Poppins

Our initial users love the customer experience and onboarding so much so that they have been referring us. This has led to explosive growth combined with the app being available for free on the Slack App Directory.

We became "Enterprise Grid" ready during this period and that helps too.

This was partly due to our app reviewer and our response times combined with customer love. We woke to see that we were #1.

We started getting installs and new users the moment Poppins got featured. We weren't fully ready - we started onboarding our users personally - one at a time.

By May 15th it became clear that there was a lot of demand for Poppins (Slack App) and hence we decided to polish the app for launching it on the Slack App Directory.

On May 25th we were approved to be listed after thorough due diligence by the Slack App Directory team.

Our advisor/mentor became our first customer. Poppins (Slack app) was an internal tool :)

By May 3rd we had 8 teams using Poppins - all through word of mouth. I and my co-founder had to prioritize the Slack app over the original Idea we were working on :)