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Naveen S.G.

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
155 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

They don't need it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

No, it's a bootstrap company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

So I have invested around 300K from my personal savings.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

Because I had a services consulting startup earlier, which I ran for seven years, where I worked with a lot of overseas customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

And plus, as I mentioned, I have 20 years of experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

So a lot of savings are there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

So we wanted to, I mean, it's an inspiration from your website.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

We really wanted to bootstrap this company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

And we wanted to reach a certain revenue target because it's kind of a validation on our idea and our approach.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

No, I mean, 300k in the last eight months, because to build a full-fledged product, and we had a couple of freelancers also working for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

yeah like around three freelancers we were now on different points in time and plus that also includes something you know some of these subscriptions awgcp subscriptions and also this website and also some explainer video how much did the website cost so website is what you know it's only uh 250 dollars no okay that's not bad so where does that money go to the three freelancers the engineers yeah yeah why couldn't you code it yourself

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

No, we did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

We did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

Because we also decided to use the latest technology as well, like Google Flutter and the GCP and all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

So initially we didn't have that experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

So that's the reason we onboarded them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

In the initial only for three, four months, we onboarded them for four months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

Now, me and my co-founder, we are the only two guys who have built all the advancing features.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers

No, no, no.