Nicolas Mérouze

Working on a new SaaS prototype this weekend and trying TanStack Start. Being in beta makes it sometimes hard to know what's the up-to-date thing to do and even harder with Cursor. But now that I've figured everything, I think I like it more than Next.js. Less magic, more structure.

I could have made a 2024 post gloating about my business having its best year. But the only thing that really mattered to me was finally healing my brain fog after 10 years of trying so many cures.

I'm simplifying my SaaS. And to not make excuses about not launching, I've coded the billing, team management, and plan limits. Now that it's done, it's mostly just making prompts... Which is actually the hardest part.

I just reached 1,000 unique sessions per month with my programmatic and mostly AI side project, Japanetic. 🎉 Don't have much time to work on it but I could probably 2x this traffic with a couple of days of work.

Why haven't I released my SaaS yet? I started it as something I'd use and my basic needs were just too complex. My solution: • Make a few scripts that take care of my needs • Then I can focus on making a SaaS I can actually release in a few weeks instead of 6 months

Was talking to someone who thought outreach was dead. I said it's because he's doing it wrong. He said he wrote good emails. He read them to me. They were shit. It's always the same story for every "dead" acquisition channel.

I tried to boost a newsletter with beehiiv (pay other publications to promote you) and it's bad. There's no easy way to know if a publication is legit. The subscribers open the emails and click on links but at the same time so it's definitely fake. Seems scammy.

Back in France after 6 weeks in Japan. Will go in a bit of a monk mode for the next 3 months. My goals: ↳ Resume networking and posting on X, BS & LI. ↳ 2x the revenue of my agency ↳ Release my SaaS and get at least 10 customers ↳ Grow Japanetic

Went from 0-5 clicks per day to 20+ clicks per day with no new content. The bump in early November was because I improved titles and added structured data. The most recent bump might be due to the last Google core update because I've done nothing at all.

Live my digital nomad life.💀 5 weeks in tokyo, but... 2 weeks of jetlag (never had it so bad) 1 week getting into a routine 1 week with a violent pharyngitis (still can't go to karaoke 😭) Now I have to speed run shooting all the videos for Japanetic in just a few days.

Good milestone, 1000 clicks is the next objective.