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We now have 400 paying subscribers

It took us 364 days to reach the first 100 subscribers, and we've now gone from 100 to 400 in 120 days. We went from 300 to 400 subscribers in 15 days. Crazy and unbelievable! Thank you all for your support!Here's what we added to the product over the last month: Better neural translation engine. We replaced the cheaper and more outdated machine translation provider with a more up to date...

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Gglot SaaS Startup hit $750 MRR

6 months in, Gglot Transcription (gglot.com) is now on $750 MRR. We're a bootstrapped automatic transcription company that converts any audio and video file into text and helps Youtube influencers to get the most SEO out of their videos with closed captions and subtitles.I am delighted that this community is maturing. Launched in the middle of global pandemic and NYC lockdown, the service was...

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$100k ARR Milestone

ConveyThis hit $100,000 ARR last week! It's a huge milestone for us Launched just under 2 years ago Fully bootstrapped, no money raised Fully inhouse No outbound sales Team of 3 I'll probably write a blog post about it so let me know if there's something specific you'd want to hear about.

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Free Tool: Calculate Website Words

The biggest problem with calculating words on websites, is that you need to deploy a crawling software to visit every public web page, remove the duplicates and return the accurate results. The word counters I saw were either scammy (aka ask for email address and return nothing), or calculated only one page. I couldn't get the entire website calculated! So, we've decided to build our own free...

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Paying Customers

We now have 300 paying customers of conveythis.comIt's great considering that we passed 100 customers in December of 2019 It means a 200% growth in 8 monthsWe are gonna do $100,000 in revenue this year, my goal for 2021 is to do $1M (+1000%)Let's keep rocking!

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How to Translate a Website in 2020 [Full Guide]

You probably still run your startup in English only? Think again! With cost per paid click being astronomical, you would be better off looking for new blue oceans in other languages. I personally found my oceans in Spanish, French, German, Korean, Russian, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch languages. What about you? I've compiled a thoroughly written article that can help you to understand how to...

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We grew revenue by 500% in the last year

COVID19 has no signs of relief. It doesn't get bored and you probably sense that you will remain at home for quite a while. However, if you are bored and need a good read, check out how we grew revenue by 500% in the last year: https://www.conveythis.com/our-journey/how-we-grew-conveythis-revenue-to-5000-mrr/?locale=en #revenue #Growth #SaaS

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Universal Website Translator

Over this past year I had the idea to build a sort of a website translator what would work universally well on every website. There have been lots of problems with it in the past since websites are fragmented in WordPress, Shopify, Joomla and other CMSes.So I built ConveyThis. It uses machine translator and a proxy technology to imitate the translation layer. Works flawlessly.Here's an example...

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