How Rybbit Grew

“So I've had around like 900, like either trial or for feature signups. And of those, I have around like 23 customers that I have converted.”

Transistor medium

“Yeah, so basically on the demo site, on the marketing site, you don't have to like, I do have a link to my demo site on top, but I actually embed like an actual preview of my entire demo site just right there. So you don't have to, so the user immediately as they go on my site, they can see a ful...”

Transistor high

“when I launched, when I like, officially launched, I just made a few reddit posts, and that's sort of how it became popular.”

Transistor high

“that was the viral push that got me like, uh, viral on X on and on hacker news and a bunch of like Chinese, Korean and Japanese, uh, sites. I'm not sure exactly what they are, but it was pretty popular for around maybe four or five days.”

Transistor medium

“the reason I went open source is just because there's a bunch of Alternias that are already open source, so there's no reason to not be open source because if someone wanted to copy your code, I mean, there's already a bunch of different open source ones available. So I feel like if you're in a f...”

Transistor high

“I just made a bunch of posts and that's it. Yeah. And then you just got like a flood of, I mean, is it, did you get a flood of signups or were you more looking at the kind of, because, okay, see, cause you've got the, you've got the paid product and you've got the self hosted and then you get free.”

Transistor medium

“Well, I started this in January, so about five months ago, and, you know, I showed my friends and people I knew about it, so I probably showed maybe like six, seven people, but there was no pre-launch public beta or anything, I just sort of just like, when it felt right, I launched it.”

Transistor high