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Now, onto today’’s topic - LeaveMeAlone
LeaveMeAlone is a simple email unsubscription service making $93K per year.
This is a great example of building a painkiller instead of a vitamin.
A single feature, laser focused SaaS - the best type of business independent entrepreneurs can build.
James Ivings and Danielle Johnson are doing it quite well.
And they did it while traveling the world, living in a boat.
That’s the power of indie hacking.
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Failure First
But LeaveMeAlone was not James and Danielle’s first project.
When they started out building their own products, they started with a very traditional approach.
For their first startup, they tried methods like traditional social media promotion, cold email and PR.
Nothing worked!
6 months of effort, tons of features built, crafting the perfect product.
Only to learn that nobody actually wanted what they had built. They had to start over!
Read the full story of Leave Me Alone -
Early Traction
Growth Channels - Spiky and Sustainable
Their SEO strategy
and more…
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See you on Wednesday
Ayush 🙏
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