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Show HN: 1.2 users a day to keep the 9–5 away

https://www.postonreddit.com
13•dmasiii•9mo ago
In my long career as an “almost digital entrepreneur” (a fancy way to say I’ve tried a thousand things online without making a single cent), I never really felt that “this is it, I’m so close, I’ll finally quit everything and update my passport: job title? SaaS founder.”

(Small detail: I don’t even have a passport. But I like to imagine that if I did, I’d want something cooler than “unemployed creative” written on it).

For years, I collected side projects, hobbies, half-dead MVPs, and random nonsense, all with the same ending: super hyped at the beginning, burned out in the middle, completely abandoned by the end.

But a couple years ago, I decided to take things more seriously (well… I try). I started building SaaS products. Simple, fast stuff, nothing too fancy. And finally, after a long toxic relationship with perfectionism, I realized something super basic but actually powerful: I don’t need thousands of users. I just need 1.2 paying users a day. Literally.

Not to get rich, no Lamborghinis parked outside (also, I live in an apartment with no garage), but enough to live well, keep building, and maybe say “this is my job” without looking down in shame.

It’s part math, part mindset. Like they told us in the first year of computer science: big problems get solved by breaking them into smaller ones. 100 users a day? Anxiety. 1.2 users a day? I can breathe.

So yeah, this is my new mantra: “1.2 a day to keep the office job away.”

Let’s see where this road takes me

Comments

ezekg•9mo ago
I've found reddit harder and harder to actually meaningfully post your blog anywhere, unless your post is a technical/programming blog post (in which case /r/programming and /r/$lang work ok), especially if your audience for said post is other founders e.g. a post about bootstrapping. Most subreddits block self-promotion of any kind due to I assume spam and low-quality blog spam. I've written a lot about business over the years, but reddit hasn't read much of it -- just my technical posts, really.

Do you have any thoughts on this issue? I used to use a reddit scheduler quite a lot, but nowadays not so much due to the above.

dmasiii•9mo ago
I think you should focus on telling a story, your story, each of us has one. Starting from this, analyzes the style of the posts that perform better, use postonreddit to find the best moments to post and here is the game. I assure you that many new users will arrive
ezekg•9mo ago
I'm going to be candid here: this doesn't really answer my question and just seems like you telling me to try your product. If you're going to sell a tool for marketing on reddit, you should know or learn how to market on reddit so that you can help your users.
cjbarber•9mo ago
FWIW I'm confused about what the product is. I think it's a reddit scheduling tool? But this post and the hero part of the website would be more helpful to me if they were clearer what it does
dmasiii•9mo ago
postonreddit It is not just a scheduling tool, but it helps you to find the best moments to post for each specific subreddit, and I am also working to add more features that can help the posts to perform the best
codingdave•9mo ago
Posting on reddit is great for traffic, awful for conversions, especially if you are posting something you are asking people to pay for. Redditors will happily check out any new free tool, but will ignore, block, and delete content that is either directly or indirectly asking for money.
dmasiii•9mo ago
This is the point. You don't have to ask for money, you don't have to ask you to subscribe to your app, you just have to tell your story, the story of how you created your app, make people interested in your project. Reddit must serve to collect not money, those will come alone later.
hluska•9mo ago
Good work bud, you may not have a Lamborghini parked outside but you have a great story. And you know, the service on a great story is a lot cheaper than on a Lamborghini so maybe you’re ahead? :)

I’m working on something and while Reddit is where I go to feel old and lost in translation, it makes sense for the thing I’m working on. I’m going to give this a try in the next couple of months. Maybe I’ll have some real feedback and not just a stupid joke about cars versus stories?

dmasiii•9mo ago
Good luck for your project dude
daveguy•9mo ago
Okay... It looks cool; I see the need; It has interesting features; Congratulations on the launch!

But the pricing you have set up... Two tiers: 1) free tier and 2) lifetime access for $32.

Giving any sort of unlimited/lifetime option is a recipe for losing money. Your amortized MAU value for lifetime is approximately zero. Okay, it's slightly more than that, but 20 years of access and you're looking at getting $32/20/365 per day from each user. And I just don't see how 1.2 daily active users at ~0.4 cents per day is going to keep any job away. Unless you mean you'll have to quit your job to support all the free accounts after a few years.

aziaziazi•9mo ago
> Giving any sort of unlimited/lifetime option is a recipe for losing money

I agree with you: maintaining the SAAS server and has a cost. However he may consider the downloadable, local software: it would be cheaper for him (= more profit) and safer for its users ("lifetime until OP eventually gets out of business " vs "this is mine").

Obviously for the Lamborghini - the monthly subscription SAAS with discounts if you pay for 3 years and good luck to understand the unsubscribe funnel - will be more effective but OP said he didn’t target the moon. Reading his story, his target seems to be the status - or the fame - and for that I can’t help placing here my Hero’s for inspiration :

Dan and Tanya have build and maintain the most amazing GIT graphic client I tried :

https://git-fork.com/about

It’s been 9 years, it’s their only "job" and there’s two price:

- free: all features + pay reminder at startup

- pay (60$): remove the reminder

There’s also tons of pre-2010 companies that did well with lifetime plan, and many users here and here complains about the subscription models. I’m sure they’ll consider paying more for a non-SAAS software.

dmasiii•9mo ago
If I can get 1.2 new paying users per day for the duration of one year, earn enough, to say Okey maybe I can focus on this project, and then scales it and get to larger numbers.
ziddoap•9mo ago
Maybe a matter of personal opinion, but quotes like this:

>Manual posting? That's adorable.

>Listen to the folks who stopped crying over Reddit karma

And buzzwords like:

>"Post like a time wizard"

Are an instant turnoff for me. What does posting like a time wizard mean? It'd be more effective, for me at least, if you substitute "time wizard" with whatever you think "time wizard" implies. And maybe reword the stuff that can easily be interpreted as insults of your prospective customers.

Also, are those testimonies real? Placeholders? They give off a fake vibe, so if they are real, you might want to re-evaluate how they are presented.

Lastly, your privacy policy says "We collect this data with your knowledge and consent, and we always explain why we collect it and how it will be used.", but there's no explanation within the privacy policy. The privacy policy is precisely the place to explain why and how it will be used. For example, why do you collect my reddit "profile information", and what all does that entail (e.g creation date, bio, previous posts, etc?) Where do you explain why you are collecting my profile information and what you're doing with it?

satvikpendem•9mo ago
It's very millennial-coded, funnily enough. I remember hearing stuff like that around 10 - 15 years ago.
dmasiii•9mo ago
Somewhere you have to start
dmasiii•9mo ago
As for the texts, I thought a lot about what tone to use, it is true that as you say they can create a barrier towards the user, but I wanted to use a more peaceful liniguage in a way to differentiate myself from the rest.

How can I re -evaluate the testimonials in your opinion?

Privacy-dome is something waiting, I am trying to study and understand how to build and write a decent, for now I have done what I have been able to, in order not to continue to postpone the launch of the app

apt-apt-apt-apt•9mo ago
I tried posting my story-with-self-promotion (self-association indicated at the start of the content) to several subreddits.

Most explicitly outlawed self-promotion posts, so nothing even got submitted there. The few that didn't got instantly hidden by auto-moderators, pending review. Out of those few, my DMs and followups to mods to kindly consider my post got a vague 'no excessive self-promotion' message (to my only post) days later, then got ghosted after.

dmasiii•9mo ago
Try to analyze the most performing posts in certain subreddit and see the difference in writing and "self-promotion" that people do, you will understand many things I assure you.
moralestapia•9mo ago
1.2 * 30 days * 32 EUR = 1,152 EUR

You could certainly make much more than that in a 9-5.

But I agree w/ the message, financial independence is not easy but also not as difficult as one may imagine!

dmasiii•9mo ago
I fully agree with you, you can absolutely do much more with a 9-5, but as you said it is the message of "is not so difficult" that I wanted to convey. And then he earn that money, for me who is still a student, he would give a big advantage and maybe he would convince me once I finished my studies to take the entrepreneurial way in this area
trollbridge•9mo ago
What is this? Some spam tool?
dmasiii•9mo ago
Give it a try www.postonreddit.com
sontek•9mo ago
I couldn't easily tell what your product is doing but I think its doing something similar to this tool:

- https://www.postpone.app/

I think their marketing is clearer so its something you could learn from to improve your conversions

dmasiii•9mo ago
The main focus of postonreddit is not only to schedule the posts, but to find the best time to post, in such a way as to put your content in front of a bigger audience as possible

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