Will Van Der Sanden
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I'm a software developer.
I wrote most of the software of the code for Duck Soup.
So yeah, I just was doing this first in the evenings, really, and in the weekends.
And yeah, after about a year and a half or two years, we saw revenue going up
to the level that really the standard or the normal contracting could stop and I could focus full-time on Duxon.
Today, what we got, if you included the free ones, 70,000.
But if you're looking at paid customers, we got about 15,000 customers.
One five, yeah.
As a tactic, we basically used pricing at the starting of the company.
and not very functional.
So we go in there with using pricing as a way of clawing a bit of the markets.
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.
The biggest one for us was John Nemo, I would say.
John Nemo.
Yeah, just John as you would spell John.
Nemo, N-E-M-O.
Well, the first year we obviously did not get to 70,000.
The first year we probably got to about maybe a few, well, 1,000 or 2,000.
So it's not that we really had a single influencer really driving this forward.
What we've seen really is that