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Stas Kulish

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
385 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

Right, okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

Let's say you did something great for me at work, and instead of just saying thanks or putting a reaction to this line of text that you shared with the team, I'm actually producing this kind of animated card that is being published on the public channel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

Now, everybody knows that I'm showing my appreciation of your work publicly, and they may be also not aware of the stuff that we're working on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

Now they have bigger visibility within the team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

All sorts of perks, all sorts of perks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

64, 65K a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

So three times less.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

So we're growing three times a year since we started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

That's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

Have you bootstrapped or raised?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

Bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

We've got some minor, minor angel investment, but

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

We feel that we may look into that direction.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

It takes time and it's time taken from the product building.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

That's my main concern because we are

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

very small and trying to stay lean, it's actually difficult to raise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

So maybe later this year, in order to get faster to the web version, we'll do the fundraising again.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

I think 400 to 500K would be fine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

Uh, and that would go mainly into the, like explaining what we do now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

That's like the marketing beats, which is part, partly sales and also expanding to the web.