Arun Saigal
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But what you see is if you're a high end business, you hopefully have the money to be able to afford, you know, a full time developer.
It's these SMBs, these mom and pop shops, these individuals who don't know how to code, who often need it the most and are the most underserved.
So there's a wide open market here that we think we can totally.
And I'm not saying we won't move upstream.
We have to start somewhere, right?
Our goal is if you look at the Play Store today, you look at iTunes today, 80 to 90 percent of those apps are pretty simple and should be able to be built on Funkable.
We want to make sure we captured all of those apps from the individual to the mom and pop to the kid.
in school to the large Fortune 500 company who's putting out a relatively simple app to help you interact with their bank software or whatever it may be.
Our goal is to actually capture the 90% of apps out on the Play Store today, out on iTunes today.
But we have to start somewhere.
And what we found from our roots, which was as an MIT Google research project, was the first folks that were drawn to us were individuals who had no other alternative.
So our goal is let's nail it in that space.
So take a bunch of companies.
Take Dropbox, for example, right?
They started another MIT.
t y combinator etc back company what they did was they started after the individuals and the individuals brought dropbox into their companies and said hey now you know i use this thing at home how about we use it for our company and they managed to grow just by doing that and so we want to
Good indications that hopefully 5% to 10% of our folks will be paying us.
But as you said, until we actually prove it out, it's not certain.
So I would also love to be back and actually tell you how it's doing.
from this model, 10,000 bucks a month.