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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

7 months

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@levelsio

7 months

So by @mynameis_davis is a free Typeform alternative, the Pro version is $29/mo or lifetime for $299 rn Not affiliated but looks great to me

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

2 years

Developers will spend $4,000 on a new computer but haven't spent a cent on new clothes in 6 years and are still wearing the same t-shirt they wore in high school

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

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1 year

Build a SaaS, they said It will be fun, they said

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

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8 months

Trying something new to reduce my SaaS's churn

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10 months

SaaS landing pages be like

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

1 year

Build a SaaS, they said It will be fun, they said

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

4 years

Solo founders doing customer support: “Thanks for the feature suggestion, I will discuss it with the ‘team’. “

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Lord give me the confidence of a founder with 0 employees who calls himself “CEO”

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Developers will spend $4,000 on a new computer because "it makes me more productive and saves me time" ...but then also NOT spend $12/month on a SaaS tool that makes them more productive and saves them time because they'd rather spend 300 hours building it themselves

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

10 months

Build a SaaS, they said. Send them occasional emails about new features, they said.

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

1 year

Build a SaaS, they said It will be fun, they said

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

I respect anyone who’s built a successful startup a ton But the respect is 10x higher for anyone who’s built a successful startup while raising kids and being a good parent

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

5 years

Today is YC's Demo Day, where founders try their hardest to give away control of their company. Let's celebrate bootstrapped and self-funded founders with our own "Demo Day". Reply with: 1. A description of your company in 10 words or less 2. MRR (if any) 3. Link to your site

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Someone: "How did you learn how to run a business?" Me:

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

We've reached $55k MRR. Just 2 co-founders, no employees.

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Just reached a major milestone: $50k MRR

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

1 year

Trying something new to reduce our SaaS's churn

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

1 year

Build a SaaS, they said It will be fun, they said

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

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1 year

Build a SaaS, they said It will be fun, they said

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

We're over $640,000 ARR and literally just added the ability for users to update their account email address themselves (previously they had to send a request). You can go ahead and launch your app. It doesn't need to be perfect.

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Here is how to use Reddit to find users for your SaaS (we've used these methods to bootstrap our SaaS to over $750,000 in annual recurring revenue) 👇

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 months

anyone else regularly have a nightmare about being back in college during finals week, and then you realize all of a sudden that there’s a class that you’ve completely forgotten about and not attended at all for the entire semester?

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

If production isn't your testing environment, are you even a real startup?

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Marketing is literally a scam Just create an amazing product and users will find you

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Someone: “What’s the main user acquisition channel for your SaaS?” Me: “Costco.”

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Found the best way to reduce churn for your SaaS:

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

4 years

Let’s try something to make it easy to follow other @IndieHackers : If you’re an Indie Hacker, like this tweet. Then pull up the list of people who liked this tweet, and give everyone a follow 🤓

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

SaaS founder: "My UI is amazing" UI:

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

2 years

If there was a podcast called "My First 10k" that only talked about Small Boy stuff and business ideas, I'd listen to that too

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

1 month

My little brother stepped into the world of entrepreneurship, launching a vending machine where you don't know what drink you'll get Made over $500 in the first 3 days

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

If their email address ends in @ yahoo. com, there is a 0% chance they actually convert to becoming a paid user of your SaaS

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

When people try to 💩 on your startup idea, just tell them to stop being a BrandonM

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Big news: We decided to raise $1,000,000 ...from our paying customers

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

8 months

After 5 1/2 years of Zoom calls, I have finally confirmed that my co-founder Vishal does indeed have legs

Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

8 months

on my way to India ✈️

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

strong technical co-founder + strong marketing co-founder = 🔥

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Charge $20/month = Your user is probably paying with their own money Charge $200/month = Your user is probably paying with company money That's why lower paying customers are higher maintenance

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Today is YC's Demo Day, where founders try their hardest to give away control of their company. Let's celebrate bootstrapped and self-funded founders with our own "Demo Day". Reply with: 1. A description of your company in 10 words or less 2. MRR (if any) 3. Link to your site

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

2 months

Me: "How did you hear about Youform?" User:

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

20 days

Saw that some people were adding "YC S24" to their Product Hunt launch, so I added this instead

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

My #1 tip for SaaS founders: Invest heavily in content marketing early

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Ignore marketing. Your SaaS is just that 1 feature away from success.

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

4 years

Today is YC's Demo Day, where founders try their hardest to give away control of their company. Let's celebrate bootstrapped and self-funded founders with our own "Demo Day". Reply with: 1. A description of your company in 10 words or less 2. MRR (if any) 3. Link to your site

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

1 year

Build a SaaS, they said It will be fun, they said

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Stripe: A customer disputed a charge as fraudulent Me:

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

9 months

"Hey bro, would you be interested in adding an additional $30k - $50k in MRR each month?"

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

"Hey team, our website doesn't work on Safari. Should we fix it?" "Fuck that, just throw up the red screen instead"

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

I think every SaaS landing page should have a GIF showing how the main part of the SaaS works

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

SaaS founders be like:

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

5 years ago, I had literally no idea what a "SaaS" was. Today, I run a SaaS that's made over $1 million. It's insane how much can change over 5 years.

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

4 years

I debated keeping this to myself for selfish reasons 😅, but sharing anyway: A free and easy way to find Quora questions with over 1,000 views, but only 1 answer (1-minute thread) 👇

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Something I haven't mentioned much: I've watched our now 2-year-old daughter full-time while growing OneUp to $50k+ MRR It's hard, but it can be done

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

1 year

Lol this is hilarious. On Firefox, the social media icons just float away

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Our SaaS is approaching $1M ARR and we have never once created company t-shirts, hats, stickers, or any sort of swag

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

1 year

Step 1. Create a crappy Nomad List competitor as a side project (with no intentions of it ever making money or actually competing with @levelsio ) Step 2. Expense all your flights as a business expense

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

1 year

@GKedzierski Time will tell, but Stripe still charges you a dispute fee, regardless of whether you win or lose

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

If you’re not a developer and want to start a startup, you need to find a technical co-founder The alternative route of hiring a dev to build your idea will be way more expensive than you think

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

The key to becoming a millionaire before you turn 40: 1. Budget with cash and envelopes 2. Don't buy Starbucks every day 3. Pack your lunch instead of going out to eat 4. Create a profitable SaaS app and sell it for over $1,000,000

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

11 months

Pieter follows me, so I can DM him. If you're looking for a discount, you can pay me $200 and I will spam @levelsio on your behalf #alwaysbehustlin

@levelsio

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Reset my X Subscription set up now $239 to send me a DM And the chat is 100% free now My subs were making me $1600/mo before and it didn't feel good, so I think better to use X Subs as a paid spam filter Clean inbox, free community = everyone happy

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Remember: your customers don't care about your fundraise

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

4 months

now I've seen it all

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

I know basically nothing about web3, NFTs, or crypto… And yet my boring SaaS is still over $50k MRR

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Even at $60k MRR, I have imposter syndrome all the time

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Idea: Instead of just being an open startup where anyone can view your MRR, create a Substack where people have to pay if they want to see your financial metrics Create some MRR from your MRR

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

1 month

1. User of your SaaS goes to cancel 2. Send them to a competitor that you know is better than your SaaS via the competitor's affiliate link 3. Profit

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

5 months

Someone: "So what do you actually do as non-technical founder?" Me:

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Someone: "I just launched my new SaaS" Me: "So your just-launched SaaS is already 'trusted and used' by Coca-Cola, Nike, Disney, and Amazon?? 🧐"

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

OneUp just crossed $60k MRR 🚀

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

If you're looking for SaaS ideas, I think there's a ton of opportunity in "unbundling" Zapier: Create a single-purpose SaaS app that does the same thing as a Zap.

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

if you dont deploy bugs into production, are you even a startup?

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

@timdorr Me in 2021: “It’s on our product roadmap for Q1 2019”

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

My revenue goal for the end of 2022: $100k MRR What’s yours?

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

8 months

Big announcement - I’m working on a new SaaS with @themkmaker It’s a Typeform alternative called , and calling our shot now: Youform will hit $1,000,000 in annual revenue within 3 years Here’s the story of how it came to be 👇 Me and Vishal (my

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

10 months

Trying something new to reduce churn in my SaaS

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

4 years

Every night as a SaaS founder👇️ zzz 　＜⌒／ヽ-､_＿_ ／＜_/＿＿＿＿／￣￣￣￣￣￣￣　　　∧_∧ Just thought of a new 　　 (　･ω･) feature/optimization/ 　＿|　⊃／(＿＿_ growth strategy/ ／　└-(＿＿＿_／ blog post idea

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

SaaS Founder: "My SaaS's UI is so intuitive and easy to navigate" That SaaS's UI:

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@mynameis_davis

3 years

I'll never forget the day that I proudly told a family member that our SaaS was at $200 MRR. Their response: "$200,000 MRR???" Me: "No, just $200 MRR" ☹️

Dagobert Renouf

@dagorenouf

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Thanksgiving can be rough for startup founders 🦃

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

I cold emailed 100 CEOs of $10M+ companies. I asked if they wanted to hop on a Zoom call with me. I gave no additional context. What happened next will shock you. 👇

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

6 years

The average cost of tuition at private US colleges is $34,740 per year x 4 = $138,960 for a piece of paper. If instead, you invested $138,960 at age 18 and did nothing until you were 65, you would accumulate a $3,728,907 nest egg (assuming 7% annual returns) 💰

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@mynameis_davis

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👀

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Holy sh*t. I thought reaching $55k MRR with just me and my co-founder was impressive, but the Crisp co-founders reached $1M ARR in 2 years with just the 2 of them 🤯

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

4 years

Who else is building a community? Share your community below: 1. Name of your community 2. Description in 10 words or less 3. Link 4. Number of members 5. Platform it's built on (Circle, Slack, custom coded, etc.) 6. Paid or free to join?

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

1 year

Probability of SaaS trials converting to paid by email address type:

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Over the last year or so, I've grown from 2k followers to over 10k followers by using this complex mental model:

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Not a single person replied.

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

4 years

If you asked the 100-most-profitable indie hacker SaaS companies how they get the majority of their paying customers... I bet 95 of them would answer "SEO"

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@mynameis_davis

3 years

If you reach $1 of MRR with your SaaS, that puts you in the top 1% of most successful SaaS products ever 99%+ of SaaS products never find a single paying customer

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@mynameis_davis

2 years

Deleted the Twitter app from my phone as one of my New Years resolutions, so now I just spend the same amount of time scrolling Twitter from a mobile browser

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@mynameis_davis

2 years

@todayyearsoldig There's a whole subreddit devoted to the the fact that wolves are big

r/WolvesAreBigYo

Wolves are big yo.

www.reddit.com

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@mynameis_davis

2 months

@ashleyrudland why you drinking the haterade?

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

3 years

Do any bootstrapped founders in the $20k MRR - $200k MRR want to join a group DM on Twitter? Looking for 5-10 others founders that just want a place to chat and bounce ideas off each other Not looking for any weekly or monthly call, just a casual group DM

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

6 months

The answer: We paid $7,500 for youform·com It was listed at $25,000, but we were able to negotiate the price down to $7,500. It seemed like a decent price for a 7-letter .com domain. Why not stick with .io? The .io TLD is fine, and I'm sure Youform would have been fine

Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

6 months

We made a big purchase 👀 Any guesses on how much we paid for it?

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@mynameis_davis

5 years

me: "Better keep this blog post tab open for the next 6 months just in case I get around to reading it"

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Davis from Youform & OneUp

@mynameis_davis

2 years

A gym that costs $5/day for every day you don't go to the gym Miss every day this month? That'll cost you $150 Go every day this month? You pay $0 And when you sign up, you agree to a $1000 cancellation charge if you cancel within the first 12 months

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@mynameis_davis

3 years

Customer in 2021: “Do you have X feature?” Me: “No, but we plan on adding it soon” Customer: “When do you expect it to be added?” Me: “It’s on our product roadmap for a Q1 2019 release, so it should be live any year now”

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@mynameis_davis

3 years

Someone: "So what does your startup do?" Startup founder:

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@mynameis_davis

4 years

I created a list of founders whose companies have $10,000 MRR or higher:

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@mynameis_davis

3 years

I run a private community for SaaS founders that are over $20k MRR There are currently 155 founders in the community Now here's the crazy part: The vast majority of them have less than 5,000 Twitter followers

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@mynameis_davis

7 months

Youform is now at $58 MRR 🚀

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@mynameis_davis

9 months

If someone launches a new SaaS, the greatest gift you can give them is a screen recording of you going through their entire onboarding, talking out loud about what you notice or what you're confused by

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