Published inAntler·Dec 1, 2022I failed my first VC-backed startup — 100 lessons learnedFor the last 2 years, I worked with a small talented team on meetric.app — an app to help managers have better meetings, through We built a great product and had good traction: in 18 months, Meetric was used in 150,000 meetings across the world. Unfortunately, we never found product-market-fit…Startup Lessons11 min readStartup Lessons11 min read
Sep 30, 2021What NOT to do when you launch on Product Hunt (and still get #5 spot)In June 2021, Meetric launched successfully on Product Hunt aka PH. As this was my first PH launch, it was an absolute rollercoaster of excitement and stress. Mistakes were made and, if you keep reading, you can hopefully avoid them when it’s your turn to launch! Our goal was to…Product Hunt6 min readProduct Hunt6 min read
Published inAntler·Aug 18, 2021How we grew organic traffic 1,000% in 6 months.When we bought the domain meetric.app last year, we didn’t really know what we were building — only that we had a cool name (meetric = meeting + metric). Fast forward to today — Meetric is now used by thousands of professionals for their meetings, saving them time and boosting…Startup Lessons5 min readStartup Lessons5 min read
Published inAntler·Apr 15, 2021Your product starts on the first visit, not the first login.Say you’re planning to buy a brand new car and you find two car dealerships nearby. You drive past the first one and see this: You keep driving and then see the other one:Startup Lessons4 min readStartup Lessons4 min read
Published inAntler·Feb 2, 2021Cool things I learned in 2020 (as a first-time founder)In March 2020, I started Meetric.app with two cofounders in the land down under. We raised a pre-seed round to get us started and have been in undercover mode since, building Meetric 1.0. 2020 was a year of lockdown but also a solid year of learning for me: 1. Founder harmony comes and goes Building a…Startup Lessons5 min readStartup Lessons5 min read
Published inAntler·Oct 20, 2020How we got our first 1,000 beta signupsThis is the story of how the founding team at Meetric got its first 1,000 beta signups for its upcoming product. This is not one of these insane success stories where we got 1,000 in 48 hours… It took us a few months to get there — but if you’re…Startup Growth5 min readStartup Growth5 min read
Published inAntler·Jul 26, 2020Launching a remote startup with new co-foundersI felt extremely lucky to be selected to join the Antler program in January 2020 as one of the entrepreneurs in their second Sydney cohort. And it was indeed a rollercoaster. After weeks of countless design sprints, awkward conversations and extra coffee, I partnered with my two co-founders — Jonathan…Startup Lessons4 min readStartup Lessons4 min read
