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Great points. I'm working on my first app built for a B2B app marketplace and I intend to experiment and possibly hone in on getting leads from the app community forum. I believe I can find leads that are both problem and solution aware there. What do you think about that?
Amazing content! I am creating a Saas tool (webapp), but in the field there is already a similar tool (desktopapp) made by a big player. Do I have a chance at a piece of the market?
FlutterFlow wasn't mentioned in the video. It's a really powerful No Code development platform. It has a bit of a learning curve. Harder to pick up than Bubble but it's a more flexible and scalable solution.
This is helpful. However, I believe products like mine built for specific platforms (Android/iOS/Google-Workspace) require a slightly different take. The social validation that comes with the higher install/review count is a huge factor in building initial trust. Also, the feedback received from free users might help in developing features that convert them to paid users, or give better value to existing paid users, or create a higher pricing tier altogether.
Amazing! Have u ever offered a survey right on the landing page to accomplish what u would in the follow up contact? Some great AI tools out there to mimic interviewing, though of course never as good as contact.
1 - ideas are pretty obvious and stupid. it's like saying "Guys, build your binance and openai, you will be 100% rich". Those ideas are not for developers, but for business whales. 2 - in addition to the message above, developers can only create a heap of buggy code, but the most challenging thing is to sell the product and idea. rather idea before the project itself. Verdict: this wasn't not that convincing
Thank you Rob, I just searched for the difference because TAM, SAM and TM didn't make sense to me when you think about motivation to buy through the "desire lens". But having this additional axis (VS and HS) helps to see that it is primarily horizontal SaaS where the scope might be huge, but the urgency or degree of demand differs, as well as the lock-in potential.
… and WP has been a continuous source of hacks, ruined lives and desperation because it’s a train wreck of IT security, partly due to unscrupulous and / or incompetent hosting services.
At 8:08 she says "We're gonna include the interview and survey email templates in a link at the end so you can all grab a copy of that," but i don't see those links here, on RU-vid 😞 Can you hook us up @MicroConf?
I've always been confused about pricing, all the time. Recently, I started using Pricing Calculator by Afreen and for the first time in my life, I'm satisfied!
I'm not sure. what I was thinking about doing a "free" service. But it's sort of access to one small feature of the total idea. But alone has potential value. Is this considered a bad freemium?
Was SaaS CTO in a prior life, the CEO had gone wild getting free sign ups and just couldn't understand why they never converted. Nothing we tried had any effect - the uncomfortable truth was we had blown our marketing budget recruiting a throng of freeloaders. They eventually sold out following a down round.
Freemium really needs orchestration and measuring when in the product usage lifecycle maximum amount of users are about to receive the value X number of time, and at the right time block their usage, and convert them to the premium. BTW, what were you building may be I can learn some lessons
Absolutely, freemium is pointless for B2B SaaS. Pricing is the ultimate validation. If people are not willing to pay you, you're not solving an urgent and important enough problem.
@@aberbaCodes Yeah but pricing is the ultimate validation, regardless of additional complexities. I know we all like to go into the micro analysis of how we can make our products successful but in the most simple of terms, the aim of the game is to provide something that customers are willing to pay for.
Pricing is the ultimate validation is true, but Freemium doesn't mean you don't do that. Free version is way of marketing. So Freemium really works if your product has virality aspect.
Thanks for sharing your insights. I can't get my head around the difference between Metered and PAYG. If the charging unit is "per email sent" how would Metered and PAYG be any different?
I have my pricing shown on my landing page, but realized after watching this video that I didn't have a link to it at the top. I can honestly say that if I visited my landing page I would probably immediately look for a pricing link at the top of the page, and might bounce upon not seeing one - "What are you hiding from me?". After watching, I added a pricing link at the top that just redirects to that spot of my landing page. Landing pages and peoples behavior when interacting with them is fascinating to me. Thanks for the video. Always something to improve.
The amount of people who complain about people selling courses is insane. It takes a lot of work to create a quality course and it's incredibly valuable, especially business and technical content.
Traditional VC’s want you to be a unicorn (billion dollar valuation), TinySeed just wants you to sell north of 10 million, what’s that, a Leprechaun? 🍀 🍯 😅
I like you Rob, and your content , and books of which I have bought. I understand pricing this at $500 is a literal part of your strategy, but it still stings. I make good money from 9 to 5 in low cost of living state. I know the content is almost certainly worth it , but it is still too much for me at this point in journey. At $200 I would have jumped on it immediately. At $300 I would have thought about it for a week or two, and probably still bought. $400 and up and I am kind of priced out. I think most people would be better off investing that kind of money in research such as GummySearch plans, MVP development, and validation. Maybe after my first launch I can afford the Saas Launchpad :(
I appreciate the sentiment. I would not be following my own pricing advice if I sold this for $200 or $300. It’s worth 5x that at least. It’s already selling quite well so I’m feeling good about that price point.
@@jamie8367 my point precisely. Most boot-strappers or startups would probably be better off using resources to research ideas , actually validating, than some Quizlet's and repackaged content from the pod ,books ,YT which are all available. . .
It's good that this video doesn't try to hide its purpose. It's an advertisement. But the title is misleading a little. The other people commenting about that prove the point! Should've included a hint in it, like "I've made a course about everything for..." but shorter 🙂
I agree but damn... I came here to learn a specific thing and now I'm being sold on to something else. Anyway, does anyone know any channel/video teaching how to launch a profitable Saas ?
@@lepro0 just grab info from different channels altogether, including this one. Don't limit yourself with one source. And just start something & learn from your mistakes. Trying not to lose all your money meanwhile, of course 😁 Also, there are public builders to follow, e.g. like me (in da nearest future tho 👀)
This reminds me of that most expensive book on amazon titled "How I made $290,000 selling books" with the price of the book being $290,000. Everyone out here selling courses lol.
Yes, there is very, very little (if any?) overlap between the two. This course is all early stage topics, coming up with ideas, validating, building the MVP, launching, etc SaaS Playbook picks up after you launch.
