We had 122 signups last week. (zero marketing spend)

[markde916]

Building a SaaS product is hard!

Some folk make it sound easy, but for us it has been a grind!

Our product is an all-in-one project management and wiki app for small teams (www.superthread.com) and we found that it's an incredibly hard thing to build.

We are obsessed with making it fast which is why it took us much longer craft.

We launched 9 months ago and somehow it's taking off.

We are super proud of this achievement given that none of us like marketing as we are primarily obsessed with product and tech.

Feb 5 - Feb 11: 16 signups

Apr 1 - Apr 7: 76 signups

Apr 8 - Apr 14: 88 signups

Apr 15 - Apr 21: 109 signups

Apr 22 - Apr 28: 122 signups

663% quarterly growth.

 

[soulgenesis]

@markde916 That's pretty good numbers with zero/bad marketing. It shows how good your product must be.

But how is it different compared to your competitors - say Trello or Notion for instance?

 

[markde916]

@soulgenesis Much faster then both, much more scalable + docs compared to Trello, less chaotic compared to notion plus it has first class task tracking.

 

[jennifergryph]

@markde916 Congrats. Just one thing, If they are your value propositions, you should probably find a way to objectively quantify them. More scalable, less chaotic or first class: these are too subjective and easy for someone not to agree with you

 

[markde916]

@jennifergryph I agree, we are not very good at that.

 

[yytz6]

@markde916 Interesting product. Of those sign-ups how many on the free level and how many paid?

Looks very cool.

 

[markde916]

@yytz6 Just in the process of introducing pricing so we will see in the long term.

 

[scuddly]

@markde916 These are some great numbers

You should double down on these as per source and retention cohorts to look at ICPs

 

[markde916]

@scuddly Our month one retention is 33.3% (including free emails such as gmail) compared to 18% which is industry average for a medium sized tech company.

 

[badams122390]

@markde916 Love it. This also proves how a simple idea can work inspite of heavy competition.

Can you give us more idea on the early stages, when did you start (day1), and MVP launch, and the last 9 months...

 

[markde916]

@badams122390 I need to do a proper post about that and once I do i will reply here.

 

[marinda]

@markde916 would love to hear that

 

[theswimboy]

@markde916 That's amazing. Any tips? What sort of channels did you use?

 

[markde916]

@theswimboy I did some linked in posting plus we have a youtube channel. Otherwise, no real idea.

 

[barryjones123]

@markde916 YouTube can bring a huge lift to the company when leveraged correctly. Nice work.

 

[freedom7]

@markde916 How many people did it take to deliver this project? BTW looks good and worth giving a try. I have used Trello before

 

[markde916]

@freedom7 13ft, 1pt. Superthread is way more powerful than Trello. For one, it has docs.

 

[musicianchick21]

@markde916 What changed?

 

[markde916]

@musicianchick21 Wish we knew. Maybe Trello pricing, the product improving + word of mouth.

 

[musicianchick21]

@markde916 Can you track incoming traffic sources?