Upvoty
Feedback tool with feature voting.
For the first time, we had some real churn going on. At first, I was afraid that it might have something to do with our product.
Lesson learned: always talk to your customer. Even if they leave (or already left) you.
There was nothing wrong with our product, most of them just quite their businesses and no longer needed our user feedback tool. Makes sense.
And with doubling down on welcoming new customers, the churn didn't have that much impact on our MRR. We grew from $5,400 to $6,473. Which is basically a big milestone giving the fact we exceeded €5,000 MRR (euros!).
Stats:
💰 $ 6,473 MRR
🎉 217 paid clients
📉 6 churns
📈 37,518 visitors
If you want to learn more about our journey, follow me on:
https://twitter.com/mikedotsaas/
https://instagram.com/mikedotsaas/
Or, take a look at upvoty.com 🙌
Here are the May '20 stats for Upvoty. We're still doing ZERO outreach and sales. Pure organic growth, mainly from our blog content, guest posts, and referrals from existing users. That last one is becoming bigger and bigger. As companies see our feedback tool being used by other company's, they are more likely to try it out themselves as well.
We even had 2 companies sign on and upgrade within 1 day because of that.
💰 $ 3,682 MRR
🎉 129 paid clients
✏️ 86 trials
📉 2 churns
📈 33,666 visitors
Check it out:
https://upvoty.com
Follow me for more updates:
https://twitter.com/mikedotsaas
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Just stumbled across your blog as I was considering the product! That's awesome - how much time do you dedicate to upvoty across the rest of your projects to get it to this point?
Here are the April '20 stats for Upvoty. During these times, I think we accomplished an amazing growth. I'm very happy with the result. We're still doing ZERO outreach and sales. Pure organic growth here.
💰 $ 2,835 MRR
🎉 108 paid clients
✏️ 86 trials
📉 2 churns
📈 36,400 visitors
Check it out:
https://upvoty.com
Follow me for more updates:
https://twitter.com/mikedotsaas
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Congratulations Mike! Really nice numbers. I noticed your Google Analytics increased a lot at the beginning of 2020. How do you explain this sudden growth? Pure organic growth but what triggered this to increase so rapidly after stagnating a while?
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Thanks! We invest a lot in content marketing and it started to take off. Especially after the release of our free eBook.
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Hey Mike, only 2 churns sounds really good to me. How many trail accounts converted to paid eventually?
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Thanks! We're actually optimizing the onboarding as we speak. Our trial conversion is way too low right now. Around 12% or less. We will improve that rate for sure!
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@mikeslaats What Tech Stack you've used for your application?
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Awesome! Keep it up. These are the slogging times.
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Your website looks GREAT! Nice and simple. I will give your product a try when I have my first customers after the MVP launch.
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Thanks! Feel free to try it out :) Good luck with the launch!
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Wow, congrats! That is some seriously impressive organic growth
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Thanks!
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What're your plans for outreach and sales?
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We'll start paid advertising soon for starters.
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We shipped our Chrome plugin for user feedback. Now you can easily collect and manage all of your feedback from within your Chrome browser.
Get it here:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/upvoty/hkaniijflmomncbanndfgngealdolmdb
Sign up for a free 30-day trial account (10% discount for IH fam 😍)
https://upvoty.com
Follow me if you want to follow our day-to-day process in building our SaaS Startup:
https://twitter.com/mikedotsaas
https://instagram.com/mikedotsaas
Another month with amazing growth 🧡. We're almost over $2k MRR (well, technically we're already over it since we acquired 2 more clients at the beginning of March 🤭🎉)
Last month we signed one really big and interesting client which I'm sure everybody is familiar with: DirectAdmin 💪😎
Stats:
💰 $ 1,996.34 MRR
🎉 83 paid clients
✏️ 55+ new sign-ups
🔥 1 churn
📈 14,054 visitors
Follow me on Twitter and/or Instagram if you want to follow our journey!
https://instagram.com/mikedotsaas/
https://twitter.com/mikedotsaas
Free 30-day trial (with a 10% discount for the IH fam!):
https://upvoty.com
Another month with amazing growth. We've signed our first enterprise client (a big bank), and we started to get known in certain niches where we got a couple of new clients as the result of word-of-mouth. Our content marketing strategy is starting to take off as well.
💰 $ 1,690.74 MRR
🎉 74 paid clients
✏️ 50+ new sign-ups
🔥 2 churns
📈 9,681 visitors
Follow me on Twitter if you want to get more updates
https://twitter.com/mikeslaatsio 🙌
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Congrats Mike!
Really like what you built. Maybe I will give it a try in the future :)
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Thank you for the kind words. You are more than welcome! 🙌
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Hey congrats! 74 paid clients is awesome!
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Thanks 🙏
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Congrats!
I love your landing page and your pricing plan names! Power, Super Power and Unlimited Power 😁
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Thanks for your kind words! Yeah, one thing I want to share about the psychology behind the names: I often see the smallest plans been given names such as 'basic', 'small', etc. I do think that even if a user picks the smallest plan, they need to feel like they bought something of value. So, we literally named our smallest plan 'POWER'. This way, even when you pick our smallest plan, you feel it's "useful", and not like you bought something really, really small.
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Congrats @mikeslaats
What's your biggest lesson in content marketing strategy?
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What worked best for us: guest posts on relevant websites and more evergreen content for our target audience. We've narrowed down our target audience to the max. This really helped us ranking better and coming in front of potential customers.
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hi, where do those 9681 visitors come from?
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Content marketing, social media, mentions, guest posts, referrals
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Congrats Mike!
Btw, this is such an awesome tool and idea, that I am considering use it for my own app.Thank you for sharing!
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Thanks! Woohoo! That would be awesome 🙌
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Great work Mike. Keep up the momentum for February :)
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Thanks! 🙌
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so happy for you.
Been following your progress.
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Thanks for your support! 🙌
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Awesome job @mikeslaats
Very inspiring. I would love to know how did you find your first customers. And would you mind to share how your average customer looks like (number of employees, etc.)?
The product I develop is completely different but the target audience might be similar so it would be awesome to hear your experience.
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Kevin, I've actually published an eBook about all of this. Feel free to download it for free over here: https://www.upvoty.com/ebooks/saas-growth-tactics/download/
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🎉🎉🎉 LAUNCHED! SaaS Growth Tactics is out now on Product Hunt!
👉 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/saas-growth-tactics-free-ebook
Learn: How I grew my SaaS startup Upvoty from $0 to $1,000 MRR in just a couple of months!
❤ Special thanks to Corey Haines (Head of Growth ar Baremetrics), Leo Bassam (Founder Plutio), Des Traynor (Founder Intercom), Sahil Lavingia (Founder Gumroad), and David Abrams (Founder Demio and host of the SaaS Breakthrough Podcast) for contributing!
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Looking great! Upvoted on PH! 🚀
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Woohoo thanks @thedc! ❤️
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Amazing! Was looking for something like this while I'm about to start my own SaaS, will download it right away and good luck!
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Thanks!
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I was looking for this kind of ebook, since I’m planning to start my own SaaS... Thanks! :-)
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Hey Mike,
The e-book is beautiful, did you use a specific template to make it?
It's really eye-catching, and I'm sure you'll get some love from the design audience over at PH.
Anyway, I'm going to read it now.
Good job.
We launched on Product Hunt. Although we gain a lot of visitors and signups from it, it wasn't a success in terms of upvotes. We did some things really good, but some things really bad.
What we've learned: https://www.upvoty.com/we-launched-on-product-hunt-what-weve-learned/
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Thanks for this writeup. Helps to wrap my head around it.
Obviously, we will stimulate you to implement feature voting into your own 💻website, app or product. Duh. But, that’s not without a reason. We were motivated to build a feature voting tool, because we believe in it!
👉 https://www.upvoty.com/blog/why-you-should-use-feature-voting/
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