Sales and outreach

My SaaS is finally growing! I am a 16 year old and launched my small SaaS around 2-3 weeks ago. I haven’t really dabbled in much advertising (besides sharing around on Reddit) and it’s starting to take off. For context: I built Siteless, a lead generation tool that works for everyone from small web designers looking for clients, to agency owners that want to elevate their lead generation process. Recently it’s started taking off bringing in 380 users, most of which coming from a recent random surge in traffic in the past week. So far I have amassed 3 paying users! Totaling around 40 dollars in revenue! I’m starting to dedicate all of my free time to trying to scale this app to hopefully $100 a month soon. I’ll leave the link to Siteless down below in the comments for any of you that want to try it out.

How they grewShared on Reddit; recent random traffic surge

Should I sell my startup for $1XX,XXX? I recently got an offer to buy my startup for $1XX,XXX and I genuinely don’t know if selling makes sense. I’ve actually received 8 different acquisition offers for Getlead so far, but this was by far the most interesting one. Some context: I’m a solo founder and built the whole thing myself. Right now the business does around $9K–$10K/month in revenue with roughly 30–40% profit margins. MRR is only around $2K, mainly because I’ve sold a lot of lifetime deals instead of focusing purely on subscriptions. In the last ~9 months, I’ve done $90K+ in total revenue. My best B2C sales day was $1,300+, excluding any high-ticket/client deals. And honestly, the goal now is pretty simple: make $1K+ days boring. I want to get to the point where the business consistently does at least $1K/day in sales. I’m not there yet, obviously, but after seeing what worked on my best days, I think there’s a realistic path to getting this to around $30K–$40K/month in revenue over the next few months if I can make the acquisition channels more consistent. That’s probably the biggest reason I’m hesitating to sell. Part of me looks at the acquisition offer and thinks: I already generated close to that amount in revenue in 9 months. Why would I sell the whole thing for roughly the same amount? But I also know that’s not necessarily the right way to think about it. Revenue ≠ profit. A lot of the revenue came from lifetime deals, so this isn’t the same thing as owning a $10K MRR SaaS with predictable recurring revenue. And taking an acquisition offer means getting the money now instead of betting on what the business might become over the next 1–3 years. The business also still depends heavily on me. Sales, marketing, product decisions, positioning, pretty much everything still runs through me. So there’s definitely risk. But at the same time, I don’t feel like the business has peaked. I’m still testing pricing. I’m still figuring out distribution. I haven’t really optimized subscriptions yet. And I’m only now starting to understand which offers and channels can consistently produce those $1K+ days. If I believed the business had already reached its ceiling, the decision would be much easier. But right now it feels like I’d be selling while I’m still figuring out the part that could completely change the economics of the business. So I’m basically stuck between: Take the six-figure exit, remove a lot of the risk, and start something new or Keep building and try to turn occasional $1K+ days into the baseline. For people who’ve sold a SaaS/business before: What would you actually look at before deciding whether an offer like this is worth taking? Not really looking for a simple “sell” or “don’t sell.” I’m more interested in how you’d value a business like this when current MRR is relatively low, but total revenue is much higher and there’s still a lot of room to push recurring revenue. For context, this is the product: https://getle.ad/ And here’s the public revenue proof: https://trustmrr.com/startup/getlead

Launched 4 months ago, $8K MRR, zero churn. I'm the whole company and need a strategic investor to build a sales team I spent 10+ years inside car dealerships as a salesperson, sales manager, and finance manager. Four months ago I launched DealFlo, an automotive SaaS that locks down a dealership's lead process so the leads they already pay for actually turn into sold cars. Where we're at: - ~$8,000 MRR, four months after launch - Zero churn. Every dealership that has signed on is still with us, including the ones from month one - One of our dealerships has 50+ salespeople on the platform, and the feedback has been nothing but positive - Fully built and running in live dealerships. No dev work needed to sell it. This isn't an idea or an MVP The market is big: nearly 17,000 franchised new-car dealerships in the US before you count independents. After 10 years inside them, I can tell you most are leaving deals on the table in their lead process. The bottleneck right now is bandwidth. I'm the whole company. I run every demo, every onboarding, all the support, and all the marketing. Current revenue can't fund a sales team and a real marketing budget yet, and that's what's capping how fast we can grow. That's what I'm raising for: hiring and paying a sales team, and putting real money behind marketing. I'm looking for a strategic investor, not just a check. If you already have relationships with dealer principals, GMs, or dealer groups, that's a big plus. The right intro is worth as much to us as the capital. We're based in Denver, CO. If you're an accredited investor and this fits what you look for, DM me and I'll walk you through the product and the numbers.

i keep changing my mind about what i want my AI SaaS to be. quick context in case you don't know either of these. SalesRobot is my 1st SaaS. It's a LinkedIn automation tool I've been running for years, and it's done over $3M in all-time revenue. Kuron is the 2nd one. It's an AI agent built to run outbound for you using real playbooks from GTM experts who've done this for years, instead of giving you the usual generic advice you can find anywhere. Kuron started as a standalone product, and for a while I was pretty set on keeping it that way. Then I changed my mind and decided to kill it 🫥 My logic behind it was that SalesRobot already had the customers, traffic, and distribution, so why was I trying to build a completely new company from scratch? SalesRobot gets around 50K sessions a month, and it already had a basic chat feature. The idea was to replace that with the actual Kuron agent and make it part of SalesRobot instead. It would be called SalesRobot Agentic Mode, it would replace our existing ‘we do it for you’ plan and we'd charge $397/month for it. And then…I changed my mind again Kuron had its own design, its own way of working, its own interface. Trying to squeeze all of that into SalesRobot's existing product wasn't just going to make the two look a little mismatched. There was a real risk of making SalesRobot itself worse. So Kuron became a standalone product again. I have a co-founder now, and we’re at about ~1000 people in the Kuron waitlist. we’re trying tons of different things with the marketing, some of it is working some of it isn’t. But the hype looks good and i’m happy with it 🙂

How they grewmarketing experiments; some working, some not

So I've listed at Betalist for 39$ and what I've got? I'm building a LinkedIn to CRM extension (messages auto-logging, saving profiles, companies, CRM management) called Ln2crm, and now marketing it, so I bought a listing in Betalist - one of the large SaaS listicles. Waited nearly a month for them to publish, and now my page has been on the flight for 2 days. So what I've got: - decent do-follow link from 65+ DR - a couple of listings on some other platforms automatically (they reached out and told me they listed) - some security 'reviews' with some points that made sense to fix - generic AI-generated website review with an offer to build a new one - suggestions to list on some platforms I didn't know about -about 50 people of traffic to the website (from India, Pakistan, Singapore, Nigeria, Morocco) - a letter with different proposals for video making, QA(with crazy pricing $1200-4200 for testing), SEO services, link building services. - I get a letter literally every hour (you can see how my morning started), so my inbox is flooded - Threats from scammy 'white hat' hackers. P.S. All I wanted was a backlink, so no expectations of new users or anything

How they grewBetalist listing

Update: 12 days ago I was at 7 Users 1 Paying Now at 15 Users 1 Paying. My software that harvests data and sources govement contracts has had 12 sign ups this past month. Every signup within the past 12 days Ive tried to host demos with users so they understand the product better. Out of the 8 that joined in these past 12 days through email campaigns I had demos with 2 who said they would switch to paid after the trial ended and they did not. They are not receptive to follow up emails and emails stating their trial is ending. Stuck in a pattern where users join and then are active for a few days and fall off. Its clear as day the demand is there. There is a problem. I can't figure out why users don't switch to paid. I have a demo next week with user 15 who wants to switch to paid once the trial is over ill see how that goes and use any tips or feedback offered here. This demo is scheduled at the end of his trial showcasing the paid version of our software. Feedback/constructive criticism wanted.

How they grewEmail campaigns and demo calls

Miljan Sto

@Miljan_Sto

After two SaaS, I learned distribution was harder than building. Uplane got its first paying customer after a cold LinkedIn call and a one-week working demo. My next test: one real buyer deadline before more code. x.com/i/article/2104…

How they grewcold LinkedIn call; one-week working demo

Shakhzod Karimov

@shakhzod1001

Day 66/160 - Missed days: [3] Stage 1: 100 connections✅ & $100 MRR Stage 2: 1k connections✅ & $1k MRR Stage 3: 3,354 -> 10k connections & $10k MRR Did I get better today? - yess: connect ed with 75 people. New project is ready to publish. Needs some updates. Passed 3.2k 🎉🎉.

Quinten Kamphuis

@QuintenKamphuis

My SaaS Reachkit crossed $10k MRR yesterday. Almost 2 years in now. Until 6 months ago it was only referrals. Then I went all in on cold email. That's where the last $100k+ ARR came from. Turns out the thing I sell works on me too.

How they grewreferrals, then cold email

Chaminda

@chams_builds

this side project got 195 signups while I ignored it. $33 MRR. no launch push, no marketing. just a chart that kept going up. that's a signal. also a sign of misaligned intentions and a confused audience. so i cut it down to one job: finding posts on X where your product is the answer. relaunching this Tuesday on PeerPush. would you like to support the relaunch? 👋

How they grewno launch push, no marketing

Noorullah Jamakzai

@itzSaasified

linkedify does ~$25k MRR. arnies, the new one, is stuck at ~$1k and has been flat for a while. that's the weird part. i already built something that works. i know how to get customers. but pushing a second saas from zero feels harder than the first time. for months i kept thinking the next feature would move it. linkedin avatars, email warmup, domains, inboxes, sequences. arnies turned into a "GTM superapp" and honestly nobody buys a superapp. they buy one problem getting solved. every feature made it harder to explain. demos got longer, people nodded, then nothing happened. no viral moment, no big launch day, just slow weeks. so right now the only plan is to stay consistent. post every day, reply every day, ship small, talk to users, even when the numbers don't move. and this week i started cutting. i'm asking every paying user one question: if arnies disappeared tomorrow, what would you actually miss? whatever they say stays. everything else goes, even the stuff i spent weeks building and still like. it's hard going backwards at $1k when the other business is at $25k. but a small thing people would miss beats a big thing nobody can explain. will post what survives the cut.

How they grewpost every day, reply every day, ship small, talk to users

Namanyay

@NamanyayG

here's i got 25 yc-backed customers in 4 weeks & how I'll scale to the next 1,000 while scaling my last product to $100k ARR, I built tons of agentic tooling to do marketing and get more sales turns out, it was solving problems faced by a LOT of other startups in just a few weeks, I signed on 25 yc cos and found them 23,000 leads. I'm calling it pumpgtm.com. it's built to be GTM tooling that is completely run by AI, helping agents sell product and scale companies. here's why we're great: - we find and engage with leads everywhere. we're truly multi-channel, you can run sequences across Linkedin, email, and X - we're building your agent's favorite tooling -- set up our MCP inside claude/hermes and let them find sales for you while you sleep github.com/pumpgtm/pumpgt… - Our X integration is better than anything else -- especially useful if you're selling to founders, CEOs, or basically anyone in SF. I'm using PumpGTM to scale PumpGTM (lol), and I've recorded one of my "plays" below. I'm planning to reach 8,000 YC founders in the next few weeks using PumpGTM.com and all of this runs automatically: - Find relevant YC startups (i made the entire list available at pumpgtm.com/yc/founders) - Connect with the founders' LinkedIn, X, and email - Start conversations with them - Every click, message, DM, fully tracked, analyzed, and improved week over week we're growing fast af, we haven't even properly launched and we've already had 60,000 MCP requests in this short time if you want to run the agentic multi-channel GTM system, try us out at pumpgtm.com

How they grewLinkedIn, email, X; MCP inside Claude/Hermes

Luis

@lmfresneda

3 weeks building HAGGIN in public 7 signups. 2 Haggins live, one not mine. 0 offers Worked: writing to founders one by one, Reddit threads under 2 hours old. Didn't: 3 posts a day, Product Hunt, a founding discount nobody took x.com/i/article/2104…

How they grewWriting to founders one by one; Reddit threads under 2 hours old.

Pierre-Eliott Lallemant

@pierreeliottlal

3,500 customers in 12 months. if you're a founder stuck before $1M ARR, steal this. here's the exact playbook 👇 PHASE 1: THE FIRST $1M ARR 1. stop cold emailing strangers cold lists are dead. we used gojiberry to grow gojiberry, and only contacted people already showing intent: → people engaging with our content → people engaging with our competitors' posts → people engaging with topics our buyers care about → companies that just raised or are hiring then we hit them on every channel: → LinkedIn: connection request + DM → phone: for the hottest leads right person + right moment + right channel. result: 300+ demos in a few month enter your website on gojiberry, it learns your business and does the rest. 2. launch every single day on X and LinkedIn: → 6 days/week: lead magnet posts (free guide, template, playbook) → ask people to comment to get it → 1 day/week: founder story → reply to every single comment every comment = a warm lead you can contact. one post added $5K MRR in under 24 hours. if nobody talks about your product, it's because you don't. 3. use reddit reddit hates marketers. so don't act like one. → warm up your account before posting → post 3x/week: real stories + free playbooks → find threads where people mention your competitors, and leave a genuinely helpful comment → answer niche questions in your space better than anyone → never pitch, never argue with haters result: 14.8M+ views. PHASE 2: SCALE WHAT WORKS 4. influencers most founders pick creators by follower count. wrong. pick them by audience and engagement: if your buyers are sales leaders, find creators sales leaders follow. how to do it: → start with 5-10 small creators in your niche, not 1 big one → give them one clear angle → give each one a free lead magnet to push, so you can track who drives signups → kill the ones that don't convert after 2-3 posts → double down on the winners today, tens of creators talk about gojiberry every month. bonus: their best posts become your best ads. 5. Meta + LinkedIn ads how to do it: → retarget everyone who touched you: site visitors, video viewers, people who engaged with your posts → creatives: your best organic posts, creator videos, testimonials → always be testing, cut what doesn't work fast, scale what does so when your outbound hits their inbox, they already know your name. ads don't create demand. they amplify it. 6. sales leads are like fruit. if nobody picks them fast, they rot. how we run it: → before the call: check their company, team size, and what they sell → during the demo: don't show slides. run the product live on their own business → they see their own leads in real time. that's what closes → goal of the first call: get them started, not sign a huge contract → once they see results, help them upgrade → no-shows get a LinkedIn DM + email the same day marketing fills the pipeline. speed and a live demo close it. 7. focus founders, salespeople, growth teams, agencies… lots of different people use gojiberry. but now, we're building for one core customer: sales teams of 2 to 30 people. why them? they're the ones who get the most value from it. how to find yours: → look at your best customers, not your biggest segment → who gets results fastest? → who pays the most? → who stays the longest? → that's your core customer then point everything at them: posts, ads, emails, features. everyone else still gets value. you're just clear on who you build for first. the truth: none of this is magic. it's doing the simple things every single day: → contact people showing intent → post every day → give real value → follow up fast do that long enough, and it compounds. that's how we got to 3,500 customers in year 1. PS: we made a free 0 → $1M ARR GTM playbook. want it? RT + comment "GTM" 👇

How they grewContent, LinkedIn, phone, Reddit, influencers, Meta and LinkedIn ads

Tushar Kapil

@TusharKapil003

My SaaS has crossed $1200 MRR 🚀 Growth has been a bit slow but still we are growing steadily. Launching facebook integration on Reachlee soon ✨ x.com/tusharkapil003…

Guillaume Bardet

@GuillaumeBardet

We added $30K in MRR by watching who engaged with our competitors on LinkedIn. Every like. Every comment. Those are buying signals hiding in plain sight. If someone in your ICP keeps engaging with a competitor's content, they're: > Researching the problem. > Comparing solutions. > Getting close to a decision. All visible. All actionable. The play: > Build a list of your top 3–5 competitors. Include their founders and sales reps. > Track who's liking & commenting on their posts. > Filter for ICP fit. > Reach out without mentioning the competitor. Don't say: "Hey, I saw you commented on X's post." Say instead: "Saw you're exploring [this space]. We take a different approach. Thought it might be worth a look if you're comparing options." > Keep monitoring. Move the warmest prospects into your pipeline. That's it. Your competitors are already doing the demand gen work. You just need to show up at the right moment. P.S. We built this into Gojiberry, it automatically tracks competitor engagement, identifies ICP-fit prospects, and turns those signals into outreach-ready leads.

How they grewLinkedIn competitor engagement tracking

Michel Lieben

@MichLieben

Why leave a $7M ARR agency to sell an API key? I'm going live with @InstantlyAI on Wednesday to answer it. The short version: 1. Why software over services Louis, one of the GTM engineers on our team, dictated 3 sentences to Claude Code. 27 minutes later there was a full cold email campaign sitting in Instantly, with a verified list and the copy written, and all that was left was reviewing it (one caveat: he'd mapped a 10,000+ lead TAM and built an ICP Matrix first) I'm convinced running GTM from a coding agent is the best move a GTM team can make, and I wanted to build the layer that makes it work. So in July we split the company. My co-founder kept the agency, and I kept ColdIQ to turn it into that layer. 2. What replaces the tool stack Claude Code can already call most GTM tools directly. You still need to know which provider to call for which job, and you still end up holding 8-12 API keys to do it. So ColdIQ is now one key in front of 40+ providers, with each step routed to the provider that does that job best: → The list from whichever B2B database fits the ICP (Apollo and Prospeo both sit behind the key) → Emails through a waterfall of seven finders. One provider alone covers around 40% of a list, the waterfall gets past 80% → Buying intent from PredictLeads plus 1-2 other signal APIs The routes come from testing 3,000+ tools on real campaigns across 275+ B2B companies. Your sequencer stays where it is, the campaign just gets built in Claude Code and pushed into Instantly through its API. The rest is on the live. Details to join in the tweet below.

Jonathan Lis

@ZenModeJon

Hi I’m Jonathan 👋 38 year old solo Founder from London, UK 🇬🇧 Ex @Google employee, and built/launched zen-mode.io earlier this year - a LinkedIn automation tool that simplifies lead generation for B2B professionals. Already at 50 active subscribers and ~$2k MRR. Big fan of Guinness, Arsenal football club, lifting weights and travel - I previously lived in The Philippines for 14 years 🇵🇭 Looking to connect with anyone/everyone in the tech industry - SaaS builders, founders, GTM professionals, AI evangelists, as well as VCs/Angel investors/pre-seed connections. Follow me for my build in public journey 🚀

Ubaid Ur Rehman

@ubaidbuilds

Last week I launched ReachLoop with 0 paying customers. Today: 1. $79/month. A stranger put a card in after the free trial. I know $79 isn't a business. It's one person deciding the trial was worth keeping. But my last product ran 4 months and never got a single paid user. I built it quietly and told nobody. This time I posted before it was ready, said the number was zero, and gave the whole outbound system away for free. The first customer came from that. Not from a feature. From telling people. Next number I post is 10. No idea how long that takes. Reply "SYSTEM" and I'll send you the playbook.

How they grewPosted before it was ready; gave the outbound system away for free

Luke Shalom

@shalom_luke

I know exactly what stops founders hitting $30k, $50k and even $100k months from LinkedIn. It's not your content. 👇 It all comes down to getting obsessed with your "metrics". Most expert founders have no idea why one month they have an amazing launch, and the next month they're crashing back down, wondering what the hell happened. Knowing your business metrics is the only way to make your client acquisition predictable. And if you can't get this right, you'll never be able to sustain $20k, $50k or $100k months in your business. Here's what I track: Top of funnel Content: - Which posts get hand-raisers and qualified calls booked - All of it logged in an Excel sheet - The winning formats saved into my Claude AI strategist, so I can replicate them Middle of funnel Outbound: - Messages sent: how I keep my team accountable - Reply rate: tells us if our first-touch message is working or needs switching up - Active conversations: are we actually prospecting, and is our messaging engaging prospects? - Touches per booked meeting: the golden metric I hold my team to. Once you know it, you can work backwards to your targets - Qualified sales calls booked: budget, authority, need and/or timeline confirmed in the DM conversation Bottom of funnel - VSL completion: how long your prospect watched your VSL. It shows the drop-off points, where to improve retention, and whether prospects arrive at the call warmed up - Show rate: how many people actually turn up to your sales calls - Close rate on qualified calls: how many qualified calls it takes you to close a client - Total close rate: include your disqualified calls as well as the qualified ones, and you get the number you actually need to scale (this will humble you if you think you're an A-class closer) - Slipped deals: if 20% of your deals usually drop off, factor that into your close metrics - Cash collected: the cash you actually receive from the deals you close. Not contract value, not MRR - Contract value closed: what clients have agreed to pay under contract When your numbers are dialled in, consistently profitable months become a by-product. Because you can work backwards from your best months. For example: I close 1 in 5 of the calls I take (qualified or not). It takes 35 touches to book a call. So on paper, my team needs 175 touches to sign one $10,000 client, and 1,750 touches for a $100k month. But my show rate is 70%. So a $100k month at $10k a client actually takes 2,520 touches, not 1,750. Your best months come from knowing your numbers. After all, how can you hit a target if you don't know where it is? Want our setter DM tracker to build a predictable pipeline? Send me a DM with "TRACKER".

How they grewLinkedIn content and DM outreach