Parakeet Chat · B2C · AI chatbot for people in prison
Give users about a month of free credits when someone they bring in starts paying
Founder says it helped; no numbers
Workedreferral-program
What they did
Built an internal recruitment system: when an existing customer recruited a new one and that person signed up and started paying, the referrer got about a month of free credits.
What happened
"So that helped."
- Stage
- growth
“I did build an internal recruitment system where if one of our customers would recruit another customer, and the other person signed up and started paying for the product, the first person would get like a month or so of free credits. So that helped.”
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