How I Grew My Open Source SaaS to $17K/month
Starter Story
Jan 29, 2026
Nevo built an open source SaaS called Postiz. Over the past few years he has gotten over 25K GitHub stars and grown the app to over $17K MRR. This video breaks down how to market open-source projects in 2026 and beyond.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Niche Communities Playbook
1:40 - Who is Nevo?
2:14 - Business Analytics
4:06 - Founder Background
5:14 - Get Compliant with Delve
6:22 - Why Open Source is a Great Opportunity
10:31 - Open Source Playbook
16:07 - Niche Open Source Communities
17:15 - How the App Works
19:05 - Tech Stack
20:39 - Advice for Open Source
22:04 - Pat's Final Word
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Here
is
everything
I
know
about
marketing
in
open
source
This
is
Nevo
His
app
makes
17
000
a
month
thanks
to
two
words
open
source
Open
source
is
a
way
to
introduce
your
project
to
millions
of
developers
While
you
may
be
familiar
with
the
concept
of
open
source
software
what
is
not
talked
about
enough
is
how
building
an
open
source
can
actually
get
you
access
to
thousands
of
users
users
and
help
your
software
stand
out
in
a
sea
of
competition
competition
Thanks
to
open
source
my
app
has
been
downloaded
5
million
times
I
asked
Nevo
to
come
onto
the
channel
and
explain
all
of
this
to
me
along
with
his
full
open
source
playbook
including
the
one
secret
to
actually
crushing
it
in
open
source
his
step
by
step
playbook
on
exactly
how
to
have
an
epic
open
source
launch
and
how
he
would
start
over
building
anything
in
open
source
in
2026
All
right
let's
get
into
it
I'm
Pat
Walls
and
this
is
Starter
Story
Real
quick
Nevo
is
about
to
break
down
how
to
make
it
in
open
source
And
look
this
episode
is
not
about
building
It's
about
distribution
which
if
you
watch
this
channel
this
is
the
story
we
hear
over
and
over
and
over
This
is
what
it
actually
takes
to
build
a
successful
business
If
distribution
is
something
that
you're
serious
about
well
I
put
together
a
quick
resource
for
you
called
the
niche
communities
playbook
Inside
we've
got
tons
of
data
and
examples
on
how
to
promote
your
app
on
places
like
Reddit
Facebook
groups
X
open
source
and
dozens
of
other
marketing
channels
that
founders
are
actually
using
to
grow
their
business
today
If
you
want
it
just
go
ahead
and
grab
it
for
free
right
down
there
below
in
the
description
But
otherwise
let's
get
into
the
interview
All
right
Nevo
welcome
to
the
channel
Tell
me
about
who
you
are
what
you
built
and
what's
your
story
Hi
my
name
is
Nevo
and
I
build
the
biggest
open
source
social
media
scheduling
tool
that
allows
you
to
schedule
your
posts
for
25
social
media
platforms
with
a
lot
of
help
of
AI
Posties
is
currently
making
17
000
per
month
One
of
the
reasons
for
Posties
success
is
being
open
source
And
I
think
this
is
a
great
opportunity
for
any
builder
that's
trying
to
build
an
app
in
2026
And
I'm
super
excited
to
tell
you
about
it
and
tell
you
how
you
can
get
huge
growth
when
you
go
open
source
Okay
open
source
I'm
excited
to
talk
about
it
today
Before
we
get
into
all
that
can
you
just
show
me
what
you
build
What's
the
business
model
And
then
maybe
pull
up
some
of
the
revenue
dashboards
so
we
can
show
that
this
is
legit
So
we
are
Posties
open
source
social
media
scheduling
tool
This
is
our
main
landing
page
We
support
the
biggest
amount
of
social
media
channels
25
So
Posties
is
operating
on
a
SaaS
module
We
have
here
a
few
packages
Standard
Team
Pro
and
Ultimate
Very
similar
to
other
social
media
scheduling
tools
Depends
on
the
tier
that
you
take
you
get
different
amount
of
channels
and
different
features
We
want
people
to
use
the
Standard
package
but
we
also
want
to
app
sell
people
to
the
other
packages
based
on
features
and
not
only
based
on
channels
So
our
revenue
we're
currently
on
17K
MRR
We
have
472
subscribers
We
have
a
very
high
churn
that
we're
trying
to
drop
right
now
on
19
We're
getting
3
830
trials
since
August
2025
Trial
to
conversion
rate
21
So
our
open
source
is
the
same
as
our
SaaS
offering
Developers
can
come
and
just
self
host
this
on
their
machine
and
they
will
need
to
do
all
the
hard
work
They
will
need
to
go
approve
every
provider
with
any
social
media
and
they
can
just
use
it
on
their
computer
There
is
no
difference
and
there
is
different
open
source
modules
between
companies
but
for
us
there
is
no
difference
between
the
open
source
and
the
cloud
offering
You
can
self
host
Posties
We
put
a
lot
of
docs
on
how
to
self
host
it
Open
source
is
a
really
great
way
to
penetrate
into
mass
markets
because
it's
just
kind
of
like
a
blue
ocean
inside
all
these
flooded
millions
of
companies
Because
Posties
for
example
is
a
social
media
scheduling
tool
We
have
tons
of
alternatives
if
you
look
for
a
social
media
scheduling
tool
like
thousands
Still
we're
managing
to
grow
our
revenue
and
put
our
face
out
there
It's
just
another
way
to
penetrate
the
market
be
transparent
and
get
fast
feedback
Okay
let's
get
into
a
little
bit
more
about
open
source
and
your
background
How
do
you
get
into
this
open
source
space
and
eventually
build
an
app
that's
doing
17
000
MRR
I
was
not
an
open
source
person
Overall
just
a
developer
for
many
many
many
years
But
I
was
working
in
a
co
working
space
and
I
met
some
few
cool
people
that
were
building
an
open
source
infrastructure
tool
for
sending
notifications
And
I
joined
a
company
and
I
was
in
this
company
for
two
years
We
go
from
zero
to
32
000
stars
and
I've
never
seen
growth
like
that
before
in
open
source
in
my
life
Right
after
that
I've
seen
more
and
more
companies
going
open
source
So
in
the
second
year
I
started
to
do
a
lot
of
consulting
very
niche
consulting
because
I
was
the
only
person
talking
about
that
And
I
worked
for
that
for
around
a
year
And
doing
so
many
consultations
just
freaked
me
out
and
stressed
from
doing
so
many
meetings
and
talking
to
so
many
people
And
I
wanted
to
go
back
to
what
I
liked
the
most
building
products
And
this
is
when
I
started
to
build
hosties
open
source
of
course
And
everything
else
I've
built
so
far
is
open
source
Nevo's
story
is
pretty
unique
right
He
grew
his
open
source
project
to
17
000
a
month
purely
through
marketing
in
open
source
communities
And
if
you
know
anything
about
open
source
communities
is
that
they
love
transparency
They'll
grill
you
about
security
and
compliance
And
they
might
even
ask
you
questions
about
SOC
2
compliance
and
ISO
27001
terms
you
might
not
even
be
familiar
with
I
mean
you
don't
have
answers
to
those
questions
Suddenly
you're
spending
days
filling
out
forms
instead
of
building
your
product
Well
that's
where
Delve
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in
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So
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you're
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or
go
to
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slash
Starter
Story
Thanks
to
Delve
for
sponsoring
today's
episode
Let's
get
back
to
the
story
All
right
so
you're
kind
of
going
deep
on
this
idea
of
open
source
and
marketing
and
the
combination
of
the
two
But
I
do
want
to
take
a
step
back
and
just
talk
about
the
opportunity
of
open
source
right
here
You
saw
this
sort
of
little
opening
in
the
crazy
world
of
software
There's
so
many
people
building
so
many
different
things
Tell
me
about
why
you
think
open
source
is
such
a
great
place
to
be
building
right
now
in
2026
I
think
today
everybody
can
literally
build
almost
anything
And
I
think
this
is
why
this
should
be
the
year
of
open
source
compared
to
previous
years
because
everything
that
you
can
build
somebody
else
can
build
So
why
not
go
open
source
The
market
is
already
flooded
There's
already
so
many
competitors
There's
like
tons
of
SaaS
going
out
every
day
compared
to
a
few
years
ago
You
need
to
find
some
differentiation
with
what
you
build
So
open
source
is
a
great
way
to
introduce
your
project
to
a
million
developers
Developers
are
not
buying
persona
and
they
will
probably
not
pay
you
So
don't
try
to
find
some
elaborate
way
to
make
them
to
pay
you
You
just
need
to
make
like
a
very
good
docs
and
make
sure
they
know
how
to
use
your
SaaS
You
can
look
at
this
as
kind
of
like
a
free
tier
to
your
SaaS
Just
you
don't
pay
for
any
usage
for
it
because
people
just
deploy
it
on
their
own
computer
They
just
use
it
maybe
with
their
customers
and
so
on
So
developer
will
not
pay
you
But
here
is
what
they
will
do
for
you
They'll
help
to
build
your
brand
They
will
talk
to
a
lot
of
people
Maybe
they
are
working
in
a
company
company
but
there
is
already
other
people
that
are
not
developers
and
they
are
looking
for
a
solution
right
now
Okay
I
know
this
thing
So
word
of
mouth
is
like
a
really
great
channels
Tons
of
user
generated
content
on
social
media
So
every
time
I
go
and
I
search
for
posties
on
social
media
every
day
I
see
some
posts
about
some
developer
trying
to
sell
posties
You
get
tons
of
developer
actually
contributing
to
your
product
So
I
can't
say
that
it's
making
you
more
productive
when
people
contribute
to
your
product
but
it
gives
you
tons
of
feedback
and
let
you
to
find
bags
much
faster
iterate
on
them
and
find
new
features
because
they
are
actually
part
of
your
community
They
are
like
advocate
of
your
product
Except
for
that
you
can
start
to
see
a
lot
of
blog
posts
around
what
you
are
building
I
see
tons
of
SEO
just
from
people
writing
about
how
to
use
posties
or
putting
a
review
about
posties
somewhere
There
is
also
tons
of
options
to
list
your
product
in
different
directory
that
have
a
very
high
domain
authority
domain
ranking
for
SEO
It
also
increases
your
credibility
in
general
From
non
developers
they
come
they
see
there
is
a
GitHub
there
was
a
contribution
not
so
long
ago
There
is
a
Git
commit
just
made
a
few
days
ago
They
can
see
that
the
product
is
actually
active
And
then
there
is
the
one
thing
many
people
do
and
this
is
usually
where
the
biggest
money
lies
in
open
source
and
it's
self
hosting
enterprise
support
So
imagine
for
example
I
build
a
social
media
scheduling
tool
but
I'm
dealing
with
an
enterprise
that
will
never
put
their
information
outside
They
will
probably
want
to
self
host
this
but
they
will
also
need
support
And
this
is
usually
where
most
of
these
companies
the
one
the
funded
one
or
the
one
that
have
enough
motivation
to
do
enterprise
sales
find
money
So
you
shouldn't
be
afraid
to
go
open
source
Don't
be
afraid
for
somebody
copying
your
product
because
today
the
only
thing
that
is
winning
usually
is
brand
And
I've
seen
so
many
people
come
and
copy
post
this
and
self
host
it
somewhere
as
a
totally
different
solution
just
competing
with
me
And
I'm
like
I'm
so
stressed
And
then
after
checking
this
one
week
to
two
weeks
later
I
see
that
they
just
abandoned
the
project
because
there
is
no
way
that
you
are
the
brand
You're
the
one
that
created
this
open
source
solution
Anybody
that
will
compete
with
you
will
always
be
one
step
behind
you
and
probably
just
abandon
it
at
some
point
I
mean
I
agree
100
in
a
world
world
where
AI
can
write
any
code
and
is
actually
probably
referencing
open
source
code
itself
to
write
that
code
What
is
the
value
of
code
anymore
There's
really
not
a
whole
lot
It's
as
you
said
it's
in
brand
and
open
source
is
a
great
way
to
build
a
brand
especially
as
a
bootstrapped
builder
where
you're
essentially
getting
free
distribution
I
really
like
this
model
If
you
were
to
start
over
today
and
maybe
go
in
to
a
different
category
maybe
it's
not
social
media
schedulers
what
would
be
your
advice
or
your
playbook
for
someone
who
wants
to
start
out
in
open
source
right
now
in
2026
So
I
have
my
own
playbook
and
this
is
what
I've
done
with
so
many
companies
I've
worked
with
while
I
did
consulting
And
I'm
just
gonna
share
my
entire
playbook
of
what
I
did
So
here
is
what
you
need
to
do
First
of
all
you
need
to
start
a
preparation
In
a
normal
marketing
way
your
GitHub
become
your
landing
page
That's
like
your
marketing
landing
page
or
you
should
treat
it
the
same
thing
as
you
treat
your
main
website
even
better
You
can
just
literally
go
to
the
Posties
repository
and
look
how
I
build
it
If
you're
trying
to
create
something
completely
new
write
everything
try
to
make
people
understand
what
you
build
If
you
already
have
an
alternative
the
best
way
to
do
is
to
write
that
you
are
an
open
source
alternative
to
something
that
gives
the
fastest
context
to
people
to
understand
what
you're
building
building
Then
add
your
license
to
the
project
You
have
three
main
licenses
for
open
source
which
is
MIT
Apache
2
and
AGPL
3
So
really
check
what
license
you
wanna
go
with
Then
you
want
to
go
and
create
some
issues
on
your
GitHub
repository
for
different
feature
you
want
people
to
create
for
you
Developers
that
come
to
your
GitHub
usually
don't
know
exactly
what
you're
building
They
don't
have
in
mind
exactly
what
they're
going
to
work
on
If
you
create
an
issue
for
them
it's
a
lot
easier
for
them
to
just
come
in
and
just
tell
you
can
you
please
assign
me
to
this
issue
That's
much
much
easier
to
get
caught
faster
than
people
figuring
out
what
to
open
for
you
You
want
to
open
a
Discord
server
so
developer
can
join
fast
Go
to
Posties
Discord
and
just
copy
the
channels
list
the
same
thing
as
I
did
Make
sure
you
have
docs
for
developers
to
know
how
to
deploy
their
project
This
is
super
important
If
they
don't
know
how
to
deploy
their
project
they'll
just
churn
They
will
not
clone
your
repository
You
will
not
become
trending
It's
a
lot
better
to
create
a
Docker
for
your
project
So
if
you
have
a
Docker
the
deployment
is
much
much
much
much
easier
And
this
is
everything
you
need
to
do
for
the
open
source
part
So
step
number
two
is
bringing
traffic
to
your
project
So
as
I
said
before
you
want
to
get
into
the
main
GitHub
trending
feed
And
to
do
that
you
want
to
get
as
maximum
traffic
as
possible
in
the
shortest
amount
of
time
This
is
what
I
call
the
launch
and
get
as
much
traffic
as
possible
To
prepare
for
your
launch
you
will
need
a
few
accounts
in
a
few
places
So
you
will
want
to
register
to
Hacker
News
like
two
weeks
beforehand
You
also
want
to
register
to
Reddit
but
try
to
do
a
little
bit
of
work
before
Get
your
karma
a
little
bit
up
because
if
you
don't
have
karma
in
Reddit
you
won't
be
able
to
post
there
Almost
all
your
posts
will
be
filtered
Then
you
have
something
that
you
probably
never
heard
before
which
is
called
Lemmy
This
is
an
alternative
to
Reddit
They're
not
really
good
at
anything
else
except
for
open
source
for
people
that
want
to
do
marketing
But
with
open
source
they
are
crazy
Every
time
I
post
something
on
Lemmy
it's
getting
at
least
100
upvotes
Great
way
to
post
your
stuff
Lemmy
is
a
self
hosted
Reddit
And
then
the
last
one
Dev
to
Medium
and
Hackernoon
Those
channels
are
not
only
for
SEO
They
can
bring
you
direct
traffic
and
I'll
talk
about
them
So
the
first
thing
you
want
to
do
is
write
an
article
in
Dev
to
Medium
and
Hackernoon
You
want
to
write
an
article
about
how
you
built
something
inside
your
open
source
or
that
you
just
launched
your
open
source
project
about
this
this
and
this
Later
on
you
can
also
write
listicles
like
top
10
open
source
projects
you
should
check
in
2026
These
are
not
super
focused
but
they
can
give
you
stars
and
make
you
trending
which
is
the
whole
goal
of
the
strategy
There's
something
called
the
Google
Discover
feed
The
Google
Discover
feed
show
articles
of
things
that
you
are
interested
in
If
you
check
my
articles
on
Dev
to
Medium
and
Hackernoon
this
is
the
main
traffic
source
for
all
of
them
I
get
tons
of
traffic
traffic
from
these
places
So
this
is
why
it's
super
important
that
you
invest
in
your
title
and
cover
picture
Same
thing
as
like
when
you're
working
on
your
YouTube
because
people
just
going
to
see
the
Discover
feed
Step
number
three
register
on
Hacker
News
Create
a
new
post
Just
submit
write
show
HN
and
the
name
of
the
project
that
you
have
and
then
link
to
your
GitHub
repository
not
your
main
website
They
are
very
picky
at
the
things
that
they
like
to
put
inside
It's
not
promised
to
you
that
you
will
get
there
but
Hacker
News
love
open
source
project
And
if
you
put
your
open
source
projects
inside
there
is
a
very
very
high
chance
you
will
get
into
the
main
feed
and
then
you
can
expect
almost
like
10
000
views
Step
number
four
go
to
Reddit
and
post
it
on
slash
rslesselfhosted
If
you
are
not
open
source
and
you
want
to
post
your
project
somewhere
on
Reddit
you
will
probably
get
filtered
or
banned
because
self
promotion
is
prohibited
But
the
nice
thing
about
open
source
is
that
if
you
have
something
in
open
source
and
you
go
to
self
hosted
people
are
just
waiting
for
you
to
post
it
and
do
a
totally
self
promotion
for
yourself
Not
only
that
every
time
you
have
a
new
version
people
want
to
see
it
again
again
and
again
and
again
Your
goal
is
just
to
go
there
to
slash
rslesselfhosted
write
a
post
Here
is
an
example
of
a
post
And
every
time
you
have
a
new
version
you
can
release
it
again
and
write
all
the
features
and
everything
that
you
have
inside
Make
sure
you
ask
for
a
star
Make
sure
you're
super
humble
down
to
earth
Do
it
like
a
building
in
public
Use
I
not
we
And
post
it
every
month
in
slash
rslesselfhosted
That
at
least
was
my
thing
There
are
some
other
channels
you
can
cross
post
to
You
have
slash
rslesswebdev
slash
rslessprogramming
If
you're
in
AI
space
you
can
use
slash
rslesslocalama
slash
rslessaiagent
or
slash
rslesslandchain
Step
number
five
is
just
to
get
traffic
from
everything
else
that
you
have
Now
this
is
why
it's
step
number
five
because
you
might
not
have
any
But
if
you
have
put
it
on
xLinkedIn
your
newsletter
and
send
everybody
to
your
GitHub
Make
sure
all
these
five
steps
are
going
on
at
the
same
week
That's
very
important
So
you
get
into
the
main
trending
feed
Once
you
are
there
you
will
see
your
star
count
rocketing
very
fast
You
will
see
a
lot
more
people
joining
your
Discord
and
you
will
see
a
lot
more
issues
pull
requests
and
forks
for
your
repository
And
that's
my
playbook
to
do
every
week
in
open
source
to
grow
my
project
What
I
love
about
Nevo's
story
is
that
he
turned
open
source
into
an
asset
He
got
thousands
of
GitHub
stars
and
that
ultimately
helped
grow
his
business
to
17
000
a
month
He
did
this
by
going
deep
into
niche
open
source
communities
subreddits
hacker
news
Lemmy
dev
to
but
he
wasn't
just
posting
random
stuff
everywhere
He
strategically
targeted
channels
where
his
users
were
actually
hanging
out
and
that
made
all
the
difference
This
is
exactly
what
we
break
down
in
the
starter
story
build
niche
communities
playbook
It's
a
free
resource
that
shows
you
exactly
how
to
find
and
dominate
dominate
the
right
niche
communities
for
your
product
You'll
learn
how
to
market
your
idea
and
find
the
communities
communities
where
your
customers
actually
are
More
importantly
the
playbook
is
packed
with
real
examples
from
real
founders
that
we've
talked
to
through
this
channel
on
what's
actually
working
right
now
So
if
you're
ready
to
take
distribution
seriously
and
get
real
traction
on
your
product
head
to
the
first
link
in
the
description
description
to
get
the
starter
story
build
niche
communities
playbook
for
free
All
right
let's
get
back
to
the
video
OK
wow
I
mean
that
was
an
amazing
playbook
of
how
to
truly
crush
it
with
open
source
So
that
was
awesome
Thanks
for
sharing
all
that
I'd
love
to
switch
topics
a
little
bit
and
have
you
just
show
off
your
app
I'm
not
sure
if
this
is
that
self
hosted
version
or
the
SAS
version
Curious
to
hear
that
But
also
can
you
just
show
me
what
your
app
does
and
how
it
works
works
and
maybe
how
it
might
be
useful
to
someone
who's
watching
this
So
here
you
can
see
the
main
Posties
dashboard
very
similar
to
many
other
social
media
scheduling
tool
Here
is
all
my
social
media
channels
that
I
have
connected
to
Posties
When
you
add
a
new
channel
in
Posties
you
can
find
that
there
is
25
channels
is
the
biggest
than
any
other
platform
And
then
you
can
just
put
post
into
the
future
I
can
click
here
I
can
create
a
set
of
premade
things
if
I
want
or
not
without
a
set
I
can
just
select
all
the
social
media
platform
I
want
to
post
to
I
can
write
some
text
and
I
can
write
also
comment
and
post
if
the
platform
support
that
I'm
cross
posting
to
all
of
that
all
of
those
But
if
I
want
I
can
just
edit
the
content
for
a
specific
one
and
change
how
it
will
look
in
a
specific
platform
Edit
again
I
put
a
lot
of
effort
in
UI
so
I
hope
it
looks
good
You
have
different
settings
for
different
social
like
Instagram
You
can
post
a
reel
or
a
post
post
and
then
you
can
just
add
it
to
the
calendar
so
you
can
see
all
of
them
are
already
here
So
we
have
all
the
draft
of
all
of
them
You
can
now
change
them
to
a
different
date
and
so
on
And
use
also
you
know
know
this
is
like
the
basic
functionality
of
every
social
media
scheduling
tool
And
then
you
have
some
extra
stuff
such
as
AI
tools
You
can
create
you
can
design
media
you
can
use
AI
images
you
can
use
AI
video
you
can
bold
your
text
and
so
on
Except
for
that
we
also
have
the
public
API
and
this
is
what
a
lot
of
people
use
And
because
we
are
open
source
more
developers
prefer
to
use
us
instead
of
using
non
open
source
solution
So
you
have
your
public
API
key
and
then
you
can
automate
social
media
posts
in
your
workflow
if
you
use
NA10
or
just
the
API
to
do
different
stuff
Thanks
for
sharing
that
showing
that
tool
I
mean
that
looks
really
impressive
Super
cool
that
this
is
not
only
open
source
but
you
know
know
a
product
that
you
can
post
to
all
these
different
platforms
at
once
I
want
to
understand
a
little
bit
how
you
actually
built
this
product
What's
the
tech
stack
What
does
this
run
on
And
what
tools
do
you
use
to
run
this
business
So
for
hosting
we
are
using
Railway
for
the
backend
and
for
the
main
marketing
website
I
use
Vercel
only
for
the
Next
js
application
I
don't
use
Vercel
API
We're
using
our
own
backends
I
use
SEMrush
for
SEO
I
also
use
Ahrefs
only
for
the
dashboard
I
don't
pay
for
the
entire
product
so
it's
only
20
per
month
We
send
a
lot
of
emails
when
posts
are
posted
with
resends
Cloudflare
R2
for
hosting
I
use
dab
co
for
short
linking
and
also
for
the
affiliate
program
Plausible
for
analytics
AI
generators
for
images
with
or
text
with
open
AI
key
AI
and
file
AI
This
is
my
biggest
expense
I
use
something
called
Transloadit
I
want
every
post
to
be
posted
I
don't
want
any
failures
That
means
that
I
need
to
convert
videos
to
the
right
size
of
the
social
media
platform
that
I'm
going
to
post
to
If
not
it
will
just
fail
I'm
paying
600
for
that
We
use
Outrent
for
SEO
One
SEO
article
every
day
I
use
Courser
for
AI
I'm
only
paying
20
I'm
not
a
heavy
user
I'm
using
WebStorm
as
the
IDE
We
use
Beehive
as
the
email
newsletter
It's
a
headless
hack
Discord
for
customer
support
is
0
GitHub
Copilot
is
free
for
open
source
Sentry
for
monitoring
for
bugs
bugs
and
crashes
and
all
that
Also
free
for
open
source
And
we
use
GitHub
Action
to
run
tests
and
build
Docker
versions
free
for
open
source
And
the
margin
is
around
80
Okay
well
thanks
for
sharing
I
mean
very
profitable
business
Super
cool
Thanks
for
sharing
all
that
Last
question
that
we
ask
all
founders
who
come
on
Starter
Story
If
you
could
go
back
in
time
before
you
built
this
business
what
advice
would
you
give
yourself
or
what
advice
would
you
give
anyone
who
wants
to
do
what
you
do
Build
an
open
source
SaaS
in
2026
My
biggest
advice
is
I
think
a
little
bit
controversial
I
think
you
should
learn
a
lot
lot
before
you
build
but
you
don't
also
want
to
get
into
this
analysis
paralysis
state
I
had
so
many
failures
in
so
many
startups
at
first
And
then
I
just
like
paused
And
I
said
okay
let's
read
some
book
Let's
read
about
traction
for
marketing
Let's
read
about
Alex
Ramosi
100
million
deals
Let's
read
about
Russell
Branson
lead
generation
And
then
I
started
to
make
smarter
decisions
It's
really
important
that
you
learn
the
basics
And
it's
really
important
that
you
learn
about
what
is
the
idea
that
you're
going
to
build
And
I've
seen
this
like
a
lot
of
people
they
just
go
out
and
maybe
they
just
like
you
know
they've
never
heard
before
about
anything
and
just
like
start
with
a
B2C
which
is
usually
harder
for
people
that
don't
do
good
distribution
And
then
they
don't
know
what
to
do
So
they
grind
for
a
year
and
then
they're
closed
And
then
I'll
actually
say
after
that
I
should
go
B2B
And
so
I
think
it's
really
important
that
you
learn
you
should
focus
your
time
half
of
the
time
learning
half
of
the
time
creating
something
And
learning
is
the
biggest
power
That's
great
advice
Thanks
for
coming
on
and
sharing
this
amazing
business
you
built
this
open
source
opportunity
That
was
awesome
So
thanks
for
coming
on
and
hope
to
see
you
again
soon
Thank
you
for
having
me
All
right
right
Thanks
to
Nevo
for
coming
onto
the
channel
Nevo
built
a
social
media
post
scheduler
I'm
sure
you
can
think
of
a
bunch
of
other
social
media
post
schedulers
that
already
exist
This
is
just
another
example
to
show
you
that
you
don't
need
to
reinvent
the
wheel
to
build
something
successful
And
when
it
comes
down
to
it
distribution
can
change
the
game
and
something
like
having
your
angle
open
source
in
this
specific
example
can
really
make
the
difference
But
it
always
starts
with
building
something
And
if
you're
ready
to
build
your
idea
you
definitely
want
to
check
out
Starter
Story
Build
It
is
our
bootcamp
where
you
will
come
up
with
an
idea
you'll
build
it
you'll
launch
it
and
you'll
get
it
in
the
hands
of
real
users
in
just
a
couple
weeks
Our
next
cohort
is
starting
soon
So
head
to
the
description
and
click
that
link
You
can
get
started
building
your
thing
right
now
All
right
right
That's
it
for
this
episode
Thank
you
guys
for
watching
We'll
see
you
in
the
next
one
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