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Fibery in 2025. Finally a good year in review
Jan 21 / 19 min read
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Fibery in 2025. Finally a Good Year in Review

We cut marketing spend by 85% and grew MRR by 85%. No ads, no SEO, no influencers. Just positioning, pricing, onboarding, and a product that finally works.

Michael DubakovFibery founder
Fibery in 2024. Year in Review
Jan 07, 2025 / 20 min read
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Fibery in 2024. Year in Review

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 😍😨.

Michael DubakovFibery founder
#54 Fibery.io in the first half of 2024
Aug 20, 2024 / 11 min read
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#54 Fibery.io in the First Half of 2024

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

Michael DubakovFibery founder
Fibery.io 2023 Year in Review
Jan 08, 2024 / 18 min read
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Fibery.io 2023 Year in Review

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 😍😨.

Michael DubakovFibery founder
#53. My brain hurts in Aug-Sep 2023
Oct 04, 2023 / 12 min read
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#53. My Brain Hurts in Aug-Sep 2023

🥊 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...

Michael DubakovFounder, Fibery.com
#52. Correcting the course in May-July 2023
Jul 27, 2023 / 14 min read
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#52. Correcting the Course in May-July 2023

☀️ 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.

Michael DubakovFounder, Fibery.com
#51. Even more things in March and April 2023
May 03, 2023 / 7 min read
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#51. Even More Things in March and April 2023

🇨🇭 +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.

Michael DubakovFounder, Fibery.com
#50. Many many things in January and February 2023
Feb 28, 2023 / 8 min read
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#50. Many Many Things in January and February 2023

$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 👴.

Michael DubakovFounder, Fibery.com
Fibery.io 2022 year in review
Dec 20, 2022 / 18 min read
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Fibery.io 2022 Year in Review

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 😁😨.

Michael DubakovFounder, Fibery.com

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