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We got our first paid user!

We have been working hard in the last couple of weeks after our initial launch; we have reached out to some users to collect more direct feedback, contacted some people making a living in the industry, and tried to improve the product. There were 3 main changes we have introduced:

  • Revamped dashboard & Top Picks pages to summarize information in a direct way.
  • Built a match details page.
  • More importantly, we dropped the initial prices from £20 to £5, a big drop.

We were reluctant about dropping the prices, but we wanted to further validate the idea by acquiring paid users as well as giving some people early adapter changes since they would be supporting us from the beginning. Also, we have started running some very small paid marketing campaigns on Facebook for the last 2 days, ~5 euros per day.

I woke up this morning and saw that I had an email from Stripe, saying "Congratulations!". I jumped into the dashboard right after I read the email just to validate that this was correct, and it was correct indeed. I got super happy and sent screenshots to my friends to celebrate.

All in all, I know it is a super small amount of money and it doesn't prove anything about the product or anything, but it doesn't change the fact that something we have built has mode some money, and I am very happy to share this with all you guys.

Thank you for all the feedback and support up to this point, I hope you have a lovely Friday.

Cheers,
Burak

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    Great news, congratulations on this important milestone!

    Years ago I worked for an old-school VC-funded startup in a similar space. Five well-paid tech staff and a sales team, it basically burned through cash despite having a large customer base.
    The most successful and cheapest customer acquisition channel was through a forum on the company website in which customers discussed trends and matches. Obviously, you can't have a forum with a few members - but once you get your numbers up, you may find you can scale back on paid acquisition and go down this route.

    I took a look at your website. Your headline is clear and strong, I understand immediately what you're offering. The graphic is great, and tells me this is a real product. But I was baffled by the "avoid the puddle" line, I'd never heard this phrase. I did a quick check - it's a gaming phrase? Might be something to think about.

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      Hey! Thank you very much for the beautiful comment, and the feedback regarding community building is amazing. We have been trying to do a similar thing through Twitter by sharing daily tips and suggestions, but so far couldn't succeed. We have already built a very simple bet-sharing feature where users can build lists of games as well as their suggestions and then share this via a quick link that can be viewed by anyone, maybe we can add a similar "comment" feature there too?

      Thanks a lot for the feedback, we will also check the copy on the website to make it more understandable for everyone! Let us know if you have more feedback, always happy to hear more.

      Cheers!

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    Congrats.

    Love the website, clear CTA and value proposition.

    Has your business model changed from what you originally set out to do?

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      Hey, thanks a lot!

      So far nothing has changed, we changed the pricing and added more features, but the pricing strategy is staying the same for now.

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        Thanks. All the best!

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    It's a HUGE thing to be validated by the market. Congrats!! 🙌

    Jason Lemkin on SaaStr always says, if you can get 1 customer, you can get 10. And then you can 100, 1000 etc.

    Keep going! You're on your way.

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      Hey Anita, thanks a lot for the comment, we hope to get a better understanding of our users' needs and further improve, this is just the beginning.

      Thank you so much for the support!

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    Congrats! And keep it up to get your next hundred users!

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      Hey, we hope so too, thanks a lot!

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    Great work! And great proposition :]

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      Hey, thank you so much, glad to hear!

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    My pleasure to see this type of posts.

    Congrats!! 🎉

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      It was very exciting for us as well, thanks a lot for the comment!

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    Wow, seriously what a fantastic product. Great work ! Can see this being huge.

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      Hey, thank you so much, we hope it'll be a useful and long-standing product!

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        If you need any reps in London I’m looking for work 💁🏻‍♂️

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      Hey, thanks for reaching out, my email is in my profile, feel free to shoot an email. :)

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      Thank you very much! :)

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      I have been reading these kinds of milestones with a smile too, and today has been our luck to post a similar milestone! :) Thanks for the nice words, best!

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