We (StatusPage.io) are also in the process of getting our docs switched over. Greg helped out with the initial migration which was awesome. Definitely recommend other SaaS companies have a look.
nice design. been looking for something like this for a while - always end up listening to the same tracks on spotify even though they have some decent discovery apps. seems like a good idea to completely separate out indie music, eliminating the chance of users like myself always going back to their starred spotify playlists.
Good call. All of those metrics are fairly low right now. Mainly a small salary overhead. 0 churn so far. Right now, we're still in the process of figuring out what those repeatable processes are for customer acquisition
I agree that just reading the headlines of the sections themselves is meaningless. What we tried to do with the post is identify tactical things we did to increase our MRR. Things like personally reaching out to every user, hand-holding them through the sign up process, figuring out where they abandoned the product, identifying the core feature set to build from our first batch of signups, figuring out how to deliver value within 5 minutes of signup.
There's never going to be a do x,y,z and you'll make $5k since every business is different, but instead tips like ours from what we've seen work for us.
Agreed on the title, a better one could have been, 'Our 5 Steps to $5k in MRR' to clarify.
As bryanh mentioned, $5k isn't the goal. It's the first milestone. Agree that getting from $5k to $50k will be a completely different undertaking so you'll see another post like this one once we get there
I'd say most of the strategy can be duplicated with the right founders. The only significant mainstream press we've had was the TechCrunch article and while it for sure helped out to accelerate growth, I think we would still have hit $5k a couple months later without it.
Hey nawitus, thanks for the feedback. From what we've seen so far, the majority of signups have reacted positively to the personal emails. Usually, there's some type of question that we can help out with off the bat.
Thanks! Let us know if you sign up in the future and we can be helpful at all. Will have some more features coming down the pipe built around Public Metrics as well.