Oliver Meakings

I'm the founder of Senja.io, a bootstrapped SaaS that helps you collect, manage and share customer testimonials. 

Senja helps you collect testimonials using automations, and share them as images, widgets, popups, Walls of Love, links and videos.

I'd love you to try it: Senja.io

Co-Founder

Co-founder of Senja.io. Collect, manage and share your testimonials.

Olly Meakings

Last week's #buildinpublic report for Senja

We added $500 net MRR

- 48 upgrades
- 37 downgrades
- Work to reduce churn continues
-- Our focus is new product features, onboarding changes and + education to get people activated

Building a bootstrapped SaaS in public, without the BS

I’m thinking of starting a SaaS mastermind 

→ Other SaaS founders
→ Over $40,000 MRR
→ Bootstrapped or seed only 
→ High intent / dialed in

Any #buildinpublic people interested?

My biggest marketing mistake?

Not sending enough emails

I've spent YEARS wondering what nurture emails to send to leads, how I should personalize them for different buyers, and how to sequence them most effectively

I've planned SOP-style emails, customer-centred emails, behavioural emails, "claim your account" emails

I've created 10+ nurture sequences for different ICPs

But this was all over thinking

Nurture emails have one goal: remind people you exist

Everything else is a nice to have

So I've decided to stop thinking about what to write, and start hitting send

#buildinpublic

I used to run a music website that compared pop stars with potatoes

Now I spend most my day writing quite-nice sales and marketing assets assisted by AI

I want to capture some of the silliness and weirdness of my past

Who out there is sharing audacious, ridiculous marketing in the B2B space?

Is there any humour left? #buildinpublic

We're doing $1million ARR with 3 people

But now I am looking for the fourth

I want the marketer that can work alongside me and help take Senja from $1,000,000 -> $2,000,000 ARR

I'm personally working on product and lifecycle marketing

So I want the person that will do customer-centred marketing

Collaborating with partners, educating sign ups, reaching out to dream customers

Where do you find this type of person?

My instinct is that I need to head hunt them and this person won't come to me

Am I wrong #buildinpublic?

PS. the end goal is 5 people, best product, calm but productive company, $4,000,0000 ARR

Christopher Nguyen

I help UX designers go from Fuzziness to Focused (uxplaybook.org), now Freedom (backlog.design)

I went from 0 experience to Head of Design in 4 years

Then, in 2020, I quit

But, I wasn't ready to give up on UX

Working with 100s of designers, I saw most designers are in someway self taught. Thinking back to my non-linear & uncomfortable journey of:

– fired (multiple times)
– jobless with 0 savings
– broke in a foreign country
– overworked, over-titled, under-fulfilled

Somewhere in between all of that, I realised:

Most designers don’t fail because they’re untalented. They struggle because there’s no clear path in figuring out their craft, their career, and their calling. 

And most UX education is incredibly expensive, lack accessibility, and real-world practicality

I had a hypothesis

Designers craved for education that: 

1) cuts to the core
2) applies to every day scenarios
3) real examples from real experience 

So, I started an experiment in mid 2020

The results were pretty phenomenal, we grew 1400% in one year

It was clear people valued UX Playbook

That’s why I’m here—doing my part to be useful for designers dealing real constraints

3 pillars to my mission:

𝟭. 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 — 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼?

Your ability to execute
Your skillstack
Your taste

Helping you:

– build real, usable skills
– understand why frameworks work
– become more self-reliant as a designer

Through stories, breakdowns, & practical plays.

𝟮. 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 — 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿?

Great designers don’t just design well. They build leverage in/outside their orgs.

Helping you:

– earn trust
– communicate clearly
– navigate stakeholders
– create impact that’s visible

So your work doesn’t just ship, it matters.

𝟯. 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 — 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱?

This is the part no bootcamp talks about.

The quiet questions:

– who am I without my title?
– what does “success” actually mean to me?
– what kind of life am I building through this career?

My aim is to creates space for that reflection.

Not with answers.
But with courage.

My impact:

→ 20,000,000+ content impressions in the last 3 years
→ 500,000+ weekly newsletters & blogs read
→ 100,000+ people following my daily UX content
→ 20,000+ people downloaded my UX guides & templates
→ 1,000+ people, from 93+ countries, bought my products

If you’re a designer trying to:

– get better without ego
– grow without burning out
– build a career that is yours

You’re exactly who I help

Learn more about my FAST TRACK DESIGNER BUNDLE → https://uxplaybook.org/fast

Email: hello@uxplaybook.org
YouTube, Twitter, IG: @uxchrisnguyen

Co-Founder & CPO

I spent years figuring out my personal brand.

Today, I'm giving my blueprint away for free.

What's inside this FREE package:

— How to sell yourself concisely
— How to stay authentic (vs generic)
— How to define your unfair advantage
— How to position yourself in a 1-pager
— How to tell your unique story (concisely)
— How to answer "what's your superpower?"

BONUS: Entire step-by-step process
(including FigJam board + canvas + workshop videos)

Pitch is how I built this blueprint.
It's the only tool I'd use for this.

I can spin up a beautiful, interactive deck fast, embed workshop videos directly into slides, and share it with a link. Thanks for partnering on this!

Who’s this for:

• Designers looking for FT roles
• Freelancers looking for more work
• People looking to differentiate themselves
• Anyone job hunting

Honestly, because most people suck at selling themselves.

Same generic bios.
Same buzzwords.
Same cliches.

No call-backs.
No new clients.
No new opportunities.

This will help you fix that.

Want my blueprint deck?

1. Like
2. Repost (priority)
3. Comment "BRAND" and I'll send it to you ↓

(Don’t forget to duplicate my deck)

P.S. I recommend you spend 1-2 hours working through it (good little weekend activity)

P.P.S Try Pitch for your portfolio deck: https://lnkd.in/g5Tt67qv

#pitchpartner

Brand partnership • I help UX designers shape their Craft, Careers, and Calling.

In 4 years, I wrote 100K words on portfolios.

I turned it into 50 laws. Want them for free?

100,000 words.

That's longer than Thinking Fast and Slow.

Except instead of cognitive bias & System 2 thinking, it's me yelling about case studies & value propositions.

But I had a problem.
None of my writing was organized.

Slack threads (from 2022)
Notion pages (inside Notion pages)
Google Drive folders (I forgot existed)

I knew I had gems about portfolios in there somewhere. I just couldn't see it.

So here's what I did.

I asked Claude to search everything.

→ Miro
→ Slack
→ Figma
→ Notion
→ Google
→ Granola

All of it.

Every word I'd ever written about portfolios. Pulled, read, understood.

Then I asked it to do something crazy. Summarise everything into…

“The 50 Indisputable Laws of Portfolios”

(still working on the name lol)

• Added context from my coaching calls
• Dropped in my livestream recordings
• Included real portfolios examples

I pushed back. Refined them.

Then, still inside Claude, I generated a full deck in Gamma.

Visuals.
Structure.
Something I could share.

Not buried inside Notion. Not a 6,000 word essay.

A clean deck. Free. For you.

Want my 50 Indisputable Laws of Portfolios?

1. Like + Repost
2. Comment "GAMMA"
3. I'll send you the link

—

P.S. 4 years of writing. 100K words. One conversation. One deck. Times are WILD!

📌 Try Gamma x Claude: https://lnkd.in/g6Nht-zR

#gammapartner

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