How did you leverage lifetime deals on AppSumo to generate initial traction without venture funding?
Replied byMiquel Palet
Founder & CEO at Zernio
Niche: SaaS
Revenue: $458K/mo
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Started: 2025
We launched an initial lifetime deal to achieve immediate distribution and stress-test our backend infrastructure. That campaign brought hundreds of paying customers and invaluable user feedback within days. While lifetime deals are not sustainable long-term business models, they gave us early non-dilutive capital to self-fund servers, refine core endpoints, and build customer trust without venture investors.
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