Thread by @heyblake

Announcing my first SaaS side hustle 🎉

Waitlist here if you just trust me:
waitlist.float.so

If you want the full story, keep reading
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1/12 I'm a content creator at heart.

It's what I do. It's what I love.

And CMO-ing in public at @copy_ai has made me realize:

I want to empower other creators even more.

But one area that's always been a struggle for me is online courses.

2/12 I built High-Performance Landing Pages a few months back.

It became clear how high the barrier to entry still was for making a course.

You could pick a good platform, but it costed a ton.

You could go with Gumroad, but it was disorganized.

3/12 And that's just for paid courses!

If you wanted to start a free course, the price points were impossible to accept.

So I started compiling thoughts about how this could change.

4/12 Some things that pained me as a creator:

- Online course platforms cost big $$$$$$
- Lotta copy/paste from notes to builder
- Some tools are less than organized
- You have to learn a whole new tool

5/12 And it eventually hit me:

I'm in Notion a lot.

I should build my course on top of that.

My notes are already there.

My thoughts are already organized in Notion.

Why am I moving between apps to build a course?

6/12 Alas, a good solution wasn't available.

Website builders on top of Notion exist, but they don't:

- Automatically format course content
- Give you templates to build a course on
- Easily gate content behind a paywall
- Integrate with an email platform
- And on and on and on

7/12 I'll be real with you:

I've had this idea for MONTHS.

But I sat on it.

Didn't build.

Almost let it die.

8/12 Then I joined @copy_ai.

I got re-inspired by our creative culture.

I found new ways to make the idea even better.

I had a super supportive leadership team (props to @chris__lu and @PaulYacoubian)

And I met @wenquai.

9/12 This thing kept coming back to me.

So I had to do 2 things:

1. Make sure the Copy team was cool with it
2. Getting Zack Lee on board as partner

Check and check.

10/12 Which brings us to this moment.

Right now.

Announcing the waitlist to a solution for a problem I've faced many times.

I'm excited, nervous, and confident.

11/12 You should join the waitlist if...

- You plan on making an online course ever
- You use Notion or want to use it
- You wanna support Zack and me

12/12 This is just the beginning.

If you're in, sign up:

waitlist.float.so