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Tran: Platform friction with Notion prompted decision to sell Queue.so
“So I used to think that, like, I will spend most of my time working on Notion-specific products because, like, I did that for almost a year, and then a lot of people know about that, but then I did launch another product, and I had a little of an issue with No…”
Minh-Phuc Tran Feb 14, 2023 ▶ 2:32 Startup Acquisition Stories with Minh-Phuc Tran, Founder of Queue.so
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Daniel Ch: Simple.ink validated market demand using a mockup video before launch
“For us, I just made a simple preview of the app, it wasn't even actually the app, it was a bit of a, kind of like the iPhone demos back in the day, it was a bit like a movie of the no-code app, I made it To look like simple.ink, but in turn, I knew that when w…”
Daniel Ch Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 7:54 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch, Founder of SimpleInk
Opinion
Daniel Ch: Notion's aesthetic appeal drives user demand for Notion websites
“Notion is very aesthetic. It's very hard to make it look ugly, and it turns out people want to build websites out of that.”
Daniel Ch Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 1:04 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch, Founder of SimpleInk
What-if
Daniel Ch: SimpleInk's growth required the Notion tailwind
“So I don't think we would have gotten the growth we've had or the, yeah, the number of users and, you know, the support and access to all these people, which wasn't for notion.”
Daniel Ch Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 3:20 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Ch, Founder of SimpleInk
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Tran: Building in public on Twitter drove Queue.so's first customers
“Mostly mostly by building in public on Twitter. So back then I was just like tweeting about, I'm building this tool is help you to like scheduling tweets directly in Notion. And there's like a lot of people using Notion on Twitter and are excited to try a new …”
Minh-Phuc Tran Feb 14, 2023 ▶ 1:57 Startup Acquisition Stories with Minh-Phuc Tran, Founder of Queue.so
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