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Daniel Hauschut

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
173 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

So the average, I guess, it totally depends.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

It could be like $500.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

In average, but you cannot just calculate the average, but it's hard to say.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

Somewhere around 2016, we had started writing the code, basically.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

And we actually wrote it not for sale in the beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

Actually, we were part of our biggest software agency, digital agency, and we were having different, let's say, customers, which we figured out needed something like photo editing in their applications.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

But to be honest, we're not willing to pay the amount of money it would take to build it, really, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

And so we started building it ourselves, more like a side project, and then said, okay, you can just have it in your product, but it was not, let's say, the sum you would pay if you develop it one time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

So this is how we really started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

And then we really put it on GitHub back then, seeing if somebody might use it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

And eventually we thought maybe it's just an open source tool and people will be happy about it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

But then things changed quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

Well, what changed?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

So for sure, somebody called us and said, okay, it's a really nice tool, but how about a commercial license?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

So how about support, et cetera?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

And that was the first where we realized, okay, somebody likes it very much and really wants to pay for it and needs the support for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

And so we started really licensing this SDK.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

In the beginning, it was like really one-time payment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel

So it was like our first start with it.