Still employed full time, building nights and weekends, realistically 12 hours a week and that won't change for at least six months. B2B tool for small accounting practices, planning $49/mo per seat. Self serve means…
Eleven days, 400 emails, one domain warmed for three weeks, SPF/DKIM/DMARC all passing. 341 delivered, 96 opened, 3 replies, all polite nos. Zero calls. Product is a scheduling tool for independent physio clinics,…
Savings cover roughly four months. Three people use the tool daily and two of them have asked, unprompted, what it's going to cost. That feels like a signal, but the product is genuinely half finished — no export, no…
1,900 signups since January, 8 ever paid, 5 of those cancelled inside 60 days. Currently 3 paying customers at $19/mo. Free tier is deliberately generous: 200 documents a month, every feature except the API and team…
Small tool for internal API docs. Eight paying customers at $19 a month. Two of them, both at companies with a security review process, have asked whether they can run it themselves. One said their infosec team won't…
Forty person company, the deal is 79 a month, and their IT person has sent me a spreadsheet with 92 rows. It asks about background check policy for staff, physical access logs for our data centre, and the rota for our…
Signed a design partner in March. Ops lead at a 40 person logistics company. Weekly calls, extremely engaged, gave us a detailed spec for a bulk import plus approval flow we didn't have. We built it. Six weeks,…
Six paying customers, 114 a month in total, tool is 19 a month. One of them emailed asking if I would do 400 for lifetime access. He says he hates subscriptions and would rather pay once and forget it. 400 is more than…
Six weeks in, no paying customers, and about fifteen people who told me they like it. Someone suggested selling ten lifetime licences at $149 to get money and commitment on the table. My per account cost is somewhere…
Never done one of these. Someone replied to my email and booked 30 minutes tomorrow morning. I'm an engineer, I have never sold anything to anyone. My instinct is to show them the product because that's the thing I…
A 60 person company wants to buy the $89 a month plan. Their procurement sent a spreadsheet with 74 questions covering encryption, penetration testing, incident response, employee background checks and business…