The power of building a diagnostic tool | My First Million Ep. 197 #shorts

Name: The power of building a diagnostic tool | My First Million Ep. 197 #shorts
Uploaded: 2021-07-27T14:00:08+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: Sam Parr
Description: In this short, Sam Parr explains how he created WebsiteGrader.com, an automated diagnostic tool that scans websites by crawling pages, pinging APIs, and…

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In this short, Sam Parr explains how he created WebsiteGrader.com, an automated diagnostic tool that scans websites by crawling pages, pinging APIs, and inspecting HTML tags to assign a score. The tool was released publicly, quickly gaining traction, and served not as a freemium product but as a lightweight preview of HubSpot’s capabilities, effectively demonstrating the need for HubSpot and driving demand for the SaaS platform. Parr highlights the immense power of building industry‑specific diagnostic tools for rapid market validation and lead generation.

The power of building a diagnostic tool for your industry is immense. We were doing it manually. There were no tools. So I built something that does the automatically goes, looks and pings APIs. We'll bring down the source code for the HTML and see if the tags are right and kind of give it a score. And it's like, oh, I'm going to put this on the web because I think this is useful. So I'm going to call it WebsiteGrader.com. And so I put that out there and it was on fire. WebsiteGrader was not the solution. So it's not like a freemium thing. It's like, oh, we're giving you a lightweight version of HubSpot. It was a thing that made you realize you needed HubSpot.