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Julian Donjou

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
223 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

Is that accurate?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

That's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

And if you're at $110,000 a month today, where were you exactly one year ago so we can understand growth?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

I think a year ago, we were at a third of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

So we basically multiplied by three over the last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

And have you done all this bootstrapped or have you raised capital?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

We all bootstrapped since the beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

So it took a while, I think, for us to grow, basically because we started with...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

I mean, our own solution, which was, you know, a Python script to automate a lot of core work and bring that to a solution that can accommodate, you know, businesses, large corporations, large teams.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

It took a few months, a few years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

Finding the good product market fits the good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

Even the good marketing, the good way of selling the product took us a few years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

Since we didn't raise capital early, which was a choice, we wanted to focus on building the product and not trying to go on a roadshow, trying to find a VC or that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

Yeah, I mean, it took a few years to start, but at the end of the day, we're quite happy with that decision so far because we're free and very autonomous in the way we can take our decisions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

No, I think that's super smart.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

Now you keep saying we.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

Did you have one co-founder at the beginning?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy

Did you guys just split equity 50-50 at the start?