why aren't all 10 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;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Assertion Supported
Mitchell: Yac charges $3 annually or $5 monthly per user
“Annually you're paying three dollars a user. Monthly you're paying five dollars a user.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mitchell: Winning a Product Hunt hackathon drove thousands of free users
“They put us in their newsletter. They put us on their medium blog. They tweeted about us, put us on their Facebook. And then we won the hackathons. We were on the homepage of their website and, All of that resulted in thousands of people coming into the funnel…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mitchell: Roche Healthcare organically adopted Yac after its Product Hunt launch
“And a lot of them were in, like, weird industries we didn't expect either, like Roche Healthcare, like kind of an enterprise healthcare company, not a fun, you know, remote-first startup. So yeah, they just found out about it through Product Hunt, downloaded t…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mitchell: Yac acquired 900 new team signups during its March 2020 relaunch
“When we launched in March, we had 900 new teams sign up that week. So can't tell you what we did launch day, but That week we had 900 new teams.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mitchell: Yac has 10,000 weekly active users across 300 teams
“So we're typically looking at like weekly active users. So you're looking at about like 10,000, you know, people that are on the platform. You're looking at probably like 300 teams.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mitchell: 10% of Yac teams pay despite its completely unenforced paywall
“So about 10% of our teams are paid, which is great for having zero actual paywall that hits them.”
Assertion Contradicted
Mitchell: Yac has raised just under $2.2 million to date
“Yeah, so we raised a little bit under 2.2 to date.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mitchell: Yac's initial 2018 launch drove 1,000 downloads and 500 active users
“Yeah, so I mean, that resulted in probably a thousand signups downloads, really, you know, it's translated into downloads. You know, I think we probably had at peak maybe like 500 people using the app on kind of a weekly basis.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mitchell: Yac operates with a team of seven full-time employees
“Yeah, so we're seven full time.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mitchell: The first version of Yac was built entirely in Webflow
“The first version of Webflow was actually built in the first version of Yak was actually built in Webflow and exported out. All of our websites done in Webflow, so that's huge for us.”