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Flippa listing: CV Builder SaaS making: $4.4K/month, 75% churn Key metrics Location: Netherlands Age: 4 years MRR: EUR €3,784 Total Active Subscribers: 210 Email Subscribers: 17,877 Page Views: 12,223/mo Overall Churn: 75% Asking price: $57,056

@onzzes Really cool art!

I forgot to add this pic… here you can see all of them well (plus the loop one hehe) 💐💋

@moudoka1 Ah, I see. That's great! Glad to see you're upgrading lots of things:) I just thought that you could leave the current version live until you finish all the upgrades, and then just switch to the new store. So you don't have to pause the money flow and make clients wait.

@A_Cheater I'm doing the upgrade to include better integration with my suppliers, new displays, all the good stuff, and a LOT of new merchandise.

Starting June 1st, my Shopify store will be going down for upgrades and new additions. I hope to have it up and running by June 30th, depending on how everything goes.

@growzillaagency Totally agree. One step every day will take you much further (and easier) than doing 10 steps once a month.

@A_Cheater When you decide to achieve a dream, you need to figure out what it will take to become yours. Even though the finish line seems far away, taking small and steady steps will help you get closer to it. This way you'll make progress faster.

Chasing a goal or nurturing the dream - is it the same? Probably. Anyway, it's a long run, and taking small steps every day makes the goal closer. Whether it's a #business, a personal goal, a new skill - whatever. Just keep the progress. And track it!

@growzillaagency That's true. Not seeing the results very often kills motivation. On the other hand, discipline should be added to the mix, too, and work together with motivation.

@A_Cheater When you can see the improvements, it gets easier to stay consistent. Your goal does not care about how motivated you are, but you should create reasons to stay motivated to keep winning. Track your results and do what works.

The hardest part when moving toward the goal is staying consistent. It's easy to get distracted or lose focus. That's why I'm growing my virtual tree to see results every day (or, at least, once per 2-3 days:))

@growzillaagency Exactly! Do you work with a team or with AI? :)

@A_Cheater It's usually good to explain technical terms while giving prompts to AI or planning with a team. When you expect a good outcome you need to give the same quality of information and specify what output you actually want.

Bad Advice: never ever write down technical requirements. No matter if you use AI or have a dev team. Use only vague descriptions like "make a website".

@AndreaBell9601 @ShopifySupport Whoa! Well, yeah, welcome to Shopify. Any updates from them?

Hi @ShopifySupport, I’ve been waiting ONE MONTH for a resolution on my Ticket regarding a technical ID verification bug. My store had already 10k orders and milestone and now is stopped. Could you please look into this? PLEASE, DM me.

@Abigail7866 @growzillaagency Well, yes, but if you don't have traffic, you won't get conversions.

@growzillaagency Conversion matters more than traffic

If your website is slow, confusing, and looks outdated… You’re pouring traffic into a leaking bucket. Most businesses don’t need more visitors. They need a website that makes people trust them fast. That’s where the money is.

@simplydt @hridoyreh Exactly. Sometimes there's even no need in differentiated features - just disable redundand features, improve marketing/SEO and UX

@hridoyreh due diligence first, then build truly differentiated features

How to find business ideas: 1. Go to Flippa. 2. Filter websites doing $10,000+/m. 3. Analyze the website / SaaS now. 4. Pick a product idea that has demand. 5. Build with better features. Do SEO and make money...

@SimonHoiberg I've never had success with AI customer support (even with Google's one). Hope it really works differently for you!

OpenClaw took over our customer support. And customer satisfaction spiked 😳 Here's how it used to be: 3 support staff (in different time zones). + me and my devs. I wouldn't always be available. My devs would get interrupted. My support staff wouldn't always have someone to ask, and they'd default to generic, non-helpful resolutions. Peak times = lots of stress. Customers = annoyed. Then I introduced my OpenClaw support team. Always available 24/7. Has access to system logs. Has access to our admin APIs. Has access to Stripe. Has access to GitHub. Pulls tickets and emails from Aidbase API. Assigns itself to it. Uses its tools to do the research, locate the issue. Fixes it, responds to the user. If it needs to, it brings humans in the loop. We use Telegram, so wherever I am, I can answer questions easily through voice on my mobile. We started surveying customers, and satisfaction is BETTER THAN EVER. OpenClaw is doing a much better job at this than we ever did.

@bygregorr @SimonHoiberg I especially love the idea of rebooting the whole server by pressing a physical button or unplugging the cable:)) No fancy web UI with 100s of pages until you find this "reboot" button.

@SimonHoiberg I've noticed cost isn't the only savings you're getting from bare metal - I've also seen significant performance improvements with reduced instance boot times and lower latency, which can lead to better user experiences for your customers.

I'm leaving the cloud 👋 +80% of my SaaS portfolio now runs on bare metal. Why? I have at least 3 major reasons. One of them is, obviously, cost. This year, I've been able to reduce my monthly cloud bill on AWS from $7800 on average to below $1000 (last month). It's a very noticeable cost reduction. One question I get often: Is it really worth it? Considering the time I now need to spend managing my own dedicated servers. Short answer: Yes. In fact, running your products using OS software is surprisingly "easy" - although it comes with a few gotchas. Let me explain 👇

@sher_mish_ @SimonHoiberg Complexity depends, too. A small SaaS tool that schedules Twitter posts may not need complicated routing. But in general, yes, if you need "deep networking", AWS might be a good fit. But each project should be estimated separately.

The cost math is real. What's underrated here: the engineers who pull this off cleanly are usually the ones who actually understand AWS networking well enough to recreate it on bare metal. VPC routing, IAM trust chains - you can't migrate away from complexity you never fully learned.

@BenToFound @SimonHoiberg I think you're right, most people just accept it. AWS and other cloud solutions definitely have their own cons, but if your business or app is small (or if you're just testing how it goes), a VPS/Raspberry/a similar platform will be absolutely fine.

@SimonHoiberg $7,800 to under $1,000 is insane. At what point did you realise the cloud costs were getting out of hand? Feels like most people just accept it as a cost of doing business until it's way too late.

@fedirnikovai @SimonHoiberg Yes, but the idea may not be unique. The way you fix the problem can and probably should be unique. Or it should be better/more convenient than the competitor's way. Many factors can differ between similar products.

@SimonHoiberg Sometimes the best SaaS ideas are right under our noses, hidden in our daily workflows. Turning those automations into polished products is such a smart move.

Your best SaaS idea is probably *already running* inside your business. Not in your head. In your automations. If you have a messy stack of: → n8n workflows → scrapers → AI helpers → Glued-together spreadsheets …you're sitting on a product. You just haven't productized it yet. Here's the simple playbook I use: 1️⃣ Identify the "hidden product" Don't ask "what should I build?" Ask: "What do we already do repeatedly that *others would gladly pay to avoid doing themselves?*" Litmus test: - It runs at least weekly. - It replaces annoying manual work. - If it broke, you'd fix it *today*. 2️⃣ Turn workflow → clear outcome Nobody wants "access to your automation". They want a promise. Translate it: - From: "AI + n8n + API integration for X." - To: "Get Y done in Z minutes with 0 manual steps." 3️⃣ Wrap it in a tiny product You don't need a massive product. You just need a clean entry point. Minimal setup: → Auth (email + magic link is fine). → 1 screen to configure inputs. → 1 button: "Run". → A log that shows what happened. 4️⃣ Price like a tool, not a toy If your tool replaces hours of work, charge accordingly. Think if 3 types of users: - Solo: just enough usage to *feel* the value. - Team: where most revenue comes from. - Power: priced for the people whose job you're basically automating. 5️⃣ Add one proof, then push Before obsessing over features: → Get 3 users. → Collect 1 strong, specific testimonial. → Share it where your users hang out. "Look what this did for them" sells better than "look how clever my stack is". I have 4 tools in my portfolio. Every single one of them started as an internal tool or piece of automation. This is where most good tools are born.

@jaredjameshq @SimonHoiberg That's true. Just an idea is the top layer of the business. But the real business can go deeper. You never know until you learn this specific business from the inside.

@SimonHoiberg The irony of building a business will show you what to build is not really talked about. I think because most people are stuck at the initial business idea. I’ve got more products now after building a physical business due to building the operations within the business.

When you do small steps every day, you may not notice them. It looks like you did it yesterday. But if you compare it with day 1, you'll see the difference. I didn't get back to the #MVP today, but completed the daily #goal. Still working on the #app design.

Just thought about adding weather effects depending on the progress/skip days. Like storm or sunlight... but that's an idea for v1.x, I think. P.S. Daily goal completed:)

@rohan360d @KevinBelfort_30 What would be your strategy to find such a person?

@KevinBelfort_30 Build a website for a person who need it and sell it to him for $5000.

You have a laptop. No job. No money. Your goal: $5,000 MRR in 2 weeks. What’s your strategy?