Hey everyone, super excited to let you know that I finally shipped something new.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome: ReplyHunter.com - inspire your replies in a single click for multiple social media platforms.
Under-the-hood it’s the same great engine that comes with TweetAI.com that I’ve been running since 2022, but ReplyHunter.com comes with the support of multiple social media platforms:
Facebook (2.9 billion users)
X / Twitter (415 million users)
LinkedIn (40 million users)
And more coming soon (let me know which platform you’d like to see next)
Many TweetAI.com customers had been asking for it for a long long time, and I’ve also ran a question on X asking what platform it should come to next at the end of 2023.
Finally delivered. Let me know what you think about ReplyHunter.com - I’d love to hear any and all feedback.
Now onto marketing 🥂🚀 (psst, there’s a launch discount offer at the end of this newsletter 👀)
Here’s the long story for those interested:
Once upon a time (and a long long time ago), I bought the domain name… it all starts with a domain name and a logo, right? But that’s been over a year ago now. I’ve always wanted to expand, but lacked time to do it (and energy, for someone who builds mostly in the late evenings only after the kids had gone to sleep).
TweetAI.com is nice, but as the name itself suggests, it’s kind of limited to “tweets” and the Twitter (now X) eco-system, so it’d feel wrong to me to expand to other platforms there.
It also took me longer to build due to a few delays and setbacks, but I’ve managed to get it out there.
One of the setbacks was that I had to completely re-implement payment processing from scratch as the previously used one is no longer available to new projects (Paddle Classic). So I had to explore new options, go with Paddle Billing (aka the new Paddle) or a different payment processor. Either way, it was a re-implementation from scratch.
So this time I’ve decided to use Lemon Squeezy for payments because it comes with a Customer Portal (where customers can manage their subscriptions) and Affiliate Program built in (yes, Reply Hunter will open up an affiliate program soon so let me know if you’re interested).
Having a done-for-you Customer Portal is life changing for solo founders like me, saves me a lot of time implementing the UI/UX and the logic behind plan upgrades/downgrades etc etc. there’s a lot going on behind the scenes.
The built-in affiliate program that comes built-in with Lemon Squeezy is also a game changer, many asked me if I had an affiliate program for TweetAI.com - and sadly I had to say no because I never had the time to implement one - but now, I can proudly say yes. Affiliate programs can be a very effective sales channel and you can have an army of marketers who love your product and are willing to promote it in exchange for a reward $$$.
So, I once settled in my mind for Lemon Squeezy, I looked for a payment processing library for them, got so excited to find one on github, only to then find out it was lacking some key functionality and incomplete (I’ve even made a github pull request - so, back to square one, another delay as had to implement the core events handling from scratch)
Ah the solopreneur life, it’s not easy, but it’s fun.
Thanks for reading till the end.
As a prize for reading till the end (and being a subscriber here on Substack):
Here’s a 47% off forever discount code for the Reply Hunter Starter Plans: SUBSTACKFRIENDS (limited to 100 customers and will expire in a couple of weeks).
Cheers,
Peter