Steve Olesansky

Having a goal with no clear plan is a believes. Let's do some napkin math. You have a goal of 100k/month. Your product costs $60-70/month. Let's say you do offers and the average will be $50/month, there will also be some churn. You need 2000 active customers to achieve that. You launched about 2 weeks ago. At what rate are you currently acquiring customers? Do post an update. You should aim to get about 30-40 new customers per week. Even if you have a clear ICP, getting that many customers is hard. If you're doing marketing and you are getting the right customer to your landing page, and it converts at an average rate of 3%, you need 1000 of the RIGHT KIND of people to hit your web every week... and I can go on.. because I've made this mistake so many times in so many different ways.. you see success stories because they get promoted, but there is a cementry of projects and startups that never make $1. Instead of focusing on an abstract goal in a year, focus on what you can achieve in a day, or a week. Answer these questions in detail if you want to chat more: 1. Why did you pick this project? Really, no BS. No one cares anyway. 2. Who is it for? be SPECIFIC. i.e. I built VidTally for people like me. A solo founder who lives in US/EU/AU, who built a B2C app with some initial traction (10k MRR), which has an appeal to create visual content on social media, who is not good at posting content themselves but believe that with the right creators, he can get the app a certain reach. Their product/app has to meet the criteria for recurring content... 3. Why should they care? i.e. why should they care about Reddit/X? What's an alternative if they do not do this? 4. Where are they and how do you find them?

I'm 16, and I'm looking for a mentor. Just trying to figure out this SaaS thing. I'm a solo founder building OnPilot, an AI marketing tool that monitors Reddit and X for buyer, intent signals and drafts outreach replies for human approval. I'm self taught. I don't know how to code, not that it matters at this point. I'm figuring this out as I go, leaning hard on AI tooling to ship. We have an MVP and a small handful of customers. That's it. I have read about 20 business books, 100s of youtube videos. (mostly Alex Hormozi LOL) but often it seems like I have no idea what to do. And I cannot just ask a LLM because often they give sucky answers. just agreeing with me etc, and also there is not any LLMs at 100K MRR. That's where I want a mentor. Who I'm hoping to learn from: A SaaS founder who has done it; ideally someone at 100K+ MRR who remembers what the early scrappy days felt like. What I'm asking for: Whatever you're willing to give. A monthly call. Async DMs. A roast of my landing page. I'm not picky. I just want someone in my corner who has been through it. What I can offer in return (tbh its not much. Im sorry, but I have very little money and my monthly SaaS cost are already cooking a lot of that) But I'm a builder. I'll build you anything you need. Internal tools, scripts, a lead scraper, whatever. I also know Reddit marketing pretty well at this point I'll run organic outreach for one of your products if it's useful. If any of this resonates, DM me. I'll respond to every single message. Thanks for reading.

...measuring the data and reconciling payments to creators. Today I'm launching our internal analytics tool as VidTally and embarking on a 30-day challenge to 100 customers! 🚀 Day 1: VidTally is live!

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