A software development agency · B2B · guest's former agency
Post honestly about your failures, then announce a service while it's viral
150K views; first $3,000 client, and every agency client came inbound via DMs
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What they did
After five products that made $0 and a year without income, posted on X about all his failures. The post got ~150K views and a commenter suggested he start a dev agency; he immediately announced the agency riding the post's momentum. Kept posting to bring in more clients; all clients arrived inbound through X DMs from viral posts.
What happened
~150K views; first $3,000 client from the post; all later agency clients came inbound via X DMs
- Stage
- early
- Effort
- Posting on X since early 2023
“So, I made this post, and it shared all of my failures, and it blew up. It got about 150,000 views on X. And with that came one comment that said I should start a development agency using my skills.”
“And the wildest part of all of this was that all of these clients were coming through X, inbound, to my DMs, through my viral posts.”
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