Indie Builder Seeks Non-Ad Customer Acquisition for Local-Business Tools
A solo builder with an uptime monitor and a review-response tool serving the same local-business customer asks how to acquire similar customers without paid ads. Highlights the acquisition-channel gap many single-customer SaaS builders face.
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