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Alan de Souza

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
137 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

But it's, of course, a very difficult channel for us, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

I mean, it's not the best channel, I would say.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

But, of course, user referrals and word of mouth is driving the most traffic for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

Yes, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

Reachinbox.ai is that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

So what we did was we split between our main sending platform and our cold email infrastructure platform so that users who wanted to use other platforms could also use cold email infrastructure from us and send it to other platforms as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

It's a very interesting question, and this is something that we've also been thinking of since we got started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

I feel that, of course, eventually it is about taking away manual intervention as much as possible, but I feel human-assisted intervention

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

outreach is what it's going to be like, you know, it's, it's going to be that AI is going to set up most of your campaigns, everything, you know, find you the right leads.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

It's going to enrich all of that, do everything for you, but it's still going to be human assisted.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

There would be a human moderation needed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

And then it, you know, works very seamlessly where AI would do most of the things that humans are just there to, you know, moderate things around it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

Just starting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

I think just before getting started, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

But zero.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

Zero, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

We had zero MRR a year ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

We ran a lifetime deal a little earlier, so we had support coming in from our lifetime users on the beta version of our product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

So that's where it was, yes.