Hard Truths From A Bootstrapping Founder On The Road From Zero To One
This is a follow up story for reviewflowz. If you're interested in reading how they got started, published over 3 years ago, check it out here.
Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.
I’m Axel, co-founder of reviewflowz, and I now run the business on my own. A year ago, we launched Reviewflowz, a review aggregator & monitoring Slackbot for SaaS companies on Product Hunt, and got some pretty cool traction initially. MRR quickly soared to $250 and we felt like we were on the right track.
A few weeks in though, everything started stalling. The acquisition was down to the ground, and we couldn’t figure out how to talk to the users we didn’t know personally. They understandably didn’t care about our (repeated) emails and questions very much, despite being paying users for some of them.
So we sort of hit pause, we both had tons of projects on the back burner and went on to work on different things.
And then came March - April 22. We started seeing more and more signups. Then active users. And then paying users. We weren’t looking, but we had Slack notifications for every signup & activation so we could feel it happening.
I focused back on it for a few weeks, and we both gradually started spending more time on it.
Spent a few weeks on bug fixes,...
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