What are past projects, failures, or successes you’ve had in your career?
All of our past projects, failures and successes lead to skillplate.
We were always in the business of helping others start and grow their business.
First we were doing it hands on with our full service digital agency Startup Masters - https://startup-masters.com/
We helped 250+ businesses make over half a billion dollars.
I mean we did like fail at least 150 of them and they shut down ... but hey 2 made over 100 million and about another 90 took off and got past the $1,000,000 a year mark from scratch.
Then we wanted to help even more people so instead of doing it for and with them we decided to teach everything we know in our Masters Academy - https://masters-academy.com/
There we have over 55,000 students. 6 successful appsumo campaigns with great feedback and many many tacos :)
We initially built Skillplate as the platform for masters academy because none of the other platforms seemed good enough. Then our students asked us to release it as a platform and we figured out that through that platform we could potentially help a billion people start, launch and grow their business.
So this is what we will do until our last days on earth I guess.
What 3rd party tools is your product critically dependent on?
None. Skillplate is built entirely by us. From scratch. All providers we use are easily replaceable and have backups.
Where is your customer data stored?
We have a worldwide distributed infrastructure. Mainly in the US, Frankfurt and Melbourne.
What is your current monthly recurring revenue (MRR)?
12000
How many customers do you have today?
321
What’s the origin of the idea for your product?
We started as a marketing agency in 2014 - https://startup-masters.com/
We became a top 1% performer in google ads and helped our customers make over $570M with an overall ROAS of over 12:1.
So people wanted to learn how we do our marketing and that's why we made https://masters-academy.com/
Skillplate was initially created as the website for Masters Academy but our students kept asking us what platform we are using and where can they get it. So we invested all of our money, dreams and energy to build Skillplate and make it available to everyone so they can start a business selling digital products quickly and easily with everything they need all in one place.
What problem is your product solving and how?
Launching a digital business is overwhelming — creators juggle 10+ tools, endless setup, and costly tech. Skillplate solves this by giving you everything in one place: AI product creation, websites, payments, members area, admin for your entire business and even marketing features like email and tracking. You go from idea to income in minutes, not months.
What sets it apart is that Skillplate is the easiest to use and fastest to launch a product all-in-one platform. It is built by entrepreneurs & marketers for entrepreneurs. One of the coolest things is that you can apply your branding globally with a few clicks, and get a stunning design out-of-the-box.
What’s the #1 thing you’re looking to gain from the AppSumo campaign?
Customers, Word of Mouth, Use Cases.
What are your plans with the customers, cash, and learnings from the AppSumo campaign?
All the money and feedback will be used to improve Skillplate until it's not only the best platform on the market but the only only one. That's just the kind of people we are.
Any details to clarify about the deal?
Everything should be pretty clear.
We support all countries that have free use of the internet.
Anything else you'd like to add?
We will ALWAYS help you. With your business. With your questions. With anything you need to be successful. Our mission is to help the next billion entrepreneurs to start and grow their business.