February 14, 2023:
Running a successful SaaS since 1.5 years back, but as the marketing/sales founder. It’s not the project I actually want to do. I want to be the one building products. Product is everything.
July 14, 2023:
0 coding skills. Signed up for App Academy free bootcamp to learn to code.
December 13, 2023:
Finished App Academy. Started building out my first product—a lead qualification form.
February 12, 2024:
Deployed the finished app.
March 3, 2024:
My brother joins me as co-founder in trying to market the app.
June 19, 2024:
Built another product on the side, Tinder Roast. Still trying to get users for the main app.
July 7, 2024:
First commit for 3rd product, Buildpad.
August 1, 2024:
After 171 days of trying to get the main app to work, we finally abandon it.
August 12, 2024:
Abandoned 2nd side project too. These are times of a lot of doubt.
August 19, 2024:
Launched the MVP of Buildpad. Get a few early users. Maybe we have something here?
September 2, 2024:
After 2 weeks of grinding marketing, we hit 100 free users on the MVP. The times are a-changing.
September 30, 2024:
Built out the full version of Buildpad and launched on Product Hunt. First paying customer. Relief.
October 25, 2024:
One month later, 40 paying customers.
Today:
Buildpad has now reached close to 150 paying customers and $2,700 MRR. We just released Buildpad 2.0 and I think this is the update that will take us to $10k MRR.
I know there’s a lot of people that find themselves on the same journey but in the part where there’s little success and a lot of uncertainty and doubt.
There’s only one way to get through it. Work harder. Writing out my journey like this makes it look easy but for most of it I had no idea if things were actually going to work out.
The only thing I could do was trust the work I was putting in. And that’s what I’ll continue doing to reach $10k MRR, $100k MRR, and go beyond.
You can do it too, if you want to.
July 14, 2023: 0 coding skills. Signed up for App Academy free bootcamp to learn to code.
December 13, 2023: Finished App Academy. Started building out my first product—a lead qualification form.
February 12, 2024: Deployed the finished app.
March 3, 2024: My brother joins me as co-founder in trying to market the app.
June 19, 2024: Built another product on the side, Tinder Roast. Still trying to get users for the main app.
July 7, 2024: First commit for 3rd product, Buildpad.
August 1, 2024: After 171 days of trying to get the main app to work, we finally abandon it.
August 12, 2024: Abandoned 2nd side project too. These are times of a lot of doubt.
August 19, 2024: Launched the MVP of Buildpad. Get a few early users. Maybe we have something here?
September 2, 2024: After 2 weeks of grinding marketing, we hit 100 free users on the MVP. The times are a-changing.
September 30, 2024: Built out the full version of Buildpad and launched on Product Hunt. First paying customer. Relief.
October 25, 2024: One month later, 40 paying customers.
Today: Buildpad has now reached close to 150 paying customers and $2,700 MRR. We just released Buildpad 2.0 and I think this is the update that will take us to $10k MRR.
I know there’s a lot of people that find themselves on the same journey but in the part where there’s little success and a lot of uncertainty and doubt.
There’s only one way to get through it. Work harder. Writing out my journey like this makes it look easy but for most of it I had no idea if things were actually going to work out.
The only thing I could do was trust the work I was putting in. And that’s what I’ll continue doing to reach $10k MRR, $100k MRR, and go beyond.
You can do it too, if you want to.