everyone around me is sick but i'm still grinding
tried cold outreach for the first time today - scraped ebay seller emails with apify, collect feedback with @youformdotcom (amazing product), set up n8n automation, sent 50 emails through brevo
first time doing all of this. let's see what happens. im gonna keep you updated.
Youform is now officially GDPR compliant! πͺπΊ
We received a lot of requests for this and after a few weeks of effort, I'm happy to share that we've achieved it. β
Important notice: our servers will be down for 15 minutes on Sunday 20th April between 5am to 5:15am UTC.
We will be upgrading our servers for better performance.
π¨ Launch alert π¨
Introducing Youform Payments.
Now you can connect your Stripe account with Youform to start collecting payments!
The use cases involve:
- Order forms
- Donation forms
- Appointment booking forms with online payments
- & much more!
This is a major feature where we spent lots of time and energy. Excited to see how you all will be using it. π
How we made $35,000 in revenue in less than 4 months after launch.
We launched Youform 4 months ago, and here are some key stats:
π₯ 4,000+ registered users.
π€ $35,000+ in revenue.
π $1,200+ MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue).
π 340,000 page views (122,000 in the last 28 days).
We initially offered a $299 lifetime deal and generated $12,000 in total revenue within the first three weeks.
After that, we raised the price to $399 and closed the lifetime deal on June 7th, having made a total of $35,000 in revenue.
During this time, our MRR also grew, even though it wasn't our primary focus. Currently, our MRR stands at $1,200 and is increasing by 1-2 subscriptions per day on average.
Why Did We Do It?
Lifetime deals are often criticized in the SaaS world, and rightly so, because recurring expenses necessitate recurring revenue.
However, the average customer lifetime for a SaaS product is around 12 months, with 24 months considered good.
With a $299 price point, weβve already made a yearβs worth of revenue per customer.
Additionally, form builders can experience high churn due to the low friction in adopting and leaving the service, and many users need forms only occasionally.
Moreover, the customers who paid $299 (or $399) were highly invested in our initial development, providing lots of valuable feedback. Some users whom I will always remember as our great supporters are @jlogic and @RoxCodes. They suggested plenty of useful features.
How Did We Do It?
One challenge with selling lifetime deals in SaaS is that people often see it as a sign of failure, thinking the company might soon shut down. Thus, establishing trust in the market is crucial.
We had some advantages compared to a new indie hacker. @mynameis_davis has decent followers here on X and is well trusted because of his other project Oneup which is doing $1M/year in revenue. This built-in trust factor was a significant advantage from the start.
Additionally, we shipped updates quickly based on user requests and regularly communicated these updates on social networks. This helped us gain trust as people saw that Youform was here to stay and their feature requests would be taken seriously.
Whatβs Next?
We are focused on building features requested by our users. We are already seeing decent traffic and signups (around 40-50 signups a day). So, our goal is to convert these signups into active users and eventually paying customers.
A little UX improvement in @youformdotcom
Found that this is a common practice in creating long surveys that the question patterns are generally same, only the question text gets changed.
So now you can simply hit β+shift+D to duplicate the current block.