Alexandre Allard
01.02.2026

Great Products Don't Sell Themselves

Overview
Tecksoft built exceptional software for ophthalmologists. Clients who saw it loved it. But not enough people were seeing it. We built an acquisition system on a modest budget. 8x revenue growth. $50M exit. This is what happens when distribution matches the product.

A $50M Exit Started With a Simple Problem

Tecksoft built software for ophthalmologists.

It was exceptional. Clients who saw it loved it.

But not enough people were seeing it.

That was the entire problem.

Not the product. Not the market. Not the team.

Visibility.

Here's the thing about great products:

They don't sell themselves.

That's a lie people tell themselves to avoid the hard work of distribution.

The best product in the world with zero visibility is just an expensive secret.

Eyevue was that secret.

Practice management software that genuinely made ophthalmologists' lives easier. The kind of product where demos closed themselves.

But demos require people showing up.

And people weren't showing up.

The market was niche.

Ophthalmologists aren't scrolling Instagram looking for software. They're not typing "best practice management tool" into Google at 2am.

They're busy. They're skeptical. They've been burned by software promises before.

Traditional marketing wasn't cutting through.

So we built something different.

The system was simple.

$5-10K per month in ad spend. Nothing crazy.

But every dollar was surgical.

We identified exactly who the buyer was: practice owners actively looking for solutions. Not "healthcare professionals." Ophthalmologists. Decision-makers.

We built campaigns that reached them with a message that resonated.

And we got out of the way.

Once someone saw Eyevue, the product did the rest.

Our job was never to sell. It was to fill the room with the right people.

The results:

8x revenue growth.

Company acquired for $50M.

What This Teaches Us

Great products still need distribution.

You can build the best thing in the world. If nobody knows it exists, it doesn't matter.

Distribution isn't a "nice to have." It's the bridge between what you built and the people who need it.

Niche markets require precision, not volume.

Blasting ads to "everyone" would have burned money.

We went narrow. Specific. The message was built for one person: the ophthalmologist who was tired of their current system and ready for something better.

Relevance beats reach. Every time.

Small budgets can drive massive outcomes.

$5-10K per month isn't a massive ad budget.

But constraints force precision. Every dollar had to work. That discipline made the system efficient.

You don't need $100K/month to grow. You need a system that doesn't waste what you have.

Acquisition and product are multipliers.

Good acquisition with a bad product burns money.

Good product with bad acquisition stays invisible.

When both are dialed in, results compound.

Tecksoft had the product. We added the system. The result was exponential.

If You Have a Great Product

You already know if your product is good.

You see it in the demos that close. In the clients who refer others. In the feedback that keeps coming back positive.

The question isn't whether your product works.

The question is whether enough people are seeing it.

If the answer is no, that's a solvable problem.

We'll help you build the system that gets the right people to the table.