2 guys created a $600,000 ARR SaaS company without ever meeting in person.
Here’s how it happened:
When @mynameis_davis met Vishal Kumar on Indie Hackers, he didn’t expect to co-found an award-winning social media scheduler and make a friend for life.
But that’s exactly what happened...
Davis and Vishal were a 17-hour flight away - but that didn’t matter.
Davis, a finance grad, used his marketing skills while Vishal, an engineer, built the MVP.
There's 1000s of bootstrapped startups building really profitable businesses and that's amazing. Major media shouldn't be reserved for VC backed startups.
Bootstrappers exists to inspire, motivate, and help entrepreneurs succeed by speaking louder with actions than words because that's the stuff that moves founders.
So how do you tell a good brand story? Here is the framework that's worked for me.
#1 IDENTIFY A SHIFT
In college, I noticed every business wanted to market to their customers through mobile apps. This shift from desktop to mobile was the beginning of Bizness Apps’ story. 🧵👇
#2 CREATE A NEW CATEGORY
For the first time, we enabled SMBs to build mobile apps for less than the price of a newspaper ad. Finally, the SMBs could compete with large corporations & offer the same things: mobile ordering, mobile loyalty programs, push notifications, and so on.
#3 REINFORCE A THEME
Custom mobile apps can cost up to $200,000, so few SMBs could afford a mobile strategy. To compete with their deep-pocketed competitors, SMBs needed access to the same tools, and Bizness Apps leveled the playing field by making those tools affordable.