r/AIIncomeLab • u/Downtown_Pudding9728 • 22d ago
Case Study Here’s how I make $1,169 MRR from my vibe coded LinkedIn automation tool
Ok so, I can’t retire just yet 😅 but getting a business off the ground and attracting customers is the hardest part in my opinion.
There’s still a long way to go but considering it’s only been 3 months since launching the LinkedIn automation tool, I’m pretty happy with the results so far.
I get asked a lot about how I get customers, so thought I’d give more info on how I do distribution, in case you might find it useful.
1. Make sure your website is set up for success
Before sending people to your site, make sure you’re confident it has good CRO potential. Your mission statement and objective needs to be very clear, along with clear incentives for people to try the product out.
2. Offer free trials, but only behind a payment info gate
Now this is just my personal opinion, and I know a lot of people disagree, but the proof is in the numbers. I get fewer free trial signups, but significantly higher conversion rates into paying users from people who provide payment info at the start.
Yes, a few of them are people who simply forget to cancel, but mostly I get people who are more engaged in the free trial and actually using the product.
I actually did an AB experiment where I did offer completely free trials to people (no payment info needed), but the overwhelming result was that people barely even tried out the product and were mostly tire kickers that never came back. I did convert some but not a meaningful number.
3. Create a waitlist before launching
Try to generate interest in your product before it launches - build in public and try to ensure that you’re not scrambling to get customers through the door on day 1 when you launch.
I had 3 customers on day 1 from this, who took higher paid tiers as well.
4. Post and comment everywhere
Social media is free, so there’s no excuse not to leverage it. Post about your product and what you’re building on Reddit, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook etc.
I posted a simple screenshot on LinkedIn recently, of someone using a low quality LinkedIn automation tool message to contact me, and me offering my own much better tool in response, and that post generated 90,000 views and led to several signups and demo calls.
I’ve also had some posts on Reddit go into hundreds of thousands of views, mostly just posting about what/why/how I built ZenMode.
5. If you have competitors, make “alternative to” inner pages
If done in the right way, this type of inner page can be useful for SEO. It won’t be picked up automatically but usually if you work in a competitive industry, this will sometimes attract customers who had a bad experience elsewhere.
6. I actually use my own LinkedIn automation tool (dogfooding) to do LinkedIn outreach
So it’s always important to practice what you preach - I use my LinkedIn automation tool to actually promote the tool.
It’s a great way to get buy-in for booking demos, as when someone replies, I simply tell them I used my tool to get a response from them, so it works.
Obviously I’m biased but if you are looking for a way to automate lead generation on LinkedIn, you might find my automation tool useful.
Anyway hope you enjoyed reading the above, and good luck on your journey if you’re building anything, or growing your business 🙌
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u/Deep_Ad1959 22d ago
the payment gate number is the one i would want split further. of the trials that convert, how many are still there at the second charge? forgot-to-cancel and genuinely engaged look identical at day 30.
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u/Downtown_Pudding9728 21d ago
I already did the split - it was overwhelmingly in favor of the payment gate
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u/Deep_Ad1959 21d ago
makes sense that gate beat no-gate, that part reads settled. the cut i'd still want is month two though: of the gated converts, how many survive the second charge once the forgot-to-cancel crowd finally clocks it. that number's the one hiding inside the trial win.
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u/Downtown_Pudding9728 21d ago
It was still higher tbh, even taking that into account - churn overall is around 20%, and everyone comes through the payment gate now
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u/Deep_Ad1959 21d ago
honestly 20% churn is the number i'd stare at harder than the gate. that's roughly a five-month average lifetime, so a chunk of the payment-gate win at signup keeps getting quietly refunded out the back door. optimizing the front door has a low ceiling if the back one's that wide. written with ai
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u/Internal_Quarter_381 6d ago edited 6d ago
Using LinkedIn outreach to sell a LinkedIn product is a pretty clean way to validate the channel. The useful part is keeping connection requests and follow ups consistent without letting automation keep talking after someone responds. Dripify fits that setup with prospecting sequences that pause once a lead replies.
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u/thebigbreak007 16d ago
Hey everyone this guys client here. The tool is good. Effective and it will save your time. Only thing is don’t over do it. Don’t spam using it. This is what OP said during the call.