I made $46K in 35 days with OpenClaw 🦞

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🔷 Try Distribb for Free: https://distribb.io?utm_source=yt-nevo Nevo David built Postiz, an open-source social media scheduler, and grew it from $0 to $66K MRR. It took him 3 years to go from 0 to $20K MRR. The last $46K took 35 days. Thanks to one viral article and the OpenClaw wave. In this episode, he breaks down every growth hack he used, how he made his SaaS agentic-first, and why this is the biggest blue ocean for founders right now. Try Postiz:https://postiz.com/ Follow Nevo: https://x.com/wickedguro 🦞 Join the OpenClaw Community: https://openclawlab.xyz Chapters: 0:00 - $2K/day from a SaaS nobody expected 0:50 - "When you're lucky so many times, it's not luck" 2:41 - How Postiz started as a completely different product 5:17 - His first Reddit launch got 250K views 6:29 - Why open source (and why it's not for everyone) 8:33 - "Open source got very AI sloppy" 9:56 - Why contributors work for free 11:33 - The 9 growth hacks that got him to $20K 12:31 - How he wins Product Hunt every time 15:46 - The "gray area" growth tactics 16:57 - [Distribb] How to automate your distribution 18:15 - Start now or it's too late for mid-tier SaaS 19:16 - Riding trends: N8N, MCP, and Starter Story 22:41 - Don't be the hype, ride the hype 23:42 - How he deals with failure 25:55 - Finding your real ICP (it wasn't who he expected) 29:04 - The OpenClaw story begins 31:45 - 200 followers, 7 million views, 700 trials 33:42 - X articles are the new Reddit 36:42 - Paying 200-follower accounts to write articles 37:41 - "LLMs are starting to recommend my tool" 38:12 - How to make your SaaS agentic-first 40:55 - You just need a skill, a CLI, and an API 43:40 - "Postiz doesn't even need a dashboard anymore" 46:40 - "When everybody can do everything, nobody makes money" 47:21 - Why enterprise SaaS is in trouble 50:36 - Managing virality as a solo founder 52:20 - "Being overwhelmed is the worst thing for a founder" 54:11 - Automating support with AI agents 56:09 - Burnout and context switching 57:27 - His daily priority system: bugs first, marketing second 1:00:42 - The personal chat assistant era is here to stay 1:03:06 - Who should go all-in on agentic as a service