Colleen Schnettler
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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I have a whole strategy behind helping them get data out of their database using SQL. So that's kind of what my newsletter is about. I have a couple of users and I have my first paying customer, which is pretty exciting.
Two weeks. Okay. It just happened.
Yeah. What's interesting about this person is I got on a call with them and they... hate my UI. I don't know how else to say it, but they're like, this product isn't even very good. And I was like, oh, okay. But I do think it's interesting that this person was like, this product isn't very good. So I didn't think they were gonna convert. And then it was kind of fun. I was in the woods.
having my soul searching and I didn't have Stripe notifications set up. So it was two days later, I realized they had converted and I sent them a message and they were like, yeah, well, I needed to run more queries. I was like, awesome. But I mean, this is still the wild west, right? Like this is still, my plan is focus in on these marketing data analyst people with everything I have.
I think what I'm gonna find is Their data is in many different data sources. But try to find, you know, I'm just really, really trying to find that one pain point, like one little niche where I can just grab a foothold while simultaneously, I'm a one woman shop now, right? Because like budget is tight. So simultaneously making the product something that these people want to use. And so it's crazy.
Yeah, so the product today is, it's a chat with your database, but you ask, it's fine tuned to, you ask a question, it returns a SQL query. You can edit the SQL, which was funny because that was like a heavily requested feature, but no one actually does it. It's like, people just want to know that they can.
They want to see it. You can edit the SQL. You run the SQL. It gives you charts. It gives you tables that you can export or add to a dashboard. So the dashboard seems to be kind of an interesting thing right now. Like the marketers so far, and again, it's a very small sample size I'm working with right now. They seem to really be leaning into like, what can I do?
Like, what reports can I build with this? Right. And you also have a live shareable link. And so one of the things I've thought about is you can do triggers. You could do triggers off your database, which is actually something I'm really excited about. Like my one paying customer really wants me to do that. And, you know, I need to talk to more people, but...
I don't know, I think there's something there. I think there's possibility there. The goal is to have something, they come in, they set up and they don't have to log into Hello Query. So if you look at like product analytics tools or some other tools, even like a Google, like they send you emails once a week, like here's what you need to know. And you're like, sweet, I'm happy with that.
So that's kind of where I want to go with this.
$59 a month.
I literally made it up.
Honestly, I think it just seems that the products are so good. And it seems like every niche that you can think of, that's what it feels like to me. Has five or six products. Like there's no world of like, oh, there's one competitor and they have a crappy product. People are just building better stuff than they were 10 years ago, right?
Like 10 years ago, you're like, oh, this thing, it looks crappy, but it does exactly what I say it's going to do. And that kind of worked for some people. But I just feel like the level of polish you need in a product is so much higher now. And it's funny because I think of it because... very first version of my product, I thought it looked pretty good.
And then I put it in front of people, like five people. And I was like, oh, and they were like, ooh, like, where do I change the name? And I expect to be able to do that in line. And, and this font looks weird and it's too big. And like, I was like, what, what, but it does what I said it was going to do. Like, okay.
Yeah, things are polished. And I don't know, it feels like this whole revolution of everyone shipping product is great, but everyone is shipping a product. So there is a ton of competition, even in like, so when I was thinking if I wanted to do other ideas, I was talking to friends that work in other industries. I talked to someone in insurance.
I talked to someone who's in this like really niche, really niche industry you've probably never heard of. And I was like, definitely they don't have tools because no one even knows what they do. But they, like, they do. They have like, she was like, yeah, we have like five competitors. I looked at the schools. I looked at, like, I was looking across anything where I knew someone.
Environmental, like, survey companies. I was like, all of these sectors. have products. I think I even told you, I filled out a, they call them requests for proposal for this like really niche thing. Like it was, I was like, no one's gonna, no one's gonna apply for this or submit a proposal to this because no one has ever heard of this. I didn't get it.
But that was another example of like, there were like hundreds of competitors. And I was like, who are these people? And so... It's a little bit of a rant and it's good for capitalism, but it's bad for me in that these products are really good. And no matter what you think is unique, like it's probably not. Someone's probably doing it with more money and better UI.
So you really just have to put the work in to make the product better. Like the product development has to be a continuous cycle.
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