Dominic Sommer

Founder & Web Developer, seriouscode GmbH · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dominik Sumer is an Austrian web developer and entrepreneur who founded the software consultancy and product studio seriouscode GmbH. He is best known for creating developer-focused SaaS products, including the code presentation platform snappify and the open-source analytics platform Vemetric.

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The record, in short

What the tape says about how Dominic 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

GitHub Discussions launch created direct competition for Q&A tool TrueQ

“And we also saw that GitHub is launching their discussions product, which also is a thing which is compute, competing with TrueQ a bit.”

Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 6:32 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

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 Dominic Sommer on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said10 Episodes1

Everything Dominic Sommer said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure

SeriousCode.io operates as an agency to fund its own SaaS products

“And our long-term goal is to have our own products where we can yeah, live financially from them. But until we can reach this goal, we are also like acting like some sort of a web agency where we help other companies building their software or web applications…”

Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 1:14 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

Disclosure

Dominic Sommer's agency SeriousCode.io starts hourly rates at 100 euros

“So we are actually at the moment starting our hourly rates at 100 euros. And then we also go to the top, but it's really depending on the project itself and what can be done or what needs to be done and stuff like this.”

Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 2:30 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Snapify achieved 200 weekly unique active users before monetization

“I would say like we have a weekly user 200 weekly users. So unique users, which came every week and yeah.”

Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 4:16 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

Disclosure

Snapify plans to launch its Pro plan at $79 per year

“We are currently planning to start with 79 dollars per year for our pro plan.”

Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 4:35 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Dominic Sommer's previous project TrueQ generated only 40 to 50 questions

“I think currently we have like around 40 to 50.”

Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 6:12 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

Assertion Supported

GitHub Discussions launch created direct competition for Q&A tool TrueQ

“And we also saw that GitHub is launching their discussions product, which also is a thing which is compute, competing with TrueQ a bit.”

Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 6:32 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

Disclosure

TrueQ cost Dominic Sommer around $500 in total expenses before shutting down

“I think, 500 dollars or something, all together with server costs and also some other things, maybe not even that much.”

Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 7:22 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

Disclosure

Dominic Sommer needs $15,000 to $20,000 monthly income to bootstrap full-time

“I also cannot really say how much step if I, for example, will cost us, but if I now have to tell a number, I think it would be at around 15 to 20 K Of monthly income. So we can say we do it full time and concentrate on it full time.”

Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 8:34 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Twitter 'build in public' community drove initial viral growth for Snapify

“Before we really released Snapify, we already were pretty active in the built-in public community on Twitter, and when we released it, it's some sort of build of a little viral effect and helped us very much in promoting our tool and finding users for it.”

Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 11:14 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

Disclosure

SeriousCode and Snapify are built with React, Chakra UI, and Next.js

“We love React, use Chakra UI, use Next.js. This is how we are building our products, and we love those frameworks.”

Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 13:48 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product	Jun 11, 2021	9m

Dominic Sommer

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