Supademo · B2B · interactive product demo maker
Talk to 100+ founders about the problem and their workarounds before building
Confirmed people hated making demos; went on to build V1
Workedvalidation
What they did
Started from his own repeated pain showing product value with videos and Looms that went out of date and unwatched. Talked to 100+ B2B SaaS founders to ask whether they had the same problem and what they did instead. Common answer: making demos was painful and people hated hearing their own voice. Then built a V1 as an experiment to test whether people would pay.
What happened
Interviews confirmed a painful problem; the product later reached $3M ARR.
- Stage
- Pre-launch
- Effort
- 100+ interviews
In their words
Starter Story · How This $250K/Month SaaS Got Its First 100 Users (Steal This Playbook)“So, I ended up talking to probably 100-plus founders that were working in the B2B SaaS industry. And I think the unifying concern was, yes, this was a really painful problem.”
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