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Konark Sharma

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
138 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

$10,000 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

10,000 samples a month, they're paying for typically around 10,000 samples.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

Almost, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

When did we start building this ad?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

Essentially, I mean, we started with the first iteration in late 2017, towards the end of the year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

And that's when we kind of began.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

We began as a mobile application, actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

So we have delivered on quite a few iterations of the platform and the product to solve the problem, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

And so that's when we did the first line of code.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

And from there onwards, it's been a hybrid, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

From there onwards, actually, we shifted to using a lot of no code to build out a solution, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

Using a small team, nimble team, and we had to go through a lot of maneuvers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

Because historically, freestand is in the product sampling space, which is the trial marketing category.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

And if you think about it fundamentally, it's extremely easy to give away a free product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

Everybody wants a free product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

So historically, nobody has built any tech infrastructure for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

And that's what we've been navigating for a long time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

So yeah, I mean, I guess.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

We've had about 20 customers, 20 FMCG brands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling

Not 20 active customers, 20 customers that we've been through.