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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…”
Varun Mayya Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 29:56 Leveraging YouTube Community to Build a 100Cr SaaS Company ft @VarunMayya Founder, Scenes
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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…”
Varun Mayya Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 33:11 Leveraging YouTube Community to Build a 100Cr SaaS Company ft @VarunMayya Founder, Scenes
Opinion
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.”
Varun Mayya Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 19:07 Leveraging YouTube Community to Build a 100Cr SaaS Company ft @VarunMayya Founder, Scenes
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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?”
Varun Mayya Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 30:56 Leveraging YouTube Community to Build a 100Cr SaaS Company ft @VarunMayya Founder, Scenes
Disclosure
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…”
Varun Mayya Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 34:04 Leveraging YouTube Community to Build a 100Cr SaaS Company ft @VarunMayya Founder, Scenes
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Varun Mayya Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 19:51 Leveraging YouTube Community to Build a 100Cr SaaS Company ft @VarunMayya Founder, Scenes
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Varun Mayya Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 39:08 Leveraging YouTube Community to Build a 100Cr SaaS Company ft @VarunMayya Founder, Scenes
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Varun Mayya Jul 12, 2022 ▶ 35:28 Leveraging YouTube Community to Build a 100Cr SaaS Company ft @VarunMayya Founder, Scenes
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