Daman Chen

Founder & CEO, Testimonial.to · 1 appearance on the record.

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After spending eight years as a software engineer at Cisco, Damon Chen quit his corporate role to bootstrap Testimonial.to, a platform for collecting and embedding customer reviews. A prominent indie hacker building in public, he expanded his portfolio by scaling Testimonial.to and acquiring apps like PDF.ai to reach over $1M ARR.

9statements → 5claims → 4claims resolved → 75%fully supported → 3.78/5average certainty → 1.22/5average debate potential →

3 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 3 assertions · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Daman argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Chen: Testimonial.to created zero blog content for Google SEO

“There's actually no dedicated you know, content. I didn't really wrote any testimonial related blog posts.”

Daman Chen Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 12:36 Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up

Chen: Testimonial.to will reach multi-million dollar scale in 3-5 years

“I have confidence that I bring testimony to multimillion dollars in next, you know, I would say three to five years.”

Daman Chen Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 11:39 Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1

none yet certainty 2

50% certainty 3

100% certainty 4

none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Daman Chen on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said9 Episodes1

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Prediction Didn’t hold up

Chen: Testimonial.to will reach multi-million dollar scale in 3-5 years

“I have confidence that I bring testimony to multimillion dollars in next, you know, I would say three to five years.”

Daman Chen Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 11:39 Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?

Assertion Supported

Chen: Testimonial.to created zero blog content for Google SEO

“There's actually no dedicated you know, content. I didn't really wrote any testimonial related blog posts.”

Daman Chen Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 12:36 Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?

Disclosure

Chen: Testimonial.to has over 100 active paying subscribers

“I have a little bit over a hundred active subscribers right now.”

Daman Chen Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 4:03 Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?

Disclosure

Chen: Testimonial.to crossed $4,000 in monthly recurring revenue

“Last month was a little bit less than 4000 US dollars, but this month and, you know two days ago, I just across 4000 US dollars MRR.”

Daman Chen Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 4:43 Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?

Prediction Held up

Chen predicts Testimonial.to will hit $100,000 ARR by late 2021

“I think, you know, based on the current trajectory of the growth and I will have high chance to reach a 100,000 dollars.”

Daman Chen Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 5:51 Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?

Disclosure

Chen: Testimonial.to grew without paid ads or cold outbound emails

“I actually don't have any other marketing channels, so I don't have any code email outbound. I don't have, I don't run any paid ads”

Daman Chen Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 6:27 Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?

Disclosure

Chen: Testimonial.to raised under $100,000 from Earnest Capital

“It's less than a 100,000 dollars.”

Daman Chen Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 8:32 Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?

Assertion Supported

Chen details Earnest Capital's shared earnings and equity buyback structure

“They invest, let's say they invest a 100,000 US dollars for, let's say six percent equity. And you know, you probably get a term to say in the next few years, if you generate revenue and you just return three X of the a 100,000 dollars, which is 3000 300,000 d…”

Daman Chen Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 16:51 Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Chen: Most top-tier Testimonial.to customers are SaaS companies

“Most of my big customers for testimonial, if they sign up the ultimate plan, the most expensive plan are from SaaS companies.”

Daman Chen Jun 10, 2021 ▶ 7:37 Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?	Jun 10, 2021	14m

Daman Chen

The record, in short

Their most notable supported claim

Their most notable contradicted claim

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

How they sound: not measured why? →

Appearances (1)

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