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Arun Saigal

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
115 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

We're talking usually five figure, kind of high five figures.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

So what we are really, what our, I mean, long-term business model is definitely to charge kind of for a premium product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

So the basic product is free.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

If you're trying to build an app, you use us and it's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

But if you want, you know, if you're trying to make money off of us, if you're trying to get analytics, all those kinds of things, you need help launching to the Play Store, to iTunes, those kinds of things you'll pay us for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

And to your question of when turn on the money, it was basically when, you know, it's time to actually turn on those features.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

That's when we turn on the revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

And so that's coming in the next few months because those are things now that our users are sophisticated enough and saying, hey, I really want these added features.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

We say, no problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

We're going to build them for you and then we'll charge you a small fee to actually utilize them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

So one of the things that we found was that, you know, as you said, my background is as a software engineer, I built a bunch of mobile apps for a variety of companies and found that, you know, me as one person, I can build an app and I can help solve, you know, a very specific problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

What we discovered is on our platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

We've seen people build millions of apps to solve problems that we didn't even know existed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

So just to give you a quick example, in 2015, the country of Yemen kind of broke out into civil war.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

The power grid wasn't very reliable, so people started going to solar power.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

Well, one of the problems people had with the solar panels was they didn't know when to tilt them during the day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

They didn't know how much energy they had, etc.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?

So there was a young guy in Yemen who found Thunkable, built an app on us, and now there are about 100,000 families in Yemen who manage their solar power through this app that this guy who didn't know how to code built on our product.