Guilhermo Oenning

Founder, Aptakube · 1 appearance on the record.

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Guilherme Oenning is a software engineer and indie entrepreneur who created Fider, an open-source feedback tool that he bootstrapped and sold. He subsequently founded and developed tools including Aptakube and SEO Gets.

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2 assertions · 2 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Free self-hosted Fider instances generated SEO backlinks to the main site
“The open source side of the product is every time someone hosts it for free, even though I not can pay for that, they are giving me back a backlink.”
Guilhermo Oenning Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 13:43 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Guilhermo Oenning, Founder of Fider

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Everything Guilhermo Oenning said on Startup Acquisition Stories that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Running four autopilot SaaS products simultaneously creates excessive mental overhead
“When I decided to sell the visa, I had four products running, and I think that's one of the main mistakes. I learned a lot, but running four products a lot, even though this was on autopilot, one of the other ones was also kind of autopilot-ish, but two of the…”
Guilhermo Oenning Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 10:18 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Guilhermo Oenning, Founder of Fider
Disclosure
Fider reached $1,000 MRR on autopilot after transitioning from free to paid
“So, I think I got to, like, around thousand MRR. From that going from free to paid, which is not a lot, but at the same time, from someone who is not getting anything on this site, brother, to getting a thousand dollars from, was paying my mortgage, basically,…”
Guilhermo Oenning Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 6:39 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Guilhermo Oenning, Founder of Fider
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fider reached an agreed sale on Acquire.com in just two weeks
“And I think I have noticed here that it took like two weeks to go from publishing on Acquire to Sale Agreed.”
Guilhermo Oenning Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 12:08 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Guilhermo Oenning, Founder of Fider
Assertion Supported
Free self-hosted Fider instances generated SEO backlinks to the main site
“The open source side of the product is every time someone hosts it for free, even though I not can pay for that, they are giving me back a backlink.”
Guilhermo Oenning Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 13:43 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Guilhermo Oenning, Founder of Fider
Insight
Providing upfront Stripe screenshots filters repetitive buyer questions during acquisition
“I took screenshots of most of the tools, like the revenue, MRR, churn, everything that they could find on, on our Stripe, just posted on, on the account, on Acquire. And I think that, that made the process a lot more because whenever someone reached out, they …”
Guilhermo Oenning Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 15:25 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Guilhermo Oenning, Founder of Fider
Disclosure
Oenning: Fider's initial hosted version cost $5 per month to run
“It cost me like five dollars per month to run it. I just want to get users and get feedback from that. So that's why I made it free.”
Guilhermo Oenning Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 3:00 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Guilhermo Oenning, Founder of Fider
Disclosure
Oenning acquired Fider's first users by sharing the open-source project on Reddit
“So I think the first few came from Reddit. I was building this. I shared it on a few Reddit communities, and because it was an open source product, I wasn't really monetizing it because it was kind of easy to get a little bit of traction in the beginning.”
Guilhermo Oenning Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 4:16 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Guilhermo Oenning, Founder of Fider

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Guilhermo Oenning, Founder of Fider Aug 22, 2024 12m
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