Randall Kanna Franson
@RandallKanna
Building @tryScoutQA - https://TryScoutQA.com/. Creator http://hackthetechinterview.com. O'Reilly author. Ex Eventbrite, Pandora, Ticketfly, Gumroad, Trim.
Building @tryScoutQA from $0 to $1k MRR in public. I'm helping SaaS teams catch bugs before they hit production. Follow for lessons from building and shipping solo with 2 kids under 2!
Building @tryScoutQA from $0 to $1k MRR in public. I'm helping SaaS teams catch bugs before they hit production. Follow for lessons from building and shipping solo with 2 kids under 2!
Daily marketing plan for a SaaS founder: ▪️10 new LI connections per day & message them. Navigator works as well. ▪️20 cold emails per day with well researched leads in your customer base. ▪️1 LinkedIn post per day. This helps your messages get seen by the people you are…
First time founder: Spends 6 months building before speaking to a customer. Second time founder: Builds a waitlist before writing a single line of code.
For every one hour of coding, you have to do three hours of marketing.
Confession. Kimi K2 is one of our new favorite models for agentic use cases. Baseten is powering the fastest Kimi K2 available on Openrouter. Test it through our Model APIs today. Also…say Kimi K2 10x fast. Thanks, @Madisonkanna.
Stunning UI honestly!
I'm thrilled to announce the (re)launch of my product - Simple File Upload! 🎉 🎊 It's the easiest way to add file uploading to your application - is now a web component (so fast) - completely redesigned for a modern look - direct uploads - returns a cloud based url for the…
Tried something new when building a SaaS this time around. Instead of spending months building a project and doing the thing I’m good at (coding), I did the thing I’m bad at first (marketing). I built 3 landing pages in the span of a few weeks and spent 1-2 weeks testing each…
So appreciate you, Joe! You really kept this going and I so appreciate being held accountable! It’s also so nice to have an accountability partner that is so family focused too 😊
shout-out to @RandallKanna for being an amazing accountability partner a couple months ago, she tweeted about wanting to hit $1k MRR. i replied, “let’s make it happen!” she DMed asking what i was working on - that convo sparked the idea for my wellness program. now we check in…
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my sister cooked me
People that use vim and tweet about it are not the same.
Here’s a list of resources for developers who want to crush the technical interview. Thread
If customers are already spending huge amount of $ in a market, with many competitors, you can assume the market exists, and take your time building something 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 and 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. (You still need to validate that people actually want that particular…