Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month
@alexxtomsk's retrospective from 2018 captures the critical transition from initial concept to the first dollar of customer revenue.
Discussions analyzed Show HN launch mechanics, cold DM outreach conversion rates, and the psychology of validating customer demand before writing code.
congrats on your success! Can we see your baremetrics panel?
I think for non technical founders you skipped a very important part of the story - how did you find your initial devs and how did you figure out how to work with them? how much should people set aside for this kind of thing? that really matters.
Very impressive!
For someone outside normal corporate culture who is actually paying for Slack bots?
Middle level managers who have to administer daily meetings?
It is amazing that being outside the corporate loop you were able to hit such a pain point.
What's the solution to the problem of hating the Content Marketing game?
I think the fear of having to deal with writing spam blogs/emails is one of the bigger mental hurdles to my eagerness to build a product like this.
We use a similar product (Geekbot). It reassuring to see companies like this succeed. A fear is always adopting a great tool into your workflow only to get that "our incredible journey" email.
Congratulations!
What steps are you taking to protect yourself from slack shutting you off? Not that they would but you have all your eggs in someone else's basket?
Hi folks!
Just in 8 months, we grow our Slack bot from zero to $25,000/mo. Moreover, it keeps growing like crazy. Based on our learnings we prepared a step-by-step guide on how we did that. I hope it will be useful to you.
Feel free to ask me questions here.