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“So we're typically looking at like weekly active users. So you're looking at about like 10,000, you know, people that are on the platform. You're looking at probably like 300 teams.”

“We've even priced this thing specifically around, like, we assume you will have Slack, so we don't be more expensive than Slack. We're going to come right underneath it in terms of a monthly price.”

“They put us in their newsletter. They put us on their medium blog. They tweeted about us, put us on their Facebook. And then we won the hackathons. We were on the homepage of their website and, All of that resulted in thousands of people coming into the funnel…”

“Yeah, so I mean, that resulted in probably a thousand signups downloads, really, you know, it's translated into downloads. You know, I think we probably had at peak maybe like 500 people using the app on kind of a weekly basis.”

“Annually you're paying three dollars a user. Monthly you're paying five dollars a user.”

“So about 10% of our teams are paid, which is great for having zero actual paywall that hits them.”

“You know, it's really the goal for this year is to hit the million AR.”

“We don't actually enforce a paywall. So we say we have a paywall, but we don't actually enforce any of it. So it'll say, like, upgrade to get the desktop app. But you can technically still download the desktop app without upgrading. It says upgrade to get, you…”

“So we're working around kind of an eight million dollar number. We're remote. We're based in Florida. You know, we can do a lot with a little, and so eight million gets us, you know, quite a long way.”

“Like if you start sending group messages, you never turn. Like if you're a group messenger, for some reason, that's like a huge sticking point and you just start to stay with the product. If you've never sent like a group message, we definitely see you churn e…”

“The first version of Webflow was actually built in the first version of Yak was actually built in Webflow and exported out. All of our websites done in Webflow, so that's huge for us.”

“Yeah, so we're seven full time.”

“And a lot of them were in, like, weird industries we didn't expect either, like Roche Healthcare, like kind of an enterprise healthcare company, not a fun, you know, remote-first startup. So yeah, they just found out about it through Product Hunt, downloaded t…”

“Yeah, so we raised a little bit under 2.2 to date.”

“The biggest differentiator here is kind of the social graph side of it, right? So instead of this being content that you're creating and you're putting on a help site somewhere, or you're sending in an email, you're dumping into your slack. All the actual comm…”

“When we launched in March, we had 900 new teams sign up that week. So can't tell you what we did launch day, but That week we had 900 new teams.”

“We paid, I don't know, I guess, contractors and a couple of developers on our own team for, like, four days of work to actually build the product out, but we didn't have to pay for any of this, like, newsletter sponsorship.”