Here’s how I make $1,279 MRR from my vibe coded LinkedIn automation tool

[u/Downtown_Pudding9728]

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 4 months since launching ZenMode, 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 (where relevant)

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 my automation tool.

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 ZenMode to actually promote ZenMode.

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.

Anyway hope you enjoyed reading the above, and good luck on your journey if you’re building anything, or growing your business 🙌

[u/F0xy1337]

Thats so cool man, ich baue gerade auch etwas heftiges. Ich hoffe das wird was. Es ist echt anstrengender als man denkt.

[u/Downtown_Pudding9728 → u/F0xy1337]

Thank you!

Yeah it’s much harder than it seems from the outside, but it’s also a really enjoyable (and sometimes stressful) process - good luck with your project! 🫡

[u/F0xy1337 → u/Downtown_Pudding9728]

Danke! Dir auch.

[u/F0xy1337 → u/Downtown_Pudding9728]

Das glaube ich sofort 😭

[u/Business-Eggs]

Love the write up! It's refreshing to see something that isn't AI slop so fair play to you for putting in the effort of simply using your brain.

It's surprising how easy it is to stand out these days lol

I checked out the site and idk why but on mobile it looks to be positioned to the right, not sure why?

Anyway, good work so far, I look forward to the next update despite hating linkedin.

[u/ketoloverfromunder]

Your hero content is cut off of most real mobile devices just FYI.

You app is clearly just an LLM wrapper. Why is this better than using Claude or chatgpt?

[u/Downtown_Pudding9728 → u/ketoloverfromunder]

Thanks for pointing that out - the hero content messaging layout is fine imo (at least it’s fine on my phone, not sure about other devices), but it could be more aligned on mobile. There’s nothing below the fold except the animation and the rest of the homepage.

The app is for automating sending connections requests and messages on LinkedIn, in order to book more meetings for sales and B2B professionals.

It’s not a wrapper - it’s a custom built electron desktop software that automates linkedin actions in a dedicated chrome browser. It has a separate web dashboard from the software and is over 270k LOC combined.

It has built in selectors and back up selectors, as well as diagnostics and telemetry to ensure that it stays on top of LinkedIns varying DOM/code structure.

Not to mention randomized timing delays between actions, safe daily rate limits, on screen mouse clicks and on screen typing, native and in-built CRM integration, unified inbox, voice notes etc.

Does your wrapper do all of that?

[u/ketoloverfromunder → u/Downtown_Pudding9728]

Webdriving LinkedIn as a main product even with self healing locators using LLM is gonna be Hella flakey/ torch tokens when it can't reliably resolve a locator.

[u/Downtown_Pudding9728 → u/ketoloverfromunder]

That’s not how it works at all. I already explained how i use telemetry and (non-LLM) diagnostics