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Podcast: The SaaS Podcast - AI, Growth & Product-Market Fit for SaaS Founders
Episode: Launching a Marketplace App: From Failed B2C to 6-Figure MRR
Description: Baskar Agneeswaran spent two years building a price comparison app that failed. His team's core strength was mobile development, not backend data infrastructure. When they aligned their skills to the Shopify SaaS marketplace - building mobile apps for e-commerce stores - traction came quickly. Launching a marketplace app on Shopify changed everything.
Baskar reveals how Vajro priced at $25/month initially to drive installs and reviews on the app marketplace, creating a compounding organic growth loop. Then COVID hit - and instead of cutting costs, he doubled team size after data showed mobile sessions jumping from 50% to 80%. Revenue...