Last week seemed like an ordinary week. As ordinary as it gets while traveling the world and bootstrapping a startup. Until we started getting some strange emails in our inbox: What’s this about? I plugged it into Google translate out of curiosity. It’s an automated response. The …
If you’re starting a startup, or working remotely for one, you probably don’t have an office. That’s a good thing! Offices are expensive – you may as well be paying rent twice. In the early-stage, you just don’t need one. In the past year we’ve grown our …
We’re all about keeping things as simple as possible. Simple equals productive and productive equals profit. We want to make product managers and their companies more successful – and we believe feature voting is a great way to do that. Feature voting is a simple way …
It’s officially been a year since we launched our SaaS startup, Canny. We’re proud of how far we’ve come, but we’d definitely do some things differently. I’ll share the highlights of our journey so far, and some of our biggest learning lessons. In case you don’t …
We launched Canny almost a year ago. During that time, we reached ramen profitability. We also changed our pricing four times. As a bootstrapped startup, we needed to monetize from the start. Not to mention, paying customers is a great signal for product-market fit. We knew …
It’s been seven months since we launched our SaaS startup and we’re ramen profitable. Canny makes enough to pay for its own expenses and our personal living expenses. This is far less money than we made working at Facebook, but a huge milestone for our bootstrapped startup. …
We left our jobs in California, moved out, and embraced the digital nomad lifestyle. Get to know our origin stories as we build Canny around the world.
Public roadmaps have become more popular over the past couple years, for good reason. Founders have written about why they publicize their roadmaps. The main reasons being that: Your users will love you for it You will improve your product with user feedback You will keep your team accountable Making your …
We just completed the inaugural batch of Y Combinator’s Startup School for our startup Canny. It was a blast, and we learned a ton. For those of you thinking about doing the next batch, we’d love to share our experience with you. We also have ideas for how YC …
This feedback form should look familiar. Most apps and websites have one. It’s actually a very costly way to collect feedback: it creates a ton of urgent, manual work. What should you do instead? Let your users vote on feedback. This switch will save you time and money, help …
Hey 👋 We're the founders of Canny, Sarah 🇨🇦 and Andrew 🇺🇸 We write about building SaaS and our adventures as digital nomads. Yes, we're also a couple.