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We bootstrapped our SaaS to $50k MRR with just me and my co-founder - no employees
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Davis Baer
https://twitter.com/mynameis_davis/status/1420075806571831310
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Amazing! What's your main acquisition channels?
Short answer: Content marketing
Long answer: I plan on writing a short book that goes into detail on everything we did to acquire customers 🙂
If you want to be notified when it's published, you can leave your contact info here: https://forms.gle/mEZdS8doTjmNCqKJA
Awesome. What little thing do you do to celebrate such milestones? 👍
Not enough to be honest 😅
We sent Slack messages congratulating eachother on the milestone. That was basically it haha
Hi Davis - love the site and idea - how do you distinguish yourself from your competitors given scheduling is now quite a saturated market ? How did you originally motivate yourself given the volume of competition and the fear of entering a race to the bottom on pricing ? (Although given your numbers this seems a misplaced fear :) Looking forward to buying your book. Many thanks.
Early on, we mostly distiguished on price. I tweeted something about this topic a few weeks ago: https://twitter.com/mynameis_davis/status/1402672152848044032?s=20
How are you able to grow and scale the company?
Mostly through content marketing 🤓
Was that a hassle with only 2 people ? Are there any automations ?
Yep, whenever we do the same thing manually over and over again, we look for ways to automate it.
Sometimes that's by coding something, other times it's by creating a helpdesk article for a question that keeps popping up from our users.
What kind of automations are you using ? Zapier or something else ?
Awesome! How long did it take you to launch?
That depends... Vishal originally created an MVP version of OneUp before I came on board, so he probably had a year or so of building the foundation.
Once I joined, we cleaned up a lot of bugs and UI/UX fixes, and then probably launched 2 months after.
Thanks!
I would love to know about your product and success story.
What would you like to know?
The full story of your SaaS. What was your stretegy
Nitpicky question: the site says “ We have a worldwide team of customer advocates on standby”. Is it referring to just you and your cofounder?
Yep, me and my co-founder are on other sides of the world, and we both do customer support :)
Hahaha you're not wrong there, Davis! Brilliant !
Congrats Davis!
How long did it take to hit $10k MRR, $20k MRR, and now $50k MRR?
Are you at liberty to share how much salary you guys take?
Looks like it only posted the first tweet here on IH.
If you click on the tweet, you can open the entire thread 😊
Hi Davis, I am not seeing any tweets in the thread on going from $10K MRR all the way to $50k MRR?
Short answer: Content marketing
Long answer: I plan on writing a short book that goes into detail on everything we did to acquire customers 🙂
If you want to be notified when it's published, you can leave your contact info here: https://forms.gle/mEZdS8doTjmNCqKJA
Signed up. Looking forward to it!
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I think most of them came from Product Hunt :)
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