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Guys, chanty.com is competing with Slack and Loom and Trello. They're trying to be your work productivity app all in one and having success, completely

bootstrapped.

They got their first customers in 2018, turned on a $20 million acquisition offer in 2021 as

they passed $1.5 million bucks of revenue. Today, they're serving over

24,000 to paying customers doing $3 million a year in revenue, really leveraging an affiliate

strategy. In fact, one of their largest resellers, which is an India-based reseller, brings in

about 250 of their total 500 new customers every month. Those margins on the affiliate deals

obviously improve for Chante over time, but they already have great margins. On the $250,000 of top line

revenue every month, he's profiting about $100,000 per month, but he's looking for a sales

co-founder. A rock star can come in and help him grow the business, willing to give up 15%

equity if he can find the right person. We will see what Chante does next. Hey folks, my guest today is Dmitro Oakenyev. He has bootstrapped Chanti from zero to three

million bucks in AR trying hard to compete with MS Teams and Slack. Demetro, you ready to take

us to the top? Yeah, I guess. A lot of people would say you're crazy. Slack is huge. Microsoft Teams

is huge. How are you going to bootstrap and compete? What would you say back to them?

Yeah, I can't believe that we made it. Yeah, that's thanks for the, um, our obsessed with our product. And, um, yeah, you you know we still doesn't have

self people on the team so it's just pure product that growth mm-hmm when you

last came on in 2021 you'd said that you passed about a thousand customers they

were each paying about 120 bucks a month so you're doing about 1.5 million in

revenue then where are you today so we are around 3 million right now. The customer lifestyle value grew up to the 4.6K and the

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