Julien Nahum, the founder of NotionForms, a Notion form builder, has been bootstrapping his business on his own for the past two years.

Julien has already built and sold a few online businesses in the past few years. None of them brought him large sums of money, but they did give him a taste for entrepreneurship.

He recently passed a significant milestone: 1.000 customers for NotionForms. It took 1 year, 9 months, and nearly 45,000 users to get there! Julien now runs a startup with a $18k+ MRR. There is something to be learned from him.

Key Takeaways

[00:40 ] - Developing a product for platforms such as Notion.

[02:05 ] - Failure of the Levels' method.

[03:09 ] - Selecting a "passion" project with a need.

[04:55 ] - Starting a business as a technical.

[05:26 ] - Evaluating which projects to work on.

[07:12 ] - The challenges of a solo founder - PMF, product doubts, and pricing.

[09:25 ] - Having fun while building and distancing from SaaS.

[10:15 ] - Problems of $10K MRR founder.

[11:35 ] - Outsourcing not exciting development.

[12:51 ] - Non-technical founders creating a SaaS.

[13:39 ] - Gaining insights and starting from scratch.

[14:21 ] - An advice for $5K MRR founders.

[15:20 ] - An advice for aspiring founders.

[16:37 ] - The freedom that bootstrapping brings.

Quotes

“I wasn't even sharing the projects, so I'm not sure how you'd expect traction“ - Julien

“If you're at $5K MRR - just keep going. You've figured your thing“ - Julien

“The hardest thing is to start and the second hardest is obviously to keep going“ - Julien

“Don't put yourself in a situation where you will be stressed. This is a long-term game“ - Julien

Links

Connect with Julien:

Twitter: twitter.com/JhumanJ

LinkedIn: llinkedin.com/in/julien-nahum

notionforms.io: notionforms.io

Book with insights: Navigating The Bootstrapped Mafia

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