Relay by Chargebee

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Welcome to Relay by Chargebee! Uncategorized Hi there! Welcome to Relay. We are so excited to have you here! :slightly_smiling_face: Ever since Jan 23rd, 2020, when EnjoyHQ’s co-founder, Sofia Quintero, drafted and shared her earnest notes on starting up, Relay…	0	5319	December 6, 2019
AI-Native PMF: Building an AI-Native CRM, Designing Human-in-The-Loop Workflows, and How "Customers Vote with Their Wallets" on Pricing Models with folk's Simo Lemhandez Heuristics and Hunches pmf , ai , product	0	272	April 12, 2025
AI-Native PMF: Question Base — AI's “Very Real” Cold Start Problem, Managing High-Stakes Hallucinations, and Balancing Adoption and Costs with a Freemium Strategy Heuristics and Hunches pricing , pmf , product , ai-native	0	507	February 7, 2025
AI-Native PMF: Differentiating Against Generic AI Tools, Lessons on Value and Margins from Three Pricing Model Evolutions, and Strong Hunches on AI-Native Building with Sudowrite’s Amit Gupta Heuristics and Hunches pmf , product , ai-native	0	410	April 7, 2025
AI-Native PMF: "Why 90% of AI Tools Are Built Wrong for Enterprise", Pricing AI for a Buyer Too Comfortable with Seat-Based, and Hot Takes on AI for Sales Teams with Pocus' Alexa Grabell Heuristics and Hunches pmf , ai , ai-native	0	269	May 20, 2025
Dropping Per-Seat Pricing after 14 Years, Creating a Customer-First Usage-Based Model, and Reckoning with an AI-Catalyzed Innovator’s Dilemma with Help Scout’s Nick Francis Heuristics and Hunches customer-centricity , pricing , pmf , ai , product	0	380	April 18, 2025
"I Psyoped Sam Parr" - BTS Notes on Winning Big Logos Early, Building in an Era When "SaaS Has Been Picked Over," and Why Community Is the Growth Channel of the Future with River's Co-Founder, Rae Lambert Heuristics and Hunches pmf , ai , operating-principles , product	0	170	March 7, 2025
“The State of the Market Matters More Than Its Size” and Other Notes From Building for an Always-Under-Pressure ICP with Goldcast’s Co-Founder, Palash Soni Heuristics and Hunches positioning , pmf , product , niches	3	300	October 7, 2024
Niching as a Learning Tool, Prioritizing Teams over Users, and Building at The Intersection of Technology and Culture with Flat’s Co-Founder, Seth Purcell Heuristics and Hunches design , pmf , product , niches	1	215	October 5, 2024
“I Don’t Think You Can Have a Great Product Unless It’s Freemium” and Other Notes on Growing in an Established SaaS Category with Loops’ Co-Founder, Chris Frantz Heuristics and Hunches crowded-markets , freemium , product	1	718	May 13, 2024
The Power of Intuitive Tech, “Juicing It” as a Usage (and Joy) Driver, and Other Notes on Shaping a Disciplined-Yet-Freeing Product Path with Arcade’s Co-Founder, Caroline Clark Heuristics and Hunches goal-setting , freemium , founders-self , product	2	723	April 18, 2024
Solving B2B Distribution with Viral, Persona-Focused Work Humor, Navigating Growth Plateaus, and Other Notes on Making Singular Bets with tl;dv’s Co-Founder, Raphael Allstadt Heuristics and Hunches hiring , pmf , operating-principles , founders-self , marketing-mix	1	634	April 2, 2024
I'm Patricia from Kairn, learning how to build a top Product Hunt campaign What Am I Missing bootstrapping , fundraising , product-launches	1	973	February 10, 2024
“Sharing Our Experiences, Wins, and Lessons is Also Humbling. It Keeps Us Honest,” and Other Notes on Building a Customer-First, Bootstrapped Business with Canny’s Co-Founder, Sarah Hum Heuristics and Hunches bootstrapping , culture , pmf , operating-principles , product	0	739	February 9, 2024
Why the Lean Startup Approach Doesn't Work (as Often), Why PMF Surveys (Alone) Aren’t That Helpful, and Other Notes on Building Opinionated Software with June’s Co-Founder, Enzo Avigo Heuristics and Hunches positioning , pmf , product-led-growth , customer-research , product	2	1081	January 26, 2024
“How Moving Away from Per-User Pricing Helped us 4X our Growth, Why We Were Moving Back, and Why We Won’t (For Now)” with Tability’s Co-Founder, Sten Pittet Heuristics and Hunches pricing , categories , product	12	1851	January 11, 2024
Solving a Truly Universal Problem, Competing with Software Built in The 80s, SMB Notes from Xero, and Other Observations with Tallyfor’s Co-Founders, Peter and Ben Wen Heuristics and Hunches hiring , operating-principles , churn , competitive-markets	2	532	December 23, 2023
“One of Our First Engineers Had Been Working in Tech for 30 Years” and Other Notes on Deliberately Hiring Senior People Early with Recast’s Co-Founder, Michael Kaminsky Heuristics and Hunches fundraising , hiring , pmf , capital-efficiency	1	595	December 12, 2023
"As We Scale, We Operate More Like a Typical (Horizontal) B2B SaaS Business Rather Than a Vertical One” and Other Lessons on Building an Ag-Tech SaaS with Regrow Ag’s Co-Founder, Anastasia Volkova Heuristics and Hunches hiring , pmf , vertical-saas , icp	2	572	December 11, 2023
Bootstrapping after 8 Years on the VC-Backed Path, Getting to Multi-Million ARR with a Team of 3, and Notes on PLG with Userflow’s Co-Founder, Esben Friis-Jensen Heuristics and Hunches bootstrapping , product-led-growth , founders-self , capital-efficiency	4	1240	November 22, 2023
How Selling 3K AppSumo Deals Proved Foundational, Not Niching Down, and Other Reflections on Scaling a Bootstrapped SaaS with Paperform’s Co-Founder, Dean McPherson Heuristics and Hunches bootstrapping , user-onboarding , differentiation , product-launches , niches	2	1587	November 6, 2023
How Atlassian Began in a Niche, Laddering to Scale, and Lessons from 2 Decades of Building for Development Teams with Released’s Co-Founder, Jens Schumacher Heuristics and Hunches product , dev-tools , niches	2	1138	October 25, 2023
The Necessity and (Unceasing) Magic of Doing Thousands of User Onboarding Calls with Vimcal’s Co-Founder, John Li Heuristics and Hunches user-onboarding , freemium , product , retention	0	672	October 6, 2023
The Trouble with Building too Close to User Love, Why PLG Requires Balancing 4 Different Roadmaps, and Other Earnest Notes from Winding Down a Startup with Kairn’s Co-Founder, Patricia Bernasconi Heuristics and Hunches pivots , pmf , product-led-growth , founders-self , product	1	760	October 3, 2023
How Early Adopters Don’t Have to be Ideal Customers, Founder-Done Customer Support as a Growth Strategy, and Other Notes on Building with Reasonable Ambition with Missive’s Co-Founder, Philippe-Antoine Lehoux Heuristics and Hunches bootstrapping , early-stage-growth , founders-self , product	2	862	September 28, 2023
“It’s Tempting to Start Selling Something We’d Build 6 Months Down the Line” and Other Notes on Early Validation with Alphadoc’s Co-Founder, Job Rietbergen Heuristics and Hunches product-led-growth , customer-research , product , idea-validation	2	883	September 25, 2023
“No One Can Represent All Sides of an Argument Better Than You Can” and Other Instructive Notes on Early-Stage Product Marketing with Vanta’s VP of Marketing, Sarah Scharf Heuristics and Hunches customer-research , operating-principles , operators-series , product-marketing	2	1073	September 8, 2023
“I Think I’m a Historian” — Pivots vs Hops, HubSpot’s Singular Self-Awareness, Why Bundling Gets Rebranded Every 3 Years, and Other Discerning Lessons with Nira’s Co-Founder, Hiten Shah Heuristics and Hunches pivots , founders-self , enterprise , bundling , strategy	2	779	August 23, 2023
Scaling an Open Source Tool While Running an Agency, Giving Back Control with On-Prem Deployments, and Bootstrapping Decisions with Flagsmith’s Founder, Ben Rometsch Heuristics and Hunches bootstrapping , fundraising , pmf , dev-tools , open-source	2	662	July 18, 2023
Prioritizing Engineering Momentum over Accurate Timelines and Building on the Merits of a Car When Users Might Want Faster Horses with Compose’s Co-Founder, Rami Kalai Heuristics and Hunches pmf , operating-principles , metrics , product , competitive-markets	2	675	July 4, 2023

Welcome to Relay by Chargebee!

Hi there! Welcome to Relay. We are so excited to have you here! :slightly_smiling_face: Ever since Jan 23rd, 2020, when EnjoyHQ’s co-founder, Sofia Quintero, drafted and shared her earnest notes on starting up, Relay…