I met my co-founder on Indie Hackers 5 1/2 years ago. Over $1 million ARR later, we have now finally met in person
My co-founder Vishal and I run OneUp, a social media scheduling tool that is well over $1M ARR.
We originally met from me posting right here on Indie Hackers, where I asked if there was anyone who was looking to partner up on a project (unfortunately I deleted that original post at some point).
Vishal sent me this DM in response to the IH post:
(the term "growth hacking" was cool then 😅)
After a few Zoom calls, we decided to partner up.
But I am in the US and Vishal is in India, so we just operated remotely over Zoom and Slack without ever meeting in person.
We probably would have met up sooner, but Covid + me having a couple of kids made it hard to ever meet in person.
5 1/2 years later, we have now finally met in person (I came to Jaipur, India for Vishal's weddinfg and it was an awesome time):
https://x.com/mynameis_davis/status/1751254331326632406?s=20
Mine and Vishal's lives have been forever changed thanks to the Indie Hackers forum. So we will be forever grateful to @csallen and @channingallen 🙏
PS We will also be announcing a new SaaS in the next week or so. Follow me on IH or on X (https://twitter.com/mynameis_davis) if you want to hear about it
Hey Davis! this is so cool! what marketing strategies have you guys had the most success with? would love to feature this story in the Indie Hackers Newsletter.
Thanks! SEO and content marketing are the biggest marketing channels for us
what kind of content marketing? blog on the website or twitter/linkedin something else?
Haha, this is a really great and fun story of how startups can have such simple beginnings. So cool that you met on here and were able to create this together.
That was inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
Nice story. It reminded me of a time when I had a client for 5+ years who never asked for my photo or we never had a video meeting. We met every week on audio call and discussed the progress.
Internet is amazing!
amazing story!
Wow
This is amazing 🤩👏
Fantastic story. An example of what will be the norm in the future. I'm working with a cofunder and I've only met him once in person. We make a lot of zoom calls and talk a lot via whatsapp. And it's exactly the same as the physical one. There's the same respect, loyalty and integrity.
with the new Apple Vision Pro, that's the exactly the feature we are heading to.
really great story! Congrats on you two
Love the story!
This is both awesome and wholesome
It all starts with a "Hey"...keep at it
"Hey" 😂
The determination that the 2 have shown to run a enterprise remotely, in spite of several challenges is pretty inspiring!
I can only imagine how you both felt at the point of meeting for the first time. This is good energy. May Indie Hackers live long!
This is such a feel good post =) Happy for you guys! Well done and congrats on all the milestones!
This is incredible, I'm sure I'm in the right place.
Love this - Inspirational.
This is awesome !
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