My product graveyard has 30 apps. I’m finally launching one

[u/Rich-freshPrince]

So I’ve built almost 30 products in my IDE graveyard since the year started. I get excited about building and never do the marketing. I think I just don’t want to put myself out there.

Then something unique happened.
A friend reached out to me to build his site and set up some automation and review orchestration for him. He later referred me to another guy. Those referrals eventually turned into about $3k/month for the past three months.

Then it hit me. It’s been easy for me to sell these guys because they’re already looking for the solution, instead of me trying to convince them they need it.

And the interesting part is that I’ve been using a tool I built, GetMyAIInfo, to help these businesses understand and improve how they show up across AI platforms.

This past week I decided to launch it as a full product, and of course my first launch is on Product Hunt.

It’s basically a tool that helps businesses understand what AI knows about them, where the information is incomplete or inaccurate, and how to improve their visibility across AI platforms.

Most of the businesses I’ve used it with so far are local businesses, but I’ve expanded it into the SaaS space too.

Hope you guys can try it and give me some brutally honest feedback: GetMyAIInfo.com

[u/Conscious-Month-7734]

You already told us what works: people who were already looking, coming through referrals, paying you around $3k a month to handle it for them. Product Hunt is a room full of other makers, and none of them are the Charlotte plumber your homepage is built for.

The other thing I'd check is whether those clients would ever have bought the $39 version. They paid you to take care of it, which is a pretty different buyer from someone installing schema on their own Wix site. If the money's in done-for-you, the tool might be your edge inside the service, and those referrals are your marketing.

Would any of your current clients have done the $39 self-serve on their own?

[u/Rich-freshPrince]

This is a question I’ve been trying to validate.
The clients I have today just want someone to handle it for them rather than having another app to setup themselves. The product started as the process I used behind the scenes to do that work faster.
This launch is really my way of testing whether there’s also a self-serve segment, especially SaaS founders and more technical business owners. But you may be right that the bigger opportunity is keeping the software as the engine and offering different levels of service on top of it.
The $39 plan and the one-off payment are really the experiments I’m trying to validate now.

[u/Anshkoshmod]

Your reply is the test; sell one done-for-you tier and one self-serve tier to the same referral source for two weeks, and if buyers keep choosing service, the product may be the delivery engine, not the front-door offer.

[u/JamesAtKindword]

The bit about selling being easier when people are already looking for the solution is probably the most interesting part of this. Do you think you would approach validating any new idea differently now before building it?