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Hey quick update - Black Friday is upon us.
I’ve curated 30 places to submit your BFCM deals and offers, check it out -
It will take a couple of hours of your time, but submitting to these directories will be worth the effort. Because you never know where a potential customer can find you from.
The sheet is free and public, make the most of it.
Now onto today’s topic - StageTimer
Lukas Hermann is going to build a $100M year a business.. One day!
He has an amazing thread where he lays out the exact plan of how he’s going to do it.
For now, as of Feb 2025, he crossed $29K MRR with his SaaS business - StageTimer
Before we dive in, quick word from Roku -
Find your customers on Roku this Black Friday
As with any digital ad campaign, the important thing is to reach streaming audiences who will convert. To that end, Roku’s self-service Ads Manager stands ready with powerful segmentation and targeting options. After all, you know your customers, and we know our streaming audience.
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Once you’ve done this, then you can easily set up A/B tests to flight different creative variants and Black Friday offers. If you’re a Shopify brand, you can even run shoppable ads directly on-screen so viewers can purchase with just a click of their Roku remote.
Bonus: we’re gifting you $5K in ad credits when you spend your first $5K on Roku Ads Manager. Just sign up and use code GET5K. Terms apply.
Love his framework for picking business ideas - Scratch someone else’s itch.
Lukas is the co-founder of StageTimer.
It’s a simple solution to a painful problem. It helps event hosts run a remote-controlled timer for their presenters and speakers.
Check out more details about StageTimer on it’s website.
Listen to Lukas and his wife Liz’s story of building StageTimer and growing it to $8K MRR on the indie hackers podcast.
Get inspired by this incredible thread where Lukas lays out his master plan of building a $100M business.
At the heart of his masterplan is a simple framework - “I want to scratch other people’s itch, not mine”
Simple yet powerful.
It’s okay to solve your own problems, but it’s way more important to solve other people’s problems. Keep that in mind next time you evaluate a new business idea.
Read Lukas’ thread about making $29K in a month by only working 4 hours -
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That’s it for this week.
See you on Monday
Thanks
Ayush 🙏
PS: Guess who’s more dangerous?