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Savvy Navvy · navigation app for boats

Sell a two-year plan at about 30% off to get cash up front

Biggest win of the year; ad spend now paid back as soon as it's spent

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What they did

Using US rules that allow payment outside the App Store, added a two-year subscription on web checkout: $183 vs $129/year ($75 off two years, ~30%). Pitched at boat owners who keep boats for years. Revenue per user over two years is about the same, but collected up front, so marketing spend is recovered immediately.

What happened

Called the biggest win of the last 12 months: big impact on CAC payback and how much can be spent on marketing.
Stage
2025-2026, ~$3.5M B2C ARR

In their words

Why He Crowdfunded Millions Instead of Raising VC — Jelte Liebrand, Savvy Navvy

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David BarnardBut there are a few things that I did want to wrap up. I want to wrap up with the three questions that I now ask every guest, and that is because these are just so fun. I've had so much fun asking these. What is the most impactful experiment or change of the past year, your biggest win of the past year?

Jelte LiebrandTwo-year subscriptions. So we now, obviously, in the US, there's abilities to not necessarily use the App Store for payment. Forget the whole debate whether or not that is a good thing and 30% this and whatever else, that's a side story. But what it has allowed us to do is actually provide different type of subscriptions, and one of which is a two-year subscription. If you're a boater and you've got a boat, you're going to likely have that for a number of years. And so, if we can provide you with a two-year plan at a discount, that is much more favorable for you. The benefit for us isn't actually, "Ooh, that's that's more money," it's more money up front, and what that does is really helping on the marketing side with the CAC payback. All of a sudden, even though we're giving a discount, but ultimately, over the span of two years, we're probably getting about the same revenue out of this person, but we're getting it now.

Jelte LiebrandAnd so, that's had a huge impact on what we're then able to do on the marketing side and the spend that we can have because we get that back immediately as we spend it. So I think that's definitely one of the biggest wins these last 12 months.

David BarnardYeah. That's so cool. What level of discount have you found successful for that? You're not doing two years for the price of one, but are you doing two years for the price of one and a half, two years at 25% discount? What does that look like?

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