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WP Engine takes 6-12 months to scope features Rocket.net ships quickly
“Activity logging feature at WP Engine, it'd take six to 12 months for them to even figure out what they want to build, whereas we're built in a modern environment, all modern frameworks, end-to-end test suites, API first, things that just don't exist in our in…”
Rocket.net reached $1M ARR with zero successful ad spend
“So, a million in ARR with zero dollars in successful ad spend.”
70% of reviewers given free hosting converted to paying customers
“Seven out of 10 became paying customers cause they were just blown away by the product.”
Sean Hannity hosted his website on Rocket.net's early MVP
“If you look at our first version, you're like, wow, like, Sean Hannity hosted his website on that. He didn't care what it looked like behind the scenes. He just cared that he got a 99% cash hit ratio, and everybody around the world was able to access his websi…”
Rocket.net wasted $70,000 on marketing agencies that misunderstood its products
“We wasted 70,000 dollars on marketing agencies, because they just did not get our products.”
Rocket.net's largest hosting customer pays $110,000 in ARR
“We were founded in twenty-twenty largest customer, a 110,000 ARR, pretty unheard of in the hosting world.”
Domain prefixes like 'get' or 'on' confuse offline ad audiences
“Startups like to do get rendered, get whatever the name is, or on cloud, whatever the name might be. That's a great idea. Until you put it on a billboard and nobody knows how the hell to find you.”
Rocket.net's MVP was built by piecing together off-the-shelf components
“I took things off the shelf and put them together behind the scenes, knowing my customers would never see it, and I presented a solution in a way that hasn't been done before in this industry.”
Rocket.net owned a $50,000 domain while making $13,000 in annual revenue
“We've got this 50,000 dollar domain name and we're doing 13,000 a year in revenue.”
Rocket.net paid zero server costs during its first year
“Startup programs we didn't pay for a server for the first year. Had some friendships and relationships, startup credits, and kind of walking through that.”