Hello everyone! I finally sorted an agreement with my company to allow me to spend 2 days a week on the Skool community. I therefore really want to start growing this community but in order to do that - I need some help. Firstly, I need to know what type of areas you are all interested in? In other words, where do you think your current bottlenecks that are preventing you from going to the next stages are? Lastly, in order for me to get to grips with were you all currently are, can you please select which stage your product is in below:

Hi everyone, I thought that I’d share some data from Monty (my SaaS company) that we have gathered over the last 60 days. Our sales team switched from sending DM’s to using voice notes. At first the response rates were in the low 30’s but in 60 days my team have refined their approach and gotten to a 60-70%! Roughly 2/3 ICP’s responding to us - HUGE. We also started at 1 in 66 outreaches booking a call. We are now at 1 in 19. Our takeaway is that LinkedIn is being filled with so much AI garbage that the only way to cut through is with human first approaches. The irony - I’m not sure AI bros will approve. I thought that I’d share just incase you haven’t tried this approach. It’s working so well that we are thinking about ditching our email outreach team and doubling down on this!

What analytics tool are you using for your venture? Google Analytics, Vercel, anything else? How can we best track user movement to improve on our projects? Thoughts?

Earlier this year, I quit my job to build a SaaS. My first idea flopped. Why? Because I didn’t truly validate the market or figure out how I’d stand out against competitors. And when I say validate, I mean I barely scratched the surface. One afternoon, I glanced up from my laptop and asked my girlfriend at the time, “Scrolling TikTok again?” But she wasn’t. She was hunting for the perfect brown jacket. Over the following weeks, I got curious about her process. Here’s how she shopped: - She defined exactly what she wanted (Brown Long Jacket, quality fabric, specific look). - She scoured the web and saved options to wish lists. - She’d use those wish lists to get notified when items went on sale—sometimes that even prioritized which jacket she bought first. - She compared them over weeks—sometimes months. - And only then, she made her purchase. At one point she told me: “I only want to buy one brown jacket for life, so it needs to be pretty much perfect.” That was her standard—one jacket for life. A high bar, maybe unrealistic, but it fueled her obsessive search online and in-store. That’s when it really dawned on me: she had spent more time researching a single jacket than I had spent validating my entire SaaS idea. I’d already sunk around $25k into it, while she wouldn’t have spent more than $1,000 on the jacket. The contrast was sobering—she put weeks into a single decision, and I had thrown money and time at mine in a rush. Her approach wasn’t complicated. It was just careful, consistent, and intentional. She explored with curiosity until she was confident in her decision. Meanwhile, I had rushed headfirst into building—without even a fraction of that effort. The lesson? If you want to validate a product, act like you’re buying your one jacket for life. Set high standards, dig deep, track signals (like wish list alerts), compare the options, and only commit when you’re sure you’ve found the right fit.

I don’t know if this is normal but I’ve got about 5 SaaS MVPs sitting in my GitHub that I’ve never bothered launching because I talked myself out of it before I did it (mental health is a crafty minx.) Anyway, I tried ground news once and hated it because it’s all American news and I’m not in the USA. So I wrote a chrome extension that uses AI to remove the bias from any article you read. I’m sick of reading the left or right wing version of the news so this tool just rewrites the page as boring, unsensational prose. Currently I just run it on my computer and then connect the extension via localhost but I was wondering if I should splash the $50 a month in hosting and api fees and launch this thing with advertising/kofi donation for funding. I guess it’s just that I already have one product that’s costing me to host, if I launch this one that’s basically free, and relies on ads or kindness to fund, would people actually use it? Also, if you think of something I could do differently, say it.