21'. First year in biz,

I hired everyone properly & delegated.

Gross margins were okay. 45-50%-ish.

Net margins were "supposed" to be 30%

Had a few deals go south

Dropped LOWER. Waaaay lower

Also

I HAD NO IDEA GROSS MARGINS & NETS WERE DIFFERRENT

LMFAOOOO 😭😭😭😭 Deal size - Developer Salaries = Gross Margins

Deal size - Developer Salaries - sales SaaS cost - accounting cost - defaulted payments - stripe fees - RANDOM SHIT ARMGAJFAS = Net Profit margin

NO ONE FUCKING TOLD ME THIS ON TWITTER

Ahahhahah

“How to build an EXACT UI REPLICA / DEMO for your SaaS in ½ the time?”

Pt 2/3🧵

😖 Never LOSE $10k-20k on devs

⌛ Never GO OVERBUDGET

❌ Never PAY HOURLY

Agencies charge $2-5k

2.5k words. 3 videos. A Mini-Course. 🎞️

Poured heart soul into this, please RETWEET sir 🙇🏻 In this thread, I’ll teach you how you can

Create an EXACT UI/UX mockup for your SaaS idea

WITHOUT ANY technical expertise at ALL In <20 hours

(then, use it to convince devs to build you a SaaS for a Fixed Price)

Read Part 1 here -

https://twitter.com/SaasSavant/status/1579866567541596160

"STOP BUILDING PROSPECTING & OUTREACH SAAS-es"

Every month we get a enquires

"I want to build an Apollo, Instantly, LinkedIn Automation, CRM, etc"

Been involved w/ a lot of those

All of them are an ABSOLUTE pain in the back to build & maintain

1/ Google, Facebook, LI, IG do NOT want you to

- automate anything

- send tons of outbound messages, email

- black hat

Even people receiving the emails hate you

A constant game of cat-mouse

A huge MONEY SUCK

Need to constantly add features, iterate aka BURN MONEY on dev

2/

Week 1 of hiring a new DEVELOPER

You MICRO-MANAGE the shit out of them

"wya?"

"what are you doing?"

"did you do this?"

*call anytime, catch off guard*

Assign tasks. Record performance.

Give "micro-tests".

- "how quick they work?"

- "how quickly do they reply?" As a CEO your goal on the first week is to

"Find reasons to FIRE PEOPLE"

Trigger finger itchy - a reason they call it "fire"

This will feel very COUNTER-INTUITIVE

BUT...

if someone does not PUT THEIR BEST FOOT FORWARD WEEK 1

It's never happening

When you start asking yourself

"WHY do I want to buy this?"

It becomes incredibly difficult to spend any money at all

1. Buy car for SOCIAL STATUS?

Or

2. Donate half money of car cost to charity.

Buy paid-media to promote the said charity

Then get a blue check mark on IG One of those WILL GET YOU significantly more social status, tax write-offs & clout

It's NOT going to be a used german car.

Boom, paralyzed.

“Sign million-dollar B2Bs as beta-users WITHOUT writing a line of code” - Pt. 1 of 3

👌🏻 ZERO Coding / Design Skills

⚒️ 100% FREE Tools

How to build an EXACT UI REPLICA for your SaaS IDEA in <15 hours

(agencies charge $2-5k for this)

MINI-COURSE 🧵 When we met our client Greg Warner, a real estate consultant

He had an idea for a SaaS.

A manual repetitive 20-hour/week process involving excel, emailing PDFs & Zoom calls.

He wanted to automate it.

He had a vision.

He was a perfect fit.

How to BUILD a "Godlike Outreach Bypass SaaS" that allows you to

- Skip Buying Domains
- Remove 14 Day Email Warmup Period
- No send limit (Reach 5k Prospects today)
- Generate 10-20k in pipeline opportunity
- Reach decision-makers in seconds

Step-by-step Video Tutorial🧵 By the end of this thread,

You’ll have a complete idea of

How to build a Cold Outreach SaaS that lands you STRAIGHT in front of your prospects

Exact step-by-step breakdown
- COST
- TIMELINE

EVERYTHING else

Hit RETWEET on the top tweet. "Undo" if you wasted your time

10 GOLDEN RULES of Interviews when looking for a dev to join YOUR team. 🪙

We've SHORTLISTED 100s, INTERVIEWED 10s, HIRED (& fired) MANY for our company & even for funded startups.

Everything I wished I knew before we got started.

Hit, RT Please! Thread 🧵 1) The candidate should NOT be a yes-man - NO KISS ASSES

2) The candidate should be able to think independently - GO GETTER

3) The candidate should be able to find creative solutions - HAVE side-projects - love the craft

4) The candidate should have a can-do attitude - G shit

ME AND THE BOYS WORKING ON BUG FIXES 20 MINS BEFORE MEETING THE CLIENT Immaculate vibes at the Ionio.io offices

Literally rented the pyramid of Giza to work inside it.

Enforced strict dress code

everyone only allowed to wear long white robes while churning out code

We are a PROPER COMPANY now.

" 1 in 3 SaaS builds get delayed & go over budget" 🧵

Avg software project
- costs 45% over budget
- has <40% of features committed
- is >7% DELAYED

4 Major Causes of Delays

12 questions DEVS wish you DON’T ask em' 😈

MUST-READ if u ever want to be a SaaS CEO

RT for PT2 Several times throughout last year,

We've helped early-stage bootstrapped entrepreneurs build software products in 3-5 months with a team of 2-5 for $15-20k

Doing the same thing again & again several patterns start to emerge. 👇🏻

🤑 "HOW TO BUILD a SaaS?" 🧵

A Step-by-Step TECHNICAL & FINANCIAL Breakdown

My agency built ~3 SaaS-es in 2021. Clients love us

Includes 6 INSIDER SECRETS 🕵🏽

Bonus - How NOT to go OVER BUDGET (like I did)

Took day off from college to write tis RT PLS sir 🙇🏽‍♂️ Over the past year, my agency has been exclusively helping non-technical founders launch software companies in 3-5 months (without hiring full-time CTOs) through end-to-end technical partnerships

👀DO NOT START BUILDING YOUR SaaS BEFORE DO (& WATCH) ALL OF THIS THIS🧵

"Complete 3-week SaaS Launch Roadmap" - we used to build a real-estate SaaS in 90 days

"Save $$$"

MUST-READ for anyone trying to get into SaaS

got food poisoning still wrote tis please retweet, sir 🙇🏽‍♀️ On this side of Twitter, there’s a lot of content detailing the sales & marketing

But nothing about what needs to be done BEFORE you actually HIRE devs to build a SaaS

🔐“HOW TO SECURE YOUR SaaS IN 6 HOURS"🧵

& prevent >75% of hacks w/o an expensive security firm

"8 STEPS your CTO can take to save a >$3000"

MUST-READ for all #buildinpublic who don't want to get hacked

My team & I spent >4 days writing/editing

Please RETWEET. Pt 2 at 35 RT. First let's get something out of the way

"I am too small to be hacked?"

Being too small is what makes you even more vulnerable.

You neither have any security department nor any time to do any sort of penetration testing.

This makes small YOU the perfect target for hackers.

HOW TO HIRE GREAT DEVS in 15-20 days to build your SAAS MVP?🧵

"What I learned from >50 technical interviews for >5 roles at an EU-IN-based AI startup?"

Atm, I use this to hire devs for my software developer agency.

RT & follow if you want more. I spent a Saturday on this. "Should you be the one hiring developers?"

Don’t try to hire developers if you are completely non-technical yourself.

They will take all your money, build a shitty product & leave.

Here’s your job profile to hire devs & function as a CTO 👇🏽