My guide to new technical founders:

I learned how to code when I was 13, built many apps that failed, own a $25k MRR app.

If you want to succeed, read this.
1/ Stop learning new technical stuff

Start building something valuable for people with what you know.
2/ It's not because a technology is new and trendy that you have to use it.

Programming language you already know > new stuff
3/ Build features, validate them with the market, build new features.

Don't just build, build, build.
4/ Less is more.

Don't add features your users don't need.

They will leave cause they are paying for something they don't use.
5/ You don't have to be the best developer to build your successful SaaS.

But only if you want to apply for a job in a big tech company.
5/ Start to learn marketing.

It's not advice. It's mandatory.
6/ Dare to contact people and ask questions.

The worst you'll receive is a "NO".
7/ Spend only 50% building.

Then 50% on marketing.
I made these mistakes before. So trust me.

If you follow it, everything will be better.

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25 Dec
I started SaaS many years ago.

And I did a lot of mistakes before my "successful SaaS" 😅.

So here we go.

15 mistakes I made you can learn from 🧵
1/ I started SaaS based on an idea and not a problem

Someday I woke up, thought about a cool idea, and started to build it.

But never got any user doing that.
2/ I tried for years to find the next $1 billion idea

You won't find it.

Most successful businesses you know today didn't start as a $1 billion idea.

They became one.
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I started my 1st Shopify App 3 years ago.

Today I own a $25k MRR app.

But I hadn't found a lot of information back then.

So here we go. My Christmas gift! 🎁

24 things I wish I knew when I started my Shopify App👇
1/ There are a lot of opportunities for apps.

You just have to talk to merchants to understand their pain and what's missing in the App Store.

New apps will create new needs.
2/ Don't wait too long to submit your app on the app store.

As soon as you have a working app (even an MVP), submit it.

Because Shopify will review your app during the approval process.

The more features you have, the more changes they might ask you to make.
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Here's what a moving truck taught me about building an app

Yea, it sounds weird.

THREAD 👇
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We rented a moving truck.

But we didn't do this randomly!
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We didn't have a lot of furniture, so we just needed a small one.

So we tried to find one.

And we notice something strange.
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