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Nikhil Aitharaju

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134 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

It's your dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

So exactly before COVID started, that's when we got our first customer and then the flight lead effect kicked in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

We've got to grow faster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Minimum is 100% over the past several years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

I'm all set to go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Yeah, so we are a SaaS subscription business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Our product is Use Topic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

So we are an SEO content tool that helps brands write high-quality, comprehensive content optimized for search.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

We do that in two ways.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

We have a research component that automates the research involved in creating an effective outline.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

And B, we give a real-time feedback on the draft as your writer is writing the content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

And we do make money by selling our SaaS subscription.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

It starts at $50 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Yeah, that's correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Yeah, it's a lot of things that didn't scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

We went to events.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

We actually offered to do the work for some of our contacts who work in the SEO content department.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

And that's how we initially got our first 10 customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

So it's a combination of events and offering value to those initial set of customers.

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