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$50k MRR

After 3 years, we have reached $50k MRR

We've been able to reach this level with only me and my co-founder Vishal - no employees.

The crazy thing is... Vishal and I have never met in person, even though we've been working together for 3 years.

He's in India and I'm in the US.

We had plans on meeting face-to-face a while back, but then COVID happened.

So for now we just continue to Zoom a couple times a week, wondering how tall the other person actually is.

Onward to the next big milestone: $83,333 MRR 🚀

I shared more of the story in a long Twitter thread:

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    Congrats!

    Question: why are your users choosing OneUp over say... Buffer? I always thought social media scheduling is an overcrowded space.

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    @davis - Congrats to you and Vishal on this milestone. It would be great if you could share with the community how you scaled your business and grew your customer list. Thanks :)

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      The short answer: SEO and content marketing

      The long answer: I am writing a book that goes into detail on all the ways we've found customers.

      Here is the first chapter of the book, which goes over our strategy for marketing on Reddit 🤓 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hDTWgD-VQoBrvwsuLDqDYNMenKhIXVeApKc0L5oaUDQ/edit?usp=sharing

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        Thanks Davis. I went through the first chapter and can't wait for your book to be out.

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          Thanks, means a lot to me that you found it useful 🙂

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    how did you met with your partener
    or where did you find him ?

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      On this very website 🤓

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        it was your idea or his one

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    this is inspiring

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      Hope this post leads to other people pairing up from opposites sides of the world and building something awesome together 😎

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    What caught my attention is that you have never met your cofounder. I have worked with couple of amazing people from India in my StartUp journey and yet have never met them at all. 8years later!

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    Congrats on the milestone. This is amazing how we can build truly remote companies.

    Just wondering how have you structured the company and where?

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    Congrats on the milestone!

    How did you get all the Capterra reviews? Did you pay for their service? Is it worth it?

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      Nope, never paid Capterra anything.

      We just ask users to leave a review on Capterra whenever they say they're happy with the product

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    Congratulations on the milestone, and also - thanks for sharing re team setup! Inspiring that such a small and entirely distributed duo can deliver results like this in so short time!

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      Thanks Jules, hope it can be an inspiration to others to team up

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    Love this Davis! My own experience is that working with a remote co-founder we can work REALLY well. I have a business partner in Russia that I have met twice. SINCE 2002!! We have a remote team for one of my other businesses, that was set up in 2012, and we have only met a few of the people. My view is that the focus is on the work and you do not have other things that get in the way and that can ruin a relationship. Well done and good luck to the $1m ARR

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      Thanks! Awesome to hear that it has worked well for you too :)

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    Nicely done! Thanks to remote work there are no boundaries :)

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      Thanks! Yep, so much more that's possible now vs 10 years ago

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    That's amazing! Congratulations and good luck going forward.

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      Thanks Johannes!

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    Congrats, Davis and Vishal! That's fantastic.

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