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Top Milestones: $500 MRR after 1.5 years πŸ˜‚

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Top Milestones for the Week

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$500 MRR after 1.5 years πŸ˜‚

Yay, we can officially fund our monthly coffee costs with Featurebase now. Why the f*ck did it take over a year to reach $500 MRR & how did we even do it? We launched on ProductHun...

by Bruno Hiis, Founder of Featurebase β€’ 22 upvotes β€’ 16 comments

Why start a service business before building any product?

Like most developers and creators, I too get a lot of business ideas. Most of them are around SaaS or B2B applications. Yet, there’s still that fear and inexperience to differentia...

by Mihai Hlodec, Founder of webroast.tech β€’ 12 upvotes β€’ 9 comments

LunarSight was acquired

I sold LunarSight to Oval Software (https://oval.fi/) on Flippa. The reason I sold it was mainly to be able to focus on my desktop apps and in my new project. I had switched the ap...

by SebastiΓ‘n BenΓ­tez, Founder of LunarSight β€’ 9 upvotes β€’ 0 comments

3 Tactics we're using to build an ambitious product on a budget

We recently wrote an article on some tactics we're using to build a complex SaaS product on a shoestring budget, and people seem to like it, so we're posting it here. Hopefully you...

by Brandon Crossley, Founder of Gridabl β€’ 9 upvotes β€’ 0 comments

First Paying Customer

I just got my first paying customer for Keytunity. Man that feels good. I have over 100 free users but it's a great validation that someone is willing to pay something for Keytunit...

by Jason McKee, Founder of Keytunity β€’ 4 upvotes β€’ 7 comments

$ 3,603 MRR πŸ€“

June was a bit lower than May. Still very happy with the results. Sharing June 2022 monthly stats πŸ“Š for my small startup as part of openstartup movement. Want to follow my progre...

by Ruben, Founder of Boei β€’ 4 upvotes β€’ 3 comments

I started the company!

I've wanted to start this travel content platform for a long time but let life happen and time was never right. But this past month, I've built the website, contracted with writers...

by @percipio, Founder of Detouring β€’ 3 upvotes β€’ 2 comments

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Saturday, July 9, 2022

Your Indie Hackers community digest for July 9th β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ

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Saturday, July 9, 2022

Also: Fundamentals of content creation! β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ

Today's Digest: Is it worth growing my profile on LinkedIn?

Friday, July 8, 2022

Your Indie Hackers community digest for July 8th β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ

Today's Digest: Learn about your own product by steelmanning your competitors

Thursday, July 7, 2022

Your Indie Hackers community digest for July 7th β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ

πŸ—ž What's New: Sell before you build...bad advice?

Thursday, July 7, 2022

Also: A crash course on revenue-based financing! β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ β€Œ

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