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Andrew Fan

Founder & CTO, Upsilon. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Andrew Fan founded Upsilon in 2012, running it as a digital product studio that builds minimum viable products and provides tech consultancy. He also developed Slack-native B2B SaaS applications, including the team-management app OrgaNice and task manager ToDoBot.

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Fan: Slack App Directory Provides Free Marketing for Bootstrapped Startups
“Slack is a perfect place to start your, like, first, I would say, bootstrap small business, because once you release something for Slack, you can get into the marketplace. And basically this is a free marketing tool for you, and this is how we got our first cl…”
Andrew Fan Oct 11, 2023 ▶ 4:12 Learn from Organice: How to get free customers from the Slack App Exchange
Fan: Slack Marketplace Algorithms Are Less Sophisticated Than Apple's
“Slack marketplace team is not huge, and the algorithms on how they rank certain applications are not that sophisticated in comparison to, like Apple Store or Google Store.”
Andrew Fan Oct 11, 2023 ▶ 5:19 Learn from Organice: How to get free customers from the Slack App Exchange
Fan: Org Charts Do Not Drive Daily Active Usage After Setup
“Because like, whether the org chart is a good kind of like reason to install the bot you won't use your org chart every day because you just set up it, and probably the next time you look at it maybe, like, it's not kind of like a daily .”
Andrew Fan Oct 11, 2023 ▶ 9:32 Learn from Organice: How to get free customers from the Slack App Exchange
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Fan: Slack Offers No Competitor Download Analytics for App Developers
“Unfortunately, it's not possible. I think that this is the most popular question to the marketplace team, like, when you introduce your analytics, so developers can basically, like, work with it and improve their description or whatever to appear higher.”
Andrew Fan Oct 11, 2023 ▶ 8:06 Learn from Organice: How to get free customers from the Slack App Exchange
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Fan: Organize Is Fully Bootstrapped Using Upsilon Agency Cash Flow
“No, it's fully bootstrap, as we have other business, we have available developers, so, yeah.”
Andrew Fan Oct 11, 2023 ▶ 10:01 Learn from Organice: How to get free customers from the Slack App Exchange
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fan: Upsilon Charges $25,000 Minimum for Custom Slack App Development
“Everything depends on the complexity, but I would say that the entry amount should be somewhere near 25 thousand.”
Andrew Fan Oct 11, 2023 ▶ 11:36 Learn from Organice: How to get free customers from the Slack App Exchange
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fan: Upsilon Generated Several Million Dollars in 2022 Revenue
“Yeah, we did a few millions.”
Andrew Fan Oct 11, 2023 ▶ 11:53 Learn from Organice: How to get free customers from the Slack App Exchange
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Fan: Organize Generates $400 Monthly Revenue Across 400 Seats
“In total, they have somewhere near 400 seats. So our MRR is somewhere near 400, depending on the amount, because it jumps depending on the number of users.”
Andrew Fan Oct 11, 2023 ▶ 3:14 Learn from Organice: How to get free customers from the Slack App Exchange
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fan: Secondary Slack Tool Averages 20 to 30 Organic Daily Downloads
“For our, another tool, we get like 20, 30 downloads per day.”
Andrew Fan Oct 11, 2023 ▶ 6:20 Learn from Organice: How to get free customers from the Slack App Exchange
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Organize Tracks Bot Reply Rates to Drive Paid Account Conversions
“And basically what we are looking at is like two metrics. The first one is how many people reply to the bot. Because there is a certain threshold after which admin see that There is an engagement with the tool, and like, more and more people appear on the org …”
Andrew Fan Oct 11, 2023 ▶ 8:59 Learn from Organice: How to get free customers from the Slack App Exchange
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fan: Upsilon Employs 55 People, 80 Percent Developers
“We have somewhere near 55 people, and maybe 80% of them are developers.”
Andrew Fan Oct 11, 2023 ▶ 10:32 Learn from Organice: How to get free customers from the Slack App Exchange

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