how not to run a sAAs company
I have less than 2 weeks left to continue the "Founder Mode" life before I must take off the "founder" mantle, a mantle with as much meaning as Agile and NFT but certainly more meaning than AI.
2 weeks should be more than enough time to spin up at least one highly lucrative sAAs company if not 2. Excuse me, "AI" powered sAAs company. What is AI powering? I don't know yet. But it will power something.
This one is long so go get a cup of coffee or something. You can skip to the end for a link to the product but it would spoil the fun.
All I want to do is run a backlink search for a few popular existing AI products. I plan on copying one of them wholesale, opensource and all. Big plus if it already uses shadui, cursor, and openai on the network's edge. Backlinks will give me a good idea on how and where my target entered the market at. Did they only use SEO hacks or did they run some influcencer ads too? Maybe they only targeted one country and not another. It isn't only about copying the product but also the go to market too.
Sadly, Semrush's lowest saaS tier is $140/m and Ahrefs' lowest tier is $130/m. That seems like an awful lot to run a few hundred maybe thousand backlink queries but it does include many other SEO features I don't need.
