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@themkmaker

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Building an affordable Typeform alternative @youformdotcom and tweeting about the learnings while bootstrapping it to 100,000 users.

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Joined November 2019
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@themkmaker
Abhishek from Youform
7 months
This blows my mind how a small product I am building from my bedroom did almost 100k INR yesterday. 🤯
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Abhishek from Youform
1 month
Added this on Youform's landing page 😹
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
My SaaS is running on a server with just 2GB RAM and made $15,000 in last 28 days while serving 1200+ users. No fancy serverless or database technology yet. Just with PHP and MySQL 🤓
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Abhishek from Youform
18 days
"People are tired of all their subscriptions. Pay us $5/month to know more" - WSJ
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
Couple of payments a day, keeps the indiehacker’s anxiety away 🥳
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Abhishek from Youform
1 year
@dubeji18 We created a project with that circuit 😅 It was a fire alarm 🚨 and was a perfect jugaad project 😂 13 years old pic:
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Abhishek from Youform
2 years
@dagorenouf You mean “ChatGPT is free software but millions don’t know how to use it. Here are 10 tips” tweets are from same people who tweeted “Web3 is the next big thing. Read this if you want to save your job”?
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Abhishek from Youform
1 year
@TheAnkurTyagi @DawsonCodes You didn’t give answer to his question. 🤔
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
Woke up and saw this! 2 lifetime deals sold for $299 in 🥹
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Abhishek from Youform
8 months
First paying customer of Youform within 30 minutes of launching paid plan! 🥳
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Abhishek from Youform
5 months
For the first time after getting 2600+ users and generating more than $20k revenue we finally upgraded our server from 1 CPU - 2GB RAM to 2 CPU - 4GB RAM 😎
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
We just made 1 million in gross revenue in Youform 🤯
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Abhishek from Youform
5 months
Are we there yet or should I wait for couple of days to post this? 🤔
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Abhishek from Youform
6 months
Shipping nothing today. Busy playing Holi 🎨 ❤️
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Abhishek from Youform
1 year
And it’s done. My first product got acquired on @acquiredotcom Thanks @agazdecki for creating the best platform for indiehacker’s exit. Time to speed up on @youformio now 🚀
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Abhishek from Youform
5 months
I find it distasteful, almost unethical, to say this when you have 18 million subscribers.
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
How we made $35,000 in revenue in less than 4 months after launch. We launched Youform 4 months ago, and here are some key stats: 👥 4,000+ registered users. 🤑 $35,000+ in revenue. 🔁 $1,200+ MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue). 👀 340,000 page views (122,000 in the last 28 days).
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Abhishek from Youform
1 month
Never getting tired of these notifications 😍
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Abhishek from Youform
10 days
@dvassallo Worst when you carry that same computer in your bag to the office 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Abhishek from Youform
23 days
she said "take me somewhere expensive"
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she said “take me somewhere expensive”
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
Wow! This small SaaS I am building from my bedroom all alone got used by 90,000 people from 167 countries 🤯
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Abhishek from Youform
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
Crazy! Youform has reached ~$900 MRR. Can we get to $1000 MRR by end of this month? 🤓
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
Consecutive 2 good days for @youformio generated ~200k INR in 2 days! 🚀
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Abhishek from Youform
17 days
I started working on Youform with a target of 10,000 users which felt like a distant dream. The first line of code I wrote was in Jan 2023. Working on and off as I was having lots of other consulting works. Tried lots of cold DM'ing and reached almost 200 users in 10 months.
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Abhishek from Youform
5 months
I am thrilled to announce that we are are not selected in YC24... Actually, we didn't even apply 😂 In less than 3 months of running Youform we have received 3 funding offers, that too from reputable angel investors. But we have to politely turn them down as we have decided
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Abhishek from Youform
2 years
What the F…?
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Abhishek from Youform
5 months
Mom, I am on Times Square billboard 🥹 Thank you Andrew and @acquiredotcom ❤️
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Andrew Gazdecki
5 months
Please bet on yourself and build a startup.
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Abhishek from Youform
5 months
I am in an AirBnB on a hill station which is 8500ft above sea level in Himalayas. My mobile Internet is giving 260Mbps speed. This wasn’t even 1/100 4 years ago when I was here. Strange how fast Internet is accessible even in the remotest area of India.
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Abhishek from Youform
26 days
Youform's user base is growing by 80-90 users a day. At this rate we will reach 10,000 users by end of this week. I will soon need to change my X bio 🤓 Should I keep next target as 50k or 100k?
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Abhishek from Youform
6 months
Saw there is an opportunity for "Google Form QR code generator". Quickly created this free tool in 30 minutes. ✌️🏻
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Abhishek from Youform
1 year
LOI accepted for Botflow. Nice experience with @acquiredotcom so far. The acquisition should be done by end of this week. Going with full force on @youformio then. 🤞🏻
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Abhishek from Youform
5 months
Just realised my little SaaS made 100+ people on the internet to pick their credit card and pay for the service. Thank you for your trust 🩷
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Abhishek from Youform
2 months
Every time someone buys a subscription my daughter becomes so happy 🥰
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
Shipping fast at - User signs up and asks for a feature. - We assure to ship it soon. - User purchases $299 plan. - We ship the feature. All within few hours. 🚀
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
I procrastinated it for so long! Finally it’s here. 🎉 Since the launch of Youform 3 months ago, the logic builder remained the most requested feature. I was afraid if I ship this feature, it will break lots of things. Moreover the effort it takes to build a logic builder
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Abhishek from Youform
14 days
My wife gifted me this for coming #4 on ProductHunt and reaching the 10,000 users landmark in Youform.
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Abhishek from Youform
14 days
I have been posting all the wins here recently but bootstrapping isn't all bed of roses. Here is how the Youform looked at 2:00AM last night. It took me some time to figure out the root cause and fix it. In total the server was down for 25min and man that was stressful!
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Abhishek from Youform
2 months
Yeah indie hacking money is cool but the freedom to watch your favourite childhood cartoon with your daughter on a Tuesday afternoon, without needing to ask anyone, hits different 🤓
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Abhishek from Youform
9 days
Nice! Youform is the #1 SaaS product of the week on ProductHunt
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
Youform's builder is now becoming more powerful 💪🏻
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
User asks for a feature. I built that, deployed and informed within one hour. Moving fast and b̵r̵e̵a̵k̵i̵n̵g̵ building things 💪🏽
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Abhishek from Youform
1 year
@NithurM Haha, that’s 100%. You won’t believe how many I reject per week on LinkedIn.
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Abhishek from Youform
2 months
🚨 Launch alert 🚨 Introducing Youform Payments. Now you can connect your Stripe account with Youform to start collecting payments! The use cases involve: - Order forms - Donation forms - Appointment booking forms with online payments - & much more! This is a major feature
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Abhishek from Youform
3 months
Youform now has 5000 registered users 😍
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Abhishek from Youform
6 months
Only type of notification that I don’t like to swipe left 🤑
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Abhishek from Youform
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@themkmaker
Abhishek from Youform
2 months
The reason: a company with 20M page views a month started using Youform this morning 👀
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Abhishek from Youform
2 months
277 new signups in the last 24hrs in Youform 😮
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
SaaS is crazy! I was building my daughter’s toy and someone sent me $29. 🙃
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Abhishek from Youform
6 months
Read this somewhere 🖤
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Abhishek from Youform
5 months
When your SaaS customer helps you in debugging the bug 🐞
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Abhishek from Youform
5 months
This is awesome! Someone collected 2641 submissions via Youform so far. If this was a Typeform they would have to be on their highest plan which costs $99/month. Glad that we are building something which is not only helping people but also saving them money 😎
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
Big announcement 🚨
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@themkmaker
Abhishek from Youform
7 months
After weeks of hard work finally launching the login page of Youform 🥳
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Abhishek from Youform
3 months
A new subscription a day keeps the indie hacker’s anxiety away 🤓
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Abhishek from Youform
5 months
@ravihanda Tell him even a 1-2 years experience who knows Wordpress and Shopify well won't work at that range of salary.
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Abhishek from Youform
1 year
@peer_rich The best part: no traffic.
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Abhishek from Youform
5 months
The most important thing you need to do while running a SaaS is to address the questions right where it might occur in your users' minds. Especially when you are selling something like lifetime deal (which sounds too good to be true).
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Abhishek from Youform
6 months
What do you think guys? Am I in a position to handle this much new MRR? 🤔
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Abhishek from Youform
5 months
Adding this soon in Youform 👀 Took a little more time than I imagined.
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Abhishek from Youform
10 days
Senior SEO: Just do what I say. You don’t need to think much. Junior SEO: okay
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
Only 2 subscriptions away from getting $1000 MRR by end of this month. Looks tough 👀
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
Crazy! Youform has reached ~$900 MRR. Can we get to $1000 MRR by end of this month? 🤓
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
Making 100k INR a day since we announced the closing of lifetime deal 🥳 If you want to grab the lifetime deal, do it now. Last date is 7th june.
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
Devin looks great, but too bad the company which raised $21 million is using Google forms for their waitlist. 🤦🏻‍♂️ C'mon @cognition_labs you could do better, @youformio is here 😅
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
When I was starting to work on Youform my wife jumped in to help on landing page. She was still learning to design that time and was following some tutorials on Tailwind. I asked her to go for neubrutal design. She wasn’t aware of this design style but took inspiration from
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Davis from Youform & OneUp
7 months
Sahil from Gumroad won't stop bullying me
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
One best thing about running Youform is that we don’t need to send these emails ✌🏻
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
We made $34,000+ from Youform’s lifetime deal sales in less than 4 months. Today will close this deal and switch to recurring revenue. Thank you all the early adopters for your support. We will definitely make Youform a big success and your trust when we were just starting
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Abhishek from Youform
5 months
Too expensive, barely affordable. 🤐
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
We announced that Youform’s lifetime deal will be closed on 7th June. Since then received 100k INR ($1300) revenue in a single day!
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Abhishek from Youform
6 months
This is my bio. While writing this I thought 10,000 users would be a distant dream. We have launched 50 days ago and Youform already has 2000 users now. How soon do you think I need to change this bio? 😛
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
One more left to reach $1000MRR 🥹
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
Only 2 subscriptions away from getting $1000 MRR by end of this month. Looks tough 👀
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
Ok so custom domains became the most requested feature in now. Can I ship it today? Lets find out 👀
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
Me flexing in front of my FAANG friends after receiving my first payout from Stripe 🥳
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
We reached $1000 revenue within 8 days of paid plan launch. I never imagined it will be this fast. I could have never done this by myself. Glad I partnered with Davis!
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Davis from Youform & OneUp
7 months
We just crossed over $1,000 in total revenue for Youform, which was the amount at which mine and @themkmaker ’s partnership becomes officially solidified. Took us 8 days from launch to $1,000 in total revenue. So @themkmaker — curious to hear if it was faster or slower than you
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Abhishek from Youform
6 months
Okay guys, we were wrong! You can't build an affordable form builder. Typeform was right when they started charging $99/mo for forms.
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Abhishek from Youform
3 months
POV: build features so fast your users ask you to slow down 😂
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Abhishek from Youform
16 days
The best part about working on your own product is that you can add these quirky things on your landing page whenever you want 😸
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Abhishek from Youform
23 days
One month ago, we launched the Payments feature in Youform, allowing our users connect their Stripe account and directly collect payments. To date, our users have collectively made $1620 using Youform. I expected this number to be higher tbh but we sent this feature announcement
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Abhishek from Youform
1 month
Holy cow 🐮 < 25 min is what it took me to build this using AI in Cursor that got over 120k views 🤣
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Abhishek from Youform
1 month
Added this on Youform's landing page 😹
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
In multi-step forms, users often don't know how many fields are left to answer. To address this, we added a progress bar at the top of each form.
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Abhishek from Youform
6 months
You know you have created a good product when your users start asking for a one click import from your competitor 😎🎉
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Abhishek from Youform
6 months
Feature request to feature delivery within one hour ⚡️ P.S you can now turn dark mode to your Youform in just one click.
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Abhishek from Youform
6 months
@PritishllM Added. Is this how you want it to be?
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Abhishek from Youform
16 days
After launching Youform 7 months ago and loved by 10,000 users we have finally launched it on @ProductHunt Would love your support here:
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
Apparently 50 people thought it would be good idea to subscribe Youform's Youtube channel having zero videos. 🤷🏽‍♂️ Should I start making Youtube videos? 🤔
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Abhishek from Youform
16 days
We are now #4 product of the day Let’s see where it lands
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Abhishek from Youform
16 days
After launching Youform 7 months ago and loved by 10,000 users we have finally launched it on @ProductHunt Would love your support here:
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
We need 4 lifetime deals sale to reach $10,000 revenue. We are going to raise the price on Monday. Lets see if we get to $10k mark before that. 😅
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Davis from Youform & OneUp
7 months
9 hours later, and we just passed $9,000 in revenue 🚀🚀🚀
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Abhishek from Youform
1 month
We destroyed $28,000 revenue of our competitor! ...or not sure how you will see it, but I did a little math and ran some SQL queries in Youform database to find the following: Users who has submissions count: more than 10 and less than 100 => 585 > 100 and less than 1000 =>
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Abhishek from Youform
15 days
Excited to announce that we have acquired for Youform. It costed $$$ but we are confident this will be worth it.
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Abhishek from Youform
3 months
Introducing this cool feature in Youform. Have a long form where your users missed some fields? You can now send them a link of their submission and they can refill it without needing to fill up the already submitted fields again. Even incumbents like Typeform doesn't provide
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Abhishek from Youform
12 days
The email a user receives from a form builder by a trillion dollar company vs by 2 bootstrap guys who are building it from their bedroom:
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Abhishek from Youform
3 months
So excited to launch this new feature in Youform. 🎉 Now you can let your users book meetings (or appointments) by using 3 popular schedulers in the market namely: @Calendly , @calcom and @savvycal By using them along with Youform's logic builder you can easily create
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Abhishek from Youform
4 years
Shoutout to all the Indian Indiehackers on Twitter. How many of you are here? I am an Indiehacker from India too but found that most of us are indulged in consulting freelancing with very few people actually in SaaS business. So we have any community of Indian indiehackers?
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Abhishek from Youform
5 months
Working on this most requested feature of Youform. This one is hard!
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
Youform's landing page has crossed 100k page views a month and we haven't done proper SEO yet.
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Abhishek from Youform
2 months
One of our customers has collected more than 100K submissions via their forms. Had they been using Typeform, they would have had to pay at least $500 for 50K submissions, after which they would need to upgrade to an enterprise plan, which costs somewhere between $1,000 to $3,000
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
Lol that's hilarious
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Abhishek from Youform
27 days
Youform now supports reCaptcha. Available for FREE. Btw, Typeform does provides this feature but only at $199/month and above plans!
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Abhishek from Youform
4 months
3000+ people signed up on Youform since its launch 3 months ago!
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
Ok woke up with this again 🤯 Can we get one more LTD by end of day today to repeat the previous stats? @mynameis_davis 😂
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Abhishek from Youform
7 months
This blows my mind how a small product I am building from my bedroom did almost 100k INR yesterday. 🤯
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Abhishek from Youform
1 year
@SergioRocks @danielescillia How about freshers? I love working remotely now but in my initial years of career I felt more comfortable when my senior was at one hand distance and during lunch and other times I could listen to others discussing things they are working on.
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