Matthias Bohlen @bohlenlabs Twitter profile

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

11 months

👀 Wow, found a gem on Reddit. SaaS owners, think about this pricing trick!

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@bohlenlabs

1 year

My new product, @customerping , is beginning to work. The AI will listen to online audiences and send you a ping when people discuss the problems that your business could solve. Here are the pings on my phone when I apply the AI to find customers for itself: 🔥 #buildinpublic

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

A lot of @tailwindcss a-ha effects in only 11 minutes! Watch this: Rebuilding the Instagram Stories UI with Tailwind CSS

Rebuilding the Instagram Stories UI with Tailwind CSS

Implementing "stories" in everything is kinda the running joke at the moment, so I thought it would be a fun exercise to build the Instagram stories UI with ...

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

11 months

If you own a SaaS, think about this ( @CustomerPing recommended this piece to me, today):

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

Today I realized that there are two very different attitudes for makers here on Twitter: - @dagorenouf never talks about his product - @levelsio always talks about his products What is better?

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

🔥 Solopreneurs, let me do some marketing for YOUR product! 👀 Post a link to your product below, and I will make a video about it on my YouTube channel. 🎥 The video will show exactly how I'd create a marketing model for your business.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

As a builder, I was reluctant of doing marketing. Then, I discovered it is storytelling, not advertising. Now, I like it and do it. And I even created a SaaS to help other introverts do it!

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

What an amazing day: - Sold the first membership at $5/month, today. - Fixed a number of bugs. - Learnt a lot from my users.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

Just unfollowed about 500 people. Wow, my Twitter feed looks inspiring again! 😃🔥

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

After 5 previous startups failed, I made my first $1000 with 2quiet2market this month. Nice! Next step: Make this sustainable. 🤞

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

Der SaaS owners, I notice a bad new pattern: When I'm logged in to your app, I cannot browse your homepage any more because you redirect to your app, automatically. What if I want to read the landing page again, to learn about features or pricing? I have to delete the cookies!

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

Since I joined #ship30for30 , my Twitter is exploding. 🔥👀⁉️🙏

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

11 months

Woohoo, I'm only two months into the project, and I already got a fresh new copycat for . I must be doing something right! 😄 👇

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

I feel SaaSy: 🤗

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

It's OFFICIAL: I got my 10th monthly paying customer for GetTheAudience, today! What a feeling of validation for me as the founder of a young and growing SaaS! 😀👍 Thank you all so much for your support – it wouldn't have happened without you! 🙏🎉

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

How can you possibly develop a product alone, in a shed? - no feedback - only from your own, eternal wisdom - hoping to meet what your future customers need You NEED an audience around you to embed yourself in.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

11 months

@AlexMano12 I look whether I’m able to find an audience who cares about the problem that I want to solve. With a little help from my AI… 😎

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

Holy smokes, what a difference! I was so envious about @arvidkahl 's well-lit videos that I took an hour today to experiment and figure it out. Here's the comparison: before and after! 😄

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

11 months

Whoa, this tweet went viral! 1 million views and 7000 likes in 23 hours!

Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

11 months

👀 Wow, found a gem on Reddit. SaaS owners, think about this pricing trick!

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

Interested in developing an audience for your SaaS business, your book, or your podcast? Over the next 30 days, I'm writing 30 Atomic Essays as a part of @dickiebush 's and @nicolascole77 's Ship 30 for 30. Follow my Social Blog on Typeshare 👇🏼

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

Wow, today is Day #100 of my startup! To celebrate this with y’all, I will fix a bug in public and share the experience in this Twitter thread, here. #buildinpublic rocks! 🧶👇

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

Developing an audience is the most important, difficult, and totally rewarding thing to do for a founder or indie creator. a /thread/ about #AudienceDevelopment

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

Me, yesterday: “Okay folks, time to get some traffic to ” Me, today: 🔥👀🔥

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

Every founder or indie creator has the same problem: - Who is the audience for whom I build? - What is their currently most significant problem? - Can I build something that solves that problem and sell the solution to them?

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

Making a SaaS is a complicated project. Starting from zero with the next SaaS feels awkward. Today, I'm preparing for the November launch of SaaS #6 . That feels good! #buildinpublic

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

😀 Introverted founders, creators, and makers: 🔥 Buckle up and prepare for a ride into marketing land! 👉 This new app will help you to market your product, whether you love marketing or not.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

@iamvsevolod @jakobgreenfeld Recently, when @robfitz was a guest on my podcast, he gave some fantastic advice on this. Maybe, @IndieHackers now lacks one of those 3 building blocks that he mentioned (see excerpt below). For the full podcast episode, go to

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

Dear SaaS owners, if you *co-create* a new feature with people *in* your audience, *for* your audience, then... ...the chance that *they buy* will increase a lot!

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

Wow, I'm now officially at 1700 followers. Thank you all, and be most welcome to my circle! 😄

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

11 months

@pkp_io It was /r/SaaS

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

My SaaS runs fine now. The value proposition is quite clear. New people sign up for it, and a fraction of them convert to a paid plan. Time to start w/ systematic content marketing now.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

January: $10 MRR February: $30 MRR

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

I realize that many of you, my dear followers, are dev solopreneurs just as I am, And I remember @arvidkahl once wrote you should start to build for your existing audience. So, dear devs, have you got any problems that I can solve by building something for you? 🤔

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

Wow, today I got past 1000 followers! Welcome to the club, everyone, so happy to meet y’all! 👀😎😀

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

Try to “get” an audience before you get an audience. - Find out what’s important for them. - Find out who is important among them. - Find out when is the best time to join the conversation. Then: Engage.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

My small TV studio! I finally got everything sorted. Streaming with a sustained 10 Mbps, super image and sound quality on a small space.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

went live today. It scans the internet and pings you when people talk about the problem you solve. You can sign up and create your own customer radar station at Next up: I'll make a landing page for it. #buildinpublic

CustomerPing – This AI pings you when it finds new customers for you

Create your own "radar station" that continuously scans the Internet to find new customers for your business. Get a notification when there's a match.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

Today, I was slowed down in my writing. I had to learn that for my "building a new startup in public" diary, the Atomic Essay is not the best choice when used in isolation. Read what formats I'll use instead! #buildinpublic #ship30for30

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

Today, I learned that there is a thing called "social self-esteem". It means: What do you think of yourself as soon as somebody else is present? I think of myself pretty high ... until someone else is there! Entrepreneurs need high social self-esteem, so let's figure this out!

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

The best cure against impostor syndrome? Have a look at what you achieved... ⏲️ last week 📅 last month 🎂 last year Ask yourself: "Holy smokes, would you have thought that you could achieve all this in such a short time?! 🤯"

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

@PrasoonPratham When learning CSS, I struggled with: 1) specificity 2) flex having 2 axises 3) realizing that everything has a width but not everything has a height. Things became a lot easier when I understood these three points.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

My SaaS, GetTheAudience, is almost a year old. On October 25th is the 1-year anniversary. To celebrate this, I start a giveaway: 👇

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

10 months

Yeah yeah yeah, @CustomerPing got the first customer today, with a monthly subscription! Folks, I am newly born SaaS owner and sooo excited about it! 😄🚀 #buildinpublic Here's to the business success of my dear users!

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

@CarlaNotarobot Did that give you a new Vue on things?

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

@dhh Well, okay, it’s a choice where you want to spend your time. Chasing type errors is not the way I want it. Does Turbo 8 still provide typings, at least?

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

A software with simple, paint-by-numbers marketing playbooks. Helps you design your own marketing systems and run them every week. Made for people who don’t *want* to do marketing but feel they *must*. Sign up for a free trial here: 👇

2Quiet2Market – Marketing software for Introverts

Make people perceive your product as totally awesome. While you're busy building it.

2quiet2market.com

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

Up. And. To. The. Right. #buildinpublic

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

I just scheduled tweets for an entire week, within 25 minutes. Tools used: - @llamalifeco - @threadstartio Good stuff! 🔥👍

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

Mental model for marketing: 🔸 Products have features. 🔸 Features have benefits. 🔸 Benefits occur in positive, transformational stories. 🔸 Stories can be told to your customers and users. And BOOM: You're doing marketing! Now, wasn't that easy?

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

Yesterday, over 400 people visited the empty landing page of @CustomerPing . 😀🔥 I must release it, as soon as possible. #buildinpublic

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

Something has changed. 😎 It must have something to do with the fact that I attended @dagorenouf 's Twitter course! The numbers speak about just one tweet that I made yesterday. Just one! 🤯🧨🚀

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

Wow, this post went almost viral! Welcome to 100 new followers since yesterday! 👀🔥😄

Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

My new product, @customerping , is beginning to work. The AI will listen to online audiences and send you a ping when people discuss the problems that your business could solve. Here are the pings on my phone when I apply the AI to find customers for itself: 🔥 #buildinpublic

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

Running two projects at the same time: • for growing paid newsletters • for general audience building #buildinginpublic

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

Finally, I give in: I hereby admit that building a SaaS product takes months! 😳😀

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

@arvindhsundar @mananki_p @icebearlabs @MeetKevon @SathyaHQ @connextcoaching @cathyraffaele @McPizza0 @JordanDParker_ @uxchrisnguyen @christinetrac1 @Federico_Presta @louispereira @VineetSinha @_zenman @SowmyaHariharan @ItsKieranDrew @SeanDoesLife @philkellr @ayushtweetshere @jasonleowsg @DmytroKrasun @manoj_ahi @Kamphey @Dima_heyqq @victor_bigfield @issacthomas3 @CSMikeCardona @rickywrites @ikoichi @YongSooChung @mrdanmiller @gouthamjay8 @HeyArunima @daniel_nguyenx @mnewme @ak_8085 @rohanbabu Oh wow, what an honor to be on this list! 😀

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

Good. My marketing seems to be working. #buildinpublic

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

Haha, my monitor put on a 🎩. 😀

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

Nice! My fellow solopreneurs, you are such amazing folks! 😄

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

I am thinking about publishing a short video course called “The Audience Development Game for Entrepreneurs”. - Finding out whom you want to serve - Where/how to find those people - Finding out what they care about - Reaching out to them Ask for more topics, please!

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

Oops, I'm getting "a little help from my friends". 😄 So happy that suddenly hundreds of people appear on the 2Quiet2Market website and blog. Compare this week with the 3 weeks before: 👀🔥 Thanks to @dagorenouf and Lisa on @IndieHackers ! 🙏

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

11 months

@ayushtweetshere Except… let me think about that: For a dating app, 4 months would be good, right? You solve the customer’s problem in 4 months, then they churn, in pairs! 🤣

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

I need a little help from my audience here: 👋 What is the correct English name for little mythical creatures that help you get your work done? Something like gremlins or gnomes that do good instead of harm. In German this would be a “Heinzelmännchen” 😀

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

11 months

Today, something great happened: • Normally, I post something positive about my progress. • Today, I posted something that didn't work (my user onboarding), and... • BOOM: so many people showed up to help me solve this. Yay, #buildinpublic rocks!

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

My wife had a cool birthday present for me today: An Adasion monocular telescope with a small tripod and a camera adapter for smartphones. Of course, I couldn't wait to make this small video about the birds in our garden, from a safe distance:

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

Please name products that were deliberately made for the creator economy! Reply to this tweet, please!

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

Wooo, the first person signed up for a Basic monthly plan, a free trial! They live 1000s of miles away — I love the feeling of connectedness across the world.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

Me posting to Hacker News, and then…

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

Think outside the box when it comes to positioning your product. Don't be afraid to challenge the norms and showcase your unique perspective and value proposition.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

The "Jobs to be done" framework is an excellent way to think about your audience and what they are trying to achieve. If you know the jobs, you can define what job your product or service needs to do for them.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

New blog post: "How to get your first audience". #buildInPublic #audienceFirst

How to get your first audience

A step-by-step guide to approach your first audience on Twitter.

gettheaudience.com

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

My new product, @CustomerPing , is beginning to work. The AI will listen to online audiences and send you a ping when people discuss the problems that your business could solve. This will be exciting! #buildinpublic

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

If you’re struggling to get your shit together, buy a bigger screen.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

Doing my first steps using @ash_lmb 's Visual Growth course. Recommended! #drawinpublic

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

New blog post: What to do next after Your Indie Product went Live! 🤔🧩 #audienceFirst #buildInPublic my thanks for inspiration go to @JelmerPe and @arvidkahl

How to Iterate on an Indie Product

You've got your first version out. How do you know what features to ship next? A case study about how to iterate by asking your users and customers.

gettheaudience.com

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

It's @arvidkahl whose audience has the most beautiful "activity by hour of day" graph in GtA that I've ever seen.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

It seems I started too many things at once. 😬

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

Stats at the end of day #96 , building GTA #buildInPublic : - 57 users on GTA, 2 paying, 8 trialing, 2 cancelled - 116 audiences - 119819 (+5243) tweets imported - 89591 (+4539) tweeps imported - 440 (+5) twitter followers

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

@EmmaBostian Recently heard this from a writer: “Creativity works like a tap: You open it, and the stale water comes out, followed by the fresh water that you want. There is no shortcut to get the fresh water immediately.”

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

Folks, if you use my SaaS... - please don't cancel so fast - take your full 14 days of trial - ask me first, I'm always happy to help you out - sometimes I can even fix things in less than a week, if necessary!

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

I’m building my next startup @twolveIt as a classic website instead of a single page app. No React, no NextJS. Feels refreshingly simple. I use Express and Mustache this time. #buildinpublic

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

An idea that did not work for me as an entrepreneur: - build one week - do marketing the next week - build one week - do m... My brain doesn't work like this. It oscillates much more quickly. I need to use my energies differently.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

@thatdudedenis @BorisTane @benbarbersmith @jonhainstock @KennethCassel @geetfun @jamaruuuu @jones_spencera @geordidearns @kevon69 @basakbuilds @itsLeo_m @heybereket @lexpaval @oktuned @mesetatron @joshmanders @lesley_pizza @neeadev @poppacalypse @humbleuidesigns @farez @TheBuilderJR @Natalie_Furn @jordnfk @shkliarau @AngeZanetti @harishkgarg @helloEngineur @cogentgene @coolnalu @MatterSignal @larskarbo @JanelSGM @JKaplan1 @zulualphaweb @chris__lu What a list of amazing people, thanks for mentioning me! 👋🔥

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

I love the @caddyserver web server. So easy to use as a reverse proxy during development!

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

Understanding a new audience is like visiting a party. - What are these people talking about? - Who are the greatest people to spend the party with? - With whom do you want to talk deepert, after the first party? Use GetTheAudience to find out.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

My favourite Twitter threads about... 🦻Audience Development 👨‍💻Software engineering 🧬and life in general 👇

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

This causes mixed feelings: A) my first ever customer paid their second monthly SaaS fee, today, so grateful! 😀👋 B) a trial customer cancelled today, too! 😥😭😬

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

Whom did you see develop their audience on Twitter, effectively? Tag them in your replies, please! I always like to learn from great achievers.

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@bohlenlabs

4 years

@arvidkahl Nope. Wordpress is a total mess of too much code.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

Here are 5 mistakes I made as a solopreneur, before I decided to take marketing seriously. Please avoid these: 👇

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

When Covid hit, it was the perfect spark for me to start building. It all began with @arvidkahl 's "Zero to sold" that came out in June 2020. At the end of October 2020, I started building GetTheAudience because I thought: "Hey, all entrepreneurs need an audience, let's help!"

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@bohlenlabs

3 years

Knock knock, who’s there? This gem just arrived at my door! 📘📕📙

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

Pratham has written a good thread about being successful on Twitter: 👇

Pratham

@Prathkum

3 years

I randomly started Twitter but built ~100K audience in about 12 months Here's how you can also do it 🧵👇🏻

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4 years

@faradayacademy The Wang machine looked like this (card reader is on the left)

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@bohlenlabs

4 years

@IndieHackers Got my 5th paying customer today!

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

4 years

Yes, I always get the best ideas at 6am in bed. I stay there until the stream stops around 7:30am , then get up and start to work on those ideas that survive my critical thinking.

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@riveravictor

4 years

When you’re working 100 hour weeks it’s easy to get lost in your own tracks. Sometimes the most productive thing you could do is to take a step back. 🏃🏽‍♂️ Go for a run 🍿 Watch a movie 📚 Read a book Do something other than work! Your body and mind will thank you.

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

Coding for @CustomerPing , my latest AI product, today. It has started to listen to the market for me and shows posts that my audience made when they need help. Nice! Getting possible customers while I sleep, without doing anything! #buildinpublic

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

1 year

A software with simple, paint-by-numbers marketing playbooks. Helps you design your own marketing systems and run them every week. Made for people who don’t *want* to do marketing but feel they *must*. Sign up for a free account here: 👇

2Quiet2Market – Marketing software for Introverts

Make people perceive your product as totally awesome. While you're busy building it.

2quiet2market.com

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

3 years

Boris ( @BorisTane , founder of @bkmarkHQ ) tells us how he met his first audience for his online bookmarking business, and how he discovered, through user conversations, that he might get totally new customers right now. Read on:

Boris Tane: Turning bookmarks into tangible value

Matthias meets Boris Tane, founder of bkmark.io, who talks about how he got the first idea, met his audience, and expands his business to entire teams.

gettheaudience.com

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

2 years

Yay, a new customer! 😄🎉 I love these smart innovators who are already subscribing to 2Quiet2Market today! As a "thank you", you just got 2Q2M for an affordable $5 per month, locked-in for the entire lifetime of the subscription. Smart. Thank you and be most welcome inside!

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Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs

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Hey @arvidkahl , where did you get the closed captions for your course videos? They are written so well, no typos, correct puctuation, everything!

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