We knew Prospero’s story from the beginning. In fact, their launch story was one of the posts we read in depth to inspire our launch on Product Hunt .
Prospero ended up at #2 that day, and today the product has over 1,400 votes .
Here is Prospero's story in a video:
How do we get to this?
Our in-house designer at the time, Avi Entire , saw an episode on Ran Segall’s channel philippines email address list Ran said they were looking for a partner in the marketing/business development field to help them skyrocket Prospero’s growth.
(A moment of objective recommendation – if you’re a designer, I run the YouTube channel. It has 63 followers and the episodes there can certainly help you take your freelance business to the next level.)
In fact, I had a few brief conversations with Ran beforehand, so I saved the small talk and got straight to the point:
Conversation
Sorry, it's in Hebrew, but I basically asked if they would be sold.
From there, we had more conversations, data sharing, phone calls, a meeting that included architecture and code review with Ran Margaliot (who is a rock star and one of the founders of Commun.it ), negotiations… and signing.
Although I summarized it in two and a half lines, it took me a good few months
This is the email Ran sent to Prospero customers:
Subject: Prospero has new owners and a better future!
TL;DR - Prospero is now owned by a new team, nothing changes for you, your account, or your proposals.
Full story -
As some of you may know, Prospero was built and operated by an initial designer (Ran) and developer (Ayal).
We supported the start-up and running of the company as freelancers, and over time we did so while trying to make Prospero better, and providing you with good service became very difficult (if you sent me a message without a reply, I deeply apologize).
A few months ago we realized that we couldn’t continue supporting Prospero ourselves. As our customer community (that’s you!) means a lot to us, we didn’t want to close the service and started looking for a partner who would like to pick up where we left off and continue investing in making the product better and giving you a great experience.
When we came across Tomer & Gal , we knew we had the right match. The guys have already created a successful online product (called poptin ), and we’re looking to expand into the proposal space as well.