Defending your early-stage SaaS startup against email spammers
Last week seemed like an ordinary week until we started getting some strange emails in our inbox.
How to be productive without an office
Whether you’re living in a big city, traveling, or something in between, you don’t need an office to be productive. Here are some tips for productivity without an office.
Why every SaaS product manager should use feature voting
We want to make product managers and their companies more successful – and we believe feature voting is a great way to do that.
Year in review: Lessons learned from bootstrapping our SaaS startup
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. Here are the highlights of our journey so far, and some of our biggest learning lessons.
SaaS Pricing: Lessons from 4 pricing changes
We launched Canny almost a year ago. During that time, we reached ramen profitability. We also changed our pricing four times. Here’s a deep dive into each pricing change and the lessons we learned.
How we Bootstrapped our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability
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.
Building our startup as digital nomads
We left our jobs in California, moved out, and embraced the digital nomad lifestyle. Read about our life on the road as we build Canny around the world – starting in Europe.
Debunking concerns around having a public roadmap
Public roadmaps have become more popular over the past couple years, for good reason. Founders have written about why they have a public roadmap. 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 …
What you’ll get out of Y Combinator’s Startup School
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 …
The best way to collect user feedback
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 …
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