
I'm doing an AMA on @IndieHackers.
Drop some questions in there! Happy to answer anything, esp around building side projects with a full-time job :)
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Super fun and rewarding to write all these answers. What I love about this AMA is that it basically outlines a ton of blog posts and YouTube video ideas!
More from Pat Walls
1/ Starter Story September Results
💵 Revenue: $1,737.84
📈 Uniques: 20,205 (Sept)
✉️ Email Subscribers: 2,956
#openstartup
Read more 👇
2/ For all my new followers (will get to that in a sec) I do a revenue & traffic #openstartup report every month for my main side project https://t.co/nkcmLxsSra
I've been working on this project for nearly a full year.
3/ Biggest thing that happened this month was obviously the 24 hour startup!
I won't talk about it too much in this thread, but after that happened everything just blew up. I'm still trying to catch up on everything and keep my head above water.
4/ All of this craziness sparked a big decision for me.
I QUIT MY JOB! 😁😅
I know it sounds kind of crazy to quit your job over that, but as I was heading into my 1:1 with my manager it just felt like I had to do it. It felt like the right thing to do.
5/ I had planned to grow SS for 6 more months and then quit, but then the 24 hour startup happened and it felt like it was the right moment to quit.
💵 Revenue: $1,737.84
📈 Uniques: 20,205 (Sept)
✉️ Email Subscribers: 2,956
#openstartup
Read more 👇
2/ For all my new followers (will get to that in a sec) I do a revenue & traffic #openstartup report every month for my main side project https://t.co/nkcmLxsSra
I've been working on this project for nearly a full year.
3/ Biggest thing that happened this month was obviously the 24 hour startup!
I won't talk about it too much in this thread, but after that happened everything just blew up. I'm still trying to catch up on everything and keep my head above water.
4/ All of this craziness sparked a big decision for me.
I QUIT MY JOB! 😁😅
I know it sounds kind of crazy to quit your job over that, but as I was heading into my 1:1 with my manager it just felt like I had to do it. It felt like the right thing to do.
5/ I had planned to grow SS for 6 more months and then quit, but then the 24 hour startup happened and it felt like it was the right moment to quit.
More from Startups
.@zapier built a $140M ARR business on $1.4M in VC that has become the logic layer of the no-code industry.
But it has the potential to be something even bigger: the Netflix of productivity.
Our report and a thread 👉
We believe @seqouia and @steadfast got a good deal buying into Zapier at $5B.
We value Zapier at $7B based on:
- 30-50% YoY growth over the next five years
- Zapier’s monopoly status in the solopreneur/SMB market
- 30-40% YoY growth of no-code TAM
No-code is huge and growing, but as @edavidpeterson has written, no-code is about more than tools: it’s about a philosophy that emphasizes interoperability and customizing your software to your needs.
https://t.co/UJY6BRtXwl
.@zapier enabled interoperability by building a solution to one of the intractable problems in SaaS: APIs that don’t talk to each other.
The product took off and hit $100M ARR in just 9 years, comparable to companies that have raised 100x as much money.
https://t.co/0Thk42eRpJ
Zapier was riding an explosion in APIs that started the same year they were founded—2011.
Suddenly, every SaaS business wanted to offer its users extensibility, but not spend time figuring out what integrations to build or building them.
That’s where Zapier came in handy.
But it has the potential to be something even bigger: the Netflix of productivity.
Our report and a thread 👉
We believe @seqouia and @steadfast got a good deal buying into Zapier at $5B.
We value Zapier at $7B based on:
- 30-50% YoY growth over the next five years
- Zapier’s monopoly status in the solopreneur/SMB market
- 30-40% YoY growth of no-code TAM
No-code is huge and growing, but as @edavidpeterson has written, no-code is about more than tools: it’s about a philosophy that emphasizes interoperability and customizing your software to your needs.
https://t.co/UJY6BRtXwl

Trying this on for size\u2026
— David Peterson (@edavidpeterson) January 14, 2021
\u201cNo code\u201d isn\u2019t a coherent category. It\u2019s a design philosophy.
But tools built with this philosophy in mind will be the biggest winners of the next decade.
Let me explain what I mean by way of analogy.
.@zapier enabled interoperability by building a solution to one of the intractable problems in SaaS: APIs that don’t talk to each other.
The product took off and hit $100M ARR in just 9 years, comparable to companies that have raised 100x as much money.
https://t.co/0Thk42eRpJ

Ever notice that Zapier is doing $100m+ and has no direct competition? Found their niche and crushed it \U0001f44c
— Tyler Tringas (@tylertringas) November 7, 2019
Zapier was riding an explosion in APIs that started the same year they were founded—2011.
Suddenly, every SaaS business wanted to offer its users extensibility, but not spend time figuring out what integrations to build or building them.
That’s where Zapier came in handy.
