Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

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?

But interestingly, our very first customer, paying customer, we had some people use us for about a year before we started drilling our payments.

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

And our very first paying customer is a company called Drills and Cutters.

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

And they're exactly what the name is.

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

They sell drills and cutters online.

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

And they're still using us, like a fairly non-technical team.

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

So I'm not quite sure how they landed on SupportBee, but they were the first ones to actually start paying.

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

I can't remember.

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

It might have been, I think we, I experimented with like putting up pages for Zendesk Alternative.

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

And so I think it might have been one of those things.

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

They definitely weren't the first people to use SupportBeat, but they were the very first ones to pay.

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

We have about 450.

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

450.

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

So it's about 45,000 a month.

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

Some of them are on annual, some of them are on monthly, but that's the average.

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

Yes, actually, we've never raised any money.

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

So we incorporated in the US as a C Corp, as a Delaware C Corp, but we don't have an office anymore.

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

We didn't have an office for a while.

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

Then we had for a couple of years in Bangalore because I think we had this phase where we thought, okay, we should be in Bangalore.

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

We should raise some money and we should hire all the talent we can.

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

But I think very soon I realized I can't really do it.