Julian Donjou

So it worked very well so far and it still works to this day.

So how did you, you launched in 2018.

It sounds like your revenue really started sort of the end of 2021.

How did you guys pay yourself between 2018 and 2021, like your house rent and for food and things like that?

yeah we did not actually i mean we worked for the first uh a few years uh we had uh two jobs for a while um both media and i and when we were able to switch to to that full time but it took yeah i mean the first years were pretty hard you had to which is a good thing i think to have because you know that both money and time are very constrained so you have to focus on the right thing which as an engineer you see a lot of stories of people trying to build products and you know never launching and adding more and more features because you're like

yeah, that new feature will bring new customers and you never do anything.

Whereas where you were in the first few years, we were in the mindset that would be like, we have no time and no money.

So like we have two hours of spare time this week.

What do we do?

What can we do with only two hours and basically zero dollar?

So you think in a different way, which I think helped us a lot over the years to grow.

in a way where you don't have a lot of resources basically you do a lot of things you try to do other things with a little when did you guys quit your fault your other jobs and go all in on mergeify what year uh we quit a couple of years ago for maybe i mean a different time for me and medic uh to be able to focus uh on this and also when we started to hire more people uh over the last years uh we were we were able to you know grow and so when did you when did you quit your other job 20 20

2021 yeah i mean yeah we put a different job for media i quit last year but they go over a couple of years ago i mean as soon as basically we got enough money to start paying one salary and then to start with and hire more people how many people are you guys today full time uh we have 10 people full time in the team and how many are still hiring

We have seven engineers right now in the team.

Interesting.

So who are the other three?

Are they in sales?

Me, I'm doing sales and a lot of things.

And we have two people working in the marketing team.

Walk me through how you're getting customers today.