Mayya: India lacks a large market for community SaaS platforms
“Because I don't think in India, there's a big market. We actually had an experiment in India. It didn't work so well.”
Mayya: Scenes is at ~$400K revenue, adding $30K-$100K monthly
“We're at about 400 K revenue. We're adding about 30 to a hundred K of new revenue every month.”
Mayya: White-labeled SaaS like Scenes will beat centralized platforms long-term
“So my personal belief is in the longterm, just like geo cities and domains domains ended up, GoDaddy ended up winning. I feel like we will end up winning because we are the white labeled version or the SAS version of, let's say platforms that exist today, a Ma…”
Mayya: Long term, everyone will have their own mobile app
“I feel like long term, everyone will have an app. You'll, instead of you spending three lakhs, five lakhs a month on a developer, buy scenes, right?”
Mayya: Most Discord engagement happens in groups under 20 people
“Discord is huge engagement, but most of their engagement is communities or groups with under 10 people.
10 to 20 people, right?
It's like, I want a game with my five friends.
I want to play FIFA with my five friends, or I want to play some, I don't know, Valor…”
Mayya: Scenes targets 250+ member communities and rejects developer groups
“We are for larger communities than Discord or WhatsApp.
The ideal size is two 50 plus.
If you have a community of two, two 50 plus scenes is the best option for you, right?
Below two 50, even we recommend go use WhatsApp, right?
The last kind of community we d…”
Mayya: Scenes closed its prior funding round through a tweet
“In fact, my entire last round happened Because Gaurav saw one of my tweets on Twitter, called me, I mean, sent me a text and said, come to my office. He would never have discovered me if I had cold emailed.”
Mayya: Scenes recruited almost its entire team directly through Twitter
“Every single person we have hired, except like one or two people who we've hired from agencies, every other person we've hired from Twitter.”