A few weeks ago I was listening to an interview of Patrick McKenzie on the Bootrapped.fm podcast, and heard my name being mentioned.
Andrey (one of the hosts) mentions that he was reading my blog and found that I made launching and growing Bidsketch sound easy:
“It’s kind of like, ‘I announced it on Twitter, now I’m in beta and the beta is 600 users. Now I’m out of beta and it’s three months in, and I’m making $1,000 a month.’
This has been the experience of reading blog posts about how to launch a SaaS app, but this has never been my experience of launching a product.”
So I went back through my old blog posts and read through them. Sure enough, reading through those posts it sounds like I had no trouble launching and growing my first real product.
But it wasn’t easy; it took a ton of work and I almost quit a few times.
So I’ve decided to write about how many times I failed to get traction, or almost gave up, on the way to my first $1,000.
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