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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

You just go in your IDE, you look for code snippets or coding assistant and we're here.

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

I would say today... So it's really interesting because you see different types of customers.

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

We have a lot of users from GitHub, but most of the users are free users.

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

On Bitbucket, we have way less Bitbucket users, but these users come from companies.

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

And these companies are more paying customers.

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

So the behavior is different.

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

But the GitHub users are driving growth.

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

And you have the word of mouth.

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

People that start to use you on GitHub, they're going to talk about your product to their colleague, and then they're going to sign up.

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

But then it's real that they're going to pay.

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

Because of the number of people... Downloading?

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

Yeah, exactly.

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

The number of people on GitHub.

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

GitHub today is such a massive website with so many users that if you can capture only a few percent of the number of users, it's going to drive a lot of traffic.

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

Right now, we're burning about 50 to 60K a month.

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

So the goal right now is really to be conservative on the runway because what I want to do is to get product market fit.

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

Have a tool when people come and use it every single day.

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

That's really interesting because for the code review platform, initially, when we started to use it, we saw different behavior for the user and for the enterprise.

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

Enterprise use it almost every day.

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

User didn't use it every day.