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Tomer Levy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
199 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

We're about a year and a half in the market today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

If you look at the last 10 days, it's probably around 40K.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

So what we do very differently for most companies, at least in our space, is we focus on open source.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

So we're actually, a large part of what we offer is actually an open source platform called ELK, ELK often used.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

So just to say, ELK has about half a million downloads a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

So think about it like a set of libraries, you install them on a server and they basically take all the data, any data you have, it can be web application, it can be data about credit card swiping, your e-commerce, it doesn't matter, you put it into this one bucket and what ELK allows you to do is basically visualize the data and understand what's important in it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

What we do is we offer that in the cloud with more capabilities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

So I'm going back to your question about kind of the way our business works is really based on the open source community.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

So we see today many companies, thousands of new companies sign up to our platform every quarter and start the process, start to use the platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

And this is kind of the main driver to the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

And this is how we actually get our initial value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

So, unfortunately, we're not the one who actually developed the open source from the beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

It was actually developed by different folks, and they spent most of the time kind of investing in the core search engine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

The Elk is, I would say, a very strong search engine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

What we've built on top of the core open source, we've built...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

I would say an application, a solution specifically for log management.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

So customers, instead of them trying to install, maintain, it's really hard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

It takes a lot of time and effort.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

They kind of get that as a SaaS from us in the cloud.