Justin Duke
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Podcast Appearances
So right now around 250, 260 paying customers.
Just me.
I get some friends to help me with copy editing and reviewing some pull requests every now and then, but it's me on the masthead.
For sure.
Churn actually looks pretty similar on both, but people who are on purely the metered churn a little bit more, I think it's around like
let's say 8% month over month churn.
If you're just using the metered, you're not using any of the premium features, but I've found that the folks who are using the premium features, people who I'm getting more revenue from actually stickier.
It's closer to, I'd say like four or 5% churn.
It's pretty much all been inbound.
I think around last year, I messed around with just sort of doing some AdWords stuff, seeing if that was going to be a useful channel.
I was able to get like a bit of flow coming from those channels, but it wasn't playing to my strengths.
I felt like I only have, especially bootstrapping as a side project, I only have so many hours in a day.
I'd rather spend that time improving the product and doing blogging type things to do marketing as opposed to fiddling around with like the search ad side of things.
I would go with passively, besides my employers, the Collison brothers are great and I learned a lot from them.
Richard Allison, who is the CEO of Domino's.
If you look at the Domino's stock over the past few years,
They have changed from being a food company into a distribution company.
And it's really, really cool.
Besides Stripe, Notion.
Notion is my lifesaver.