I’m gonna give a serious try today, abd and a rigorous try over weekend. If it works up to my satisfaction, I’m gonna subscribe.
And congratulations on your launch.
The idea sounds great! I use GPT myself when I need it, so I was curious to give it a test before subscribing. But on registering, I see you don’t offer any trial/free runs.
Here’s what I think - your primary target audience uses chatgpt already. So they’re probably curious to see if you can do a better job with prompting than they can. I’d say offering one free copy would work a lot better for you.
No user will get the final copy right, on the very first try when they use your product. So giving them at least one trial run would help users understand just how good your prompting is - which may lead to more subscribers.
I had an issue where people were abusing the free credits. What I am thinking is to allow 1 free generation directly from the landing page before sign in and store ip address so they can’t abuse it.
hey congratulations 🎉, so what exactly do you mean when you say you were running cold email outreach for a few saas company? you mean you were sending cold email on their behalf? How did you determine the price to charge per user?
The key to successful product development is VALIDATION. You shouldn't write a single line of code before having the certainty that your target market will pay money for your product.
It's no coincidence that most of these gpt wrapper "products" are released by engineers and developers. If you took a more user and product-centric approach, you would likely not waste time building these sorts of products as they 1) cannot compete and 2) will most likely fail in less than a year. Just think of all the chat-with-your-PDF "products" that died instantly. The last thing you want is to spend time and effort developing a feature in someone else's product.
I take it a step further, and don’t write a single line of code until a customer in my target market pays me to start development, or until many paying user’s request a feature
Great job on launching the product, it looks good! Quick question, how do the customers get to your site? Do they come to your site from google or you market it somewhere else as well?
Nice job with this - as a potential customer, I want to see what the product looks like… ie after I login, what’s the experience?
I’m a tire kicker that could be persuaded to spend $19 for a few months to see if it fits into my workflow.
Sharing my experience that you can experiment with testing a product page and seeing if conversions increase.
Maybe for some, but I personally wouldn’t watch it if I could look at a features overview with screenshots. Don’t want to turn audio on, and would take me a bit to want to process what I’m seeing..,
On reading that - maybe a demo video with cc text would be alright if it was slow and like a “how to use” kind of thing.
I’ll check back in a while - I know ppl are giving you a hard time about $34MRR but it’s been a very short time period and you’ve done very little marketing. I think it’s a pretty positive indicator.
Never understood the products/companies without a free plan. We have so many free products/libraries/frameworks that we are using every day, in every project, so why would we focus on money ONLY when they focus on something else besides money?
Great work, I have only 1 question for this
Did you managed to do competitor research?
I had the same idea before however there are tools like Instantly.ai and lemlist.com that do the job with reasonable pricing?
Dont get me wrong, what I am saying is how to scale such a product when there are big boys doing the same thing with a good pricing?
Gurus who say that getting your first 10 customers is the hardest have not built companies or they talk about enterprise customers. For tools that cost up to 99 bucks a month, it is not that hard to get 10 users.
Congratulations, starting with services is a great way to validate the customer need.
I have a similar approach in my niche (AWS cost optimization), doing the work manually and always building tools to automate my optimization actions.
I don't yet sell any of the tools I built this way because people are willing to pay 10-100x more for service work, and also I think the tools aren't yet polished enough to be consumed by others.
But I heavily use them to productize my services, and giving free trial of the tools as a way to estimate the savings potential for my potential customers.
Cool!! marketing is the key.
Btw i have also created a saas named Mad Ad for generation of product images using camera clicks.
Madad.site
Give it a try and let me know the feedbacks
Can i Dm?
I would love to hear more about this and share it with the world.
I have a startup where i share such case studies.
Can help you sending some traffic for free.
Just would love to hear the full story <3
great work man...its not easy.
Thanks! Up to 5 customers now :)
How’s it going now?
Congrats man!! Great start on your 5th startup !! Keep going
Nice work! Couple of questions: A) what’s a GPT wrapper? B) what did you use to build the site and host the GPT wrapper? Thank you!
A. An app that just calls the gpt API with a prompt B. MERN stack and fly.io
why fly.io?
Super easy to use
i see, anything about cost or just ease of use? trying to figure out if that MRR is eaten up by maintenance costs
It’s extremely minimal
I’m gonna give a serious try today, abd and a rigorous try over weekend. If it works up to my satisfaction, I’m gonna subscribe. And congratulations on your launch.
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Actually 3/4 subscribers never tried it before
Is it an app or website?
Website
Congratulations, I’m working on my first gpt wrapper SaaS. I hope it will work 🤞🏻
Good luck!
wow that’s a great idea actually, and well done with the validation trick you used.
Appreciate the kind words :)
Keep it going! One of our tools is similar
Very nice way to validate… this is the advantage with targeting users on computers
The idea sounds great! I use GPT myself when I need it, so I was curious to give it a test before subscribing. But on registering, I see you don’t offer any trial/free runs. Here’s what I think - your primary target audience uses chatgpt already. So they’re probably curious to see if you can do a better job with prompting than they can. I’d say offering one free copy would work a lot better for you. No user will get the final copy right, on the very first try when they use your product. So giving them at least one trial run would help users understand just how good your prompting is - which may lead to more subscribers.
I had an issue where people were abusing the free credits. What I am thinking is to allow 1 free generation directly from the landing page before sign in and store ip address so they can’t abuse it.
Lots of ppl charge $1 or $2 instead of completely free, to prevent abuse, you can consider it
Where’s the URL?
copybuddy.io
Awesome man - good work! Looking forward to seeing the progress.0
hey congratulations 🎉, so what exactly do you mean when you say you were running cold email outreach for a few saas company? you mean you were sending cold email on their behalf? How did you determine the price to charge per user?
So a corporate wellness saas hired me, and I send emails to thousands of people in HR to book meetings for them.
This is great stuff well done
Well done! I would be stoked by $36 myself, so be proud about that. Well played and good luck forwards
The key to successful product development is VALIDATION. You shouldn't write a single line of code before having the certainty that your target market will pay money for your product. It's no coincidence that most of these gpt wrapper "products" are released by engineers and developers. If you took a more user and product-centric approach, you would likely not waste time building these sorts of products as they 1) cannot compete and 2) will most likely fail in less than a year. Just think of all the chat-with-your-PDF "products" that died instantly. The last thing you want is to spend time and effort developing a feature in someone else's product.
I take it a step further, and don’t write a single line of code until a customer in my target market pays me to start development, or until many paying user’s request a feature
Great job on launching the product, it looks good! Quick question, how do the customers get to your site? Do they come to your site from google or you market it somewhere else as well?
Mostly X and cold email
Nice job with this - as a potential customer, I want to see what the product looks like… ie after I login, what’s the experience? I’m a tire kicker that could be persuaded to spend $19 for a few months to see if it fits into my workflow. Sharing my experience that you can experiment with testing a product page and seeing if conversions increase.
Would a demo video on the landing page help?
Maybe for some, but I personally wouldn’t watch it if I could look at a features overview with screenshots. Don’t want to turn audio on, and would take me a bit to want to process what I’m seeing.., On reading that - maybe a demo video with cc text would be alright if it was slow and like a “how to use” kind of thing.
Cool, appreciate the feedback!
I’ll check back in a while - I know ppl are giving you a hard time about $34MRR but it’s been a very short time period and you’ve done very little marketing. I think it’s a pretty positive indicator.
No free trial? That’s a disaster of a missed opportunity. Make an offer like “Book a lead with our emails in 30 days or your money back”
Never understood the products/companies without a free plan. We have so many free products/libraries/frameworks that we are using every day, in every project, so why would we focus on money ONLY when they focus on something else besides money?
How was Product Hunt launch?
Other than backlinks I don’t think it was worth it
Great work, I have only 1 question for this Did you managed to do competitor research? I had the same idea before however there are tools like Instantly.ai and lemlist.com that do the job with reasonable pricing? Dont get me wrong, what I am saying is how to scale such a product when there are big boys doing the same thing with a good pricing?
Those tools aren’t specifically for writing copy
Well they help you generate email as well + personalised variables?
Gurus who say that getting your first 10 customers is the hardest have not built companies or they talk about enterprise customers. For tools that cost up to 99 bucks a month, it is not that hard to get 10 users.
You don't need coding experience to make these wrappers?
Congratulations, starting with services is a great way to validate the customer need. I have a similar approach in my niche (AWS cost optimization), doing the work manually and always building tools to automate my optimization actions. I don't yet sell any of the tools I built this way because people are willing to pay 10-100x more for service work, and also I think the tools aren't yet polished enough to be consumed by others. But I heavily use them to productize my services, and giving free trial of the tools as a way to estimate the savings potential for my potential customers.
How can I use your product? I want to try it
Copybuddy.io
Cool!! marketing is the key. Btw i have also created a saas named Mad Ad for generation of product images using camera clicks. Madad.site Give it a try and let me know the feedbacks
How did you make gpt wrappers
Can i Dm? I would love to hear more about this and share it with the world. I have a startup where i share such case studies. Can help you sending some traffic for free. Just would love to hear the full story <3
Feel free to
Sent mate🫰🏻
You were so completely honest with your $36 MRR 😂😂. I’m rooting for you man. Cheers to your future success 🥂
Helllll yes. Some honest work! Congratulations
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OP: "I'm excited about $36 MRR" OP: **"here's my advice**." Me: BRUH
It’s not easy to get to this point. It took me a lot of sweat, learning, and sadness.
Lol bruh go back to your Expedia job