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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q And, and why, I mean, considering your background, why go after, and this isn't a hit on, on like you going after this kind of problem, but I imagine with what, you know, you could go solve some very interesting problems. Why go after this one?
A Absolutely. So one of the things that we found was that, you know, as you said, my background is as a software engineer. I've built a bunch of mobile apps for a variety of companies and found that, you know, me as one person, I can build an app and I can help solve, you know, a very specific problem. What we discovered is on our platform, we've seen people build millions of apps to solve problems that we didn't even know existed. So just to give you a quick example, uh, in 2015, the country of Yemen Kind of broke out into civil war. The power grid wasn't very, uh, reliable, so people started going to solar power. Well, one of the problems people had with the solar panels was they didn't know when to tilt them during the day. They didn't know how much energy they had, et cetera. So there was a young guy in Yemen who found Thunkable, built an app on us, and now there are about a 100,000 families in Yemen who manage their solar power through this app that this guy who didn't know how to code built on our product. That's a problem that even if I looked far and wide, I probably would have never found and never saw.
AI assessment note: “me as one person, I can build an app... on our platform, we've seen people build millions”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Okay. And, and look, as a founder, you're a smart dude, MIT Google. Okay. So I'm not talking to someone stupid here. I mean, you're taking dilution, right? I mean, unless you're negotiating a great thing, like pre revenue, you know, you're going to drive revenue on this thing. Why raise so early?
A So the idea was, as you pointed out, it's a crowded space and we wanted to make sure that we built the single best product out there and had everyone on our platform and excited about our platform. And so what we did was we raised that money so we could have Hire the team that we needed and kind of build the product that we needed. Um, you'll see that, you know, we already have some between our open source and proprietary stuff, some seven million people who have built apps on our platform. So it's pretty large and there's a lot of, uh, you know, costs that we have associated with it. But the goal is that we, uh, we start charging people in the next few months for, uh, for premium features. So yes, take a little bit of a hit early, but that allows us to build this platform out. And then from there, hopefully we're able to generate Enough revenue that we can actually cover our cuffs long term.
AI assessment note: “we raised that money so we could have Hire the team that we needed”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Okay, good. So that's, but that's, I mean, less than a hundred grand in revenue from that so far?
A Uh, On that, yeah, on that order of magnitude. So what, what we are really, what our, I mean, long-term business model is definitely to charge kind of, uh, for a premium product. So the basic product is free. If you're trying to build an app, you use us and it's great. Um, but if you want, you know, if you're trying to make money off of us, if you're trying to get analytics, all those kinds of things, you need help launching to the play store, to iTunes, those kinds of things you'll pay us for. And, uh, to your question of when turn on the money, uh, it was basically when, you know, it's time to actually turn on those features. That's when we turn on the revenue. And so that's coming in the next few months because those are things now that our users are sophisticated enough and saying, Hey, I really want these added features. We say no problem. We're going to build them for you and then we'll charge you a small fee to actually utilize them.
AI assessment note: “On that, yeah, on that order of magnitude.”
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D 3 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.30
Q Interesting. And why, so you're definitely going to go after kind of the low ARPU, high volume SMB model, which has always been very difficult in managing churn because businesses go out of business. How do you manage that?
A So, One is the scale, right? Assuming we have the scale that, you know, we have now and we're able to continue growing that then by having enough of the users, uh, who are looking to build apps, enough of the SMBs who are looking to build apps, build up, build apps on us. Um, we can actually, you know, maintain profitability. The other point is there are a lot of tools, as you pointed out in our space, and a lot of them are going after these high end businesses. But what you see is if you're a high end business, you hopefully have the money To be able to afford, you know, a full-time developer. It's these SMBs, these mom and pop shops, these individuals who don't know how to code, who often need it the most and are the most underserved. So there's a wide open market here that we think we can totally catch.
AI assessment note: “by having enough of the users... we can actually, you know, maintain profitability.”
