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This advice is correct. It took us 18 months to make our first dollar and then another 10 months to hit $2k MRR. Now we're north of $800k ARR. (bootstrapped, 2
by a13n 6y ago
This advice is correct.
It took us 18 months to make our first dollar and then another 10 months to hit $2k MRR. Now we're north of $800k ARR. (bootstrapped, 2 first-time founders)
Time frames of "three weeks" and "two months" are unrealistically quick, and might cause you to give up before you even give your startup a real chance.
Mayyyybe you can hit these milestones if:
- You've built a successful SaaS company before, and deeply understand product, sales, marketing, pricing, etc
- You start out with a validated product + market, so you have a high chance of hitting product market fit quickly
- You have a team and can work on building product + acquiring users simultaneously
But for a first-time solo-founder, this is just so unrealistic.
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- winrid 6y agoWow! First off, congrats. Second - makes me feel good. Started in Dec and have around a dozen paying customers now. You give me hope!
- justanotherc 6y agoThanks for sharing, that's encouraging for us. We spent 1.3 yrs building our software, and it took us 8 months to get our first paying customer (we did a lot of long free trials/beta users), and after 1yr since launch we're up to ~$2k MRR, so not far off from you. Seems like we're going at a snail's pace but I guess maybe that's par for the course.