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Hello HN, I see another post sharing their success micro startups today on HN so I thought I should share mine. I started working on this browser extension fo
by trungdq88 5y ago
Hello HN,
I see another post sharing their success micro startups today on HN so I thought I should share mine.
I started working on this browser extension for Twitter 8 months ago.
It took 3 months to reach $60/mo, 3 more to reach $400/mo, and 2 more to reach $3K/mo – where I am now.
When I start, I had 0 followers on Twitter. When it reaches $400/mo, I quit my job. I now live freely from corporate drama and travel as much as I can while building products I love.
I share my entire journey publicly on Twitter and my newsletter, including revenue, stats, product launch process, and marketing strategies, etc.
I just want to say that opportunities are everywhere, and it's never easier to start a profitable micro startup to sustain yourself and live an independent life.
Cheers!
- elpakal 5y agoYour products all look very well done - just curious, do you build them all yourself (including your awesome landing page)? Congrats on the early growth and best of luck. What a great product - I’ll be looking out for your post on how you built your 13.9k audience!
- trungdq88 5y agoYes, I'm a 1-man army :) I used to work on frontend/backend/mobile/devops, so I have the advantage of doing everything on my own. Thanks for the kind words! I'll write another piece about my audience building journey soon!
- Rastonbury 5y agoI second this, your landing page is very well done
- trungdq88 5y agoThank you! I spent a lot of time on that :)
- thelittleone 5y agoYour profile page is nice and notiony. I'm kinda new to Notion and curious if that custom desing / layout is defined within notion?
- trungdq88 5y agoNope, it's just CSS. https://github.com/trungdq88/tonydinh-com https://github.com/trungdq88/tonydinh-com I like Notion style too!
- laurent123456 5y agoBeing familiar with every aspects of software development definitely gives an edge when creating your own product. Well done on your success, and I'm also looking forward to read your post about building your Twitter audience.
- trungdq88 5y agoThank you! I'll definitely write about it soon in my newsletter :)
- n_cusan 5y agoImpressive output for a single person. How do you organize yourself to get so much done and prioritize the areas you focus on? I work mostly on frontend stuff so when I work on personal projects I tend to focus on that area and neglect other ones. What backend stack are you using? Overall I think the aesthetic is very polished. Very well done!!!
- billconan 5y agowhich payment service do you use?
- trungdq88 5y agoI use Paddle.com
- karimf 5y agoIs there any reason for using Paddle instead of Stripe or something else?
- markdown 5y agoGood question. I can't seem to find out anything about them on their website. It's just buzzword after buzzword. WTF is "revenue delivery"? I figure a pricing page would tell me what they do, but they don't even have one of those.
- halilduygulu 5y agoFor those who wonder Paddle pricing like I was, it is in their privacy page :) Paddle Checkout: 5% of SRP plus $0.50 https://paddle.com/legal/ https://paddle.com/legal/
- trungdq88 5y agoThe only reason I use Paddle is because it handles VAT tax for me as the merchant of record. Stripe doesn't.
- aembleton 5y agoThey have a comparison here: https://paddle.com/compare/stripe/ https://paddle.com/compare/stripe/ Frustrating that I can't find a price.
- beingflo 5y ago
- abhishekjha 5y agoHow long have you been programming professionally? YOE?
- trungdq88 5y ago7 years
- ignoramous 5y agoSome browser extensions turned into paid products have morphed into $B dollar companies: (postman.com) https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/mQkDX9-zvcI https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/mQkDX9-zvcI Good luck!
- trungdq88 5y agoThanks! :)
- deathemperor 5y agocongratz on the success of new launch, Trung.
- trungdq88 5y agoThanks! Do we know each other? :)
- santiagobasulto 5y agoHow do you source the data to provide such analytics? Do you have to be constantly scraping Twitter?
- suigetsusake 5y agoBeing able to see a quick video of each feature in the pricing page is a genius idea ! How do you generate those and keep them up to date though ? Congrats for your success
- trungdq88 5y agoThanks! I recorded every single feature with LICECap and update them manually. More details here: https://tdinh.notion.site/Every-pricing-page-should-have-GIFs-e74d6d363d4c4d33b5ff754452f7ab96 https://tdinh.notion.site/Every-pricing-page-should-have-GIF...
- globalise83 5y agoGood question!! - there is definitely a market for a product for automatically capturing UI screenshots and demos on every UI release, with a permalink usable in documentation that will always show the latest image / video. Could be driven by an existing automated test framework. I know this as a web UI product owner with several years experience in enterprise software doing documentation updates after new features are added.
- longsangstan 5y agoHow did u grow the twitter followers at the start?
- trungdq88 5y agoI'll write about that soon in my newsletter.
- skinnymuch 5y agoYou’ve got a sign up!
- trungdq88 5y agothank you!!
- kubami 5y agoHow did you build the follower base in such a short time?
- xwdv 5y agoIsn’t quitting at $400/month a bit premature? That’s $4800 a year, which isn’t even more than one paycheck from a software engineering job.
- czottmann 5y agoDepends on where on Earth you live, I guess.