I’ve been thinking about product founder fit lately. Made me wonder.

How many do the following when choosing an idea:

- consider founder fit
- do idea market analysis on the idea
- and evaluate do the above match the outcomes they want for themselves

#buildinpublic

The past month has been busy to say the least. Which caused me to pause side work in ProductFoundry and Boring SaaS Business Experiment.

It was that our burn out. So I chose sanity.

We don’t talk about it much in the #buildinpublic space. It happens & burn out isn’t worth it.

Boring SaaS Business Experiment update:

Working on pricing tiers. Not wanting to waste time, I went to the good 'ol ChatGPT. Explained I was working on a B2B SaaS that needed tiers.

It offered a few choices. I'm going with Free, Standard, and Advanced.

So easy

#buildinpublic

Boring SaaS Business Experiment update (I need a shorter name)

Landing pages decision time

One will be part of the app since I need a very low barrier to entry for its PLG play.

And the other will have a traditional landing page about the product.

#buildinpublic 🧵👇

Rules:

1. 1 Year, 2 B2B SaaS
2. Follow the lean principles I always share
3. Share the journey aka #buildinpublic
4. Launch both in 1 month (2 weeks each)
5. I can pivot as feedback determines
6 Hit $5k ARR for one and $1k ARR for the other
7. One gets sold on @microacquire

When's the right time to make a Twitter account for your idea? idk but I'm going with pre-launch.

Introduction @AskJack_io (more tomorrow) #buildinpublic

askjack.io

It’s been a fun tech day:

- Supabase
- OpenAI
- AWS Fargate
- Vercel

Seriously we live in a very cool time to be builders.

#buildinpublic

Well...

> Started the side project + launched a waitlist site, & did validation!
> Bbq'ed amazing ribs (for my oldest daughter's birthday)
> Wrote the next issue of ProductFoundry

But never got to the woodworking.

I tried to squeeze too much in this weekend😂

#buildinpublic

@DBredvick idk is this really true? I haven’t measured but feels like I’ve seen a good amount.

Either way do it anyway. The community around #buildinpublic is awesome.

Time for a ProductFoundry #buildinpublic update.

It's surprising how similar building a newsletter is with a product. Why?

1) Like a SaaS you need to get people aware you exist

2) Then you have to communicate value to convert

Here's what I've learned so far 👇🏼🧵

I featured Joe in my latest newsletter because he’s being super smart in iterative development as he #buildinpublic @tweetHPcom.

As a maker it’s tempting to overbuild, but he’s out kicking ass and taking names instead.

Lesson 1

Ask for feedback! I posted on Reddit what I'm doing and got some really great feedback on my site.

Honestly the #buildinpublic communicate is awesome.

So if you have some feedback, I'm all ears!

I’m a month into launching my newsletter "the ProductFoundry".

I'm still early on. But I’ve learned a thing or two about newsletters and audience building, here are my stats and lessons learned are below.

A #buildinpublic update 🧵

I love the #buildinpublic movement. One reason is how we get to take part in each others journey. Through advise, encouragement, and sometimes active participation because you see the needs.

Glad to lend a hand @remotejoeclark

I can leave the technical side of SEO alone for a while. This is the best I've ever taken a website. 😁

I've really enjoyed nerding out rolling my own newsletter site for ProductFoundry. Probably overkill, but if you're having fun you keep hacking away. #buildinpublic

Getting into the home stretch of launching ProductFoundry! Going to do a "light launch" at first, building content for the main launch still. #buildinpublic

Working on Product Foundry today, hoping to ship🤞🏻 Tuesday I wasted too much time debating ways to make it. Glad I bit the bullet on using Nextjs. Previously used React w/o a framework. Now it's Nextjs + Tailwind. I'll be deploying on @vercel (vs my norm AWS). #buildinpublic

It’s side hustle Saturday for me. It can be hard to balance a side project with a demanding job, but it is doable. You just have to accept you will have time limitations and roll with them. #buildinpublic

gm again #buildinpublic Today marks day 5 of my push. Great work yesterday on the first feature. Plus lots of refactoring components to make way for feature 2. Is that progress I smell in the air?

gm, it’s day 4 of my #buildinpublic push for @InterweaveApp. Yesterday I wrapped up auth. Today I’m kicking off one of the 3 main features for launch. A simple feature to capture customer discovery notes.