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Struggling with sales, marketing, operations, etc
Hey SaaS community. I'd like to do a pulse check to see how many of you are struggling with non-tech related, startup activities? Things like market research, competitor analysis, go to market plan, sales, etc.? For me this has been a weakness. I'm a solo technical founder, working on an experience and conversion rate optimization SaaS. I've been on the technical side of things for a long time and can pretty much code anything at this point. All the other stuff however, well, it's all new, and hard. Anyone else struggle with these activities? I've been having discussions with potential cofounders to find someone to fill the gap. It's been great, I've met a handful of really great people, and have had some great discussions. I've also found myself consulting LLMs and have found some, surprisingly insightful, information and direction coming out of the exercise. Everything ranging from, confirmation of my own thoughts, to "oh, that's a good idea", to "wow, I hadn't thought of that". I'm not a huge proponent of LLM wrappers, but I needed to get up to speed on the various LLM APIs and prompt engineering techniques anyway, so, well ... I built a wrapper around this idea. The concept is simple enough. I drop in information about my startup and the tool creates a whole pile of useful documentation. Things like a market analysis, competitor analysis, customer acqusition strategy, pricing model evaluation, etc. It's not always perfect, it's an LLM so mileage varies, but I'm pleasantly surprised with the value I'm getting from it. I entered information on a couple of past ideas I've had that weren't well flushed out. The amount of useful information I got back, honestly, was amazing. For one idea in particular it really has me thinking I should revisit it. Anyone else consulting with LLMs for this kind of thing? Finding value from it?2
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