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David Shackleton

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
143 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

So it could be, you know, Jamaicans in New York, adding their mom's phone in Jamaica or Mexicans in L.A.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

or Indians in Dubai or all over the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

So yeah, so it's pure play SaaS.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

You know, we kind of fit in that world between kind of SaaS developer tool and then kind of marketing engagement.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

And so Openback is kind of a mobile engagement platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

What we, you know, where we focus, we've kind of created this new segment, I guess,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

all about push notification delivery.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

So there's lots of engagement platforms and ways for mobile apps to send push notifications to their users, but they all do it in the same way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

So it's very much server side out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

So you blast it out to whichever users you want to hit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

And we think that paradigm is broken because actually those notifications don't always get through to the user.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

So if you haven't opened an app in a month, 50% of notifications won't even get through to you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

And so we wanted to solve that, but we also wanted to solve the moments that notifications are delivered to you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

Like you should never get a notification in the middle of the night.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

You should never get a notification when you're driving.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

It makes no sense for an app to send you a notification if you've got like 5% battery left, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

And so we wanted to flip it and actually change it and kind of use edge computing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

So use the app on the device itself to control it all and then do a really good job.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

And so for us, a good job is,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

deliver a notification at a good moment.