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DoNotPay aims to replace all lawyers and make the law free
“What we say is we want to replace all of the lawyers and make the law free, but it's not political.”
DoNotPay employs 250 contract writers in Georgia for SEO content
“We have a team of 250 contract writers based in Georgia, the country that pump out SEO articles.”
Browder: DoNotPay can reach 60M monthly visitors in 18 months via SEO
“I think in the next sort of 18 months, we can scale it to kind of sixty million using SEO.”
Browder: DoNotPay spends zero on paid ads and referrals
“Our paid ads budget is zero. Our referral budget is zero.”
DoNotPay operates across over 200 consumer rights areas
“We operate in over 200 areas of what people call consumer rights. Things like getting people refunds from landlords, suing Comcast, Canceling subscriptions.”
Single low-frequency consumer use cases cannot support a subscription business
“Unless you're a bad driver like me the average American only gets a parking ticket once a year. And so it's very difficult to build a retentive product with just one use case. It's very difficult to build a retentive product, but even impossible to build a sub…”
Browder: DoNotPay expanded from one product to over 200 via API integrations
“I just built, started building SaaS integrations with, like, Twilio Lob API UiPath, Bot Builders, and things like that, and that allowed me to go from one product, parking tickets, to over 200 today.”
a16z invested $1M pre-seed without requiring Browder to leave Stanford
“I made a special deal with Andreessen Horowitz where they would invest a million dollars in the kind of pre-seed, but I wouldn't have to drop out.”
DoNotPay grew to tens of thousands of cases in its first week
“In the first week, we went from about 20 cases, the people I was no longer doing the copying and pasting for to tens of thousands of cases, and every news network picked it up, and it went to the front page of Reddit and all of this stuff.”