Everything Adam McCrea said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
McCrea: One-third of customers pay despite Heroku's free native autoscaler
“The reality is it did not impact my business in a noticeable way. And I still get about a third of my customers are using those higher tier Heroku Dynos. So about a third of my customers could be using Heroku's free Autoscaler, but they choose Rails Autoscaler…”
McCrea: Founders buy autoscaling for peace of mind, not cost savings
“I'm finding through talking to my customers that for most of them, it's not about cost savings. It's about peace of mind. It's about having a safety net in place, knowing that their app's not going to fall down. It's not going to slow to a crawl, that they can…”
Adam McCrea hits 500 customers and $26K MRR running Rails Autoscale solo
“Right now the team size is one. It's just me. And as of today, I literally hit my 500th customer and I'm just over 26 K MRR.”
McCrea: Heroku marketplace requires 100 beta users before add-ons can charge
“On Heroku, there's basically three phases of being in their marketplace. There's the alpha phase where you're not even listed at all, but you can invite people individually. You have to get 10 customers there before you go to beta, which is when you're in the …”
McCrea: Most churned Rails Autoscale customers left Heroku for AWS
“I've been having a lot of calls with Customers who have actually left Rails Autoscale because they left Heroku, and most of them went to AWS”
McCrea: Rails Autoscale MRR tripled from $5K to $15K during 2020
“And then from in twenty-twenty, started the year twenty-twenty at less than five K MRR, ended at over 15 K MRR. So the business more than tripled just in twenty-twenty.”
McCrea: Accelerating a side SaaS business is impossible with a day job
“If I want to accelerate this business at all, I can't have a day job and do it at the same time.”
McCrea: Rails Autoscale freemium tier did not cannibalize paid subscriptions
“Basically what has happened is I've had a lot more free installations, and the number of paid subscriptions, the trajectory of that hasn't changed at all. So it's just been the same sort of slow and steady growth.”
McCrea: Side project founders should secure IP agreements in writing early
“If I had it all to do over again, I would have gotten it in writing from the beginning, but
yeah,
I was a little naive at that time.”
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