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Joe Long

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
201 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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

He was just gone two months, but I got the idea that they had 250 to 350 customers.

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

The problem that they did, they didn't take a SaaS model.

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

They were all on-prem way back when.

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

So they've taken the on-prem and they're trying to make a SaaS model.

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

And instead of reinventing the whole thing, they just slapped a front end on

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

top of their database and it doesn't work well.

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

If that, yeah.

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

I mean, you know, they have a layered approach.

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

So this company pays approximately what they pay for ASOFT, right?

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

They're running the same thing, $10,000 a month or so.

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

But CompuFloor charges them $800 just to create a license, just to create a license.

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

And, you know,

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

Just selling points like that are a slam dunk.

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

Why would you pay $800 to create a user?

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

Yeah, I'd say they're in the neighborhood of four or five million, I guess.

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

Oh, you know what?

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

I floated that idea to them.

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

They ignored me.

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

So it's run by a 70-odd-year-old guy who's a bit of a kingpin.

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

That's why the employees cite that they leave.