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Episode 502 | Accelerating Growth and a Failed Product Hunt Launch

2020/6/23
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In his second appearance on the show (he first appeared on Episode 367)), we chat with Benedikt Deicke from Userlist. Along with his co-founder, Jane Portman, they are building an easy to use customer messaging tool catered specifically towards SaaS companies.

In this show, we talk about some of the challenges in building a product while working full-time, finding the ideal SaaS pricing model, their underwhelming Product Hunt launch, as well as their recent purchase of the Userlist.com) domain name.

Jane & Benedikt are also part of Tinyseed) batch #2, and we explore Benedikt's experience so far in the program, and the lessons he's learned.

What we discuss with Benedikt Deicke

  • 1:37 The story & motivation behind helpfounders.com)

  • 4:30 Userlist and slow growth in the early days

  • 5:30 Challenges with building a SaaS while not full-time

  • 7:50 What has helped with recent Userlist growth

  • 9:00 Navigating SaaS pricing

  • 12:30 An underwhelming Product Hunt launch

  • 15:30 Acquiring the userlist.com) domain name

  • 17:30 The most challenging moments thus far in building Userlist

  • 20:48 Why did Jane & Benedikt apply to Tinyseed

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