Getting to One Million Users as a One-Woman Dev — Nadia Odunayo

Nadia joined us at The Rails SaaS Conference in Los Angeles, California to share the details of her journey building and bootstrapping The StoryGraph, from the early beta buzz on Twitter to bringing on a co-founder and going viral with the mobile apps she built with Ruby on Rails tooling. If you'd like to join us at our next event, follow   / railssaas   and sign up for our mailing list at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/rails... . Thank you to our corporate sponsors who made the event and the production of this video possible: EVENT SPONSOR ClickFunnels (https://clickfunnels.com) PRODUCTION SPONSORS Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Geocodio (https://www.geocod.io) POST-PRODUCTION SPONSORS Render (https://render.com) PlanetScale (https://planetscale.com) Evil Martians (https://evilmartians.com) Entri (https://www.entri.com) 0:00 — Introduction 4:33 — Growing buzz on Twitter 9:31 — Buckling under the load; “how did I get here?” 14:01 — “Keep the Tech Simple" and "Keep Talking to Customers" 22:59 — Hiring help, adding a co-founder, and re-engineering 27:14 — “Keep Costs Low” and choosing a revenue model 35:03 — Going viral with mobile apps 39:28 — Migrating away from Heroku 42:37 — Today; the takeaways