why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Disclosure
Thompson's minimum selling price for The Plot is over $100,000
“I think my number would have to be north of a 100,000, but I don't know. You know, I've always wondered if that's even worth it to somebody.”
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Frame.io solved finished video review, leaving storyboarding unaddressed
“So Frame.io solved that problem for reviewing finished videos, but there wasn't really an application to solve it for the storyboarding part”
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The Plot currently has approximately 400 paying customers
“Only about 400 ish. 400.”
Disclosure
Over 90 percent of The Plot's customers come from organic SEO
“All of my, essentially, I'd say 90 to 95% of my customers are all SEO.”
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The Plot plateaued at $3,000 to $5,000 monthly revenue for years
“It's been about three to 5000 consistently for the last three to four years. So there's been really no growth. Like our best month has been six or 7000 when, so, cause people can pay annually.”
Disclosure
Thompson paid a freelance developer $15,000 to build The Plot MVP
“15 grand to get it off the ground.”
Disclosure
Thompson made $1,000 monthly selling automated Adobe After Effects scripts
“Like I, my first step into like digital products was creating scripts for Adobe after effects, which are just ways to automate a task that after effects didn't build natively into the system. So I built, I hired a guy to create a couple of those. And that gave…”
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The Plot operates at break-even by reinvesting revenue into developers
“Cause I'm honestly about at a, I'm at a break even point essentially. So if I don't hire develop or don't pay developers, I could just collect some profit for a while.”