Botster.io

Zero-code business tools for data retrieval, monitoring and automation.

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👋 I went from freelancing to running an agency to creating a SaaS startup.

Self-taught coder and SEO, now turning to content creation to share my learnings. 

I'm the founder and maker of a software startup called Botster (you can try it for free @ botster.io). 

It helps businesses collect data and automate boring tasks.

If you’re running a digital business you should try it (right now!)

I frequently post about challenges that I personally face in IT business, as well as tricks and findings anyone can utilize to make their business life easier, and sometimes things can get real technical. 

If you're into that kind of jazz – let's connect 🤝

My thoughts whenever I discover a niche with absolutely zero competition:

1 - I’m a genius
2 - untapped market!
3 - I’m gonna be rich 🤑

The truth: 
1 - not a genius, just inexperienced
2 - niche has no PMF hence no competition
3 - I’ll lose time building and won’t make a dollar

Denis Gramm

👷‍♂️ Growing my web-scraping startup ⚡️ Let my bots do your work 🤖 Founder, Botster → no-code scraping & automation 🧠 Coder, pSEO, data-geek, YouTuber 👨‍💻Follow for biz ideas & automation recipes

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There’s nothing creepier than getting a LinkedIn connection request from a sales rep of a company moments after visiting their website.

Running a company LinkedIn page is POINTLESS

or so I thought until today...

For the past two years, we've been actively maintaining our Botster.io 🤖 No-code Automation LinkedIn page, sharing website updates, web scraping tips, and information about our automation bots.

Our posts typically get between 5 to 15 views. 

Comments? Maybe 1-2 per month, if we're lucky.

Rookie numbers!

I was seriously questioning whether it was worth the effort and considered abandoning it to focus our energy and time on more productive channels that consistently bring in leads, like SEO.

Then out of nowhere, we got a hot lead with an extensive list of solutions their company needed. 

And not just any lead - it came from one of the most well-known companies in the Netherlands!

That's the fascinating thing about B2B - audience size and reach often don't matter. 

A single view from the right person can make an entire year's effort worthwhile.

Well, looks like we'll have to keep posting, even if those modest view counts aren't exactly impressive!

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I’m Denis Gramm 👋

I write about automation, web scraping, and business ideas

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Avoiding calls with your prospects because Naval or Andreessen told you to is hands down the dumbest thing you can do as a founder and a businessman.

All these "thought leaders" and successful tech founders preaching that calls aren't necessary, that you should minimize or avoid them – it's mind-boggling how many people buy into this.

Business builders are totally missing the point. 

They listen to these gurus and think, "Great, I can stop doing calls because my time is better spent elsewhere." So they ghost potential clients and, surprise surprise, end up losing deals.

I mean, if you're building a business that doesn't rely on relationships, maybe a B2C or a mass-market product, then sure, you can probably get away without deep, personal interactions. The stakes are lower, the individual transactions are smaller.

But what really gets me is when people building B2B businesses claim that calls are a waste of time. 

They'll quote someone like Naval or Marc Andreessen saying calls aren't necessary. Well yeah, of course *they* don't need calls now – they're already billionaires with sales teams doing the work for them. 

But I guarantee when they were grinding it out 10, 15, or 20 years ago, they were glued to their phones and computers 24/7.

This week I had three calls and closed two of them. Both four-figure monthly deals. 

And honestly, those deals probably happened because my competitors were too busy following some internet guru's advice and decided to meditate instead of actually talking to their customers.

Cooked this one with Claude and Cursor today:

Pinpoint a location + radius

Put some keywords in

RUN IT

Gets you a list of business leads within the specified area

THIS is the reason I almost never buy from “indiehackers”, solo developers, or folks running 12 startups in 12 months experiments and such

Bought a YEARLY subscription to an app from an indie dev. Noticed it started bugging out and also asked when’s he going to start implementing features from the roadmap.

Response? Sorry bro busy on other projects maybe next time 😎

No thanks

This is the opposite of what professionalism is 

Even if the product is amazing I almost always try to look for an alternative from a bigger company 

Y’all destroying your own rep hopping between different projects. Don’t be like that.

just stumbled upon this absolutely genius free and open source project for drawing mockups and diagrams 

https://lnkd.in/eYbtk4Xq

If you’re too lazy to deploy it yourself there’s a hosted version available: 

https://excalidraw.com/

I’m a balsamiq user but will give this a try

Repeat after me:

"Until I get the SEO basics right

NO linkbuilding
NO site speed optimization
NO guestposting
NO schema markup
NO daily blog posts"

It’s that easy.

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