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Solo-built SaaS for automating Meta/Google ads
5 points by efeberkec 11 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
Hey HN,

I’m Efe, a solo founder currently based in Poland through the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs program. I’ve been working on a bootstrapped SaaS called Adgrow that automates paid advertising for small e-commerce brands.

This all started because I was running an email marketing agency and realized something: Most of the DTC and e-com brands I worked with either had no idea how to scale ads properly or were burning money on freelancers and agencies with no visibility or feedback loop. They needed automation — but without the bloated tools or 4-figure monthly retainers.

So I decided to build what I wish they had:

A lean dashboard to launch and manage Meta + Google campaigns

Lightweight performance analytics (think ROAS and attribution, minus the noise)

Pre-built workflows for lead generation, abandoned cart, promos etc.

Adgrow is now functional and live. I’m still in the early stages — no team, no funding, just learning in public. To validate early and get real user feedback, I’ve launched a lifetime deal that helps fund the project while giving early adopters a lot of value.

Here’s the link if you're curious or want to try it: https://www.adgrow.net/lifetime-deal

Would love your feedback — especially from other indie hackers, marketers, and SaaS builders. What would you expect from a tool like this? What’s missing? What’s too much?

Happy to answer any questions and iterate on this.

Thanks, Efe



Sarah Johnson, Michael Chen and Emma Rodriguez sure get around. I’m surprised they have time to be in such senior roles the amount of time they must spend testing and reviewing products!

I guess you must have done something pretty special to get them to make time in their super-busy schedules to review your product.

They’ve each reviewed all these products in the same order as they reviewed yours.

https://clientsark.com/

https://contentflow.video/

https://linkedin-posts-export.niomaker.com/

https://miaisolutions.com/

https://mate.direct/

https://www.gethappyflow.com/

In this one Sarah has a magnificent beard!

https://www.skyfunnel.ai/

And in this one Emma has become Fred.

https://abysdi.com/

But then I think she got married because now her surname is Davis.

https://reengage.ai/


Yep. And all on the same IP addresses with the same registrars and DNS servers. Amazing coincidence. (Edit: it's Netlify)

5 stars on Trustpilot. Yeah? Your site doesn’t exist on Trustpilot.

That makes me think this is a trustworthy product and not at all shady.


Hi,

Congrats on the release!

I checked out the landing page, but didn't find any information of what the tool does (apart from some graphs that can probably be seen in the ad platform too).

Clicking on "How it works" simply scrolls to top, where there is only AI-like marketing talk like "Boost Your ROAS by 127%", which doesn't say anything about how it does it and where that specific number comes from.

As a technical person, I buy stuff when I know how it works and why it works, maybe you have a better landing page for this persona type.


Hi, congrats on your launch.

Note that to show your work you should change your title to "Show HN: xxxx" and follow these rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html


What do you think guys?




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