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Robert Warner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
369 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

We can go with this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

We've got people using it to protect their brands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

He was bidding against them and send cease and desist letters and things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

All these things, we hadn't literally no idea that these were use cases.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

And to this day, people keep bringing us more use cases for the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

But that sort of hiatus few months over the summer was brilliant in that it just gave us this time to just gather this thing, rebuild, re-architect, put a slightly more grown-up UI on it that looked a little bit better and not sort of 1980s Etch-a-Sketch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

And you can see what we had.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

This was from one month alone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

Or was it 12 weeks?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

1,581 user comments just in our weekly live calls.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

Now, I see people doing beta launches and free launches and trials and all that, and they're doing one-to-one demos and feedback.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

How long does that process take you to get over 1,500 pieces of individual feedback from real paying users who put their hand in the pocket?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

And you can see all the yellow stuff there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

It's effective feature requests.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

They were writing our roadmap for us just by showing up and talking to us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

And yet they thought we were doing them the biggest favor in the world because we were engaging with them and supporting and listening.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

And it was very much a...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

a kind of two-way street.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

So that's what we did over the summer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year

And then we get into the real fun stuff.