Developer side project gets first 80 customers, $6k in ARR, how'd he do it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

I'm an unstoppable learner; currently learning how to build software businesses. I've built 3 products in the past that made $0 and have all been shut down. Launched Chime Social in January 2021, a Twitter scheduling and analytics tool, and first profitable product.

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0:00.0	So I build it, productized it, shipped it, got like four or five more customers.
0:03.5	You're a one-man show right now.
0:04.8	You do everything.
0:06.2	I do everything, yeah.
0:07.1	On 100%.
0:07.8	No investors.
0:09.2	Correct.
0:11.4	You are listening to conversations with Nathan Latka.
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0:27.5	You'll get the full interviews.
0:29.5	Right now, you're only hearing partial interviews.
0:32.4	And you'll get interviews three weeks earlier
0:35.3	from founders, thinkers, and people I find interesting.
0:39.2	Like Eric Wan, 18 months before he took Zoom public.
0:43.6	We got to grow faster. Minimum is 100% over the past several years.
0:48.0	Or bootstrap founders like Vivek of Question Pro.
0:51.3	When I shot the company, it was not cool to raise.
0:53.3	Or Looker's CEO Frank Bean before Google acquired his company for $2.6 billion.
0:59.3	We want to see a real pervasive data culture, and then the rest flows behind that.
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