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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?

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.

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?

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.

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's a wide open market here that we think we can totally.

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 I'm not saying we won't move upstream.

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 have to start somewhere, right?

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?

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.

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 want to make sure we captured all of those apps from the individual to the mom and pop to the kid.

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?

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.

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?

Our goal is to actually capture the 90% of apps out on the Play Store today, out on iTunes today.

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 we have to start somewhere.

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 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.

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 our goal is let's nail it in that space.

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 take a bunch of companies.

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?

Take Dropbox, for example, right?

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 started another MIT.

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?

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

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?

Good indications that hopefully 5% to 10% of our folks will be paying us.

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 as you said, until we actually prove it out, it's not certain.

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 I would also love to be back and actually tell you how it's doing.

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?

from this model, 10,000 bucks a month.