Mike Slaats – Tech founder, speaker, and author.

Hi 👋, I'm Mike

Founder of user feedback tool Upvoty, host of the Product Coffee Club podcast,
and initiator of the SaaS Pirates community.

Blog

Is Scaling the Right Thing for Your SaaS?

3 months ago

How to find the ‘Aha’ moment in your SaaS

3 months ago

Adobe’s $11 billion SaaS decision

3 months ago

Feedback is golden

4 months ago

Increase value through cross selling

4 months ago

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Hey, hey 👋, I am Mike and the founder of user f

Hey, hey 👋, I am Mike and the founder of user feedback tool @upvoty. Here’s my story.

At the age of 16 I started working on my first business when I discovered that school just wasn’t for me. I wanted to build things. Explore. Learn on the go.

From my parent’s garage I started building my own webshop where I sold tshirts with prints. After learning a thing or two about online marketing, I soon was selling throughout the country.

When businesses in my neighborhood started noticing, they asked me to do marketing for them and thus I started my marketing agency. In 3 years I built a thriving business with 4 full-time employees and a revenue of over $250,000.

I wasn’t fulfilled though. I wanted to work on my own product, not on someone else’s.

One day I discovered an opportunity by building an online marketplace for home improvement. We had little competition at the time and we just did everything a little bit better.

By the time of 2018, it was a thriving business with a $1,000,000 revenue mark. Because of the growth in users, we were getting a lot of feedback from our users as well.

When I was searching for a tool online to collect and manage our user feedback, I really couldn’t find one that I liked or was fair-priced. So, I started working on my newest product, a user feedback tool @upvoty.

We launched in February 2019 and within just a couple of months we already did over $1,000 MRR.

Now, 1 year later, we’re about to hit $10,000 MRR.

I am documenting my every step here on Instagram. Every failure, every success.

Follow me along with my adventure of building Upvoty into a million-dollar business and the best user feedback tool out there.

Anything is possible. I’m here to hopefully show you.

Mike

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