Startup Diary

Tl;dr: 280 new paid customers (and 530 total) ❤️. 450 new features and 1400 fixed bugs 💪. 51 new releases 🌶️. Some failures (AI, Product teams strategy) 😱. Some wins (back to roots, your company's operating system focus) 🎢. Dopamine and cortisol 😍😨.

Eight months have passed since the last Fibery digest, and it's time to reflect on the past and share future plans. From narrowing down core use cases to re-positioning Fibery as a no-code product discovery & development platform

TLDR: 160 new customers (and 340 total) ❤️. 300 new features and 1300 fixed bugs 💪. 45 new releases 🌶️. 8 new teammates 🇫🇮🇵🇱🇨🇾🇨🇭🇵🇱🇭🇺🇵🇱🇵🇱. First offline retreat ✈️. No status meetings ✏️. Inevitable AI 👾. Slow December 🐢. Dopamine and cortisol 😍😨.

🥊 Startups are struggling. 🇵🇱 +1 Developer. 🇵🇱 +1 Designer. 🇭🇺 +1 Writer. 👓 Content marketing. 💸 Financial management. 👩‍🔬 Home page experiments. 🏋️‍♀️ 6 product themes are in progress. 🥹 Per-entity permissions are close...

☀️ Fibery retreat. 😅 New (old) positioning. 🃏 Teams re-structuring and Fibery product roadmap. 💔 Product Market Fit. 🇵🇱 +1 Educator. 💸 Cashflow and other reports. 👩‍🔬 Home page experiments. 🏄‍♀️ Product improvements: Documents, Emojis, Search.

🇨🇭 +1 Head of Marketing. 🇨🇾 +1 COO. 🇵🇱 +1 Customer Success Specialist. 💰 $50K MRR. 🍳 -1 PR Agency. 🌊 Planning our true first offline company retreat. 🗺️ Map View. 🗞️ Documents improvements. ⭐️ Fibery + AI.

$5.2M round A 💰. Tattoos bet 🔥. Fibery for Startups launch on Product Hunt 🍤. +1 Product Manager 🇫🇮. Co-working space in Warsaw 🇵🇱. Product Roadmap till May 2023 🔮. Fibery AI Assistant (experimental) 😅. SOC 2 Type II 🔓. Digest number 50 👴.

Some Round A 🤑. Time for bundling! 🧶. Market demands profitability 🐻. $500K+ ARR 🐕. 200 new features 💪. 40 new releases 🌶. 150 active startups 🦄. Marketing wins and losses 💎. SOC 2 (almost) 🦒. 5 new teammates 🇨🇿🇵🇱🇨🇦. Full remote ✈️. Dopamine and cortisol 😁😨.

Communication in Fibery reflections 🤯. We are (still) hiring! 🙏. +1 Product Designer Aliaksei 🇵🇱. Video production 📸. Merch project 🎁. PR agency partnership 📣. 4 releases with tons of new features 🏋️‍♀️. Form View 😍.

Petr 🇨🇿 joined our company as a head of business development 🥹. New home page 🟢. 4 releases with tons of new features 🏋️‍♀️. Form View (experimental) 🙏.

We are prepared 🤺. $40K MRR 🤑. +1 developer (Dmitry) 🇵🇱. We are hiring! 🦄 CTO group 🕹. Status page 🚦. New relation lists 🏃‍♂️

Michael is on vacation 🌴. Team takes over this post 🤪. +Kasper 👨‍🏫. Book recs 📚. Buttons on Entity View 🗿. Revert changes in Entity activity log 🪀.

Marketing reflexion 🧐. Support is overloaded 🏋️‍♀️. Dark Theme 🌚. Send Emails and Slack messages from Fibery 🎙. Hide Fields from Entity View 🙈.

Record growth with +$4K MRR 😅. 50% discount for nonprofit and educational 🏋️‍♀️. 100% discount for open-source projects 😎. Panels Navigation fun 🤪. Share Space to the web 🌍. Pinned fields 📍. Hierarchical checkboxes list 🌲.

Growth recovered 😅. Some re-structuring 🏋️‍♀️. Digital Agency solution 🦋. How Fibery uses Fibery video 🧘‍♀️. Fibery End Game 🎲. Phishing story 🎣. Search in panels 🔦. Customize pinned Fields 📍. Change workspace name and logo 🔧.

Ukrainian war affected our performance. $30K MRR 🐌. 69 reviews in G2 ❤️. Marketing for customer-built products is hard 🥉. 12 customer stories 👻. 2 hours downtime 🥲. New navigation ⛵️. My Space 🔒.

Russia should stop this war.

Fibery startup news: Activation metric works. The activation trend is not. Max joined the team. Ilya is mixing things. MRR is growing. The outreach channel failed (again). 770 bugs. Feed View. Experimental navigation you will enjoy.

Independence. Emigration & remote work. $3.1M Seed round. Booming market. 58 posts in our blog. $290K ARR. 100 new features. 32 new releases. Fibery for Product Teams release. Some product/market fit. 4 new people.

New getting started concept. New pricing. In search of Activation Metric. Animalz cooperation failed. Promising leads. Live onboarding experiment results. Three new releases.

Activation stats. Experiment with Fibery structure. Experiment with a 90-days trial. Experiment with live onboarding. Experiment with an outreach agency. Partners program. New features.

TLDR: Meditations on complexity. Fibery Partners program. New templates. Automations rules webinar. Huge WIP.

Special Startup Diary edition. 20k MRR & 15 new customers! +Chris. +Sales agency. 4 case studies. Airtable integration & notify people action.

TLDR: We closed $3.1M seed round. Building a second brain for teams. Fibery mission. Building in Public. Automation rules. Documents and Rich Text history.

Thinking about the next big thing. Fibery for startups webinar. Fibery vs. ClickUp. Minsk office is closed. Share Documents and Entities. Group permissions

Emigration from Belarus. 90-days trial. Lemonade! -Anna, +Ilya. Web site changes. Full-text search. Cumulative reports. SAML SSO.

4 new releases. 11 new customers. Automated actions. Undelete things. Crazy Thursday aka 'Der CollabdocDenburg'. Fibery for User Research.

Better traction and $10K MRR. 13 new customers. Fibery 2.0 foundation. Regular posts in our blog. First webinar. Super Polina. More explanatory videos.

Many demos for product teams. Product Teams A/B Test. Complexity. Other niches experiments paused. New roadmap. Hierarchical Lists View released.

Independence and freedom. Fibery for Product Teams release. Some marketing activities started. Kate joined our marketing team. Fantastic reviews from our customers.

Fibery 2.0 release moved to January 2021. Not so many new features, but expect a new burst soon. Anna joined our company as the Head of Marketing. Winter (or Summer) came.

TLDR: First integrations are released. Product teams validation is in progress. Hope to have Fibery 2.0 launch in December. We are still looking for Head of Marketing

Got $700K tranche. Cooperation with the new design agency. Start of a direct sales experiment. Product workspace is coming. Integrations are coming. We are looking for Head of Marketing.

Fibery startup progress in August 2020: Elections in Belarus. WTF??? Violence. Shock. Revolution. Depression. Hope.

Fibery startup progress in July 2020. More customers. Terms Sheet with VC is finally signed. Better North Star metric!

Vizydrop team will join Fibery in August. Terms Sheet with the VC fund is negotiated and confirmed. Stability problems resolved. Performance improved. New blog delivered. Fibery sticks better.

$1M confirmed from angels for the seed round. Deeper negotiation with a VC fund. Tons of content. Largest customer. Roadmap for the next 3 months is nailed. Chaos.

Public launch April 1st. Product of the Day on PH. Some offers from VC. Super-productive month. Better activity, but stagnating MRR. Cool Whiteboard View. Remote.

Panic mode. +Pavel +Alexey. Productivity soars. No VC. Remote. New pricing scheme. New getting started.

First true customers. 100 active accounts. +Polina. Up to speed. −Telemetry. Still no public launch. Independence!

Public announcements moved to February. -Nikita. -VC. -Snow. -Speed. Cortisol pit. Crossing Valley of death. Optimism.

Public announcements moved to January. +Lena. Tons of feedback. First money! Hype is over. We consider rising a ~$4M round.

Fibery 1.0 is silently launched. Silence is hard to keep. HackerNews front page. Twitter madness. 3000 registered accounts.

Nikita is back! New web site. Pricing simplified. Sidebar redesigned. Getting started experienced. Polishing is eternal.

Domain evolution is done. Notifications are done. Actions Buttons are done. Fall is free. Creators! Polishing is terrified.

Notifications are somewhat done. Rename is graceful. Action Buttons are born. Canvas View is growing. Javascript. HN banned us.

Table View is done, Notifications are in progress, Automation Rules are postponed. Everybody is a unicorn. Serious shit! Summertime.

Fibery startup progress in June 2019: Public API and Formulas are completed. Release is closer. Team got crazier.

Several people burned out, new features are delivered, public release will be sooner (we hope) (despite ill fortune).

We’ve fixed 60 bugs, completed some features, added one teammate and frustratedly discussed many potential options for Fibery future.

Fibery startup progress in March 2019: We’ve provided access to Fibery to 100 accounts and collected some feedback.

We’ve released private beta in February. Now we are fixing bugs, setting up accounts, collecting feedback and think about future.

Fibery startup progress in January 2019: Private beta goals, selecting a market positioning (hard), apps re-design.

Company: decreased burn rate. Product changes: formulas, filters, timeline improvements, create entities in batches.

Fibery startup results in November 2018. Good development speed, new app creation flow, wiki, customizable entity view.

Fibery startup progress in October 2018: Alpha version feedback, new web site, custom app creation, apps import and export.

Fibery startup progress in September 2018. Slow month with not so many news. First positive feedback. Company name selection.

Startup backstage is an interesting thing to observe. I’ll write regular posts about Fibery progress and results.