📰 How I got my first 100 users via Reddit

Getting your first 100 users isn’t easy. Here’s how I do it with Reddit, where most people don’t care about your products and hate advertising

What I realized is that most founders struggle with structuring their work without it being overwhelming. They have a really hard time with pacing. I was talking to an old friend who has the rule that he cannot open his laptop after 9pm because if he does, he will work and keep working until very late, like two or three in the morning. That conflicts with his ability to take his children to daycare. And that’s a problem.

If you are new here, then you should know that I talk almost exclusively about software companies, so the lessons below are mostly to help software folks commit fraud and trick investors. If you are hoping to commit fraud in another industry then I am sure there is a blog for that.

Wait…So is this really about how to commit fraud? No. Not really at least.

Some folks try to “honestly” deceive investors with accounting shenanigans, some operators are themselves misled because they don’t understand the basics of accounting/finance, and other people just want to commit straight-up fraud (👋 FTX). The purpose of this post is not to educate you on how to commit/detect fraud, but to help you understand some of the accounting/finance nuances that might deceive investors.

enshittification \[en-shit-uh-fi-key-shuhn\] (noun): the gradual degradation of an online platform or service's functionality, as part of a cycle in which the platform or service first offers benefits to users to attract them, then pursues more and more profits at the expense of users.

… picking the tech stack is a big choice that will shape how you deliver, more importantly: how fast you deliver and the quality of your work.

10 months ago, I set out to build a robust framework to help me personally iterate on my SaaS ideas quickly. But i thought why not make it available as a product in itself. I did a soft launch 1 month ago and now there are almost 40 happy customers using SaaSykit!

Today, I'm proud to share SaaSykit with ProductHunt community!