Scaling to $700k Annualized Revenue With 5 micro1 Engineers

The power of hiring a high quality, lean engineering team

Megaphone's background

Megaphone is a company, founded by Michael Houck, that accelerates the growth of your LinkedIn and X accounts through instant organic engagement from the most reputable creators in your niche. With an existing funnel of potential clients thanks to Houck’s Newsletter that teaches founders how to scale their startup, the only missing piece of the puzzle was an outstanding engineering team to build his software. Founded just one year ago, Megaphone scaled to $700,000 in annualized revenue by hiring top-quality, experienced engineers at a reasonable rate through micro1. As a newly founded startup, the goal was to hire extremely talented engineers cost-effectively.

5

Engineers hired

$175k/year

Saved on salaries

$700k

Added Annualized Revenue

Michael Houck

@callmehouck

I hired 5 engineers and got sent a personalized bottle of Don Julio. They also built an app for me in a couple weeks.

Pretty cool deal from micro1.

Scaling Megaphone’s engineering team

Q3 2023: Houck hired his first full-stack engineer

Just one month after founding Megaphone, Houck contacted micro1 to claim our no-brainer offer: 240 hours of free software development. His goal was to find scrappy engineers with great communication skills, architectural decision making experience, and marketplace development experience. We sent him hand-picked candidate recommendations on the same day as the initial meeting, and that same month, he made his first hire, Raphael - a full stack engineer.

Q1 2024: Hired his first front-end engineer

After spending a few months building the foundation for his software with his first engineer, Houck’s budget opened up for an additional team member. After reaching back out to his account executive, Maria, he had a handful of candidates ready for interviews within 48 hours. Shortly after the first set of interviews he hired his first front-end engineer, Mehul.

Q2 2024: Hired another 3 engineers

After building the foundation of his platform with the original two developers, Houck continued to hire an additional 3 engineers through micro1 between January and June 2024 including a back-end engineer and AI engineer to completely round out his dream engineering team and take Megaphone to the next level.

The power of a high quality, lean engineering team

We helped assemble the Megaphone engineering team following micro1's own internal philosophy: a lean, high-output team delivers the best results. With just 5 engineers, Megaphone scaled to $700k in annualized revenue in less than one year - all while maintaining incredible margins thanks to micro1’s deeply vetted and affordable talent pool. Houck was able to hire with intense speed and precision, ultimately leading to maximum growth in a ridiculously short amount of time.

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