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Adam Driscoll

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
147 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

Yep, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

So primarily people are building like tools to administer stuff inside environments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

It's actually mostly on-prem right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

Our technology is kind of built in a way that we could make it a SaaS business, so we aren't doing that right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

But primarily, people are installing this on their internal environments, and then we're licensing that based on the per-server licensing model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

So primarily, I'd say on average, customers are paying us around $400 a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

Our larger customers are paying anywhere from $2,000 a year to some of them are upwards of $6,000 a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

So it just kind of depends on how many servers they're rolling out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

But you kind of get all the features of the product at that price point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

I started fall of 2017.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

So I actually released the PowerShell Pro Tools first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

That was kind of like a freemium model of one of the open source projects that I had been doing for a long time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

So I decided that it was really popular and that I needed to kind of monetize it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

Well, actually, the open source project that I had running was PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

So Visual Studio is Microsoft's development environment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

I added the PowerShell language support to that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

And prior to me actually making it into a freemium tool, it was a free tool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

And that had, I think at its peak, about 750,000 installs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

So I realized that that was like I probably should like try to sell something in there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

So, yeah, that's what I did is I added some features that, you know, people could buy.