This 19 year old made his first Steady Stream of $750 MRR with little to no marketing…
Here’s how he did it:
Company Spotlight:
In November 2022, Pulkit launched Notion Social: A tool that allows users to schedule social media posts from their Notion database. Prior to this launch, Pulkit had no existing audience before starting this project.
To begin, he saw loads of people selling social media management templates, so he knew people were using Notion for social media content writing. Pulkit previously used Notion for planning his posts, but there was no native integration for scheduling the posts. So, he made one.
I didn't work on it full-time as I was pursuing other ideas, but it took me 6 months to go from the first line of code to MVP, which was still full of bugs.
One thing I did differently was integrating Stripe from day one. I offered both a free plan and a free trial, in addition to the paid plans.
How did they get their first customers?
Pulkit posted on a Facebook group and received around 30-40 comments, as well as his first customer who signed up for the $129 annual plan after 3 days.
Excited about making his first ever SaaS sale, he immediately started working on improving the product. It's been a year since its release, and growth has been rather slow, mostly relying on organic methods. Pulkit attributes this to his strong focus on development, rather than marketing.
How do they generate revenue?
Right now, Notion Social generates revenue through tiered subscriptions; Free, Basic, and Premium. Here are some stats:
Traffic to date: 6.5k
User signups: 1100
Monthly revenue: $750
Monthly costs: $150
That Sweet, Steady Stream:
With this, Pulkit and Notion Social reached $750/Month in recurring revenue.
By these estimates, he’s on track to collect a sweet, steady stream of $9,000 ARR with his newly project; Notion Social.
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