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Brandon Foo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
109 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

You know, we'd really appreciate if you've enjoyed using Polymail so far, if you go on and support us and, you know, leave your thoughts about, you know, what your experience has been like so far.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

And of course, you know, we emailed our friends and people in our community and we ended up receiving, you know, a lot more support than we expected.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

So it was really, really great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

So Polymail is a free app so far.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

We just launched out of private beta a couple of months ago, and we're in the process now of launching what will be called Polymail Pro.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

So you can actually sign up for Polymail Pro now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

We'll probably have a link or something for that after the show.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

I can send it to you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

Okay, cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

Yeah, so basically it's going to be a freemium model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

So you'll continue to be able to use Polymail for free if you want.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

But Polymail Pro will provide much more advanced features that will be designed around the sales email type workflow, marketing email type workflow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

We have a lot of really cool features in store that we can't wait to share with you very soon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

So we're at just over 20,000 daily active users right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

We're probably at over 150,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

We've had a lot of people who signed up for our beta early on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

So we grew a pretty large list of users from there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

Yeah, that's a great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

So every time we release new feature updates, we try to re-engage the entire list of people who signed up by sending out an email campaign or tweeting or posting on Facebook that, hey, we have these new features.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

A lot of these are features that people who have tried the app before were waiting for.