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Aurelian Amacker

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
213 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

You know, it's going to cost you seven grand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

I was like seven grand, just take it, you know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

But I mean, it was a mess.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

Like they had no idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

It was horrible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

So I fired them after quite a while, actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

We even flew to Morocco with my wife to meet them in person and they were like, yeah, don't worry, it's going to be fine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

They were so good at telling me it was going to be fine, but so bad at delivering.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

And yeah, I fired them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

Then I struggled.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

I tried many different developers and one day I found a guy on Upwork and I could see that I could rely on this guy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

So I was like, do you know someone like you?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

And he was like, yeah, I work with this guy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

He's good as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

So we got him on board.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

We got a third one on board and we built the product in 2017.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

I move my business over to our own software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

So first the email list, sending the emails, then all the payment pages, all the pages, and then finally the courses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

So actually we've just hired our sixth engineer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

So, you know, it's not a lot.