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PicBackMan suffers from brutal double-digit monthly customer churn

Vaibhav Domkundwar · 1701 How He Turned 50k Free Users into $12k in MRR · Mar 21, 2020 · at 13:13

Vaibhav Domkundwar details the retention metrics and high churn rate of his photo backup application PicBackMan.

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“You know, I don't know the exact number, but we are in double digits, so we're very high.”

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