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Interviewing indie founders about their journey and their products. itslaunchday.com
Arthur (00:00)
Alright.
Dagobert Renouf (00:02)
Yeah, nice to meet you man. Also, welcome to launch day.
Arthur (00:05)
Thank you. Nice to meet you.
Dagobert Renouf (00:09)
Yeah, so we were just getting set up and so I don't know you at all yet. So it's interesting. So where are you from, man?
Arthur (00:22)
I'm originally from Azerbaijan but I live in Spain because I'm a student. I live in Barcelona. Yeah, right now I'm back in Azerbaijan because of the summer holidays so in four or five weeks I'm going back.
Dagobert Renouf (00:37)
So you're a student, are you at your parents right now? Are you back at your parents?
Arthur (00:42)
I'm to be honest not because in a zoroastrian we live in small in small town called the Gatala But I live in the capital in Baku for a few weeks. Then I'm going to back to my parents
Dagobert Renouf (00:50)
Okay.
Okay, awesome. So, okay, so how old are you?
Arthur (01:01)
I'm 20.
Dagobert Renouf (01:03)
Wow, cool. Okay, so you lived in Azerbaijan. And what did you, what's your journey? Like, did you go to, what did you study? Did you study or did you start working right away?
Arthur (01:08)
Mm-hmm.
Well, to be honest, started my studying in Azerbaijan, in Baku. From the university I was studying computer engineering. This year I'm gonna start over in Spain. I was living last year in Spain, I was learning Spanish and Catalan, both languages. So now I'm gonna start from zero, from September.
Dagobert Renouf (01:34)
Wow, cool.
So you're going to do university in Spain in September for new studies. And you're going to study the same thing, computer engineering?
Arthur (01:41)
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
Yeah, well mostly it's going to be more specific like web development and development of web interfaces. So we'll see.
Dagobert Renouf (01:55)
Awesome. So you do that. Do you work also? How do you make money?
Arthur (02:00)
Yeah, actually my main goal is not to study but more to work. Right now I have a small side project called MediaFest. Plus in addition I have a small agency with a friend of mine from Azerbaijan too. And we just make websites, mobile apps and we have clients from Dubai and Azerbaijan right now.
Dagobert Renouf (02:06)
Yeah.
Yeah.
awesome. Yeah, agency is already a good way to, it's like way easier to make money, free, I mean, it's not easy, but like it's easier than with a SaaS. So like it's a good start, usually cool. So when did you start this agency with your friend?
Arthur (02:35)
when I was when I was turning 18
Dagobert Renouf (02:40)
Cool. Yeah, okay.
Arthur (02:41)
So like,
yeah, I spent one year just to learn stuff, Google Ads, Meta Ads. And I think it's like only one year since we started getting orders, since I started making some money.
Dagobert Renouf (02:55)
Awesome, and what does he do with the developer also?
Arthur (02:58)
Yeah, basically as my co-founder we just split everything like 50-50. All the expenses, all the income, all the job. We have right now two people are working for us. So we're basically just more attending to meetings with clients or we are creating new ad campaigns. Just like that.
Dagobert Renouf (03:10)
Awesome.
So it's mostly for ads, like you run ad campaigns for people. It's mostly the agency, what the agency is doing.
Arthur (03:24)
No, agency just basically creating the websites, but we find clients through that. Yeah.
Dagobert Renouf (03:29)
yeah.
Yeah, that's better. I guess you can probably make more money like this if you know what you're doing than like up work and websites like this.
Arthur (03:40)
To be honest, I already tried some freelancing platforms but it was extremely hard because it's too saturated right now. So we actually tried different sources of ads like TikTok ads, meta ads, Google ads. The best working for us right now is meta ads. Buying some ads for Instagram through Facebook.
Dagobert Renouf (03:48)
Yeah.
Wow, to promote the ad, that's super interesting, man, because like, we don't think of Insta and Facebook for B2B, usually. So.
Arthur (04:15)
It depends
on country, know, because in Azerbaijan it works perfect, in Dubai it works excellent, in Spain it doesn't work, for example. In some countries in Europe it doesn't work because they don't use Instagram for work. But in USA or Australia it works fine, for example.
Dagobert Renouf (04:25)
I see, yeah.
Wow.
That's super interesting and it's like, that's why we need to always be testing because it depends on your product, your market. You cannot be like, I'm gonna do this and it's gonna work. You have to try. Man, I'm so impressed, dude. Wow, 20 already hustling? Yeah, at 18 I had my first agency as well but I wasn't good at like, I was just wanting to build so then some guy hired me and I started working with him and I thought I was a co-founder and we just built like an e-comm website.
Arthur (05:04)
Mm.
Dagobert Renouf (05:08)
Long time ago. ⁓ Cool man. Okay. So you're coming back to Spain. You're going to do some. So why do you give a shit about studying actually? Like why do you do it?
Arthur (05:15)
Well,
to be honest, it's a good question. The thing is that in Azerbaijan we have obligated military service. And if you want to skip it, you gotta go to study, you gotta be a student. So I'm gonna study for a long time. That's an amazing reason.
Dagobert Renouf (05:30)
That's a good reason. That makes more sense because,
okay, my God, okay. So you're gonna study. Yeah, and you know, that's not like, it's not a complete waste of time to study. You're gonna meet people, you're gonna learn some shit. It's not.
Arthur (05:45)
Yeah, I'm gonna meet some
people. Yeah, I'm gonna get some degrees I guess one or two eventually I'll see
Dagobert Renouf (05:51)
Yeah, no, it's cool. Yeah,
I know, like when I was doing this agency, so I didn't have this military service to avoid, like, I went one month to university and the first week it was just like SQL, like SQL, you know, like SQL intensive. And that's all I did and then after one month I left ⁓ and I stopped doing it and...
Arthur (06:08)
Yeah, yeah.
Dagobert Renouf (06:20)
But I will always remember this sequel because we did like just the first, we just did that for one week. Like it was just 35 hours. So I know how to do this because of that. And then actually I went to Russia because I found a client in France who was opening a business in Moscow and he invited me and I did that for one year and that was awesome. No, just been for one year, you know? And then we sold and we came back.
Arthur (06:28)
Mm.
So how long have you been in Russia?
I see.
Dagobert Renouf (06:50)
So that was like.
Arthur (06:50)
Did you learn any Russian
words or sentences?
Dagobert Renouf (06:53)
Yeah, you know, and now I'm getting married with a Russian woman, so I'm learning more. That's like a completely different story, know, completely unrelated, know, 18 years later. Yeah, I can say a better thing, like...
Arthur (06:58)
Really?
Yeah.
Dagobert Renouf (07:08)
Yeah, I'm not learning. I'm not learning to be honest. Like when you ask me, I'm like, yeah.
Arthur (07:10)
i'm asking just because russian
is my native language i was interested
Dagobert Renouf (07:16)
No,
I bet, I bet, yeah, no, can say, you know, can say, I can say basic shit. If I meet someone, can... The funny thing when I was in Russia is I just learned to say, you know, zdravstvo t'ye, which is, you know, welcome, I mean, not welcome, like, like hello in a formal way. And I learned to say it absolutely perfect. Like, I was just practicing the accent. And so the problem is, I would, you I would like, and so the way to say, tell me if I'm wrong, but like...
Arthur (07:29)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Dagobert Renouf (07:46)
To say it perfectly, you have to be depressed first. To sound Russian, you first have to feel very sad about life, I noticed. You just have to be like, okay, I'm super depressed now, and I'm gonna speak. And then, I'm just kidding, but kind of. And so, I was like, Zrazvucie, trying to say it like this. Does it sound good?
Arthur (07:50)
.
You
Yeah, I see. Actually, I hear that a lot. People say that Russian
sounds a bit depressive or... I don't know.
Dagobert Renouf (08:13)
Yeah.
And so the trick was like, I was saying that, and so people thought I was Russian. So they start speaking super advanced shit, you know? Because if I just said, if I said like French, like, they will know it, I'm not Russian, so they will be different. So yeah, that was funny. But that allowed me to avoid, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I mean, I guess every country, but like maybe, yeah. Friends too. Like, yeah, that allowed me to avoid.
Arthur (08:23)
Yeah, and they speak fast.
Yeah, in Russian we speak extremely fast.
Dagobert Renouf (08:43)
getting scammed with taxis because if you, they know you were a tourist, it was three times more expensive. So I was just pretending to be depressed. would just be like, Zdravzvoty, and then being like, I was living in Mitina, like this area, so was like, Zdravzvoty, Mitina. And this guy thought I was drunk and he was like, okay, and then he starts speaking me and I'm like, Ne gvaru pa ruski, which means I don't speak Russian. And the guy was looking at me like, fuck, he got me, you know. So yeah, that was funny.
Arthur (08:45)
Mm.
you
Yeah.
Dagobert Renouf (09:13)
⁓ Cool man. Okay, so you're in Spain now doing your studies. Wow, that's awesome. And so how did you, did you build many products? Is it the first product you're building?
Arthur (09:28)
If you ask about the startups as a SaaS, actually it's my third one.
Dagobert Renouf (09:34)
Hmm. So what was the journey like how did you wanted that from the beginning or was it just wanting to do agency? Like how did you start making your own things?
Arthur (09:35)
Yeah, first-
Well, actually it all began I think in August last year, so just one year ago. I was with a friend of mine in Baku, we were chilling, we had a coffee and he told me that you gotta start your X. I was like, why? He said that you can build your personal brand, can promote your services. I was like, I mean, I was like, it doesn't work. It's like some kind of crap. Then I was like, all right, I can just spend five minutes a day to make some posts there.
Dagobert Renouf (10:04)
Mm-hmm, yeah.
Arthur (10:15)
At that moment we didn't have much orders, we had like one or two a month, so I had lots of free time. And I started building some app for myself because I was moving to Spain and I am a book lover, know. I'm just loving reading the Russian classic, some detective books, some adventure stuff. Yeah, I'm reading a lot, like every single day. And I was buying... Yeah, yeah, yeah, From Volgogov, yeah.
Dagobert Renouf (10:33)
Cool. Yeah. I just had like Master and Margarita, which I guess you probably read because it's the most famous one, but yeah. Cool.
Yeah.
Arthur (10:45)
Yeah, and I have like the whole library at my home in Zagatala, in Baku because we always buy books physically. And I was like, all right, I'm going to move to Spain. I'm going to read because in Spain they don't have Russian books. I can move all my books physically. And I was building some online social media for book lovers. And when I built it, I was like, all right, I'm going to try to promote it somehow on socials, on nix, on reddit.
Dagobert Renouf (10:54)
Yeah.
Arthur (11:14)
Eventually I failed because on reddit I get banned three times in a row. It's like, yeah, I lost three emails. Alright, no problem. On X I didn't have much luck neither. But I started building my second project. It was called buildfast.is. The main goal was to teach people how to make cool animations for their websites, for their landing pages, by using Next.js.
Dagobert Renouf (11:19)
my God, yeah.
you
So was it a course you say teach?
Arthur (11:47)
I had the whole tutorials, had the demo and then all the codes, the files in it, the documentation, but I didn't have much success with that either because I had only two sales in two months.
Dagobert Renouf (12:02)
Okay, how much did it cost?
Arthur (12:05)
69 dollars
Dagobert Renouf (12:08)
Okay, cool.
So that was kind of like ⁓ templates and tutorials at the same time. That was, okay, cool. Okay, got it. Okay.
Arthur (12:13)
Yeah.
And basically
when I saw that it doesn't convert, I don't make any sales, I decided to build a product around my red problem because with my second product I tried red marketing again. I got banned another four times. I was like, all right, I have no emails left. I'm going to use my dad's email. I'm going to make the last try to sign up. And I started building it. I mean, I already tried seven times. I failed. I have some experience now.
And I was growing my karma and at one moment I was already in Spain, it was I guess October or November. I was like, all right, I think that I'm not the only one who struggles with dread, right? So I'm going to ask people on X if anyone has the same problem. And I got amazing feedback. I was like, all right, I'm going to build some tool around it. That's where I already started my mid-FS journey.
Dagobert Renouf (13:00)
Yeah.
Arthur (13:15)
First of all it was like reddit fast, not media fast.
Dagobert Renouf (13:20)
Okay, and wait, wait, are you building it with your co-founder of the agency or just on your own? Okay, cool. Okay, and why was it, so yeah, why is it media fast now? Interesting.
Arthur (13:20)
And when I say, yeah.
Nah, Only solo. Yeah.
Well basically I started with the reddit fast because the main goal was to promote any tool or grow on reddit right to build karma to make some marketing and I started with building I built it in three or four weeks and I started sharing about it three days before the launch like day one I'm gonna build that that that day two I'm gonna build that that that on the third day I made a post and on the first day
I made a post on X on Twitter that I launched. I have this product, I have these, these, services. And I got my first sale immediately. Like a friend of mine that whom I met on X, he was like from USA, he immediately got my product. And he was just my first customer. I already had some early users that were just testing my tool. So I was extremely happy. And the thing that I made sales for
$400 in the first month. I got cool comment from Mark Lowe. I don't know if you know him.
Dagobert Renouf (14:36)
Wow, that's cool.
Yeah, for sure, yeah.
Arthur (14:41)
Yeah, and I got a comment from Markalow about my product. He told me that you have amazing headline, the product is cool. I was like extremely excited. And I got my another client suggested that I'm gonna pay you some money a month and you gotta do all the posting, all the commenting job. And that way I got like the subscription option too.
Dagobert Renouf (15:02)
Okay. Wait,
I'm sorry, I hear some music, some sound, something that's ringing. Is it?
Arthur (15:09)
Let
me check
It should be fine now
Dagobert Renouf (15:16)
Cool cool. Okay, so some guy asked you to do it for you, like to do kind of like a service.
Arthur (15:23)
Yeah, it was like ghost writing services, you know? Yeah. And that's where I started like adding new projects, new prices. And then I just expanded my product. mean, I firstly had only the goal to grow on Reddit. Then I was like, all right, if someone's going to join my Reddit fest and he has, for example, the account with the karma, like 1000 or 2000, like he's already good on that, but he just needs help with marketing. What I'm going to do.
Dagobert Renouf (15:27)
yeah, okay.
Yeah.
Arthur (15:52)
and I started improving my roadmap generation that's always gonna find best working subreddit for you, it's gonna tell you when to post, when to post, what time is the best, what strategy, for example. Then I added some scheduler, yeah.
Dagobert Renouf (16:08)
Yeah. That's funny because...
We're always obsessed with making just a product that people can use themselves, but people, just want the work to be done. And so just not avoiding that and being like, yeah, we can do that. So do you think, are you providing him direct services, or is it just like the tool?
Arthur (16:34)
Right now my revenue from the Metafax is like 70 % to 30%. 30 % is coming from subscription options where I provide my ghost writing services. Like I make the posts, make the comments for my clients, and I just update them like once in three days. Hey, I have done those spots in your accounts. I have done those comments. I'm going to do that.
Dagobert Renouf (17:00)
That's awesome. So can you show us? That's yeah, go ahead. ⁓
Arthur (17:01)
Yeah and the others... yeah.
and the rest 70 % are coming from sales.
Dagobert Renouf (17:11)
Okay, you mean just people subscribing to the product, just buying the product, yeah. Yeah, I think for a lot of people, if you just open up, like being able to do some service, especially you, you have the experience running an agency, eventually you can even outsource or hire someone to do it if it grows enough.
Arthur (17:14)
Yeah, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Mm.
Dagobert Renouf (17:35)
There's so much opportunities with this. Because when we're so stuck on just having a tool, you miss a lot of opportunities potentially. So, yeah, so can you show us a bit? The tool.
Arthur (17:49)
Sure, let me share my screen.
Alright.
Alright, one second.
Alright, you see my screen?
Dagobert Renouf (18:11)
Yep, it's loading. Yep
Arthur (18:14)
Alright, perfect. You asked before why is it MediaFest now and not RedditFest. Well, the reason was like I wasn't able to promote my own product about the Reddit on Reddit because of the name. Because they have extremely strict policies about that. Yeah, because I have like the Reddit name in my domain. I was almost banned because of that. So I decided to add... Yeah, yeah.
Dagobert Renouf (18:30)
⁓
wow, that's super interesting.
Arthur (18:42)
Actually Reddit is extremely strict with the promotion stuff, with the domain stuff, with the product name stuff. They are super strict. I mean if you make one mistake they are going to ban you. They are going to also find the accounts you own because they chain your accounts along the devices, along the network. They are going to ban them too.
Dagobert Renouf (19:03)
You know, I love this man, because you told us the story and now it makes perfect sense why the value proposition is grow on Reddit and LinkedIn without getting suspended, because you lost all your accounts, you only had your data account at the end. So you know, I think of two about getting suspended. That's, yeah, I think that's why when I read your submission, to be honest, I was like.
Arthur (19:15)
Yeah. Yeah.
You
Dagobert Renouf (19:29)
my god, another ship fast kind of thing because of media fast. So I look at the submission. I'm like, not sure. And then I see like, holy shit, this seems cool. You know, like grow like the headline is very strong. It shows that you have understood something like it's not just like generic. It's not just like grow on Reddit. It's like without getting suspended. And that's like a real pain. So really, really. I think. Yeah, really good. Good one. Yeah.
Arthur (19:33)
it
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm basically, I was like, all right, I'm media fast, I'm not Reddit fast. I already have some good experience with LinkedIn because I have more than 11 key followers there. And I'm gonna add some growing tool, growing tips on that too. That way I just ended up being like two socials right now. My main focus is still Reddit, but I also use LinkedIn too.
Dagobert Renouf (20:10)
Wow.
Awesome. Yeah, that's great. That's great.
Arthur (20:27)
Yeah, in a long way I just started adding new features. I added, for example, leaderboard. You can see like my users here, for example. Top 10 of them.
Dagobert Renouf (20:36)
Okay,
and what, so that's leaderboard of their karma, okay.
Arthur (20:40)
Yeah, and their product linked to the project. So that way they can get some backlink.
Dagobert Renouf (20:47)
No, that's smart, that's smart, I like it. Cool.
Arthur (20:50)
I'll try to make it extremely clear what you get from the landing page I have some some headline here some more explanation here, right and For example this number here. It is dynamic, right? the number here Yeah, and all those like this is all the clients I have so far.
Dagobert Renouf (21:03)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see that.
Yeah, two founders joined this week. Yeah, that's awesome.
So what happens
on Monday at midnight?
Arthur (21:17)
It just goes to zero.
Dagobert Renouf (21:20)
Maybe if it's zero, you should hide it. I was just thinking.
Arthur (21:24)
I thought about it but
yeah I was like alright I'm gonna be extremely honest I'm gonna be transparent so we'll see how people react
Dagobert Renouf (21:32)
No, that's cool, I really like that, that's good way.
Arthur (21:37)
For example here I also added like a node, what mid-FS does, does all the roadmaps are generated not by AI, but just based on my experience.
And here I have the list of the all features you have like the dashboard for your projects, have the analytics, subreddits. I'm doing it manually on my backend part.
Dagobert Renouf (22:02)
It seems like it's an interesting approach. It seems like you're giving them exactly the ⁓ processes of an agency. The way I see it, it's like you're telling them, okay, if you want to do it on your own, this is everything you need. And then we can do it for you.
Arthur (22:19)
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah exactly.
Exactly.
Dagobert Renouf (22:32)
Really cool, really interesting.
Arthur (22:34)
Yeah, like here they have personalized timeline based on your goals.
Dagobert Renouf (22:37)
Because it feels like you would give that to a VA to do it. It feels like you would take that and give it to a virtual assistant or somebody you hire, and you're like, this is what you do. You give them everything. But you just sell it.
Arthur (22:50)
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I
yeah, basically in my pricing, right? All right. Look here. I have a like small story about me. I got suspended six times. All right, and here I have extremely clear ⁓ pricing section like mid-fs package. You get all access to all tools you need. You can do it yourself. You can hire someone. No problem. And here we have subscription option where I do all the job for you. That's it.
Dagobert Renouf (22:58)
Yeah.
I agree.
I remember seeing your landing page and being like, yeah, I want to show this product on launch day, looks cool. Yeah.
Arthur (23:26)
Yeah.
And
this guy is just my first ever client. His name is Artium, you can click and go to his X account. He was just like my first ever client on Reddit fast, on Medifast. He just got the product on the first day and I remember that he had some problem with, like there was an issue on a website. He wasn't, he wasn't be able to buy it.
Dagobert Renouf (23:54)
⁓ okay. he helped you. So that means he really wanted it because he told you. Yeah.
Arthur (23:55)
Yeah, I had problems on the first day. Yeah. Yeah.
And basically at the end I have just wall of low, it's all dynamic, like you can click and you can go to this person's profile on X for example or... Yeah. Yeah.
Dagobert Renouf (24:11)
Did you build the wall of love yourself? That means if you say dynamic.
At least a few years ago, it was very trendy, this testimonials website. And the first feature they all built was like, because it never made sense to me, this testimonials website, like testimonial.to, Sanja, because it always seemed to me, well, it's just fucking testimonials. Why do I need to pay for that? But then it's because it's a lot of advanced features and you can embed it.
Arthur (24:22)
Mm-hmm.
Dagobert Renouf (24:40)
and some of them make a lot of money. So if you're happy building that, you could spin that as a product. Like Senja makes 70K a month, I think. We've just, I mean, it's more advanced now. They made way more features, but it started like that a few years ago, just a thought. Yeah.
Arthur (24:49)
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah actually I have here about the Senja and I was actually using it for my last startup before that like for BuildFest But I this in this case I decided I'm gonna encode it all manually like all the wall of love I'm gonna add all users I have not all of them but the one I was able to get some feedback from and You can click for example here and you will go to this comment of Marklo if you click here You can go to his profile and ask him like I'm trying to be
Dagobert Renouf (25:07)
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's cool that you made screenshot
and not just ⁓ embed, because if you do embed, it's just gonna destroy your performance. This page is gonna take a billion time, billion hours to load. Yeah. Cool.
Arthur (25:30)
Yeah.
Yeah. And here
I have some metrics from Markleau's product, Datafast, so people can see how many users in the last 30 minutes.
Dagobert Renouf (25:45)
Yeah, it seems like a really cool product,
DataFast. That's like the first like, SAS he made, I thought, my God, this is a good, like, how do you like DataFast? Because I haven't tried it.
Arthur (25:55)
Yeah, basically that's my
landing page. If you want we can go straight to the dashboard.
Dagobert Renouf (26:03)
Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, we had a small problem. So we're just like, my connection was basically fucked up, but yeah, we're back. So we can see.
Arthur (26:13)
We're back finally. Alright,
so I guess we stopped at this point, right?
Dagobert Renouf (26:20)
Yeah, you will showing the dashboard of MediaFast, that's it.
Arthur (26:23)
Alright, so here's the dashboard of the MediaFest. Here I have some socials as you see, like ⁓ here I have the X and the blue sky. Those two are in the beta. They're not like 100 % working. I'm just trying to make it work. We'll see how it goes. My main focus is just right now is LinkedIn and Reddit. For example here, we entered the project of Reddit, right?
Dagobert Renouf (26:33)
Okay.
Okay.
Arthur (26:51)
Basically when you upload your project and you get your roadmap, the product, the MediaFast, will select the best five working subredds for you. And if they're already not in database, it's gonna add it and start collecting some data about it, like average active users. And then based on this data, I'm gonna provide you with the best posting time and days in your time zone.
Dagobert Renouf (26:52)
Yeah.
Okay, I see.
Arthur (27:18)
Yeah,
because it matters a lot. Then the most important part is like your timeline. Here you have like the date and the task. The date and the task. And all the roadmap is gonna tell you when to post, what to post, what time, what strategy. ⁓ As the time... Yeah.
Dagobert Renouf (27:39)
This is so cool that this
is very different to have this roadmap. This is awesome. And you generate it. Yeah, okay. So I guess you have a main roadmap you created for yourself and you adapt it using AI to the person. Yeah.
Arthur (27:44)
Yeah, I also was listening to my clients at wedding. Yeah
Basically I have just like, you know at the back end I have the whole big prompt that telling you what to do exactly in each case. What product is that, it's gonna define the type. If it's the type, alright, this type you go to this prompt. You have this selected subreddits, you're gonna generate this, this, this. So basically it's all based on my experience but it's gonna be displayed in a good way using AI, of course, like here. Yeah.
Dagobert Renouf (28:10)
Yeah.
Yeah, okay, see. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. They really cool.
Arthur (28:27)
Also
you can add your reddit account to project because some people have like 2 3 or 4 or 5 different projects 5 different reddit accounts and you connect each your reddit account to a project That way you will just get on your leaderboard I showed before
Dagobert Renouf (28:44)
Okay, yeah.
Arthur (28:50)
Basically that's it. From the dashboard here you have some notes, building reputation first, engaging tips, posting time strategy and the main point what if I get suspended. In this case if someone uses my package and still gets suspended I'm trying to help them manually from my ex account. You see I have the handle here.
Dagobert Renouf (29:15)
Yeah.
Arthur (29:15)
All so let's say you're a new user, you just got signed up, you got the project, you just add it here, you're gonna add it, you see it like X and blue sky and beta, but you have reddit and LinkedIn. Let's say I'm gonna use mediafad. Right here, normally I choose the karma range, for example let's say I'm just beginning.
Dagobert Renouf (29:28)
Yeah, yeah.
Arthur (29:43)
And here you gotta define the type. know the project type matters a lot because as the time went I learned that the project type is mandatory to define the strategy because if you have for example SaaS or Tech Startup you can promote it in amazing way in the subreddit like SaaS, Site Project, Microsaas in aggressive way you can put the link in the post directly.
Dagobert Renouf (30:00)
Mm-hmm.
Arthur (30:13)
But if you have some kind of tool, you better promote via stories. know, like I use this tool to escape dome scrolling in the morning when I just wake up and you just tell the whole story and people in common ask, all right, do you mind sharing the tool? That's where you promote your tool.
Dagobert Renouf (30:26)
Yeah.
Yeah, okay, so depends on the community. You're to have to do it in a more subtle, because like SAS is just entrepreneurs, so like we can all share links, it's fine. But yeah, okay.
Arthur (30:37)
Yeah, in a different way,
Yeah, I mean it's also depends
on a subreddit because some subreddits for SAS they're open to to link sharing, know, they're good with that. But in tools in 99 % of case you're gonna be banned if you just share the link. Let's say I like small description here.
Dagobert Renouf (31:00)
Yeah, you're okay.
And what about just mentioning the name but without a link?
Arthur (31:12)
Still, you will get banned because it's promotion.
Dagobert Renouf (31:16)
wow, okay, cool.
Arthur (31:17)
yet that's why i'm just always prefer telling the stories for a tool version ⁓ and then people ask what tools that you can just promote it that way and here i have like small waiting small loading ⁓ i remember if i showed before i guess you have a problem here i have this part from the data fast that is showing how many people were on a website like in the last thirty minutes
Dagobert Renouf (31:28)
Yeah, makes sense.
I like your transparency, like saying the actual number of sales live. It's really cool.
Arthur (31:47)
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, if it's zero,
it's gonna be zero, no problem.
Dagobert Renouf (31:54)
Really cool mindset. wow, cool!
Arthur (31:55)
Alright, here's my new project. You see I already have those subreddits
to my database, so we just replace that immediately.
Dagobert Renouf (32:04)
And that's the best posting time, basically. You can guess from that. Yeah.
Arthur (32:08)
You can guess
it by yourself or you just can go down because here I calculated all. You see? Like the Sunday, Thursday, Saturday and the days. And here's my roadmap, like, observe the community, do not post yet because if your brand new account is important, do not... You gotta make no actions the first days. I remember I was banned because I just signed up, I have a new account, all good.
Dagobert Renouf (32:16)
Yeah, I see, I see.
Arthur (32:36)
but i decided to comment in a few posts what happened next in one hour i was banned immediately
Dagobert Renouf (32:46)
You know what I appreciate the most is you're very knowledgeable and I feel it. You could make maybe a small video course, just like one hour recording yourself and you can add it to your product and you can make it bit more expensive and have one hour of you just recording yourself to, I don't know, I'm just saying, but yeah, very cool to listen to you. I'm learning.
Arthur (32:52)
Thank you.
Yeah.
Yeah, basically that's it from this side, the roadmap is gonna tell you what to do, what strategies work the best. Same for example for LinkedIn. You have the recommend hashtags, I'm still working on that part. You have post types, like personal posts, project posts, value posts. From my experience on LinkedIn, there are like two main strategies that work the best right now. One is providing the value, telling the results you got.
Dagobert Renouf (33:27)
Yeah.
Arthur (33:42)
and in the end you gotta say comment reddit and I'm gonna share the link yeah I think you have seen that a lot and another strategy is just memes you know just you just share a meme related to some marketing or coding
Dagobert Renouf (33:49)
Yeah, okay.
You mean image memes? Okay.
Arthur (34:03)
Yeah, and in comments you can
just share the link to your startup. I'm telling that from my experience from getting impressions on LinkedIn posts.
Dagobert Renouf (34:15)
You know what I like about your product is that it's simple because all of these tools, they let you do everything, but you don't know what to do. And you, you're just saying, just do that. And that's actually...
Arthur (34:24)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Dagobert Renouf (34:33)
Good for 80 % of people, that's the best thing. For most people, that's the best thing. We just need to do something. And you're helping do something with something that you just pay once, and then you can just do that. The name is good. The fast, I feel it now. I feel how it's very helpful. It's making you make progress fast. Yeah, I really like it. That's awesome. Really cool product.
Arthur (34:40)
Yeah.
Yeah, and the way things seem that
I was like, all right, if I was a user of the MediFS, I'm not gonna enter the app every single day, but I gotta know the task for today, right? So I added like small email notification system. every single day, if you have any task, it's gonna be sent to you via email. Like, hey buddy, you gotta do that today in that subreddit in that time, just post it or comment it, something like that.
Dagobert Renouf (35:13)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Arthur (35:29)
And in the end I have just like small achievement part. You see I had just some badges like the gamer. Yeah, just created five projects in total. I don't know, you have like early achievement, earned 10 karma in a single project.
Dagobert Renouf (35:29)
That's awesome, man.
Arthur (35:48)
And I still have like two more achievements for myself. I don't remember them.
Dagobert Renouf (35:49)
Yeah.
Wow, that's cool. Okay. And where do you see them? you could maybe show the small icons, so I don't know, because it would be more playful, like it would be more exciting. ⁓ And so what's the next thing you want to build? Is there anything you have on your plate? Like one thing you're excited to add?
Arthur (35:55)
Yeah. And you have just like small displaying here.
Mm-hmm.
To be honest I was thinking about it a lot, like I have lots of ideas for different projects but I just write them down in the notes for now because right now I'm gonna make media fast like extremely good product. I'm gonna make the time
Dagobert Renouf (36:26)
Yeah.
No, but I mean
for media fast. Is there something you want to
Arthur (36:36)
Right now I have, I recently actually added this feedback page where people can, yeah, where people can just simply, for example here you see, posting from media fast, notify users the best post time.
Dagobert Renouf (36:43)
Okay, cool.
And you're using,
are you using a feedback tool for that or you built it yourself also?
Arthur (36:56)
I just build it
myself manually and people just go here the short title, some description and suggest it. That's it.
Dagobert Renouf (37:01)
Awesome.
Arthur (37:07)
Yeah, I'm just trying to get that many more ideas for the project itself. From my side, right now I have the goal to improve the roadmops. I have the plan to make it absolutely beast, you know. I want it so people can use the roadmop and be 100 % sure that they are growing in the right way if they follow it.
Dagobert Renouf (37:08)
Okay?
Yes, okay. And how would you improve that roadmap? I'm not really sure.
Arthur (37:35)
You know, actually each subreddit has its own style and its own rules. So right now I have the plan to make the big Gson file where I have every single subreddit and its rules. And on the back end when people add the project, it's gonna say like, all right, you have those five subreddits and you have the rules based on them. Let me check the Gson file, all right? And in the process of generating the...
Dagobert Renouf (37:40)
you
Wow.
Arthur (38:04)
the road map is going to use the rules so it's not going to mess up you know it's not going to save for yeah so that way each every single subreddit is going to be used in the right way
Dagobert Renouf (38:10)
That's amazing.
When you do that, make sure to say that, make sure to tell people, for this specific subreddit, this is what you should do and explain, because they will feel more, I'm just saying, they would feel more value, because else they will imagine it's just normal advice, because nobody does that, nobody gives specific advice for subreddit. But if you do that, that's so cool.
Arthur (38:24)
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Dagobert Renouf (38:45)
you need to explain it, that you need to say, for this subreddit, this is the advice you need, because like, for example, this subreddit, don't like, you know, promotions, so you need to do that. Like, well, you explained to me for the tool, that's so awesome, you know? And so, but people probably don't imagine, they don't imagine that if you click tool, you have the special roadmap. ⁓ And so, maybe they will not be as excited as they should be. So I'm just saying, yeah.
Arthur (38:59)
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, makes sense. I'm gonna
work on that in my landing page. I'm gonna make it more clear.
Dagobert Renouf (39:19)
Yeah, yeah.
Arthur (39:19)
And
as you see here, I have the versions. Right now I have version 4. I launched 2 or 3 days ago.
Dagobert Renouf (39:26)
Cool. Yeah.
Arthur (39:29)
And I have the plan to deploy version 4.2. And I think it's gonna be kinda big because for LinkedIn I wanna add some post maker. And I wanna add some general chat page, you know, where people, like all my users can chat between each other in a big group. Maybe they can share the volume. Yeah. Without using any outsource.
Dagobert Renouf (39:43)
Okay.
community and help each other grow. Yeah, that's awesome.
Arthur (39:59)
like Discord or WhatsApp, like directly in the MFAS they will have like the chat page and they just can enter and chat. Yeah.
Dagobert Renouf (40:06)
That's awesome.
That's cool. Yeah, that was my favorite thing to add on launch day is you have a live chat during the launch and people can talk to each other. That was my favorite thing to do. Cool, man, that's awesome.
Arthur (40:12)
Yeah.
Basically that's it. Yeah, basically
that's it. It's my personal account. So I have like the admin button here Yeah, basically that's it
Dagobert Renouf (40:25)
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, you can stop. You can stop sharing your screen, I guess. Man, that was awesome to have you. Super impressed and super happy to have met you.
Arthur (40:32)
Yeah.
you
It was actually nice to meet you. ⁓ I'm happy to have another friend from France. I love France. want to visit in October. Yeah, I have a plan to travel a lot this year, you know. Like, since September till January, I want to travel maybe five or six different countries. And the first and the least is France. Yeah.
Dagobert Renouf (40:50)
Yeah, 100%.
Cool.
yeah, let's go. We were talking between when the recording fucked up, we were talking about food. And I have the best restaurant here. I will take you. You will love it. Cool. Awesome, man. Well, yeah, so I wish you good luck for your lunch day. yeah, speak to you soon.
Arthur (41:11)
Yeah.
Alright, alright, we got a deal now.
All right, thank you. See you.