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John Stern

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
157 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

And I was able to order an ice cream cone through a QR code.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

And I sent him a text.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

I was like, hey, this is pretty cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

Now you can do something fun with QR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

And we saw, you know, the videos and stories coming from China, seeing how people were

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

using QR codes to get access to different areas because of COVID.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

So we knew that the adoption was going to be forced here in the US and we saw it first at, you know, restaurants for menus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

And now just, you know, the use has exploded.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

Even though QR codes have been around for 25 years, they're finally just, you know, picking up in the United States and like a third wave of QR code usage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

Was that your first use case?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

Like, how'd you get your first hundred customers?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

Was it restaurants and menus?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

We actually kind of have stayed out of the restaurant area a little bit just because there's so many people competing for that right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

Brian and I both have a background in e-commerce and retail.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

So we started with a few of those, but mostly we're going after API partnerships.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

So other platforms that we can integrate with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

And because we do those integrations,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

we can become available to all of their customers right out of the gate instead of us going to try and find all the customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

Yeah, Postal.io was one of the first ones that we did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

We worked really well with them because they do a lot of B2B account-based marketing.