Sergey Kargopolov
Founder · 2 products on SaaS Hive
Founder @ SimploMail.com · Co-founder @ SaasHive.com · Instructor Partner @ Udemy.com
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As a busy founder, what do you do to recharge?
As busy founders we work during the day, late evenings, and I am sure many of us work on weekends too. We are inspired. We have an idea and we want to turn it into something profitable. We want to succeed.But we can't sprint 24x7 forever. At some point it catches up with you. Rest is not optional - it is part of the job.So what do you do to reset?I go to the gym. And when I'm there, I try hard not to think about work at all. The funny thing is - the moment I stop thinking about work, a great idea pops up and I can't wait to get back to my computer 😅.
UI decisions get harder as your project grows
When your project starts growing, it gets harder to keep the UI simple. You want it to be easy to use, but you also want to put the right features in front of people.These days I am spending a lot of time thinking about the main landing page of SaasHive.com. I am trying to make it work well for two very different groups. Founders who want to launch their SaaS, and users who want to find a SaaS or AI tool they need.New features are coming in the next few days, and UI decisions are getting tougher.For example, starting today the landing page will show a list of trending posts from the Founder Community forums. This gives founders who are active in the community extra exposure.In the image below I highlighted the new section in green. Right now it shows 4 post cards, which fit into one row. I thought about showing 8 instead of 4, but time will tell if that was the right call. The landing page is getting bigger, and I did not want it to feel too crowded.I hope this gives you more motivation to share about your SaaS in the forum. More people can now see your post and learn about your product.
Does your website has an og:image? I added one for my SimploMail.com
My SimploMail.com now has a new hero section design and a new og:image.I think it is very important to have a proper og:image because most people will see your website for the first time not on your homepage, but inside a link preview on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Slack, Discord, iMessage, or somewhere else.That preview becomes your first impression.If your site has no og:image, the shared link may look empty, broken, or generic. And if the preview looks low-effort, people are less likely to click. A good og:image makes your link look polished, trustworthy, and intentional.For anyone unfamiliar with it, og:image is part of the Open Graph meta tags you add to your page. These tags tell social platforms what title, description, URL, and image should appear when someone shares your link. The image is often the most noticeable part.I also added a Twitter Card. In practice, this gives platforms like X extra metadata so the link can render as a rich preview card, especially with a large image. In my case, I’m using:Open Graph tags like:<!-- Open Graph --> <meta property="og:site_name" content="SimploMail" /> <meta property="og:title" content="SimploMail — Email Newsletter Platform Without a Subscription" /> <meta property="og:description" content="Send email newsletters, sequences, and lead magnets without a monthly subscription. Pay only for emails actually sent. Credits never expire." /> <meta property="og:type" content="website" /> <meta property="og:url" content="https://simplomail.com/" /> <meta property="og:image" content="https://simplomail.com/og-image.png" /> <meta property="og:image:width" content="1200" /> <meta property="og:image:height" content="630" /> <meta property="og:image:alt" content="SimploMail — Simple. Powerful. Email Newsletter Delivery Service." />Twitter tags like:<!-- Twitter --> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" /> <meta name="twitter:site" content="@SimploMail" /> <meta name="twitter:title" content="SimploMail — Email Newsletter Platform Without a Subscription" /> <meta name="twitter:description" content="Send email newsletters, sequences, and lead magnets without a monthly subscription. Pay only for emails actually sent." /> <meta name="twitter:image" content="https://simplomail.com/og-image.png" /> <meta name="twitter:image:alt" content="SimploMail — Simple. Powerful. Email Newsletter Delivery Service." />I set the image to 1200×630, which is a very common and safe size for social sharing previews. I also added alt text, which is a small detail but still worth doing for accessibility and clarity.This is one of those small website improvements that does not take long to implement, but it improves how your product looks everywhere outside your website too.If you are building a SaaS, landing page, blog, or any product in public, I think this is worth doing early. People judge links before they judge products.
Make your vibe-coded site visible to search engines and AI crawlers
A week of focused work and I have a new service for SaaS founders created.If you vibe-coded your site, then its pages are not visible to search engines and AI crawlers. My new service, Unhid, fixes that by making your pages visible in a crawler-friendly way, so your site can actually be discovered, indexed, and shown in AI-driven results.What I like about Unhid is that it solves a problem a lot of founders do not even realize they have. Their site looks done, it works fine for visitors, but behind the scenes search engines and AI crawlers are not properly seeing the content, which means lost visibility, lost traffic, and missed opportunities to show up where people are searching.Check if your site has AI and search engine visibility issues for free: unhid.ai/audit
Done! Subscriber Segments are now also supported 🎊
Done! 🎊 My SimploMail email marketing platform now supports sending emails to groups, or "Segments". 🎊 And it supports API to let developers send transactional emails 🥳.Do you send email newsletters? Do you need to make you application send transactional emails like Password reset or Purchase confirmation? Come! My SimploMail is the most affordable option to send emails out of all 😊.
Subscriber Segments for Your Email Campaigns
Started working on a new feature for my SimploMail Email Marketing platform, and this time it’s Subscriber Segments.It will allow you to create custom segments of subscribers based on specific criteria. For example, you can send an email campaign to all subscribers who joined your list during a specific period of time.If you send email campaigns or newsletters, please consider using SimploMail. It’s the most affordable newsletter delivery platform out there. And it has a REST API for developers in case you want to integrate it with your application and send transactional emails as well :)
Rewarding active community members with additional visibility
Created a new feature that will help to spotlights most active SaaS applications during the month, and give them additional visibility. The rating of SaaS products will be based not only on the number of upvotes but also on the number of posts in the community written and replies posted. I feel that active community members should be rewarded with additional visibility for their SaaS.
Email API for your App
It was a super busy week but I managed to get a few more hours to work on an Email API for SimploMail. If your application needs to send transactional emails like: Password Rest, or other Email Notifications, let me know. I can help you onboard your application to SimploMail and let you send email messages for the cheapest possible price out there :).
You no longer need to manually configure DNS to verify domain name for sending emails.
What a productive week this was! 🎊I was able to complete a HUGE milestone for SimploMail.com. Now you no longer need to manually configure DNS records with GoDaddy or Cloudflare when verifying your domain name for sending emails.I implemented a simple wizard where you can just click a button to automatically configure DNS records, log in to GoDaddy, confirm your intent to verify a domain name - and it’s done! 🎊 Your domain is verified and fully configured to send emails 🥳. A huge success for my SimploMail project. I’m very optimistic and excited about the future of SimploMail 🙂
You Only Need One Idea to Work
A few years ago, starting a business solo felt almost impossible. You needed investors, a team, an office, a plan B, and probably a plan C.That's not really the case anymore.With AI, one person can now handle what used to need a full team.The tools are there. The opportunities are real. The only thing left is you actually trying things out.Not every idea will work. Most won't. But you only need one that does. And right now you can test ideas faster than ever. Launch something, see if people care, adjust. Repeat. That feedback loop used to take months. Now it can take days.So if you have been sitting on an idea, this is probably the best time in history to just go for it.One of them will fly. I genuinely believe that.