Here's the exact criteria I'm using to decide my next SaaS idea đź”–
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Thanks to this edition’s featured sponsor: Intently
Meet Intently — a YC-backed startup that helps turn LinkedIn actions into sales opportunities. The app helps get rid of the manual process of checking leads’ profiles on LinkedIn.
The company is founded by serial entrepreneurs Dmitry Starodubtsev, Slava Solonitsyn, Mika Melchanka, and Sergey Drozdkov who personally experienced challenges related to setting up the sales process and scaling in a fast-growing startup.
The Intently app streamlines lead generation on LinkedIn, catering to solo founders and sales professionals without dedicated marketing or business development teams by automating the identification of warm leads based on relevant intent.
Using AI technology, Intently transforms users' behavioral data on LinkedIn into a feed of ready-to-buy prospects, akin to having your own Google for LinkedIn.
Since its inception, Intently has gained a global user base of 300+ companies.
Today Intently is on Product Hunt, hunted by Garry Tan, President and CEO of Y Combinator. Would LOVE to get your support, ideas and suggestions on the launch page. Check it out here.
Today’s top of mind topic :
“How to pick the right SaaS idea for you”
I recently documented in public my exact detailed strategy on how I’m going to pick my next SaaS idea to work on. It generated quite the positive buzz from the founder community which I didn’t expect.
My template is a culmination of all of my hard lessons I learned from my 3 SaaS startup attempts that didn’t take off.
Hope it helps you pick your next idea too. Let me know what you think :)
The discussion on this topic on X was very lively. Check it out here.
On a separate note, I stumbled across an old Google Doc from 2020 archives where I documented my wildest dreams. See below.
Safe to say I think I achieved my goals. On to bigger things now :)
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