Sold 2. Failed 20 https://nitter.cf/t.co/n7aZyUZNnJ My founder experiences: https://nitter.cf/t.co/udEIeGn8zc
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Day 15 of 30 Days of @boardyai
Last night I wrote: "I'm lost. Nothing works. Zero dollar rev."
Halfway, still at $0. I haven't posted since Day 7, so here's the full list:
- Speed-to-lead: 13 removal firms saw the offer, none said yes
- Sales Radar and a competitor tracker: cold outreach to ~30 Series A companies, no replies
- Coffee passport: no companies committed, it dies on 8 Nov
- 10yrr: 82 impressions, 2 likes
- PricingCited: live at $49, no sales
I built each of these in days. Not one of them died because the product was bad. They died before a single buyer saw them.
My bio says "Sold 2. Failed 20". I've always been able to build. Getting it in front of someone who'll pay is the part I've never had a system for.
15 days left. $5,000 to go.
I've shipped 25+ products and exited 2 companies.
Now I'm starting from zero.
No product. No business idea. Nothing. A brand new idea.
Goal: $5K in revenue by end of November, with ~90% margin.
I joined 30 Days of @boardyai to do it, and I'll post every step here, including what doesn't work.
Let's see if I can do it again from scratch.
I built a tool that takes the ARR screenshot logic to its natural conclusion.
Enter last month’s revenue.
Get your 10-Year, 50-Year, or Grave Recurring Revenue. Your heirs keep the Stripe account.
There’s a leaderboard. Nothing is verified. 10yrr.vercel.app
Ideia: em vez de cesta de Natal, sua empresa dá um passaporte para cafés independentes.
☕ crédito + café cortesia em cada um
📲 chega no WhatsApp com a marca da empresa
📊 você vê quantos usaram
A partir de R$29 por pessoa.
Compraria pra sua equipe?
New idea: a gift card that works at a curated list of indie coffee shops, sold to companies instead of Christmas hampers.
1 stamp per café. Companies pay, cafés get new customers for free.
Pre-selling before building anything. Deadline: 8 Nov. If 3 companies don’t commit, I kill it.
Would you buy this for your team?
Day 7 of 30 Days of @boardyai
The speed-to-lead experiment is dead. 13 removal firms saw the offer. Not one said yes. No paying customer.
The offer: an agent that answers new enquiries within a minute. £500 setup, £120/month, setup refunded if replies weren't under 5 minutes in week one.
Why it died:
- The firms weren't slow. Que Removals replied in 7 minutes.
- So I switched the pitch to "you replied fast and still didn't tell me if you can do the 14th". Then the median kept moving (42, 58, 72 min) and I couldn't quote it anymore.
- £500 from a stranger is a big ask when your margin is two blokes and a van.
What I'm keeping:
- A lead store with 123 leads
- A repeatable way to test how any category handles inbound enquiries
- One finding that held up: almost nobody answers the date and the price. 5 of 13 told me whether they could do the 14th. 1 of 13 gave a price.
A good story, zero revenue. 5 weeks left to hit the goal, and I'm still at nothing.
I've shipped 25+ products and exited 2 companies.
Now I'm starting from zero.
No product. No business idea. Nothing. A brand new idea.
Goal: $5K in revenue by end of November, with ~90% margin.
I joined 30 Days of @boardyai to do it, and I'll post every step here, including what doesn't work.
Let's see if I can do it again from scratch.
Day 6 of 30 Days of @boardyai
I've been counting replies off a list where over half the emails never arrived.
123 leads. 64 bounced, rejected by the recipient's server.
I thought my bounce check was lagging. It wasn't. Pask's and Easyway Removals were both logged as delivered, and both had bounced.
Today:
- All Day Removals: free on 14 November, wants my number to quote
- Amazing Moves: sent a quote I can't match to an enquiry yet
- Doree Bonner: closed the enquiry after I disclosed the test
No more email until the domain has SPF, DKIM and DMARC set up.
Day 5 of 30 Days of @boardyai
Batch 1 is closed and I'm done quoting the median.
The same 15 emails gave me 42 minutes, then 58, then 72. Eden replied today, ~41 hours after my email, and moved it again.
What I'm tracking instead:
- 13 of 15 replied
- 5 of 13 said whether they could do the 14th
- 1 of 13 gave a price
I've shipped 25+ products and exited 2 companies.
Now I'm starting from zero.
No product. No business idea. Nothing. A brand new idea.
Goal: $5K in revenue by end of November, with ~90% margin.
I joined 30 Days of @boardyai to do it, and I'll post every step here, including what doesn't work.
Let's see if I can do it again from scratch.
This came from @ideabrowser's idea yesterday. I was toying around with GEO already. Then, saw the idea and decided to jump in
Now, I need users to test!! Help me?
@gregisenberg
‼️ Looking for 4 SaaS founders or anyone who has a pricing page on their product, as the first users of PricingCited ‼️
I check if ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity & Gemini cite your pricing page, and if they quote your real price.
$49 (half price). Your report becomes a public sample, with a link to your site.
The report shows things you need to change to improve AI searches. Also, results for each of the 50 prompts
Example: pricingcited.com/r/pricingci…
Reply or DM 👇
‼️ Looking for 4 SaaS founders or anyone who has a pricing page on their product, as the first users of PricingCited ‼️
I check if ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity & Gemini cite your pricing page, and if they quote your real price.
$49 (half price). Your report becomes a public sample, with a link to your site.
The report shows things you need to change to improve AI searches. Also, results for each of the 50 prompts
Example: pricingcited.com/r/pricingci…
Reply or DM 👇
Day 4 of 30 Days of @boardyai
Yesterday I said London removal firms are fast. The batch closed and I was only half right.
I sent the same email to 15 firms from my own address on 21 Oct. It asked two questions: can you do Saturday 14 November, and roughly what would it cost?
Final numbers:
- 12 of 15 replied
- Median reply: 58 minutes (yesterday's 42 came from the first 8)
- Fastest: Que Removals, 7 min
- Slowest: Shifters, ~27 hours
- Never replied: Eden Removals, Hello Removals, TAS Removal Services
The median hides the real shape, which is two groups:
- 6 replied within about 45 minutes
- 6 took between 72 minutes and 27 hours
The second group: KK 72 min, Can Do's 83 min, Steve Frieze ~18h, A S P ~21h, Moving Mountains ~26h, Shifters ~27h.
What was in the replies:
- 4 of 12 said whether they could do the 14th. Good Movers and KK said yes and Shifters said no. I still need to match the fourth in AgentLeads.
- 1 of 12 gave a price
That one was KK: £65/hour for one man or £85 for two, with a 2-hour minimum.
I'd guessed £500-800 for a two-bed London move. Two men for the minimum comes to about £170. That isn't what the job would cost, but it's the only number anyone gave me.
The one firm that answered both questions was in the slow group.
5 of the 20 leads never got tested. UKVans bounced, SJC Movers' form wanted a phone number, and three sites were down. They're marked dead in AgentLeads. That makes this 20 of the 100.
The pitch splits too. For the fast six: "you replied in minutes and didn't tell me if you can do the 14th." For the slow six it's the wait first, then the same problem.
I've shipped 25+ products and exited 2 companies.
Now I'm starting from zero.
No product. No business idea. Nothing. A brand new idea.
Goal: $5K in revenue by end of November, with ~90% margin.
I joined 30 Days of @boardyai to do it, and I'll post every step here, including what doesn't work.
Let's see if I can do it again from scratch.
Day 3 of 30 Days of @boardyai
My whole pitch assumed London businesses are slow to answer leads.
The first batch says they're fast. They just don't answer the question.
I emailed 15 removal companies from my own address. Same message to all of them:
"Hi, I'm moving a two-bed flat on Saturday 14 November, from Clapham (SW4) to Bromley (BR1), about 9 miles. It's a second-floor flat with no lift. Can you do that date, and roughly what would it cost? Thanks, Leo"
8 replied so far:
- Median reply: 42 minutes
- Fastest: Que Removals, 7 min
- Slowest: Can Do's Removals, 83 min
What was in the replies:
- 3 of 8 answered the question
- 1 of 8 gave a price
The other 7 haven't replied yet. They're still open, so I'm not counting them as no-reply. 5 more firms in the batch only take phone calls, so they haven't been tested.
This is 20 leads out of the 100, pulled straight from AgentLeads. It's an early read, not a conclusion.
If it holds, my pitch changes. "You took 6 hours to answer a lead" doesn't work on someone who replied in 42 minutes.
"You replied in 42 minutes and didn't tell me if you can do the 14th" might.
I've shipped 25+ products and exited 2 companies.
Now I'm starting from zero.
No product. No business idea. Nothing. A brand new idea.
Goal: $5K in revenue by end of November, with ~90% margin.
I joined 30 Days of @boardyai to do it, and I'll post every step here, including what doesn't work.
Let's see if I can do it again from scratch.
Hey @marclou have you voted here?
