We allowed companies to keep using our native macOS app while hosting the project data in the cloud, allowing team collaboration.

The product has seen multiple transformations the most important one is the launch of Paw Cloud. Over time, Paw has grown into a profitable bootstrapped company. This is what made it gain a lot of traction at first, and quite frankly, the reason I incorporated the company only a few weeks after this social media appearance! In fact, in 2014, someone posted Paw on Hacker News. Until this day, people often ask how Paw has gained traction: word of mouth is the correct answer. But it was important to me to show that the product and the demand were strong enough. Surely enough, a freemium model would have allowed a faster growth in terms of the number of active users. The focus was on quality, performance, and sticking close to the platform.Įarly on, I wanted the app to be paid, proving that it had great value for the users. Panic and the Omni Group were my role models - that's where I wanted to take Paw. And as an iOS dev, I was thrilled to build a native macOS ('OS X' back then) app. It had to be a utility app, something practical. It mattered to me to build a well-polished product, something I would be proud of and that would let me obsess over the details.

After doing some research, the latter seemed to be something many developers would be using daily, so I went for this. I came up with two ideas: a utility app that would allow companies to send marketing push notifications and another to help developers test APIs. Something that would help my daily workflow. Following the motto 'Build something people want', I figured I'd build something that I wanted myself. Back then, I was an iOS Engineer, often in charge of handling part of the backend code. When Paw came to life in 2013, it could have been an entirely different project, possibly not related to APIs.

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