Olly @helloitsolly Twitter profile

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Olly

6 days

We're hiring for a contract design engineer at @SenjaHQ We need someone to help our customers with new, powerful ways to share their customers' testimonials Job description in reply Please RT for reach #buildinpublic 🙏

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Olly

@helloitsolly

4 years

Female freelancers please increase your day rates. Hiring 6 freelance positions last few days. Men are consistently asking for double their female counterparts - same experience, previous work, career milestones. You’re worth it.

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@helloitsolly

4 months

Does Therapist AI have more empathy than its founder?

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@helloitsolly

1 year

I’ve roasted 850 landing pages in 2.5 years Here are the 15 most common mistakes and how to fix them 👇🏾

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@helloitsolly

4 years

This is an over-simplification of a complex problem underpinned by broader systemic issues. But I was compelled to write it because the disparity between the rates is huge. An example: Female marketing lead asking for £375/day and male marketing lead asking for £795/day.

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3 years

I've roasted 200 SaaS landing pages in the last 12 months 🍗🍗 Here's 16 ideas to increase your landing page conversion:

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@helloitsolly

5 months

You have to be kidding @Zoom

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@helloitsolly

4 years

For those asking about how I have approached this personally: I had been fearful that telling a female freelancer to charge more might be considered intrusive or patronising. I *have* done it, but rarely. Now I will do it every time.

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@helloitsolly

4 years

I made a public @NotionHQ board with 100 ideas for your startup's first 100 users 💪🚀

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@helloitsolly

4 years

FYI this is my experience hiring in tech - UX, affiliate management, marketing lead, designers. And for transparency, I am an expert marketer and I bill £100 - £150 an hour.

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@helloitsolly

11 months

Me: travelling the world and building a startup at 18 is a privilege not everyone can afford Levels: *block*

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@helloitsolly

2 years

I quit my $8000/month freelance client to work full-time on my $500 MRR SaaS project. Ask me anything, or just call me an idiot.

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@helloitsolly

3 months

I'm burnt out and stepping back This post gets extremely personal Skip it if you're only here for hot takes I've been operating and growing Senja without a meaningful break for 2 years On top of this, 6 months ago I decided to nomad my way through Latin America, and start

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Olly

@helloitsolly

4 months

A freelancer just asked us for a $5,000 sign on bonus

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@helloitsolly

6 months

We friggin did it! $20,000 MRR and almost 900 paying customers Our little SaaS is growing up 😭 #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

1 year

Want to make $1.3 million a year like Brett from DesignJoy? It's actually easy. Charge your clients $1100/hour for around 4.5 hours design work a month, and call it unlimited.

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@helloitsolly

1 year

I promised to share the good and bad with #buildinpublic Here's the bad

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@helloitsolly

3 months

"You're the marketing co-founder? So, what exactly do you do?" #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

1 year

OMFG we just passed $7,000MRR at I screamed. We are SO CLOSE to our ramen goal of $7,500. That holiday I promised myself is looking closer. I cannot believe it. Thank you every single #buildinpublic person who has supported us. This is wild.

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@helloitsolly

1 month

Loom is a $1,000,000,000 product with the execution of a solo founder side-hustle

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Olly

@helloitsolly

4 years

Share your freelance discipline, experience and day rate with tag #opendayrate I’ll start #opendayrate , digital marketing lead and strategy, 18 years, £700

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@helloitsolly

10 months

Out bootstrapped SaaS just hit $13,000 MRR Affiliates have been an incredible marketing channel for us Here's what you need to know #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

3 months

Sometimes I wonder if building a SaaS was a mistake My productised service was a cash cow More than $100,000 a year 90% profit, working only a few days a week, and travelling the world And that's without any meaningful activity to market + scale it It was a great idea that

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@helloitsolly

2 years

GA4 isn't just horrible It's absolute dog shit Every single function is more complicated than it needs to be It's the type of product that makes you want to scream, force your laptop shut, and start a new life working on a farm

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@helloitsolly

2 months

I sold my side project for $10,000! ✨🎉 Yep First 100 Users is officially sold In less than 24 hours, and on X Some more notes in the follow-up tweets ⬇️ #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

3 months

$30,000 MRR Thirty friggin thousand MRR I seriously cannot believe it 😭 #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

2 years

The best ever post on LinkedIn? "If Spotify playlist was a typical cold email" 😂

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@helloitsolly

2 years

I have now personally roasted 800 SaaS landing pages ✨ Reply with your landing page and I'll suggest fixes to improve conversion ✅

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@helloitsolly

8 months

Remove the generic illustration from your landing page They don't support your copy or help your visitor Increase clarity and conversions with one of these instead 1/ The annotated visual

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@helloitsolly

1 year

We did it! We actually did it! After 14 months of stress, laughs, doubts, debts and frustration, our SaaS has hit RAMEN PROFITABILITY 🍜 $7500 MRR. We worked SO HARD for this and it feels amazing. Senja is now a profitable business. Thanks to everyone

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@helloitsolly

10 months

So much stress in the last week Had no idea we passed $15,000 MRR for our SaaS!! #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

11 months

Our new SaaS pricing page breaks all the rules I shared it with #buildinpublic crowd and almost everyone hated it We've been testing it All signs point to a significant increase in conversion Will share numbers soon Here's the page:

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@helloitsolly

4 months

Time to get real MRR is revenue not profit We're closing in on $30,000 MRR at @SenjaHQ and we're really happy But what do we actually pay ourselves? This month me and @euboid paid ourselves $3,700 each That's about 1/4 of what I was earning from my productized service Roast

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Olly

@helloitsolly

5 months

Senja just hit $25,000 MRR Me rn 💪🥳😭😬

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@helloitsolly

10 months

Today we were going to announce we raised a 6-figure investment from TinySeed Instead my relationship with my co-founder @euboid has almost completely broken down And we had to pull out of the investment We’re unable to work together due to different work and communication

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Olly

@helloitsolly

2 years

Hi, we've completely stolen your idea. Now we want you to tell us how to build it. Love messages like this 💖

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Olly

@helloitsolly

1 year

I spent 65 hours manually reviewing 150 SaaS landing pages Here are my 20 biggest takeaways 👇🏾

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Olly

@helloitsolly

10 months

LAUNCH DAY 🎉🏆 Twitter has destroyed link sharing We've fixed it → Grab the link to your article, blog post, tool, product, page → Paste it at → Pick a template style → Copy and paste your new link → Get more clicks 📈 #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

8 months

Our little SaaS is about to hit $17,000 MRR Our goal was to hit $20,000 MRR by end of year We won't But we've achieved something better Me and my co-founder @euboid are working in a more productive, balanced way We're recharging And our product is starting to shine After

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Olly

@helloitsolly

9 months

STILL laughing at LinkedIn rejecting my best performing ad for being in a foreign language The ad... #buildinpublic

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Olly

@helloitsolly

4 years

@drlizterine Thank you. I agree and I hope my tweet didn't come across as purposefully ignorant. If I see women charging less for the same, how should I approach it? Should I ask them to charge more? FYI, I'm working in tech not publishing

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@helloitsolly

9 months

We hit $16,000 MRR at Senja One of our most effective marketing channels? Affiliates We use @Breakcold_ to track, contact and secure new affiliates using their LinkedIn integration. Here's the exact affiliate pipeline for our SaaS #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

1 year

Our SaaS just had its BEST MONTH EVER! Here's our July #buildinpublic report 🤑 $11,455 total revenue??!! (+40%) ♻️ $9,103 MRR (+25%) 👀 18.8K visits (+25%) 👍 825 signups (+4.5%) 💕 73 new customers (+35%) 💔 4% churn

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@helloitsolly

4 years

Your landing page doesn't convert 🛑 12 questions you should ask yourself to fix it. 1. Can you currently measure the performance of your landing page? Including views, CTA clicks and conversions?

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@helloitsolly

10 months

Twitter has destroyed link sharing Time to bring it back 👀 Sorry Elon 💁‍♀️ Our next #buildinpublic launches TODAY on @ProductHunt What do you think?

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@helloitsolly

3 years

I reviewed 200 SaaS landing pages in the last 12 months 👀💪 The best was @popdotwork . Here's why 🧵 1️⃣ Benefits focus in the Hero section:

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@helloitsolly

8 months

We did it!!! #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

4 months

3 critical places to add testimonials to your landing page 1. In your landing page Hero

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@helloitsolly

4 months

This AB test result is wild Turn rectangle call-to-action buttons into rounded buttons for 17% to 64% more clicks Latest insight from the @AriyhTips

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@helloitsolly

10 months

Want to book more demos for your SaaS or service? Of course you do Here's your @calendly before and after how to. 5 powerful changes that will take about 5 minutes to implement. #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

4 months

Just shipped 🚀 Landing Pages Explained got a glow up → Subscribe in header → New page types explained (newsletter, gumroad, courses) → Browse pages by expert → Nicer typography → Over 60 landing pages explained

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@helloitsolly

10 months

Twitter has destroyed link sharing We're bringing it back 👀 Sorry Elon Our next #buildinpublic drop is coming soon What do you think?

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@helloitsolly

2 years

We crossed $3k MRR for 🎉💪 ✨ 11 months to get to $1k ✨ 40 days to get to $2k ✨ 25 days to get to $3k Next step? Ramen profitability 🍜

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@helloitsolly

1 year

I'm a proud dad today. Our little business is growing up 😭 just passed $8,333 MRR aka $100,000 ARR. Thank you first to my founder @euboid . Secondly to our #buildinpublic family who have kept us accountable, open, motivated and connected.

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@helloitsolly

1 year

The best SaaS landing pages have these six sections ✅ ✨ Hero ✨ Pain ✨ Product ✨ Social proof ✨ Call to action ✨ Objection handling

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@helloitsolly

2 months

2 years, 1 month building Senja And finally The credit card is paid off and the account is closed This is my favourite milestone so far🕺😭 #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

3 months

I’ve worked with @euboid for almost two years This is the first time I’ve seen him this deflated I know we’ll fix this and move forward But this thread is critical reading if you want to understand the complexities of growing a business outside of the UK/US Nothing is going

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Us: We can no longer trust Paddle, so we're moving to @stripe Stripe: no. I'm so tired man — 1/6

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@helloitsolly

9 months

Founders read this This SaaS had an 80% increase on visitors clicking Get Started with one quick change From 9.1% to 16.3% The change? Adding social proof to the landing page Hero #buildinpublic I'll reply with the after image

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@helloitsolly

9 months

Okay, here we go After various conversations and reflection Me and @euboid have settled our differences and are continuing to work on our SaaS! #buildinpublic But we're making some immediate changes 1/ We're closing our work Slack which is where most of our low-quality,

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@helloitsolly

7 months

Our SaaS just hit $18,000 MRR 🥰 For every one who asked... Here's the 8 marketing ideas I'm focused on in Janary #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

8 months

Before → After

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@helloitsolly

6 months

How it started: How it’s going: #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

1 year

. @thejustinwelsh 's $1,700,000/year landing page just got an upgrade. Here's the 5 changes he made, and why he did it. But first, the before and after.

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@helloitsolly

2 years

Biggest mistake most founders make? 🧐 Spending time and money marketing a landing page that doesn't convert ❌ . @llamalifeco is my favourite SaaS landing page of 2022. Here's what you can learn from it 🧵

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@helloitsolly

3 months

PSA: do not trust @PaddleHQ with your money

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@helloitsolly

1 year

Build it and they will come 🥳🤗 No they won't 🛑 Here's how to get your startup's first 100 users.

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@helloitsolly

1 year

Shitting on people's success sucks. BUT we need to start calling out people who are selling courses based on hustle porn and lies.

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@helloitsolly

5 months

. @marc_louvion 's $40,000 MRR landing page is really smart A very clever use of social proof, FOMO pricing, and 'show not tell' are just some of the things I love here. See my next tweet for the complete landing page teardown →

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@helloitsolly

2 years

I've made over $150,000 roasting 813 SaaS landing pages. Would anyone be interested in a thread sharing my story?

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@helloitsolly

10 months

Seeing revenue grow is awesome 💪 But the best feeling is customers paying for the SaaS you built from 0 550 paying customers! $13,000 MRR #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

4 months

@Kwebbelkop @NickADobos Okay, you're right live on $300 a month in London or Dublin

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@helloitsolly

3 years

I've audited 500 SaaS landing pages 👀🧐 The most cost effective way to increase your website conversion? Re-write your landing page copy ✅ Here's 7 proven copywriting conversion techniques, with examples you can copy.

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@helloitsolly

9 months

I've made $300,000 roasting 900 landing pages Here's the email sequences I use to power my creator business #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

1 year

@thepatwalls I'm not against value pricing. I am against the lies over the reality of the business. No one is hiring someone on $200,000/year to create a SINGLE landing page, so the comparison you made is a bit bizarre. I like what you're doing with Starter Story but you are platforming

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@helloitsolly

2 months

Okay I f*d it We didn't hit $33,000 We hit $34,200 MRR Just got this email from @euboid omfg I am trying to understand how we did 1/4 as much work in June, and had our most profitable month This is starting to feel like real product-market fit I feel terrified And

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@helloitsolly

9 months

This is my least favourite landing page element It’s called the bento box or grid Although it looks visually appealing the information architecture is a mess They’re overwhelming, hard to read and scan, and built to impress other designers not potential customers Agree?

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@helloitsolly

2 months

Paddle and Lemon Squeezy have built businesses out of educating founders on compliance Core to this is collecting and disbursing sales taxes globally But I have 7-figure exited founders in my DMs telling me their companies only ever collected and paid sales tax in their country

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Descript is worth about a billion dollars and only started collecting sales taxes outside their incorporation state today, 7 years after launch. Yet it seems every side hustler on X wants to be fully complaint with 195 jurisdictions before making the first dollar.

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Olly

@helloitsolly

6 months

WTF We're 20 away from 1,000 paying customers 🥹

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@helloitsolly

3 years

WE FRIGGIN' DID IT!! 🥂🔥 Number 1 Product of the Day on @ProductHunt . Thank you to all the startups, makers, founders and creators that supported the launch. Thank you thank you thank you ❤️

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Olly

@helloitsolly

4 months

I want to follow more bootstrapped founders building SaaS Especially those #buildinginpublic Who should I follow? 👀

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@helloitsolly

2 months

The story of me and @euboid → 2 years building together → Marketing (me) → Development (Wilson) → Product (both) → $32,000 MRR → Met on X → Still never met IRL #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

4 months

$0 - $1,000 MRR → 1 year $26,000 - $27,000 MRR → 6 days And even more unbelievably, I took a day off this week #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

1 year

We did it @euboid 🥳 just hit $10,000MRR!!! #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

1 year

Building a landing page for your SaaS? Review my checklist before hitting PUBLISH 🚀

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@helloitsolly

5 months

@Zoom Zoom marketing team: churn's really high Product team: let's make it harder to churn Customers: can't you just make your product... better? Everyone at Zoom: 5 more screens to the cancellation flow please

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@helloitsolly

7 months

January is wild already Our SaaS hit 10 paid upgrades in one day + $18,000 MRR #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

1 year

New achievement unlocked 🤯 $8,500 MRR for our little SaaS Can't believe things are continuing to grow 20% MOM. Marketing support from @euboid has been critical. We also seem to be getting closer to identifying a few marketing channels we can scale. Great way to start the

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Olly

@helloitsolly

2 years

Tell me what you're working on and I'll tell you how I'd get your first 100 users

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@helloitsolly

10 months

Our SaaS has a > 10% free to paid conversion rate This is because we treat the sign up as the start of our relationship. Not the end. Here's the goals we help our customers hit using email sequences #buildinpublic ...

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@helloitsolly

2 months

A big mistake we're fixing in our company now we're at $32,000 MRR We've always have a clear understanding that I'm the marketing cofounder and @euboid is the technical cofounder But we've never defined who owns hiring, operations, finance or 'other stuff' Instead we've

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@helloitsolly

4 years

@WordsByJill What can I do when hiring to be part of the solution? Lots of people are suggesting advertise the day rate with the role. But in this case I was actually filtering candidates by day rate on a platform and noticed that female candidates disappeared when the rate was set higher.

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Olly

@helloitsolly

2 years

Adding social proof to your @webflow website just got easy. This is easy...🤯

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@helloitsolly

2 years

It's official! We're a real company now 🤗

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@helloitsolly

8 months

This is really crazy! 700 people now pay for our SaaS Watching our customers grow is the most humbling feeling Knowing people choose our tool every month to help them grow their business is just awesome. #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

4 months

For those not getting it Legitimate reasons an 18 year old might not be able to travel the world because some man on Twitter says they should $300 a month being a lot of money Caring for family Financially supporting family Not physically able through health condition No

Olly

@helloitsolly

4 months

Does Therapist AI have more empathy than its founder?

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@helloitsolly

10 months

My newsletter landing page has an 80% conversion rate Form in @convertkit + page in @webflow Here's exactly how I achieved it #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

11 months

Exactly one month ago we hit $10,000 MRR at Senja Today we hit $12,000 That's our fastest increase in MRR yet The momentum is real!🤯 We're also closing in on serving 500 paying customers which is WILD #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

1 month

$15,000! Our price increase announcement drove $15,000 in revenue in just two days! Plus, we added 61 new paying customers! @robwalling we owe you a beer 🍺 #buildinpublic

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@helloitsolly

2 months

Senja just hit $32,000 MRR✨ Here's some of the big questions me and @euboid are reflecting on Thanks to the @MicroConf community for sharing their ideas #buildinpublic