Everything Alexander Volodarsky said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Volodarsky: Dev Shops Often Pitch Senior Engineers but Assign Junior Staff
“We, it's a little bit harder on the vetting side because you also have to vet before vetting a developer, you have to vet a dev shop because a lot of dev shops are very shady. You know, you need to make sure that there's nothing going on inside the weather tha…”
Volodarsky: Senior Ukrainian Developers Cost Product Companies $3K to $5K Monthly
“If you're a product company, you have someone, something that that developers want to work on, you would have a high chance of paying less. You would have a high chance of paying, I don't know maybe three to four to 5000 dollars per, per, per month. If you wor…”
Volodarsky: Sourcing Developer Supply is Harder and Less Scalable Than Acquiring Clients
“Finding supply is very is very underestimated. It's very hard, it's very expensive, and it's not as scalable as, you know, you could, as marketing towards clients.”
Lemon.io Reached $330K Monthly GMV During Its Peak Month
“In terms of new projects on a short, around 25, but in terms of GMV, it was the best months we did around 330 thousand GMV.”
Volodarsky: Lemon.io Maintains an Average 25% Take Rate
“Our take rate is around 25%. It depends from the project to project, depending on the rate, but the average is 25%.”
Volodarsky: Vetted Developers Leave Lemon.io if Unplaced Within Two Weeks
“Sometimes they spend from 10 to 20 hours of their lives to You know, for us to vet them. If we don't find them work within like first two weeks, they leave and find work elsewhere.”
Lemon.io Accepts Developer Rates Outright and Adds a Commission Markup
“We don't negotiate rates. If the developer comes and says, I want to make, you know, 50 dollars per hour, we'll pay them 50 dollars per hour. We'll just add whatever, you know, is our commission to and we'll offer this to a client.”
Lemon.io Rejects 20 to 40 Developer Applicants for Every Candidate Accepted
“Every developer that comes into the platform, there is 20, 30 and sometimes 40 developers who get out and, you know, we still spend money on them and still spend you know, time on them.”
Volodarsky: Lemon.io Raised Only $60,000 in Early-Stage Capital
“We raised 60 K early on, on 6006, 6000 K. 60, 67 dollars.”
Volodarsky: Lemon.io Has Around 250 Available Developers on Its Platform
“We have available about 250 developers.”
Volodarsky Waited for $10K Monthly GMV to Pursue Lemon.io Full-Time
“And I didn't look into starting that business until it was at least, I think, 10, 10 grand GMV per month. And only then I quit the job and started doing this full time.”
Lemon.io Relies Entirely on Inbound Marketing With Only Two Salespeople
“Yeah, we have we have, we don't do outbound sales. We're, you know, we live off marketing,
but yeah, we have two sales people who are processing.”