback I have collected so far.

A) Video walkthrough of Linkdojo

B) Concise copy highlighting what Linkdojo aims to solve, including key features

C) Pricing details to clarify what is free, on offer, and what isn’t.

D) Testimonials to show proof, credibility and target audience.

1.2 How to Implement a Recurring Revenue Model in SaaS

1.3 Unit Economics: Key Metrics for Startup Growth

1.4 What is Negative Churn? (And How to Achieve it)

1.5 SaaS Positioning: Everything for Everybody vs. Something for Somebody

1.6 How to build a predictable revenue pipeline for SAAS?

1.7 What is Negative Churn? (And How to Achieve it)

1.8 We’ve quadrupled our MRR, thanks to Techstars

Within 12 weeks, we reached $6k MRR by increasing our customer base from 15 to 66 companies, mostly in the US, including BCG, LaserAway, and Peek.

II. Interesting Discussion

How do I reach $100k MRR for SaaS without paid ads?

How did you get your first 10 customers as a SaaS?

How long did it take your SaaS product to get 100 customers?

How do you get 10,000 customers for an SaaS app?

III. Helpful Youtube Videos

3.1 How To Grow From 0 to 10K Followers In 6 months on Twitter (X)

• GAP: Growth, Authority, and Personal Content
• Create Profile: Photo, Bio, Banner, Username, Pinned Post
• Dedicate 1-2 hours to learning and TAKE NOTES
• Post regularly: What, Why, How Framework
• Create 1-3 long form posts a week
• Create 1-5 posts a day
• Create Top 100 List: Comment 25x a day
• Create a network: Make a group of 5-10 creators

3.2 How To Scale Your SaaS MRR Using Cold Email Outreach

Cold emailing is 70% cheaper than average.

3.3 How Tally bootstrapped to $100k MRR with a team of 3 With Marie Martens

the importance of initial tactics that don't necessarily scale, like personally reaching out to early users and engaging in communities to build traction for their product.

3.4 From Zero to $3k MRR: How to Grow a SAAS in 2024

the creator boosted initial user engagement by discussing the tool in videos, which helped in building an early audience

An affiliate program was introduced post-launch, proving effective with 777 clicks, 20 leads, and significant revenue through backlinks and referrals

a beginner-friendly SEO data tool, was launched with a closed beta involving 50 users

3.5 The TRUTH About Becoming an Indie Hacker

human behavior is influenced by the pursuit of status through dominance, virtue, and success

3.6 Live Building A $100K MRR Paid Community, Pt. 1

provide value to agency owners currently earning six to seven figures, helping them escalate to even higher revenue tiers

Marketing strategies include using the community's podcast for promotion, ensuring high member activity rates, and offering increasing value to justify rising membership costs

IV. MRR Updates from X

4.1 AutoShorts.ai 55K MRR NicheScraper: 30K MRR CopyGenius.io: $20K MRR

Eric Smith @ericsmith1302 May 16:

$40K MRR solo 🫨

From 0 to 20K MRR in 90 days! Eric Smith started a SAAS product for creating faceless videos called Autoshorts.ai and scaled it up to $20k MRR in 90 days! In this tweet, he discusses how he did it with affiliates and FB ads.

4.2 rankanything.online sanity.media stefaniak.cc

Tomasz Stefaniak @tomasz_fm Apr 3:

I've just made my first $ as an indie maker 🥳 Thanks again

4.3 JobBoardSearch.com 🔎 PropertyDescriptionAI.com ✍️ ReviewReplyAI.com ⭐ 24HoursVet.com ⚕ TouristItinerary.com 🗺

Rodrigo Rocco 👨‍💻📈📗 from JobBoardSearch 🔎 @rrmdp May 17:

My boring, simple, with clunky design directory of job boards passed $40k 💵 in revenue 🥳

4.4 jenni.ai

David Park @Davidjpark96 Jun 2:

May 2024: 💸 $505k MRR (+9.2%)

4.5 iOS app

Matt 🚀 @MattCowlin Jun 4:

Anyone interested in buying an iOS app?

APP FOR SALE: 💰 $400-500 MRR

4.6 guide on how to acquire products the right way🧵 Growing typeframes.com - revid.ai

Tibo @tibo_maker Jun 6:

In the last 3 years, I've bought 11 products for a total of over 400K. One of the most successful acquisition Typeframes just crossed 10k MRR. Long Threads

4.7 cbt.chat

levelsio @levelsio Mar 8:

Passed 15 customers @ $150 MRR for AI life coach 💆

4.8 ScreenshotOne.com

Dmytro Krasun @DmytroKrasun Jun 10:

200 paying customers with a monthly ARPU of $37.

4.9 iCodeThis.com

Florin Pop 👨🏻‍💻 @florinpop1705:

Apr 25: $11 MRR - let’s go! 🫡

May 2: The MRR dream? 👀

May 5: Getting very close to $100 MRR for http://iCodeThis.com! 🚀

May 11: It finally happened! 🥳$100 MRR

May 19: $200 MRR - let’s go!! 🥳🥳🥳

Jun 10：now at $300 MRR 🤩

4.10 calendeskcom hit $15k MRR 🙌

Maciej Cupial @maciejcupial Jun 13:

It ain't much, but it's honest work 🤓 @calendeskcom hit $15k MRR

4.11 echojobs.io

Morgan Gao @gaomengen Jun 13:

After a month of stall, EchoJobs passes 1200 MRR.

1,000 USD MRR unlocked for @echojobs__io membership 👐🎉🎉 On to the next 🤗🤗 #buildinpublic

4.12 Built 6 ecom brands to 7 figures

Steven Guo - CEO ($12M+ in Ecom) @guotweets Jun 14:

- Hit $5k MRR with 2k+ active users

4.13 Superframeworks.com indiemasterminds.com cohort.indiemasterminds.com elephas.app

Ayush 🙏 @ayushtweetshere Jun 13:

A Simple Email Integration app do $8600 MRR

4.14 yusufdemirci.me

Yusuf Demirci @meyusufdemirci :

Jun 10,2024: MRR'ı güncelleme zamanı geldi...

Jun 30, 2023: Gerçek MRR verisi, hem de HTML edit'lemeye gerek kalmadan..

4.15 youform.com

Abhishek from Youform @themkmaker Jun 14:

How we made $35,000 in revenue in less than 4 months after launch.

![🤑 $35,000+ in revenue. Video: https://x.com/i/status/1801628079594360910)

4.16 ProtoUI.dev

Adri@adriano_t_ Jun 15:

$5 MRR, time to get serious 😤

4.17 easygen.io

Ruben Hassid @RubenHssd Jun 10:

I don't know how to write a line of code.

$0 funding. No trust fund. No blue eyes.

I only needed one thing for €4,639 MRR:

4.18 webmaker.app

Kushagra Gour @css_battle @chinchang457 Jun 16:

Another product’s revenue journey has begun, with http://webmaker.app. Happy to announce that it has reached an MRR of $10 🚀

4.19 Microlaunch.net

Saïd Aitmbarek @SaidAitmbarek Jun 13:

[Two Monetization streams

• sponsors (weekly/monthly)
• premium products for those willing to get more exposure features during their launch🔥](https://x.com/SaidAitmbarek/status/1801175678307414046)

4.20 lunelearning.com

Alain@alainhere Jun 14:

Day 3/30 of sharing my progress every day: up to $177 MRR

V. MRR Highlights from reddit

Some posts are clearly written by AI or simply ads/lier promotion. Reddit removed some of them, I filtered some too.

5.1 at $12k MRR mark but too close to burning out

Just reached $12k MRR after 5 months

I switched from a DFY offer to a DWY offer, working with people to build out their entire social media marketing funnel (content, lead funnel, email marketing, personal branding, etc)

5.2 My 1st paying customer! $58 MRR

My service provides monthly leads of high-net-worth individuals and angel investors to real estate investors and startups looking to raise capital.

Grow your Twitter account. That's how I goty most of the clients (103 to be exact) and reached 5k per month. Another one I did is to buy slots on newsletters like byte thesis, tldr, etc.

5.3 20K MRR in 1 month - Stripe destroyed everything in 1 second

Stripe blocked my account, labeling it as "high risk." They withdrew $6,000 from my account and refunded legitimate customers

Lost 10k MRR. Switched to paddle and everything has been fine since then.

Stripe absolutely cannot be trusted for subscriptions, especially if you have a free trial.

"Content creation platforms (See the FAQs for additional details) Platforms that host or distribute third-party content and enable content creators to: Receive content-related tips and other payments in exchange for their content Sell exclusive content or digital goods"

EDIT: Actually you can even fall into the zero value add prohibited business category as I assume you are using some off-the-shelf AI video clip service and just reselling a different front end to it.

"No value added services including the sale or resale of a service without added benefit to the buyer and resale of government offerings without authorization or added value"

[flagged in ycombinator] $20k MRR in one month, Stripe destroyed everything on 1 second (twitter.com/theanimeshs)

5.4 How I added $24k in mrr by sending cold emails.

you don't need crazy ai generated copy to make cold outbound work. If you do your homework and build a quality list and add relevance to your emails, you should be able to generate a pipeline using email.

bought 50 new domains and created 3 inboxes on each. That brought our sending capacity from around 1k emails / day to around 4500 per day.

asked my developer to scrape around 20 directories, uploaded the lists to Clay, used apollo api to find founder first and last names and then used findymail + icypeas to find emails. That process got us around 7k email addresses to reach out to.

The more time you spend refining your list, the better your results are going to be

Tools I use (not affiliated with any) Findymail and Icypeas - finding emails from LI urls and names and dmoamins Clay - clean, score and enrich lists and build personalization points Gsuite - inboxes Instantly - email sequencer Porkbun - domains Apollo - finding founders and other target roles

5.5 Started a Skool. 1.2k MRR in one week using my email list

Just do it - Don't worry about the first round being perfect. The most important thing is actually getting the thing done. Finishing a course is going to give you the confidence to either rebuild it or start the next one. Don't get too caught up in being perfect. I own a software company, and trust me, the first version of our software company sucked - if I sat there and compared it to everyone else, we would be no where near where we are today. Just go through the mud and always iterate.

I then created a Facebook group for my niche. This is kind of wild, but it has 210k members in it. I got lucky and started it right when Facebook started promoting groups about 2 years ago and rode the wave of that. But, luck met me after I had already took action and started a Facebook group anyway.

I designed my course to be super simple, and took a screenshot of all of the lessons and threw those into my email marketing and marketing posts - this way they could see that the lessons were short and manageable. Nobody wants as freakin 15-20 lesson power course. Feels like a novel book - give me the info and let me go apply it.

5.6 replyhub.co [POSSIBLY AI WRITTEN]

From 0 to $344 MRR on autopilot in just 5 days

I set up the tool to track relevant discussions on Reddit, sending out personalized messages and engaging with users.

It was capturing leads and engaging users without my constant input

5.7 single video costed them 1150 and output 4000 USD MRR

How I turned a $1150 gig into a productized service idea

I went on Linkedin and reached 10 people, having growth marketing as their job titles.

5.8 OurBaby.pics Split.Cafe

i'm selling 2 AI projects for $1,000

5.9 How I leveraged Instagram account followings to make money/How I made $3,000 a month for the past two months

[SAME POST REPEATEDLY SENT]

[After a lot of grinding and a lot of messages I had gained clients and five months later I’m at the point where I have 31 affiliates selling my e books and courses in their bio. The total following of these accounts is 8.4 million followers across all platforms - a following I would not have been able to attain myself with my content creation skills.

The numbers, what everyone is here for! This method has generated me 11,000 in profit since January (50% of sales went to affiliates so 22,000 revenue). Things started out slow but are picking up fast, last month has been particularly good, generating me $3,000 in profit from easy and passive income.](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/1dhb3oj/how_i_leveraged_instagram_account_followings_to/)

ask social media accounts with an established following to put the link in their bio and I would offer them a percentage of every sale they make (I offered a 50/50 cut)

targeted accounts with large followings that did not have any links currently in their bio

a lot of people have a great ability to create content, but perhaps do not have the business acumen or have the motivation to create a revenue stream themselves

Problems and issues I’ve encountered: understandingly so the accounts often want to see the product they are selling before they agree to be an affiliate for the product. I originally had a problem finding high quality products, I am not going to name the website I would recommend for those looking high quality plr on here as I received downvotes last time

Why do I recommend this method? 1.) Once established this method is completely passive 2.) You gain exposure to large followings that would take years to build. 3.) relatively low set up costs. The bundle I recommend purchasing is 199 and shopify monthly payments are roughly 50 per month. There are no other costs incurred. 4.) unlimited earnings potential. There’s no ceiling as to what you can earn. The more accounts that agree to become an affiliate for you the more you will make

5.10 no mention

Stuck at $55 MRR... plz help!

No one comment so I replied: talk to your customer, why they paid you, ask for refer

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