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My cofounder and I have bootstrapped two software products that are generating revenue today with minimal involvement on our side.

The first product is a B2B onboarding platform. This product generates approx. $100k/year.

Our second product is a microsaas that turns google drive folders into a hosted, searchable wiki with one click. This product is making $2k/month.

Both products require minimum support and continue to sustain themselves.

One thing to note is that we did work full time on both of these products for like 1.5 years during the pandemic. At the time, it was definitely not the best income stream we had created but became so after we both got "real" jobs again.

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That's impressive, how did you go about marketing those?

The b2b saas was a grind tbh. Lots of cold emailing directors & VPs. Classic top down sales motion.

For Kbee, I actually wrote up our journey here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/our-journey-from-idea-to-p...

Would love to know what you think and if you have any follow up questions :)

How do you find companies for cold calling? Where do you find phone numbers?

I didn’t do cold calling though maybe I should have. Instead, I trawled LinkedIn and used tools like hunter.io to find email addresses and then cold emailed folks.

Fwiw, Apollo.io seems to do a good job surfacing contact info as well.

What’s the name of the Google drive folders product?

https://kbee.app

Please let me know if you have any feedback on it!

Damn, great landing page! Took me 2 seconds to understand your product and its value!

Great landing page. Did you create that yourselves? The one thing I seem to struggle with is creating a nice looking landing page - it's just not something I'm good at. If you used a third party, any chance you'd say who that was?

Co-founder here. We originally made the landing page in Webflow. This worked ok but had some negative SEO benefits because our main app was forced to be on a subdomain.

We remade the page using a Tailwind template, which coincided with migrating our app to Tailwind. I highly recommend just using a template unless you are a designer, plenty of free or low cost ones out there. I like these: https://cruip.com/

Most important thing is having a good CTA, value props, and testimonials. Took us a lot of work to refine these.

We also worked with a graphic designer to make the art assets / logo / etc. I'm sure she would be happy to have more clients, DM me (see bio) for info.

I really appreciate the detailed response and the advice. Thank you!

It auto-pops up a sign in link to Google when I visited it on Firefox, and it looks like it does the same on Chrome except Chrome blocks the pop up. Definitely fix that because I got a real sketchy feeling when it asked me to sign in upon immediately entering the page, not even clicking anything.

thank you for the feedback! we will address!

I think there was an update either at google or firefox recently because a ton of websites have started behaving like this for me seemingly out of the blue.

if you block `play.google.com` they disappear :)

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