Justin Duke

7 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 23, 2020 by Justin Duke · across every show →

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Aug 23, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Duke: Two thirds of Buttondown revenue comes from flat SaaS tiers
“It's around two thirds comes from that flat SaaS revenue. The flat revenue is sort of the paywall for some of the premium features like custom domains, advanced analytics, that sort of thing. Whereas metered is purely based on volume. So only a third of button…”
Justin Duke Aug 23, 2020 ▶ 3:34 ButtonDown Email Is Niche Mailchimp, Hits $5k in MRR
Aug 23, 2020 neutral
Opinion
Duke: Mailchimp and ActiveCampaign leave casual bloggers and creators underserved
“And especially for some of the very marketing-heavy tools like ActiveCampaign, like MailChimp, these are designed for folks who are sending out, you know, e-commerce blasts to potentially tens of thousands of users, and that's a very important vertical to hand…”
Justin Duke Aug 23, 2020 ▶ 7:13 ButtonDown Email Is Niche Mailchimp, Hits $5k in MRR
Aug 23, 2020 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Duke: Buttondown's average customer pays $20 to $25 per month
“Around 20 to 25 bucks a month.”
Justin Duke Aug 23, 2020 ▶ 8:02 ButtonDown Email Is Niche Mailchimp, Hits $5k in MRR
Aug 23, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Duke: Months-old Hacker News comments drive substantial Buttondown traffic
“And I still see a large proportion of my traffic coming from, you know, comments that I've made months ago on Hacker News, as long as the content is relevant and the tool itself is put into the discussion.”
Justin Duke Aug 23, 2020 ▶ 10:05 ButtonDown Email Is Niche Mailchimp, Hits $5k in MRR
Aug 23, 2020 positive
Insight
Duke: Purely usage-based SaaS pricing drives superior expansion revenue and ARPU
“I think if I had to choose between the two, purely usage-based because it kind of leans into expansion revenue a bit more nicely. You're always going to have an upper bound if you do that conventional sort of like three-column SaaS pricing grid of 29 a month, …”
Justin Duke Aug 23, 2020 ▶ 4:45 ButtonDown Email Is Niche Mailchimp, Hits $5k in MRR
Aug 23, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Duke: Buttondown has roughly 250 to 260 paying customers
“So right now around 252 160 paying customers.”
Justin Duke Aug 23, 2020 ▶ 12:09 ButtonDown Email Is Niche Mailchimp, Hits $5k in MRR
Aug 23, 2020 negative
Insight
Duke: Engineers mistakenly assume they can build better software in a weekend
“One of the worst things an engineer can say to themselves is I bet I could build a better version of this in a weekend.”
Justin Duke Aug 23, 2020 ▶ 6:54 ButtonDown Email Is Niche Mailchimp, Hits $5k in MRR
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