The Usual SaaS-pects with Ch Daniel

Rohan's Bio

Hi I'm Rohan, serial entrepreneur I guess, but as I've been building businesses I've done it through a ton of transparent case studies here on Reddit.

On the SaaS front I started Launch27, a software company focused on small service businesses like home cleaning, lawncare etc. Bootstrapped it to almost $2 million a year and sold it in 2019.

Happy to answer anything on the process.

I'll be here for the next 3-4 hours.

Proof: https://twitter.com/rohangilkes/status/1422247974193688578

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/

James' Bio

Hi everyone! I’m James Gill (@jamesjgill on Twitter).

I started GoSquared in 2006 when at school (aged 15) with two friends, Geoff and JT. See a timeline of our 15 year history.

Having spent over half my life running company, since before the term “SaaS” was common, I have many scars and war stories to share with anyone who wants to hear them.

In some ways, we’ve built ~10 companies but kept our same core team and company all this time.

🐣 What got us started: thinking we could build a better “Million Dollar Homepage”. We could build it, but no one cared.

🗺 What got us on the map: LiveStats (now GoSquared Analytics) – the first real-time website analytics tool.

📈 How we’ve grown: Zero sales. 90% content. Running a blog since 2007. Building a product that doesn’t suck.

🤔 Challenge today: Competing with juggernauts like Intercom, Hubspot in the wider space of growth software with a tiny team.

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Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Jason Fried is the Founder & CEO @Basecamp, the project management and team communication tool trusted by millions.

Over an incredible 22 year journey, they have scaled to over 3.5M accounts and in 2020 they went back to being a multi-product company with the launch of their integrated email client & service, HEY.com. Jason is also the co-author of the widely acclaimed, REWORK (but also other books) and has also made several angel investments in the likes of Intercom, Gumroad and Hodinkee to name a few.

Best place to find Jason: world.hey.com/jason  

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Links 

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas 

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel 

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Rob's Bio, from his website: https://robfitz.com/  

Heya. I’ve been running little businesses for the past fourteen years and have written three books about what I’ve learned.  If you’d like to stay in the loop about my projects and thinking, the best place is my youtube channel. Alternatively, you can also receive an occasional email when I’ve got something worth sharing.  My next decade is devoted to serving indie nonfiction authors via a handbook, better tools for beta reading, a nonfiction authors’ community, and more. If you’ve ever wanted to write nonfiction that works for your readers and succeeds for you, then join us.  I live in a teensy tiny mountain village in upper Catalonia 📷

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Jason's Bio

Jason is the founder and CTO of WP Engine (http://wpengine.com), the 7th-largest public website host in the world (and the largest that focusses on WordPress), serving 150,000 customers with 1000 employees, both distributed and with major offices in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Australia. As a successful, repeat entrepreneur (Smart Bear, sold 2008; IT WatchDogs, sold 2004), Jason became a founding mentor and angel investor with Austin's top incubator, Capital Factory, in 2009. He has written about startups for more than a decade at http://blog.asmartbear.com; Twitter is @asmartbear.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Vlad's bio, courtesy of MakerPad:

Vlad Magdalin is the founder and CEO of Webflow, a company that is working on empowering designers and entrepreneurs to design, build, and launch websites and applications without having to learn how to code.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

My product: https://Simple.ink/

Chris' Bio (from https://chrisfrantz.com/about/)

Work stuff

Personal

Want to know more? Say hey on Twitter!

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Links 

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas 

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

Emmanuel (https://twitter.com/estraschnov) is the Founder and Co-CEO of Bubble, a visual programming language for web and mobile applications whose goal is to make code obsolete. Born in Paris, Emmanuel studied computer science and mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. 

Emmanuel is committed to breaking the economic limits of technology and devising solutions that enable innovation and product development without coding software.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

Their bio (from the AmA post)

I'm Hiten, @hnshah on Twitter. Signed up for Twitter in 2006, lucky to be in the first batch of 5,000 users. I tweet about growing startups into businesses and the occasional gif or meme. (example)

Founded three SaaS startups (Crazy Egg, KISSmetics, and now Nira), 150+ startup investments, many failed SaaS products, 18 years later, ask me literally anything about SaaS.

My biggest monetary failure: Back in the early 2000s I lost $1 million trying to start a SaaS company that never ended up launching.

I created a product management course while building Nira with my co-founder. We used to charge $1,600 for it. If you ask me a question, direct message (DM) me, I'll give you an account at no cost to you.

Fun fact about me: I’m obsessed with finding the best content on the Internet using Google. So, I might reply to your question(s) with my favorite link that has the answer.

Pro tip: Search my tweets using Google. Use this Google search and replace [fill in the blank] with your startup question or related keywords. This trick can be used for any account on Twitter.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel

Marie's Bio (from the AmA)

I’m Marie.

I spent 10yrs in a career of branding/advertising and went from knowing no programming to launching my first SaaS in a year (if anyone is thinking of switching careers or learning to code, I can highly recommend it!)

Llama Life started off as a side project, something to help practice my coding skills. But it also came from a very personal need. I’d been chipping away at this concept that productivity is “not so much about time management, it’s about attention management”, ever since I got diagnosed with ADHD over 10yrs ago.

Llama Life is a productivity tool that helps you work THROUGH lists, not just make them.

I'm a solo founder and bootstrapped it to around 500 paid customers, and I recently got into the LAUNCH Accelerator which is run by Jason Calacanis.

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Links

Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chddaniel