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Thanks (I'm in France, so it's 218 working days, 436 hours). On the education side, my first 3 years as a maker, I didn't grow beyond 1 paid user on any produc

Thanks (I'm in France, so it's 218 working days, 436 hours). On the education side, my first 3 years as a maker, I didn't grow beyond 1 paid user on any product I sold. I still learned with every failed launch, and every product I shut down. See "Year in review" at https://maxrozen.com/ https://maxrozen.com/ The learning has been cumulative. I went from "Hey if I just copy Pieter Levels, I'll be rich immediately" to "If I build it, they will come" to "Maybe if I write about the problem, people will come?" to "If I talk to people about their problems, maybe I'll understand them well enough to solve a problem for them". I'm not trying to convince you to take up the life of a bootstrapped founder, I just wrote an article about what I learned from a couple spare hours before my job each day over the last 12 months.

bdlowery 5y ago
Thing is, if you kept your JobsOk.io project for another year you would have been making bank (like Pieter did) from the remote job boom during Covid. Oh well…
cinntaile 5y ago
How much do you expect to grow this year? When do you decide it's time to throw in the towel? And I don't mean anything with my last question, I'm genuinely curious about your criteria.
- rozenmd 5y ago
  That's the beauty of my setup IMO, I don't plan on quitting full time work, so the revenue is all a bonus on top of what I learn. That being said, I think I'm at a point where I could spin off an API from OnlineOrNot and make it similarly successful within a month or so.
  - cinntaile 5y ago
    I think you misunderstood. I was wondering when you cancel a SaaS project? What criteria do you use to decide that? Also how much would you like to grow this year or did you mean that you don't use that as a metric? Is it more about the learning aspect of it all? Do you plan on going the API route?
    - rozenmd 5y ago
      Ah right. I would cancel a project if it couldn't pay its own infrastructure bill after 6 months. If I had to name a goal for the second year, it's to reach $1k MRR across everything I sell online. I still have plenty of ideas for OnlineOrNot, but there are a few APIs I built internally that I could see others paying for (that I'll be testing if people would, actually, before building).

bdlowery 5y ago

Thing is, if you kept your JobsOk.io project for another year you would have been making bank (like Pieter did) from the remote job boom during Covid. Oh well…

cinntaile 5y ago

How much do you expect to grow this year? When do you decide it's time to throw in the towel? And I don't mean anything with my last question, I'm genuinely curious about your criteria.

rozenmd 5y ago
That's the beauty of my setup IMO, I don't plan on quitting full time work, so the revenue is all a bonus on top of what I learn. That being said, I think I'm at a point where I could spin off an API from OnlineOrNot and make it similarly successful within a month or so.
- cinntaile 5y ago
  I think you misunderstood. I was wondering when you cancel a SaaS project? What criteria do you use to decide that? Also how much would you like to grow this year or did you mean that you don't use that as a metric? Is it more about the learning aspect of it all? Do you plan on going the API route?
  - rozenmd 5y ago
    Ah right. I would cancel a project if it couldn't pay its own infrastructure bill after 6 months. If I had to name a goal for the second year, it's to reach $1k MRR across everything I sell online. I still have plenty of ideas for OnlineOrNot, but there are a few APIs I built internally that I could see others paying for (that I'll be testing if people would, actually, before building).