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Hana Mohan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
167 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

I think we have tried to go upmarket because the temptation is always to go upmarket.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

And we found ourselves in that sort of struggle for a few years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

And starting this year, we are doubling down on our focus to be small and medium-sized.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

So they pay about $100 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

It is a seat-based model, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

We experimented actually with a ticket volume-based model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

And while we thought it was great and a lot of our customers thought it was great, we found out that people really tend to overestimate the ticket volume.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

So they tend to be much more aware of how many people are going to be versus how many tickets they're going to have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

So we finally switched over to a, um, to an Asian based seat, your seat based model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

So I'd say about five seats, you know, five seats for a hundred bucks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

Back then, we were one of the first

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

customer support software to have like a sort of a Gmail-like single page, you know, no page refreshes, that sort of interface.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

And it was pretty fairly new back then to be building those things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

This is like five years before React and all of the buzz.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

So I used to write a lot of blog posts about these things and post it on Hacker News.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

And that's how we started finding some of our early customers, to be honest.