Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 693 | Building a Mid-Six-Figure SaaS in Less Than 3 Years

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In episode 693, Rob Walling interviews Grant McConnaughey, founder of Postpone, a social media scheduling tool. They discuss the app's growth from inception to mid six figures, early growth tactics, a successful price increase, and platform risks with Reddit and Twitter. Grant also shares his experience going all-in on one idea, joining TinySeed, and reveals what he can still improve upon.

Topics we cover: 
  • 2:04 – Postpone starts off as part of a New Year’s resolution
  • 4:13 – Validating and building the MVP to schedule content for Reddit 
  • 6:44 – Launching lean to slow growth in the beginning
  • 9:10 – Doing things that don’t scale 
  • 10:53 – What were the reasons for joining TinySeed
  • 13:06 – Full time focus and pricing changes enabled strong growth for Postpone
  • 17:15 – Initial hesitation for raising prices at first
  • 22:08 – Experiencing and overcoming Reddit platform risk
  • 26:00 – What could Grant be doing better?
    • Links from the Show: 
    • MicroConf Connect
    • TinySeed
    • Grant McConnaughey (@gmcconnaughey) | X
    • Postone’s MRR graph | X
    • Postpone
    • Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) | X
    • Traction by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares

      • If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you!

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