OPPORTUNITY ALERT: TikTok just made it possible to export users' data (posts, DMs, etc.) via an API.

This means that now it's possible to create apps to backup & import TikTok posts to other platforms.

Here are the opportunities this creates for SaaS founders: More details about the announcment:

Currently, this is available in the EEA, where TikTok has over 150 million users (we have reasons to believe it will soon be available globally).techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/tik…

THREAD: This SaaS is killing it on TikTok.

The reason: Amazing videos with attention-grabbing hooks.

Here are the details: TikTok has twice as many users compared to X/Twitter.

CreatorKit is a SaaS that uses AI to help you create product images.

According to SimilarWeb, they had over 30 million website visitors in the past 2 months:

Here are 3 ways to consistently generate good side-project ideas: 1. Keep an eye out for new features on major platforms.

iOS 16 enabled lock-screen widgets. This propelled many widget apps to the top of the App Store: appfigures.com/resources/insi…

Trouble making your promotions stand out from the crowd over the holiday season? Less popular holidays might be a better bet.

Thread 👇 A recent study found that people were 2x more likely to click promotions in an email if they were centered around a special day — and they were 25% more likely to buy. For the effect to work, the day needs to be original, unused by your competition, and on-brand.

Grow your email list with a viral thank-you page. Here's how.

Thread 👇 If someone lands on your thank-you page after subscribing, they're obviously interested in what you have to say. And that means you have an opportunity to take it a step further — make an offer.

If you're taking pre-orders, discounts might not be the right incentive.

Thread 👇 Presales are great for two main reasons: First, you can make money before you even launch the product. And second, they can help you validate the product. To order early, potential customers will need incentive, so businesses often offer discounts.

SEO isn't just about your written content — optimize your images in 5 simple steps.

Thread 👇 Here's @ItamarBlauer's 5-step process for optimizing images for SEO:

Looking for newsletters that can uplevel your founder game? Look no further.

Thread 👇 Marketing newsletters:
- Stacked Marketer: Curated marketing news, tech, and advice
- tl;dr Marketing: Curated marketing news
- Growth & User Acquisition: Opportunities for user acquisition
- Marketer Crew: The latest marketing news, tools, and insights

Here's how to spend less time making more content.

Thread 👇 Wildcard content is an SEO strategy where you write multiple pieces of content based on a search query that has a variable word. It allows you to find tons of keywords and write templatized content, saving you time and upleveling your SEO game.

Unemployed and out of college, this founder taught himself to code out of necessity.

A 🧵thread: Each morning Andy Cloke watched freeCodeCamp tutorials until he built his first project, verbly.io, a Spanish 🇪🇸 learning site.

The Spanish learning site had 1,000s of free users - but made $0.

Founders typically build products with either an audience-first strategy or an idea-first strategy.

A thread🧵: This is what an idea-first strategy looks like:

1) The founder has an idea.
2) The founder builds a product.
3) The founders looks for users for the product.

**Founders following this approach end up with a solution, and then looking for a problem.**

Want backlinks without doing all that outreach? Build something that benefits your customers' websites while linking back to yours.

Thread 👇 Typeform's domain rating is ranked #185 on Ahrefs' database, making their domain authority one of the highest in the world. That's no small feat for a relatively small company.

Create efficient, not clever ads.

Here's why this works: 👇👇👇 What are efficient ads?

These are ads that get your point across as fast as possible.

For example, having a six-second trailer over a 30-second linear ad.

Writing an ebook? Make it easy for your readers to promote it. Here's how.

Thread 👇 When writing content, it can be helpful to include shareable assets — e.g. highlighted quotes, infographics, etc.

Want to know the secret to getting stuff done quickly? In a recent interview, @stephsmithio shared how she crossed $130K with an ebook, created a course in 20 days, and more.

Here's the TL;DR version.

Thread 👇 Some quick takeaways from the interview:
- Get things done quickly by making Parkinson’s law work in your favor.
- Make the best use of your time by working like a lion (not a cow).
- Clinging too tightly to who you think you are closes doors.

Flow state has been shown to increase productivity in execs by 5x and creativity by 7x.

Want to know how to do it on-demand?

Thread 👇 Flow is a "...state of focused concentration on the performance of an activity, in which one dissociates oneself from distracting or irrelevant aspects of one's environment.”

Certain regions of the brain down-regulate, brainwaves slow, and a cocktail of chemicals are released.

THREAD: Jesse Farmer founded his first business, a computer repair shop, while still in high school.

The year was 1998: After graduating from high school in 2002, he studied Math at University of Chicago.

It was there he met his future co-founders.

THREAD: Ranking on the second page of Google's search results may be worthwhile after this recent Google update.

Here's the Google update: On October 14, Google announced that continuous scrolling will be coming to Search on mobile for US-English queries: blog.google/products/searc…

What is continuous scrolling?

Github increased paid conversions by 61% when they started recommending plans based on preferences. 🤯

Thread 👇 Every user is different, so don't show them all the same pricing options. When Github started recommending different plans to different users, they saw a crazy 61% increase in paid conversions.

UPDATE: Facebook will count 1 person as 2 people on its platform. People != Accounts.

Here are more details: Last week, Facebook said they will "change the way they count people".

One person will be counted as 2 people if they have separate Facebook and Instagram accounts.

UNLESS that person have explicitly linked their account in Facebook's "Accounts Center".

THREAD: The world's fastest startups are working on just ONE metric.

Forget Ads, CPC, LTV or any of that jargon: The most important key metric is TTV.

Let's dig into this.

Time to value. i.e, the time from when a customer invests into your product "by signing up" to the time they get the outcome (their pain solved).