Software dev job postings on indeed have TANKED since 2022

But if I were them, I wouldn’t be concerned, I’d be happy.

Here’s how I’d make more money building software for myself 👇🏻 1) find a B2B SaaS making a TON of money (validated idea)

Search their G2 reviews or use chrome store extension ExtractG2 to pull reviews

Search for recurring complaints (missing features, pricing, user experience)

4 years ago I was in college playing tennis with no clue what I’d do

Today, I wake up to this view every morning

I don’t have set work hours

I don’t look at prices

Here’s what I’d do if I had to start from 0

👇🏻 Everyone I know that’s become successful focuses on these 4 pillars

1) skills
2) capital
3) audience
4) network

They all build off each other, but it has to start with a skill

You want to start a SaaS

But you don’t know where to start

Steal my full playbook to start a SaaS A-Z that I’ve used 5+ times & dozens of others I’ve consulted

Keep reading 👇🏻 1) We need an idea

- check acquire(dot)com for inspiration
- go on producthunt and look at top upvoted SaaS for a specific niche
- find a common problem in the niche you’re already in

ChatGPT is going to make me copious amounts of money in 2023

Here's how you can too👇 1. Content Agency

I spend 4-5 hours per week creating written content for twitter and linkedin

you can offer content creation for these platforms as a service for cheap ($500/mo) and use chatGPT to fulfill the service

Want to start a SaaS this year?

in this thread I will:

> give you an idea
> do your market research
> give you MVP ideas / how to build
> your go to market strategy

Let's go 👇 1/ Idea

I know the B2B sales niche incredibly well

a SaaS idea that I know I could sell to my audience, is a power dialer for cold calling teams

there's also opportunity to easily use info to push people to the product

people also sleep on cold calling

I created a no code SaaS in 48 hours

I got my first customer on day 4

Here's what I've built and how you can do the same

THREAD 👇 1/ Ideation

I used chatGPT to get some ideas

I wanted to do a fine tuned model because I know how to build those easily

I settled on a fine tuned model to generate linkedin posts

The easy days of making money are gone

95% of people will get crushed

Here's how to THRIVE in 2023

(mini thread) 👇 1/ Sharpen Your Skills

I don't care if you've already made a bunch of money online

not the time to get complacent, continue to improve at your craft

find bigger mentors, reread books, get new courses

3 years ago, I was a broke D1 college athlete taking 11 calls on my friday evenings

today, I'm financially free living in miami

Here's the story of how it happened 🧵 1/ My schedule

wake up 5am
practice 6am - 8:30am
class 9am - 1pm MWF
Lunch 1:15
weights 2pm - 3:30
rest of my day: study, homework, binge YT, read books, outreach, sales calls

This is Alex Becker

he recently sold his company, Hyros, for $110m

let's breakdown his brilliant strategy and evolution to get here & how you can copy it 👇 1/
many many years ago he got his start in ecom & also he had an agency

by being immersed in these two niches, he began very good at one thing, media buying.

but, he found an issue.

Which No Code Builder Should You Use to Build Your SaaS? 👇👇 1/ Bubble(dot)io

by far the best option if you have the budget

both Closify & Trackify are built on Bubble

if you want an intro to a Bubble dev DM me "bubble"

I've founded or co founded 3 SaaS companies in the last 2 years

(& exited 1)

Here's a compilation of my biggest learnings thus far 👇 1/ Beware of Cheap Devs

yes, even with no code

they often build your project in a way that can't easily be built on top of later

avoid cheap devs - DM me "bubble" if you need an intro to a quality dev

If you have $10,000 in your bank account

here's what I'd do with it this year to create an asset you can sell that also pays you monthly

(keep reading)👇 1/ What niche are you in?

if you see this tweet, I assumr you're familiar with a niche

whether it's sales, SMMA, ecom, copywriting, etc

come up with 5 SaaS ideas for your niche you're familiar with

Working on a SaaS?

Here's your pre launch guide to follow to guarantee customers day 1👇 1. Build your waitlist landing page

call out your ideal client profile, describe benefits, and offer an incentive to sign up for waitlist

incentives can be:

>> discounts
>> extended trials
>> free info products

Iman Gadzhi shut down his $100k/m profit agency to go all in on SaaS

Here's why you should consider the same👇 1/
Iman is very intelligent

he knows wealth is made in exits and not purely cash flow

he got to a point where the 100k/mo profit literally wasn't worth his time to run anymore as it wasn't sellable

Let's address the elephant in the room about no code SaaS

Can you sell it??

(mini thread)👇 the answer is: absolutely yes

here's the thing you need to understand: unless you own a PATENT

no code vs code really has the same moats

the both take time & money

If you only gave me 4 weeks to:

> find a SaaS idea
> Build an MVP
> Launch the SaaS
> Get paying customers

here's how I'd do it 👇 1. Interview my friends

I have a lot of friends in business so I'd ask them questions like

> what softwares do you currently use?
> What softwares don't you like that you use?
> what features do you wish they had?
> what do you spend a lot of time on that you wish you didn't?

I got an idea, built, launched, and sold a no code SaaS in 4 months

Trackify launched mid August, and I sold it to @Lukealexxander in November

Here's exactly how it happened start to finish 👇 @Lukealexxander 1. The idea

My main company, Closify, has amassed over 200 clients

I asked what other issues they faced

a recurring problem occured, no good way to track sales reps KPI's and do reporting

best option was google forms

This is Alex Becker

he recently sold his company, Hyros, for $110m

let's breakdown his brilliant strategy and evolution to get here & how you can copy it 👇 1/
many many years ago he got his start in ecom & also he had an agency

by being immersed in these two niches, he began very good at one thing, media buying.

but, he found an issue.

In SaaS once you have product market fit

everything is about reducing churn & increasing LTV

and slowly adding more cusotmer acquisition channels My favorite no code SaaS builder for beginners is softr

it's easy to use and has a free trial 👇

softrplatformsgmbh.grsm.io/4anz2da8sdgp

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SaaS is more fun than agency

constantly getting to make your product better

see the MRR go up

and know the equity value created is going up My favorite no code SaaS builder for beginners is softr

it's easy to use and has a free trial 👇

softrplatformsgmbh.grsm.io/4anz2da8sdgp

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You can own a SaaS company in just a few weeks

Here's how 👇 first - you need an idea

I already made a thread on how to get SaaS ideas that you can read below

https://twitter.com/alexh459/status/1608145777087365129?s=20&t=2Gqb55Jk9bOZW1f1E62WfA