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Around December last year I received a warning on my LinkedIn account, after using one of the commonly known tools for automation.

Rather than look for a new tool, I decided to create one myself, and solve for my own problem. I had a friend who built his PR company website through vibe coding, so I figured, how hard could it be?

Apparently, very.

Now don’t get me wrong, making the website and basic content was very simple.

But in order to make an automation tool that was safer than everything else that existed in the market, I had to build something complex - a web dashboard that interacted with a software, which in turn controlled a browser (for LinkedIn).

My only coding experience was a travel blog I built in Wordpress in 2012, which I barely updated - my coding knowledge was essentially copying and pasting lines of HTML (usually in the wrong places).

But, I was very determined to do it and Claude hyped me up enough to help me believe that I could, so after I built the website and had the idea, I registered a company.

At this stage, I hadn’t even started working on the dashboard or software, but I knew if I became legally responsible for documentation, it would almost certainly kick me into gear into actually building the thing.

And it did. In January, while working full time in a sales role, I started building the architecture for the dashboard and subsequently the software on the side.

I used Claude, Vercel and Claude code for all of it, and it was significantly more complex than I could have ever imagined, but eventually, after many 12 hour days, I got there.

After several months of building, shipping, and testing on my own account for my sales job, I was confident enough in the tool to launch on April 1.

So confident in fact that I quit my corporate job to work full time on my vibe coded SaaS business.

For the first month I offered lifetime access deals to try to generate interest and get early users, and it worked - the first month generated about $2k in revenue.

The challenge though was (and has been) sustaining that momentum - the tool works really well now and so far 200 people have signed up to use it (mostly on free trials), but it’s a crowded marketplace, and it’s hard to know how important safety is to people who regularly automate their LinkedIn.

Either way - I built a tool from scratch, no engineering background, generating revenue, and it has been working well for me personally too (I dogfood the tool for my own LinkedIn outreach).

Hope this story can inspire others and show what’s capable with automation and some grit! 🚀

I vibe coded a LinkedIn outreach automation tool from scratch, and made ~$2k in the first month 🫨

It started out as a random idea I had when talking to Claude, and I had no idea I could even build it, but I gave myself no choice.

Last year I decided to register a business, even though all I had was the website and a dream.

That way I felt forced to actually create the LinkedIn automation tool itself, simply for legal/taxation reasons if nothing else.

I knew I had a unique idea as the tool itself automates via a browser, instead of automating via the cloud or with a plugin, making it significantly safer when it comes to possible LinkedIn suspensions from automating.

I had no idea what I was doing at first and it was super buggy for a while, but over time I learned step by step and through trial and error how to build (mostly) effectively with Claude and how to build on top of LinkedIn’s code too (which is extremely challenging).

I was confident enough in the tool to launch it on April 1, and a month later I’m almost at 100 users. Most of them are on free trials but so far I made $2k from paying customers, which covered the costs of actually building the platform and then some.

It took a few months of 12 hour days and late nights but now it feels like it’s finally starting to pay off.

Hope I can inspire anyone else starting out to just keep going with whatever you’re doing/building 🚀