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Vidboard hits $20k in MRR in 2 months to help create videos from static images, text to video
11 Sep 2022
Chapter 1: How did Vidboard achieve $20,000 in MRR within two months?
Okay, so there's 10 paying 2000 a month. That's 20 grand in MRR.
Yes, you can say that. Yes.
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He's a lawyer by profession and serial entrepreneur in practice. Technology has always fascinated him outside the practice of law and his newest startup is a deep tech AI video platform called Vidboard. The platform converts text to videos featuring humans in minutes.
In short, his platform can convert a human photograph into a talking human without the need to go into any studio with just text as an input. Ashwin, you ready to take us to the top?
Yep.
All right. So you help people create deep fakes, huh?
Yeah, you can say that, but I would say that, um, Deepfakes is a kind of a negative word. So I would say we convert photographs into talking heads. That's how I see it. I mean, it means the same thing.
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Chapter 2: What unique features does Vidboard offer for video creation?
Which one are you focused on?
At the moment, we are focused on gaining as much traction when it comes to B2B because eventually this product, we will be focusing on the B2B segment. To be honest, at the moment, we are looking at, we are on two boats. But once we see traction and once our product is fully ready, which should take about another six months, then we would be going all guns blazing in the B2B segment.
So do you know customers then today on the B2B side?
There are about seven, about 10, I would say. There are 10 B2B customers.
Okay. So there's 10 paying 2000 a month. That's 20 grand in MRR.
Yes. You can say that.
Yes. That's great. That gets congratulations. Now, I imagine the B2C revenue is small, $1,000, $2,000 a month, something small.
Yes, you can say that. Yeah, exactly.
How did you... Okay, so this is fascinating to me. So how did you get your initial customers? Was it all product hunt?
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Chapter 3: How does Vidboard differentiate itself from deepfake technology?
We harness those contacts to get us B2B clients. And when it comes to B2C, what we did was... Wait, hold on, hold on.
On the B2B side, why are your old teaching friends good B2B customers? Teachers don't have a lot of money, right?
No, it's not about teachers. We are talking about edtech platforms. Edtech platforms and law firms... Say, for example, there is an online legal education platform called Angelion. They are our first users. I was earlier working with them full-time.
And how will they use you today?
All right. So they have got online content in law. So unfortunately for them, they can't create videos at scale in different languages. And for that matter, in multiple videos of the content. So they use our platform to create video content by just entering the script that is there, the educational content, and out comes the video.
But who is visually in the video?
uh avatars and of course some of them are oh it's a cartoon not cartoon it's not human photo like i can make i can click your photograph and i can convert it into a talking avatar well my point is if i'm at a legal firm and my boss right the attorney sends me 10 training videos to watch and i start watching those and it's not him or it is his face but i don't hear his voice like if that's not going to work right so what is it you just make up a person and put it in the video
No, it's not that. See, I'll be very straight here. It's not about whether the voice is actually there. What we have found from our customer base is they are not interested in whether we are able to clone the voice. They are more interested in whether we can replicate a person in a normal video presentation without him entering the video studio to create his own video.
So what we have done here is... But it won't be in his voice, right?
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Chapter 4: What are the pricing models for B2B and B2C clients?
So you're doing $20,000 a month right now in revenue. What were you doing a year ago? Nothing? Nothing. That's awesome. Okay. And bootstrapped it or have you raised capital?
Bootstrapped as of now, hopefully God willing by next year, May, June, we should be in a position to start talking to investors.
Why do you want to raise money?
Um, see right now, uh, we want to do a lot of stuff when it comes to the product. And for that, we would require external capital and, um, And right now, since we would also want to hire good AI research scientists, because at the moment we are only, we are two of us. I'm not a research scientist. So my co-founder Tushar is. So based on...
His understanding of things, we would be requiring a lot of people in this domain. For that, we would require funds in order to hire good talent. So we'll be spending money on hiring good talent as well as on promotional activities.
And how much capital would you want to raise?
At the moment, our basic estimate is about $650,000.
And what's your team size today? How many people?
At the moment, we are seven of us.
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Chapter 5: How did the guest acquire their initial customers?
Something you wish you knew.
You wish you knew in your 20s. I wish I knew in my 20s. I would say I wish I was a techie. I ended up becoming a lawyer. I wish I was a techie. I could have done a lot.
Wish he was a techie. Well, he is now. Vidboard.ai launched, guys, a couple months ago. They're already doing $20,000 a month in revenue across 10 customers. Invite only over 1,500 on their waitlist. Successful launch on product time with 426 upvotes. It's an AI-powered platform that allows you to put up a picture and they'll basically make the mouth move and put up any text you want.
It's really useful for translating the same audio into different languages or things of that nature when you're creating courses or training internally for your team. We'll see what happens next. Ashwin, thanks for taking us to the top.
Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Take care, Nathan.
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