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Kevin Yun

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
177 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

I want to say like 2018, but that didn't really count.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

It was part-time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

Uh, we tried charging.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

So the way we did it was like, we bought the product in a couple of months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

We wanted to ship something out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

Um, we made a lot of compromises.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

So like, even though we did try charging for that version one, it was like, you know, we didn't make any type of money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

Everybody was just going to train a few months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

It didn't really count.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

So, uh, we really spent like a whole year just rebuilding the product from scratch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

And I guess you could say like a little over two years ago, we kind of made our first real customers with our, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

new product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

So the way that works is basically it's like whoever goes full-time, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

So it was 50-50 at the start.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

You know, we're just trying to make this work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

When we started from the ground up for version two, that's when, you know, we had the conversation like, hey, how do we want to do this?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

You know, Derek is going to continue part-time, but if I'm doing this full-time, we're just going to, you know, split like 75-25.