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Justin Mitchell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
305 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

Yeah, so annually, you're paying $3 a user.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

Monthly, you're paying $5 a user.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

And average team size is somewhere between 8 and 10, upwards to maybe 45, depending on the use case.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

So we have a couple of VCs that are actually using it to talk to all of their portfolio companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

And those are like 45, 50 people in those teams.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

Yeah, I mean, I talk about this a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

It's one of my favorite strategies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

of Yak's genesis is writing coattails of somebody else's marketing efforts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

I've always been really big on not putting money into ads, finding creative other ways to find users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

And for us, that meant utilizing Product Hunt's existing audience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

It's startups, it's makers, it's designers, developers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

It's exactly who we were trying to target.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

So from an audience perspective, it worked out really great for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

So we submitted this to the hackathon specifically with the explicit idea of we will win the hackathon because we're really good builders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

We know how to make something that looks good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

And once we do, that will be free press for our design agency, SoFriendly, which was really the idea at the time was let's use this as a marketing funnel, get featured by them, and then people will come in and find out who built it and they'll hire us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

That was kind of the idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

So yeah, we really just kind of leveraged their audience

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

They put us in their newsletter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

They put us on their Medium blog.