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Will Van Der Sanden

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
130 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

I'm a software developer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

I wrote most of the software of the code for Duck Soup.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

So yeah, I just was doing this first in the evenings, really, and in the weekends.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

And yeah, after about a year and a half or two years, we saw revenue going up

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

to the level that really the standard or the normal contracting could stop and I could focus full-time on Duxon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

Today, what we got, if you included the free ones, 70,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

But if you're looking at paid customers, we got about 15,000 customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

One five, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

As a tactic, we basically used pricing at the starting of the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

and not very functional.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

So we go in there with using pricing as a way of clawing a bit of the markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

We talked to influencers, basically asking them to review the product, or to try the product, and if they liked it, to review it as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

The biggest one for us was John Nemo, I would say.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

John Nemo.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

Yeah, just John as you would spell John.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

Nemo, N-E-M-O.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

Well, the first year we obviously did not get to 70,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

The first year we probably got to about maybe a few, well, 1,000 or 2,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

So it's not that we really had a single influencer really driving this forward.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

What we've seen really is that