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Nevo David@wickedguro·27K followers·26d ago

In 2021, I was devastated. My app, Linvo, made $5k per month and burned far more than it earned. I was drowning in bugs and nonstop customer success tickets. I started working for Novu because my financial situation required it. We thought, "Let's list it for sale." It was the 2021 corona boom, so all SaaS valuations were at an all-time high. I was walking on the beach of People Island with my girlfriend (today my wife and the mother of my child) And I dreamt someone would buy it for $100k. I met with a few people from @acquiredotcom and quickly realized there was no way to make any profit from it; in fact, the opposite was true. I started meeting founders and offered to let them take the app for free, freeing me from the burden of running and maintaining it, and from losing money every month. In 2021, AI wouldn't save you (there was only machine learning); there were no LLMs to save you. It was one of the hardest times of my life, and I eventually failed my customers and clos

Nevo David@wickedguro·27K followers·15d ago

My X right now: People are doing vibesloping on every possible SaaS, claiming SaaS is dead. Saying: build in public, don't build in public, share your revenue, don't share your revenue, be careful of copycats, SaaS is dead. Then me, building in public, sharing revenue, open-source, with billions of copycats making millions. And everybody responding to me: you are an exception. And honestly, I like being an exception; my mom always told me I am special.