# 400 signups in 40 days, from posts to people who knew me Published 2026-09-24 by Panche Isajeski · Tallinn Source: https://bootstrappedmakers.com/blog/channels-that-got-me-customers --- In 30 seconds - AgentaOS sat at €0 for four months with a working product. - Then I gave away free playbooks about the problem, and posted every step of the launch on LinkedIn, mostly in Macedonian. - Day one: 119 visitors, 22 signups, 2 sales. Day 40: 400+ signups, 1,400+ payments. - What you can copy: post the build, with numbers, to the people who already know your name. **4 mo**at €0, product finished **18.5%**of visitors signed up in the first 15 hours **400+**signups in 40 days **1,400+**payments by day 40 ## Four months at €0 **The product worked.** Live, priced, with a checkout. I kept building. Nobody came, because nobody knew it existed. ## What I posted instead **Free playbooks about the problem.** Not about my product. How to get paid from abroad without opening a company. What your bank asks for. What you owe in tax. Each one solved a problem my buyers had, with a set of tools. AgentaOS was one of them. Then every step of the launch, as it happened. Mostly in Macedonian, because that’s where people already knew me. These are the posts that did the work, with their reactions: 278 reactions“We did it. Agenta 2.0 is live.” What it does in plain words, who it’s for, and a Founding 30 offer. 224 reactions“Finally.” AgentaOS connected to Macedonian banks. The old way, three steps, then the new way. 131 reactions“15 hours live. 18.5%.” The whole funnel from day one, number by number. 126 reactions“40 days ago I launched” 400+ signups, 1,400+ payments, and three things founders said about it. 103 reactions“2 days, 100 signups” The same move again, for Bootstrapped Makers. What they shareSomething happened A launch, a number, a first. Never a pitch. ## Day one, in numbers **I posted the funnel 15 hours after launch.** Real numbers, bots filtered out: 119**visitors** from 13 countries 22**signed up** about 1 in 5 10**started a checkout** 6 created their first product 2**first sales** on day one An average SaaS landing page converts 2 to 5%. This one did 18.5%. My read: the visitors weren’t strangers. They came from a post by someone they already knew. ## Founding 30 **A small first group, with a reason to join now.** The first 30 founders got lower fees for life and a 15-minute setup call with me. 20+ asked to be in before launch. ## Day 40 **400+ signups. 1,400+ payments.** And founders started saying it better than I could: > “The one and only service I’ve found that takes a card payment from the US and gets me paid. I’ve been looking for 10 years.” **Built a SaaS and nobody’s paid yet?**Bootstrapped Makers opens 29 September. Members get discounts on Outrank, Bazzly and LaunchRepo, and free AI credits are on the way.[Steal my playbook →](https://bootstrappedmakers.com/#hwl) ## I learned this once already **Kromatika, 2021. 1,000 users, and I ran its community myself: 3k people on Telegram and Discord.** It grew while I was in those rooms every day. When I stepped out to build, growth stopped the same week. Then I made the same mistake with AgentaOS, for four months. ## What you can copy this week Give away a playbook- About your buyer’s problem, not your product - Solve it with real tools, yours as one of them - Free, no strings Post the build- What happened this week, not what you sell - One real number every time - In the language your people read Start with who knows you- Your network, your city, your old colleagues - They click, and they trust - Strangers come later Make a first group- A number you can actually handle - Something only they get - Tell them when it’s full Every number here is from my own LinkedIn posts and AgentaOS records, on [the story page](https://bootstrappedmakers.com/story).