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Isaac Hayes III

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
196 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

So it's a wide variety of tools for anybody to use to monetize their content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

So that started in 2018.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

Really, we launched the app at the beginning of 2019, and I didn't tell anybody that I built it, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

I let it sit for a year because I wanted to have a proof of concept without using my name or anybody that I knew to get users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

I wanted somebody to come on the app and use the app what it was intended for, and we had several users do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

But one person made about $6,000 in a year, and we had less than 10,000 users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

And so that showed me that I had a proof of concept that I could take and raise capital to do so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

But then 2020 came and COVID hit and then I couldn't move.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

So we had to go a different route with crowdfunding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

Probably almost 200,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

Ooh, we just had a big uptick.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

Maybe 20,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

What drove the uptick?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

Well, we actually had a new user, Rapper Lotto.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

She just joined the platform, actually, and she's having a birthday party here in Atlanta, and she's inviting five people to come to her birthday party on Fanbase, which I thought was really, really cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

And people are downloading the app and subscribing to her like crazy because they want to come to her party.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

I don't know off the top, but I mean, we're well over probably almost $300,000 or $400,000 just thinking about all the users in our user base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

So it's a significant amount of users that made a lot of money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

probably 80% of the app.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

It's not very high.