# Passed €7k + Quit my day job
by DanieleIt's been a while since the last update...
Pipechat allowed me to quit my day job at Pipedrive in May 2021. It's the best place I ever worked in but I needed to take a breather.
I'm very grateful for how things turned out and that I got a chance to enjoy a lot of free time to focus on other things - to name one, I took up acting and Meisner technique. I love it...
In the meantime Pipechat has continued to grow slowly and steadily. It's now passed €7k/MRR. I added support for Zoho CRM (still waiting to see how it performs). I also tried to bring it to HubSpot but they lacked some essential API features, and tech support wasn't there.
I turned down a couple of acquisitions offers, and I'm working on adding features and growing the product.
Reminders API has been available as a free beta. I didn't do any marketing. I have a few users and one going live with an official project in March (I'll make a separate update).
There are a few other projects I'm working on. We'll see how they turn out...
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Thats great! I have a question. Would be nice if you can answer it. I am trying to understand how can you get clients for your product when there are so many like it on Google (search: Connect Whatsapp to CRM)
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Most of my customers come from Pipedrive’s marketplace looking for WhatsApp integrations. It would be much harder to get them from Google searches. It’s one of the best things about building for an existing marketplace…
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Congrats on the milestone! Pipedrive must be a really good place to work. I know a lot of companies that would consider this a conflict of interest.
Any reason for not testing some marketing or new acquisition channels?
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No real reason why I didn't test marketing and new acquisition channels. I'm open to suggestions :)
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Thanks. Luckily there were no issues at all. I built a feature that wasn't there and customers needed. There was never a conflict. They're actually trying to make it easier to bring similar integrations deeper into their UI. Something I'm looking into https://pipedrive.readme.io/docs/messaging-app-extension
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