Ask me anything with the CEO of Planyway, a project management tool with 700 000 users worldwide.

Sergey Koshevoy
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Hey, Product Hunt Makers! I’m Sergey, the CEO of Planyway – the project management tool that brings your work and calendar together, helping teams stay effortlessly in sync within Jira and Trello. We started with a simple idea to make planning less chaotic, and now here we are, helping over 700,000 users around the world – from project managers and product owners to designers, developers, and marketers – tackle their toughest projects. I’d love to share our journey and hear about yours! I’m here to answer any questions you’ve got about building Planyway, scaling from idea to reality, team collaboration, balancing priorities, or any topic that you find interesting. Let’s chat! Drop your questions below, and I can’t wait to dive into the conversation with you all.

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Menelaos Kotsollaris
after what action/set of actions did you realize you hit PMF?
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Sergey Koshevoy
@mkotsollaris What truly helped us was running user interviews. By consistently engaging with users and listening to their unique challenges, we identified common themes and needs that Planyway was effectively addressing within Trello and Jira. These interviews provided direct insights, helping us fine-tune our features to solve real problems. The positive feedback, increased engagement, and higher adoption rates following these adjustments were clear indicators that we’d reached PMF. Of course, we use Amplitude a lot to analyze user behavior, onboarding questions, but nothing is as effective as real talk with users. What about you?
Abhishek Dutta
What's your conversation ratio? Free:Paid Users.
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Sergey Koshevoy
@abhishek_ux 7:1, excluding trial users
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How did you get your first customer? How much did you spend to do so?
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Sergey Koshevoy
@johnberg Being an extension for other products has its pros and cons, but one major advantage is the exposure we gain from marketplaces like Jira, Trello, and GitHub. These platforms make it easy for people to find us, and as a result, we landed our first customer almost immediately after launching the paid plan.
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Adarsh Kumar
Apologies if I might be late to the discussion, but would really love to know your initial growth story of 1 - 100 users