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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Developer Goes from Freelancer to SaaS Founder With Simple Playbook (Copy it!)

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

I'm a freelance software developer building profitable tools on the side. In 2020 I bootstrapped and eventually sold a TikTok marketing platform (influencegrid.com). Now working on Data Fetcher (datafetcher.io), a low-code Airtable app that lets you run API requests. Bootstrapped to $10k ARR over the last 4 months.

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So in the last month, the growth's just gone a bit crazy. It's gone from like $400 to, yeah, like, $1,300. And suddenly it's like, this is actually paying my rent. Like I can, in theory, take this out as dividends. I'm not bothering because we're already freelancing and stuff with software, but it's like, it's suddenly like this is, makes a tangible difference to my life.

0:19.3

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0:45.3

I find interesting. Like Eric Wan, 18 months before he took Zoom public.

0:51.0

We got to grow faster. Minimum is 100% over the past several years.

0:56.0

Or bootstrap founders like Vivek of QuestionPro.

0:59.0

When I start the company, it was not cool to raise.

1:01.0

Or Looker's CEO Frank Bean before Google acquired his company for $2.6 billion.

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Hello, everyone.

1:39.3

My guest today is Andy Cloke.

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