Ilias Ism
@illyism
Shipped SaaS for 10+ years 🧙♂️ @MagicSpaceSEO agency 📈 Learn pSEO: il.ly/pseo 🤖 Rank Higher on AI results: il.ly/ai-seo 🤑 Get backlinks: linkdr.com
LinkDR AI Contact Finder goes brrrrrrr
one true outcome
What’s the one true outcome your product delivers — across every channel, every feature, every interaction?
Most SaaS companies obsess over features.
💡 But the best companies obsess over transformation
At @LinkDR_, we aligned our entire team, roadmap, content, and strategy around a single idea: The True Outcome
It started with this question:
> “If someone reads our blog, uses our free tools, follows us on X, watches our videos, and pays for our product for an entire year… What ONE OUTCOME in their business should massively improve?”
This question changed everything.
Because the answer wasn’t “they used our AI backlink tool.”
It was:
They ranked. They got seen. Their traffic took off. That’s the real win. That’s what our customers actually care about.
And that’s what LinkDR is now 100% focused on delivering — by any means necessary.
We call it the True Outcome:
Earn high-quality backlinks and online authority — every month — with minimal effort.
That’s the promise.
That’s the bar.
That’s the mission.
We deliver that through:
- AI agents that find and place links
- Parasite SEO on Medium, Reddit, and LinkedIn
- UGC + keyword research tools
- Tactical guides, playbooks, and free resources
- Open-source datasets and community help
We don’t gatekeep. We help users win — whether they’re paying or not.
Because the more people we help build real visibility, the more valuable our ecosystem becomes.
After a year with LinkDR, our ideal customer should be able to say:
“I finally broke into the top 10 — and stayed there.”
“I built real authority — without shady tactics or manual outreach.”
“I earned links from sites I thought were impossible to reach.”
“My traffic exploded. SEO finally started working for me.”
“For the first time, people actually found my product online.”
That’s the feeling. That’s the result.
That’s what we’re in the business of delivering — not dashboards or features or fancy metrics or reports.
If you’re building a SaaS, try asking yourself that question:
> What’s the one outcome users should celebrate after a year with you?
Then build everything around that.
It’s how features become systems.
And how tools become movements.
If your goal is to grow your visibility, traffic, and authority
We built LinkDR for you.
Check it out: linkdr.com
"If someone reads your blog, subscribes to your emails, follows you on X, uses your free tools, watches your videos, and buys your product for an entire year – what ONE metric in their life or business should massively improve?"
What's yours? 👇
Prompt-Native Architecture - SaaSBooks
I've been thinking a lot about where software is headed, and I'm convinced we're about to see something entirely new: Prompt-Native Architecture 💡
Right now we ship "complete" apps, but what if we designed software specifically to be transformed by AI?
Instead of coding every feature, build a well-structured foundation with components that understand their own purpose.
Then attach prompt libraries that teach users (or devs) how to evolve the app themselves.
The shipped code becomes just a starting point - a seed that grows differently for each user.
This changes everything 🤯
Software becomes infinitely customizable without users knowing how to code.
Want dark mode? Analytics? Just ask and the app can rewrite itself. 👀
This is "buy once" software on steroids. Not just owning your software, but owning software that can become anything you need it to be.
Plugin/App marketplaces will transform into prompt pack marketplaces.
Value shifts from what the software does today to what it could become tomorrow.
This is why I'm building SaaSBooks as the first accounting platform with Prompt-Native Architecture at its core.
QuickBooks and traditional accounting tools are built on closed, monolithic codebases that require teams of product managers and developers to change.
They're stuck in predefined features, rigid workflows, and expensive development cycles.
SaaSBooks flips the model 🙃
The core is open source, built specifically for AI prompting.
"Connect Google Analytics and track MRR by SEO customers" becomes a 5-second task with good prompts, not a $10k/yr enterprise package or feature request that dies in a backlog.
Intuit: $171B market cap. $14B revenue. $8.5B in operating expenses. 18,800 employees.
Their entire structure is optimized for the old world:
- Fixed features decided by committees
- Development bottlenecked by internal teams
- One-size-fits-all approach to diverse businesses
Where Intuit needs thousands of developers, SaaSBooks creates a platform where:
- Users prompt features into existence
- The community evolves the product in thousands of directions simultaneously
- Zero operating expenses with distributed innovation
No big software company can compete with this model without destroying their own business.
Intuit's massive size isn't an advantage - it's a vulnerability against a prompt-native approach.
Follow along as we build the future of financial software for SaaS companies: github.com/Illyism/saasbooks
quick SEO tip for 2025
how to find all your "2024" pages that need updating:
- open ahrefs/semrush
- go to top pages
- filter "2024" in title
- start updating highest traffic first
screenshot attached for reference 🖼️
Growing a Chrome Extension to Millions
How to grow a Chrome extension from 0 to millions of users?
Just finished an SEO audit that shows exactly how:
• Free version + link to Web Store
• Programmatic SEO (25K+ pages)
• Backlinks on listicles
Watch the full roast: seoroast.co/hoverify
How we got backlinks from TechCrunch, ZDNet & Engadget in 24 hours:
1. Built useful tool
2. Sent 10 targeted emails
3. Slid into 3 DMs
4. Wrote 1 blog post
Result: 3x 90DR+ backlinks🔥
Journalists LOVE covering new platforms early
Need help with strategy? DM me 🤝
I scraped Pallyy's site and found their top 36 free tool pages getting 90k+ clicks with SEO 🔥
Put together a Notion doc with those + 200 more money keyword ideas
Drop your site below & I'll DM you the doc 👇
I scraped Pallyy's site and found their top 36 free tool pages getting 90k+ clicks with SEO 🔥
Put together a Notion doc with those + 200 more money keyword ideas 💡
Drop your site below & I'll DM you the doc!