Lars Steiger

Chairperson, Buzzard AG · 1 appearance on the record.

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Lars Steiger is a Swiss software developer who co-developed and maintained Mailplane, a macOS client for Gmail. Through his company Buzzard AG, he also developed the customer support tool Replies and the time-tracking application Clockograph.

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Insight

Founders should maximize established products rather than launching new ones

“It's difficult to launch a new product. To find the audience and stuff like that. And so if you have a product in place, which is pretty established, then the best thing is to continue doing it and make the best out of it.”

Lars Steiger Dec 10, 2016 ▶ 9:01 EP 504: MailPlaneApp 10,000+ Customers With BetterGmail with CEO Lars Steiger

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Mailplane serves approximately 10,000 paying customers, says CEO Lars Steiger

“It's in the 10,000.”

Lars Steiger Dec 10, 2016 ▶ 3:34 EP 504: MailPlaneApp 10,000+ Customers With BetterGmail with CEO Lars Steiger

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Mailplane receives approximately 5,000 free trial sign-ups every single month

“Per month it's about I think about 5000 about that.”

Lars Steiger Dec 10, 2016 ▶ 4:12 EP 504: MailPlaneApp 10,000+ Customers With BetterGmail with CEO Lars Steiger

Disclosure

Mailplane resists SaaS trends by offering perpetual licenses instead of subscriptions

“It's just a one-time purchase. It's a regular app. You buy it and so you can use it as long as you want. And we provide updates and from time to time we sell a major update where you can get where you can get it for discount price.”

Lars Steiger Dec 10, 2016 ▶ 4:59 EP 504: MailPlaneApp 10,000+ Customers With BetterGmail with CEO Lars Steiger

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Lars Steiger runs the entire Mailplane business as a solo founder

“Actually, it's just me working on it. Yeah. And yeah, I run the whole business.”

Lars Steiger Dec 10, 2016 ▶ 5:43 EP 504: MailPlaneApp 10,000+ Customers With BetterGmail with CEO Lars Steiger

Disclosure

Mailplane operates as a fully bootstrapped business with no outside capital

“It's all bootstrapped.”

Lars Steiger Dec 10, 2016 ▶ 6:30 EP 504: MailPlaneApp 10,000+ Customers With BetterGmail with CEO Lars Steiger

Disclosure

Mailplane tracks active users by measuring minor software update downloads

“The most important number for us is the number of users who download updates. So if they, if you know, if we publish a minor update, then we see the numbers, the number of users who are downloading it. And that's an important number for us. So we know about ho…”

Lars Steiger Dec 10, 2016 ▶ 11:29 EP 504: MailPlaneApp 10,000+ Customers With BetterGmail with CEO Lars Steiger

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EP 504: MailPlaneApp 10,000+ Customers With BetterGmail with CEO Lars Steiger	Dec 10, 2016	6m

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