Founder of 2 profitable SaaS products shares his entire tech stack
Bon, founder of two profitable SaaS products, shares his complete tech stack used to build and grow his businesses. He sold one product for $250,000 at 6,000 MRR and grew SiteGPT to 13,000 MRR using a specific set of tools for SEO, analytics, customer support, and development.
Summary
Bon introduces himself as a successful SaaS entrepreneur who has built two profitable products, demonstrating his credibility in the space by sharing specific revenue figures and exit details. His first product reached $6,000 in monthly recurring revenue before he sold it for $250,000, while his current product SiteGPT has grown to $13,000 MRR. He provides a comprehensive overview of his tech stack, covering all major aspects of SaaS operations. For SEO and lead generation, he relies on Ahrefs for creating free tools and uses SiteGPT for website support functionality. His customer engagement tools include Cal.com for booking customer calls, Cibili for call recordings, and Bento for email campaigns. For product development and feedback, he uses his previous product Feather for blog post writing, FeaturePace for collecting feature requests and bug reports, and Mintlify for documentation. His analytics stack consists of Datafirst and PostHog for general analytics, with ChartMogul specifically handling subscription analytics. Finally, he mentions using Claude for coding assistance, showing his adoption of AI tools in the development process.
About this episode
He got nearly 1 million website visitors** without spending a single dollar on ads. Most builders think marketing means ads, cold emails, or posting on social media every day. But this developer grew a SaaS to $13K MRR and another one to $6K/month before selling without these things.
Key Insights
- Bon built and sold one SaaS product for $250,000 after growing it to $6,000 monthly recurring revenue
- Bon uses his own previous product Feather for writing blog posts, demonstrating how he leverages his own tools in his current business operations
- Bon employs a multi-layered analytics approach using both general analytics tools (Datafirst and PostHog) and specialized subscription analytics (ChartMogul) to track different aspects of his business
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Transcript
[0:00] My name is Bon and I built two SAS products. I grew one of them to 6,000 MR and I sold it for $250,000 and grew the other one site GPT to 13,000 MR. I use Hrefs for SEO for creating these free tools and I use site GPT mainly for website support. I use tal.com for booking calls with customers. I use data first and post hog for analytics. I use something called cibili to get call recordings from users. I use Bento for sending emails [0:31] and I use uh my previous product feather for writing blog posts and I use feature pace for getting feature requests and bug reports from customers. I use mintify for docs…
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