$10K ARR and 1000 Downloads in 5 Months

Joseph Lee writes that his new Chrome extension is already earning $10,000 in annual recurring revenue 🥳

I wanted to take a moment to publicly celebrate hitting $10k ARR and 1000+ Chrome store downloads for our side-project, Supademo

In a nutshell, Supademo allows anyone to create and share interactive demos or tours in <5 minutes.

It’s a pretty cool product, similar to screencast software like Loom but you can add interactive steps to guide people through a tour/demo.

Joe goes on to share lessons learned and growth channels that have worked well.

One of the latter 👇

Posting and commenting on Reddit and Indiehackers – actually trying to add value while plugging your startup where helpful

You can see all of Joe’s Reddit posts and comments here. And his co-founder Koushik Marka seems to be the one posting on Indie Hackers.

The same type of post did best with each community…

• Share your SaaS and I’ll make you a shareable interactive demo (Reddit)
• Post your product, and I’ll create an interactive product demo for your marketing website (IH)

Could you try doing something similar to promote your own product or service? 🤔

For example:

• Web designers: offer to critique people’s homepages
• Copywriters: offer to create a better headline and intro for any article
• Videographers: offer to cut up a long video into a snappy social clip

Or, if you have a SaaS like Joe and Koushik, offer to use the tool yourself to generate some value for people in the community.

You could even do this with a software tool you have access to. 

For example, you could offer to do some basic keyword research via Ahrefs for your followers on Twitter.