Andy Cloke

Founder & Developer, Data Fetcher · 1 appearance on the record.

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Andy Cloke is the creator of Data Fetcher, a bootstrapped SaaS extension for Airtable that imports, exports, and automates API data without code. After working as a freelance software developer, he built and sold Influence Grid before launching Data Fetcher.

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What they said6 Episodes1

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Insight

Cloke: Strong SaaS ideation comes from adapting proven tools to growing platforms

“I've got a kind of framework that I kind of follow that's basically taking, like, an existing tool or an existing kind of profitable business, and then transfer, like, basically taking that and then applying it to, like, a growing platform.”

Andy Cloke Apr 18, 2021 ▶ 2:40 Developer Goes from Freelancer to SaaS Founder With Simple Playbook (Copy it!)

Disclosure

Andy Cloke refuses to build Data Fetcher features unless requested twice

“Unless the feature request comes up twice, I'm not really building it. I think that's kind of my rule of thumb at the moment.”

Andy Cloke Apr 18, 2021 ▶ 14:03 Developer Goes from Freelancer to SaaS Founder With Simple Playbook (Copy it!)

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Andy Cloke saw Data Fetcher MRR jump from $100 to $1,300

“So in the last month, the growth's just gone a bit crazy, and it's gone from, like, 100 dollars to, yeah, like, 1300”

Andy Cloke Apr 18, 2021 ▶ 8:34 Developer Goes from Freelancer to SaaS Founder With Simple Playbook (Copy it!)

Disclosure

Andy Cloke plans to go full-time on Data Fetcher at $5K–$10K MRR

“I think I'd probably do it sooner. Maybe if it gets to like five or 6000 a month and I've got savings and it's growing and I can work out, you know, in three months, this is going to be on 10,000 or something. And I just live off savings for a few months. So y…”

Andy Cloke Apr 18, 2021 ▶ 9:45 Developer Goes from Freelancer to SaaS Founder With Simple Playbook (Copy it!)

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Andy Cloke notes Data Fetcher converts 5% of signups to paid

“I know that overall rate is like four to five percent, so of people that just sign up as a user to customers is like five percent.”

Andy Cloke Apr 18, 2021 ▶ 11:48 Developer Goes from Freelancer to SaaS Founder With Simple Playbook (Copy it!)

Disclosure

Andy Cloke earns around £8,000 per month from freelance work

“Probably around eight thousand pounds, so maybe like 12, 15,000 dollars.”

Andy Cloke Apr 18, 2021 ▶ 9:04 Developer Goes from Freelancer to SaaS Founder With Simple Playbook (Copy it!)

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Developer Goes from Freelancer to SaaS Founder With Simple Playbook (Copy it!)	Apr 18, 2021	7m

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