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Julian Delane

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
147 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

The reason why is because we believe that you're going to need to have more and more software in the world, and you're going to have more junior developers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

Software is eating the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

You probably heard that phrase before.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

And the main issue you're going to have is having junior developers write code really quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

And I'm making a big bet on this product that we're going to launch in the next two to three months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

I think we have an existing customer base that we can use to promote the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

But what I really want to do is having a bottom-up approach.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

So have the product go viral.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

Don't care about revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

My investor would probably not like this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

But try to focus on product market fit and retention.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

No, actually, I have one developer relation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

I have some engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

I have some people that also do marketing and write content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

So not all developers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

I think tech founders sometimes have an issue with only hiring technical people and believe that all the issues are technical.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

And I think for tech founders, they need to learn how to do marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

This is something I'm learning myself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

Oh, that's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

What I did is try to look online where people are looking for such a product.