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Aye Moah

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
317 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

The point of experiment is, again, to find the truth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

And from those 44 experiments in eight months, we learned a few lessons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

We have 19 successes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

Those are now part of the product, making us Astra 500K of ARR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

10 failures that we learned.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

Some of them are like, there is no way this can lose.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

And they did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

And 15 currently in flight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

And to make our original goal of 52 experiment in a year, we have eight more to go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

From the lesson, second order effect is really subtle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

And I have this horror story of one of the experiment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

If you look at it in isolation, it was a winner.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

We put a download button on one of the help tutorial page.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

From the conversion, it looked great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

It was a very good, high traffic, organic SEO tutorial page with no conversion button at the beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

We added a conversion button.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

We got new free extra installs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

Then Google started penalizing us because we have a button.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

So then all our organic SEO traffic went away.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah

So it went from a page with lots of traffic, no conversion, to page with traffic,