Let's take a look back at one of my most popular posts - Hyperping

Hyperping is a simple uptime monitoring tool makes $13K MRR.

It monitors website, app, APIs, and more.

It’s core value proposition?

Peace of Mind.

2 lessons from it’s success -

1. Sell to established businesses, you can charge more.
2. Build painkillers, not vitamins 🤷‍♂️

No established internet business ever wants downtine.

The least they want is - if there’s ever a downtime of their website or product, then they should be notified ASAP.

That’s what Hypering does. It solves a business critical pain.

When you think of your next idea - think if it is a painkiller for an existing business?

I dove deeper to see how Leo, the founder of Hyperping got started on this journey.

Some top lessons -

• He’s been at it for more than 5 years.
• Took him 9 months to get to $500 MRR.
• Product Hunt launch was a powerful lever in early success.
• External accountability was a major help in get him to actually ship the product.

Public accountability works wonder. I’ve written about it more in “How to get sh*t done”

Read more in this interview Leo did a while back -

• ​How I acquired my first customers - Hypering

Hyperping is an open startup, so it shares all revenue numbers publicly. You can check it out here.

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Lessons from 10 years of bootstrapping

This week I was at SaaSBoomi - India's largest SaaS conference, It was attended by 1700+ SaaS founders this year.

Attended some great sessions and met some incredible SaaS founders and experts over 2 days.

But 1 presentation stood out - from the co-founder of a social media scheduling tool called Social Pilot

A bootstrapped + Profitable SaaS in a hyper competitive market - $2M ARR.

Started in 2014 and still going strong.

This slide stood out from the presentation -

I'll do a deeper dive into Social Pilot later, but these 9 hard earned lessons are so enlightening for all indie founders.

More in this tweet.​

From the vault -

3 random post from the Superframeworks archives -

• ​$18K MRR - SEO SaaS + service​
• ​Wacky Marketing Examples​
• ​How to get Sh*t done​

🔗 Super Links

Useful links you don’t want to miss -

• ​The Eight Freedoms according to Montaigne - Tom Harari
• ​5 ChatGPT Prompts to Write Better SEO Content - Sarvesh Shrivastava
• ​3 lessons I've learned about self-promoting with authenticity - me
• ​Why is my Shopify App stuck at $57,000 MRR? - Matt De Sousa
• ​Calm Company Fund: Five Years In - Tyler Tringas

Last week’s top link -

• ​Super simple website that makes $1.4M with SEO - Pat Walls

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• ​Join the tiny community for your big dreams We support, inform, educate and inspire each other every day. We are a tight knit group of indie hackers and solopreneurs working on our projects. We would love to have you. Entrepreneurship is hard, don’t do it alone. Come join us!

Thanks,

Ayush 🙏