Getting to One Million Users as a One-Woman Dev
Nadia Odunayo • October 06, 2022 • Los Angeles, CA

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.

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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

The Rails SaaS Conference 2022