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Ben Borton

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
248 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

But you can't vibe code your way to to something that has kind of deep value to a domain.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

Yeah, I would say you're not getting rid of kind of the social aspect of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

You are, you know, and I would not call it kind of a ghost gym.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

So, you know, when we started out, people said, hey, are you going to lose the human touch?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

Well, the human touch can isn't necessarily a positive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

If the piece that you're you know, if you have kind of front desk and we we serve plenty of staff facilities and it's difficult to kind of like get really good front desk people because the best people kind of move on to something else.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

So the goal was like, can you kind of free yourself of that constraint and replace that with kind of like walking into the when you walk into kind of a pod play facility, you should be walking into the future, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

It shouldn't feel like less, it should feel like more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

And in addition to that, you're giving people flexibility, you're giving them proximity, all the things that kind of they want in this day and age.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

And those resources can be redirected towards community building.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

So it's not like there's there's nobody on site, but it's just, you know, instead of a front desk, it might be a coach.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

It might be somebody who's kind of like organizing events.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

And so you redirect that energy and resource towards, you know, more valuable activities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

You do have to get the real estate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

You have to get the real estate right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

We're playing a part in that.