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Welcome to the next issue of the SaaS Hill where SaaSy people get better at SaaS, tech trends in 5 munites or less.

Let's discuss Soloprenuership.

⭐️ Intro

🔹 Justin Welsh left a 9-5 job and built a one-person business with $3 mln in sales🔹 Easlo, a 20-year old creator, made $200K online in 2022🔹 Dagobert Renouf, left a $100K dev job to bootstrap a startup with his wife🔹 Damon Chen quit his job to build Testimonial🔹 Pieter Levels is a digital nomad making about $3 mln a year

There are hundreds of stories like these. Today we will discuss an interesting trend in Creators Economy: solopreneurs or one-person businesses

👉 6 predictions about Solopreneurship👉 12 SaaS products built by solopreneurs👉 12 experts to follow👉 4 useful links👉 2 Twitter threads

🤔 Predictions

1. Soloprenuership will keep growing. Solopreneurs are part of a more significant meta-trend: Creator Economy

2. Raise of No-code, AI and Automations will make it easier to become a soloprenuer.

3. Solopreneurs will rely on these channels to build a successful business (Justin Welsh left a 9-5 job to built his audience on LinkedIn):

   1. build in public

   2. community

   3. social media

4. Successful Side hustles and side projects will convince creators to become solopreneurs

5. Soloprenuers love working independently. Lots of them will become digital nomads.

6. When it comes to SaaS, lots of Solopreneurs will focus on building micro-SaaS companies that generate $1K-100K MRR. Thus, we will see the rise of micro-SaaS and vertical SaaS products soon.

🏢 Products

💻 Here is the list of SaaS products built by solopreneurs:

1. Superblog > Stop worrying about speed, SEO, and servers

2. Xnapper > Take Beautiful Screenshots Instantly

3. Blackmagic > Enhanced Twitter for pro tweeters

4. Bannerbear > Auto-generate images at scale

5. FeedHive > Create content at scale

6. Testimonial > Get testimonials from your customers with ease

7. Tweet Hunter > all-in-one Twitter growth tool

8. Paytable > Deliver Airtable, Notion + more securely to your audience in seconds

9. BrandBird > An image editor for busy SaaS founders, who build in public

10. Tribescaler > Make Your Tweets Go Viral

11. Logology > Get a designer-quality logo for your startup

12. Poet.so > Create images of Twitter posts

📖 Experts to Follow

1. Tony Dinh > creator of Black Magic and Xnapper

2. Jim Raptis > building a portfolio of SaaS products in public

3. Easlo > a 20-years old creator who made $200K online in 2022

4. Justin Welsh > building a portfolio of one-person businesses to $5M in revenue

5. Alex Banks > creator of Tribescaler

6. Simon Høiberg > creator of FeedHive

7. Joel Rosen > creator of Paytable

8. Damon Chen > quit his job to build Testimonial

9. Sai Krishna > creator of superblogs

10. Dagobert Renouf > Left a $100K dev job to bootstrap a startup with his wife

11. Jon Yongfook > Founder of Bannerbear. Currently at $50K MRR

12. levelsio > creator of NomadList and RemoteOK

🔗 Useful Links

1. Bannerbear has hit $10K MRR — this page documents the decisions and pivots that got me to this milestone

2. Bannerbear > Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to $36k MRR

3. levelsio > Turning side projects into profitable startups

4. levelsio > Why I'm unreachable and maybe you should be too

🐦 Twitter Thread

Justin Welsh: 5 steps to a one-person business

How a content creator Easlo made $200K online in 2022

🤝 Related SaaS Trends

1. Creator Economy > Raise of small businesses built by self-employed creators

Thanks for reading. See you next time 👋

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