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Profitable Founder Podcast

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by @floriandarroman | Every Mon & Thu, I interview bootstrapped founders making $100K-$10M/year so you can steal their playbook

Watch the last episode → Katılım Şubat 2022
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Florian Darroman
Florian Darroman@floriandarroman·
SaaS Distribution 101. I just published a video where I share the exact plan I would follow if I had to start a SaaS in 2026. In this video, you'll discover: - 3 types of marketing (viral, boring, scary) - How to validate your product - 7-step to go from 0 to 1,000 paid users Watch the full video: linktw.in/ukveBp
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Last chance to try Distribb for $9 ⌛️ We all know SEO works. 16.4 billion searches on Google daily. And a part of them are currently looking for a product like yours. But they click on your competitors website as you're nowhere to be found on Google (yet). And it is the same with AI. 210 million daily users on ChatGPT only. That's why I positioned my OpenClaw community on AI in 48h (using Distribb’s Playbook). And you know you should too. So yes. You know it works. But you don't have the time: To write blog articles To build backlinks To get listicles To reply to Reddit posts That's exactly what Distribb fixes. I joined my co-founder @borjafat to add my 10 years of SEO expertise into Distribb. To help our users get customers from organic traffic on autopilot. And it works. Here's what happened to one of our users traffic after joining Distribb in December (image below). Flat traffic for over a year. Then Distribb kicked in. 380+ monthly organic visits. 100+ keywords ranking in top positions. All organic. And of course it converts into customers. And he is not an isolated case. This is what Distribb does for you: 1. Writes and publishes daily SEO articles 2. Builds backlinks from real businesses 3. Mentions your brand on curated Reddit threads This helps you rank #1 on Google and gets your product mentioned in AI answers. We opened the $9 first month to onboard early users and collect feedback. That phase is over. We're now know that our product delivers results. So this is your last chance to try Distribb for $9 (first month). After Thursday, the price goes straight to $97. → Join Distribb for $9 before Thursday: distribb.io And see the results for yourself.
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Florian Darroman@floriandarroman·
How I got paid customers from Google in 48h (you don't even need a website) 0:00 - Intro 0:32 - What you need to start 1:05 - Step 1: Find buying-intent keywords 1:54 - Using Ahrefs or SEMrush 2:53 - Step 2: Write an article on Medium 3:38 - How the articles look 4:19 - Step 3: Wait 24-72h to get indexed 4:40 - Ranking #1 on Google (live proof) 4:54 - Getting featured in AI Overview 5:58 - Step 4: Track your conversions 7:47 - Rank on ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok 9:07 - No product yet? Do this. 10:51 - Other Parasite SEO spots 12:01 - The 4-step recap 12:29 - How Distribb automates all of this
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This is how we use Claude Code to get our brand mentioned by AI When you ask ChatGPT "what's the best tool for X," it doesn't always cite the tools directly. It cites third-party listicle articles from sites like Zapier or TechRadar. So if your brand is on those pages, you show up in AI answers. My co-founder @borjafat made a full video where he shares exactly how he turned Claude into an SEO outreach agent. Watch the full video: linktw.in/KOnSBS How it works: You give it your product, your competitors, and your target keywords. It finds every listicle where your competitors are listed but you're not. Then it builds you a dashboard with: - Domain authority of each site - Contact info - Email outreach copy - LinkedIn DM copy - Priority scoring Copy, paste, send. (You can also connect it to Instantly or Apollo and automate the whole thing).
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Profitable Founder Podcast@profitfounder·
how life feels after delegating your entire SEO to AI agents:
Florian Darroman@floriandarroman

If you are a SaaS Founder and you want to increase your Domain Authority. To get customers from Google and AI on Autopilot. Let me introduce you to Distribb backlink exchange. We don't just swap links randomly like every other network. Which, by the way, doesn't bring you much power to your website. We built a system that: 1. Connects to your Google Search Console 2. Finds your top 5 direct competitors 3. Calculates your backlink gap 4. Matches you with real websites in your niche 5. Writes articles and listicles that link to you (optimized for Google AND AI answers) 6. Distributes links across your homepage, money pages, and blog with natural anchor diversity 7. Publishes them across the network automatically 8. Spreads everything over months so it looks 100% organic 9. Uses A-B-C linking: no direct swaps, no footprints Bonus: The longer you stay, the more links you get. Month 1: 5 backlinks/mo Month 3: 8 backlinks/mo Month 6: 12 backlinks/mo Month 12: 20 backlinks/mo Month 18: 25 backlinks/mo Month 24: 50 backlinks/mo You start at your current DR level. As your authority grows, you unlock links from stronger sites. You focus on building your product. We handle the SEO. There are already hundreds of websites in the network waiting for you. This is not a marketplace where you pay $500 per link. This is not a PBN that gets you penalized. This is a real network of real SaaS websites exchanging real editorial backlinks. Your first month starts at $9 👇

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Florian Darroman@floriandarroman·
They are all lying to you about OpenClaw 🦞 They build fake use cases just to get views. Most content creators aren't really using it to build things. Just smoke screens to sell you the dream. I struggle to find real use cases online. Mainly because the people who are really building with it are building in silence. So I decided to share 9 REAL use cases. What I really use OpenClaw daily for: - My SaaS - My Community - And funky life stuff Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:35 Setup update 2:42 Rebrand a homepage 4:41 Creat demo video 7:15 Full SEO audit 7:27 The right way to use OpenClaw 12:09 Fix your SaaS with Paul Graham 15:45 Fix your SaaS UX 17:29 How I made 4.8K MRR 19:47 Daily blog post 20:33 PSEO with OpenClaw 21:39 Write a book and send it to your Kindle
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Florian Darroman@floriandarroman·
SEO in 2026 is cheated. You probably don't know this but I've been doing SEO since 2016. Most of the money I've made was from affiliate SEO. And back in the day it was hard. AI wasn't a thing. But this morning I basically did a FULL audit of my SaaS with a few prompts and a few APIs. The result is just insane: - 230 keywords that convert - ranked by priority - backlink count for each page - clusters (for internal linking) Instead of blindly throwing darts and praying to hit the bullseye, I reverse engineered our competitors + what we sell. Then targeted the highest buying intent keywords first. Then added the "informational" keywords to push them. Not the other way around. So all the content we will publish will actually convert to customers (when they rank). Not just increase traffic to increase traffic. Most of our competitors have no clue how to do a proper audit because they never really did SEO. And one of our next missions with Distribb is to use Distribb to get customers. Aka dog fooding. Because we want it to become the best SEO agent tool for SaaS. ONLY for SaaS (for now). So for the next 90 days we are going to focus entirely on this market. I'll document everything we do here. And implement all the new features directly on Distribb. So all of our customers can get access to it and get real leads from SEO.
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You wake up in 2026 and Paul Graham can fix your SaaS for free:
Florian Darroman@floriandarroman

If you are a SaaS founder, read this. I think I found the best way for you to use OpenClaw. You can literally turn your agent into @paulg telling you how to fix your SaaS. The insights I got from it are just insane. TLDR; 1. OpenClaw analyzes your Stripe 2. Tries your onboarding like your ICP 3. Gets Paul Graham's knowledge base 4. Gives you a full report to fix your SaaS 1 - Create a "read only" API on Stripe. Give it to your OpenClaw (or whatever agent you're using right now). Ask it to analyze the full data: - Pricing - Churn - Conversion - LTV - Trial to paid rate - Discount impact - Invoice patterns Ask it to really go deep. Not the surface level. Go into every corner. Check invoices, not only graphs. Look at cohort behavior month by month. Ask it to calculate your real MRR after discounts (not the vanity number Stripe shows you). When I did this, I found so many golden nuggets in my Stripe Data. And the feedbacks from my OpenClaw were already super valuable. But this is not enough. We need the whole context, not just Stripe. 2 - Ask your Agent to try your tool Give it a free coupon for your SaaS and ask it to sign up and follow the onboarding like your ICP (if you didn't yet, define it before you send it on your landing page). It will follow step by step, take screenshots, and tell you what's good, what's not and give you solutions. Ask it to push the feedback on Notion (so you can visualize it). This already will give you enough work for the next month. 3 - Turn your OpenClaw into YC Founder Paul Graham co-founded Y Combinator and invested in Stripe, Airbnb, Dropbox, Reddit. He's written 230 essays on startups over 20 years. It's basically the bible of building companies. Send this link to your OpenClaw and ask it to find anything that could apply to your SaaS and current problems you're facing: paulgraham[.]com/articles.html Your agent will read all of them and pull out what's relevant to YOUR situation. 4 - The cherry on the cake Now ask it to combine all the data it gathered so far: - Stripe analysis - Onboarding feedback - Paul Graham knowledge base And tell it to give you a full analysis and solution for your SaaS and push it to Notion. This is where it gets insane. I got a 9 section report with specific fixes ranked by impact. Not just "improve your onboarding". This took me one afternoon. Imagine how much it would have cost me to get these kind of feedback a few years ago?

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Florian Darroman@floriandarroman·
"You'll always need a senior dev to review your vibe-coded mess" that was true until today. Playerzero has built AI production engineers: agents that predict, learn from and fix issues in your software before they impact customers. autonomously, in minutes. Vibe coders ship fast, but they also ship disasters. Now they can keep shipping fast with Cursor and let @playerzero_ai make sure it actually works in production. Then you will ask me "why not using Claude Code": Claude: $25 per PR to find bugs PlayZero: $1 per PR
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Animesh Koratana@akoratana

Introducing: PlayerZero The world's first Engineering World Model that puts debugging, fixing, and testing your code on autopilot. We've raised $20M from Foundation Capital, @matei_zaharia (Databricks), @pbailis (Workday), @rauchg (Vercel), @zoink (Figma), @drewhouston (Dropbox), and more PlayerZero frees up 30% of your engineering bandwidth by: 1.⁠ ⁠Finding the root cause for bugs & incidents in minutes that engineering teams take days to identify. 2.⁠ ⁠Predicting in minutes, edge case issues that a 300-person QA team would take weeks to find. ------ Here's why this matters: No one in your org has a complete picture of how your production software actually behaves. Support sees tickets. SRE sees infra. Dev sees code. Each team builds their own fragmented view - and none of these systems talk to each other. When something breaks, everyone scrambles to stitch the picture together by hand. PlayerZero connects all of it into a single context graph - → The Slack thread where your lead said "we went with X because Y fell apart in prod last time" → The PR review where an engineer explained the tradeoff → The lifetime history of your CI/CD pipeline, observability stack, incidents, and support tickets So you can trace any problem to its root cause across every silo. And it compounds. Every incident diagnosed teaches the model something new. The longer it runs, the deeper it understands - which code paths are high-risk, which configurations are fragile, which changes tend to break which customer flows. So when you sit down to debug a live issue, you have your entire org's collective reasoning and production memory behind you - instantly. ------ Zuora, Georgia-Pacific, and Nylas have reduced resolution time by 90% and caught 95% of breaking changes and freeing an average of $30M in engineering bandwidth. ------ Our guarantee: If we can't increase your engineering bandwidth by at least 20% within one week, we'll donate $10,000 to an open-source project of your choice. Book a demo - bit.ly/3NlLMeN

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$8M/year bootstrapped founder explains how to build self-belief. (so you can do big things)
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SaaS founder with a cool product but struggling with distribution? I got you:
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This guy built a $1M ARR SaaS in 117 days (he had 16 followers) and now just hit $8M ARR. 100% Bootstrapped. @yasser_elsaid_ is the perfect example that you don't need a personal brand or VCs to make it. You just need these 8 things: Full video: linktw.in/Odnbgc
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Florian Darroman@floriandarroman·
I'm growing a SaaS from $10K to $200K MRR. And I'm documenting it all. This is not about finding an idea, getting started, or getting your first paid customer. This is about what to do after you validated an idea. How to find new distribution channels. Doubling down on what works. How to build systems that grow without you. How to build a product that sells itself. I scaled my last business from $15k/mo to $85k/mo in 10 months. This one is a bigger challenge. I don't have all the answers yet to how we are going to reach our goal. But we are building a product that is a distribution machine itself. So I know we can do it. And my co-founder @borjafat is a weapon. 0:00 Intro 0:38 Meet my co-founder. 4:10 My SEO background 4:58 Who does what 8:18 From $0 to $10k MRR 9:01 Week 1 working together 11:11 What is Distribb 11:41 How Distribb works 14:36 Who is Distribb for 15:02 Real results 15:50 The numbers
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