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Joe Long

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
201 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

So I come in, I smooth those out, I train people, I set up teams, and that's kind of the secret sauce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

One time in there helping them, I say, well, outsource your accounting to me, outsource your HR to me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

Right, right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

So that business is more or less evaporated during COVID, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

Because everyone was staffed and everyone wanted the PPP money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

So I was able to hang on to them and get some PPP money, which also helped to build this software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

So it's an end to end ERP system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

So from sales to cash, right, all the way through handles, inventory, accounting, finance, scheduling, labor rates, all nine yards for for installer companies with installers in the field.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

primarily designed for flooring right now, but it can easily be applied to landscaping or, you know, electricians, whoever has bands in the field to keep track of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

So the rate per user, $169.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

And, you know, our first customer here has about 60 users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

So right out of the gate,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

we're in pretty good shape.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

I happen to be the COO of that company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

Well, yeah, I don't get to choose whether they accept it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

The fact that comp people are scaling so badly and can't keep track of the finance makes it really easy for me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

So literally CompuFloor is failing across its entire customer base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team

They've had three project managers who've left over the last 18 months.