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eddy-sekorti

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20 years in IT security architecture. Co-founder of Reetro.io and Sekorti.com. I have been on both sides of enterprise security assessments.

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Feeling sorry for you and hope things will get easier on the financial side. My advice would be first find any job which pays you, so that you can cover your family expenses. 1 month for a SaaS is toooo little time.

My first SaaS took actually 28 months before i get a first subscription of 18 USD/month. You need to keep working on the SaaS on the side. Do not stop it if you believe it is geniuenly good and there is market for it. Build SEO, GEO profile, do outreach like send 10 emails everyday post content on relevent communities and in around 6-8 months once you have planted enough seeds you will start to see a steady flow of traffic and eventual conversion, but this is too much you need to know, seo, geo, growth hacking, outreach, content etc, see what sticks and then narrow on that.

I was listening to this https://www.pmf.show/blog/solidroad-product-market-fit-cold-... maybe worth a listen. But bro I really wish you good luck, do not loose hope, find some work, keep working on your side projects. I am also an immigrant from a third world country to Denmark and I know, life is hell if you are not able to afford finances for your family. Best of Luck!

Yes, it is true, but AI product is a broader term, these days, every product new or old, is using AI. For my startup sekorti it is still SEO the main driver but recently i have started to see decent traffic from AI platforms like Gemini and ChatGPT, but in my experience, moving forward your traffic will primarily be based on your GEO optimization.

Setup a demo day at the end of each sprint and pick a random developer and ask him to give a complete walkthrough of the code, this will force all the developers to really prepare or actually understand( what they have prompt created) before the demo day. This is atleast I have setup in my corporate job at a Bank in Danmark, I am also building my own startup sekorti.com and forcing myself to do the same(Explain the code to my junior developer before it can be deployed in production).

Congratulations, this is a nice concept, this is actually usefull for large corporates with distibuted teams. The only issue is it is very hard these days to sell developer tools to enterprises, every tool any corporate is using these days are trying to inflate their offering with AI stuff. But if you can close them, definately this will be usefull. One more thing, your pricing is quite aggressive at 30/seat.

You have some nice templates, and it is true many times we need to find or print and cannot find them. Do very good SEO so that it comes first in the results. And how do you plan to make money from them. Maybe offer B2B printing services like on demand print for architects and other businesses who uses these graph papers, or some universities or schools can be your customers.

Great concept and actually usefull, maybe you need to integrate with other tools, show some examples on the page, some use cases. The hardest part for these tools is closing on Enterprise customers, I own Reetro and had the same issue, people loved the tool, use it but once the time for paid version come. The security gets invloved, they will ask you way alot of questions and drain your time and energy. I would highly recommend to talk to the initial users of the app and alos figure out what and how they are using this tool. One other thing that can help u in future is make extensions for JIRA, MIRO, CLickup and let people run your tool in their existing workflows. And in the end Good luck with your project!

Congratulations, the real power of last.fm is its recommendation model. What are you using for yours? is there any AI involved. I think if your recommendation engine is as good as last.fm then there is a good chance it will become big. But overall nice work and I wish you good luck, this is cool!

Few days ago, I was searching on Google for exact this tool, problem was apollo flagged some issues and I needed to find out all of those quickly. So your app has a real use case. Just one question, normally people will not want to have a subscription for it, this is a validation they need once or twice, so maybe you can consifer a different pricing plan as well.

Looks good, what is your business model/pricing for third party apps, i might consider it integrating into my security and compliance tool sekorti dot com . Will investigate a little, and do you have necessary compliace for the signatures to be considered as valid authority. I will appreciate more details on this.

Yes, sure, i have sent it to my developer and will give you feedback, noticed onething, https://ljtn.github.io/epiq/ since it will also be used in enterprises, you need to show them you are secure and compliant, you can setup a free trust center via sekorti dot com it takes less then 30 mins to be enterprise ready. Let me know if you are intetested and i will upgrade your account for free.