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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

Yeah.

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

So we get a bunch of referral and inbound at the moment.

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

I think we do a bunch of blog posts and stuff around.

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

push notification delivery because it's actually interesting you know it's a most apps of scale when they start to really think about doing a great job for their customers with push notifications they start to realize that actually lots of people aren't getting them or you know I think you talk to most apps and they've had a situation where they sent a push notification and half the people in the office didn't get it and so people end up going researching that and they kind of happen across us it's probably quite a lot of it and then we speak at various conferences and that sort of stuff as well where we get talking to people you pay for you pay for that you pay for that

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

We do pay sometimes to go along and have a booth at a conference.

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

But yeah, we've done a little bit of that.

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

We will do a lot more next year.

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

No, we're bootstrapping so far.

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

We may raise next year.

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

It depends on how aggressively we want to scale out in terms of sales and marketing.

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

So we're burning some capital, but not too much.

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

So it's pretty sustainable.

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

Yeah, so myself and the other directors of the business, we funded it so far.

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

So we probably put maybe nearly $2 million in so far to fund it and get to this point with the business.

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

Probably 10 to 20.

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

You're like, a little more than you want, right?

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

Yeah, well, it's all good though, right?

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

Like I, you know, I think we're, you know, we've got a bunch of really happy customers and we've kind of rolled out, you know, we've done a lot of platform build and we've kind of re-architected how push notifications work.

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

You know, this whole edge computing device side, it's been complex to do at scale.

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

So it's, you know, we're still kind of, we're coming out of that period of heavy investment in the kind of platform and the infrastructure.