Solo, $9/mo tool that cleans up messy CSVs. Two weeks ago I added a small agent loop: model calls a tool, tool returns the failing rows, model tries again. No cap on attempts, because in testing it always converged in…
Separate domain, warmed it for three weeks, SPF/DKIM/DMARC all pass. 180 sends over nine days, hand picked ops leads at 20 80 person agencies. My sending tool reports 61% opens, 4 link clicks, 2 replies, one of which…
About to start manual ish outreach for a B2B tool. Fresh domain bought last week, one mailbox. Everything I read is written for people sending thousands a day and I cannot tell which parts apply to 30. Do I need a…
Sixty targets, hand picked, real research on each. First email went out last week and I have two replies, one of which is a polite no. Everything I read about sequences says between four and nine touches, which feels…
410 active subscriptions between $19 and $49, roughly $11.4k MRR. Every month about $430 of invoices fail on the first charge. Automatic retries get back around $225 of it, so I am losing something like $205 a month…
Every guide about cold email says the same setup: buy secondary domains, three mailboxes each, warm them for two or three weeks, rotate. That's real money and real setup time before a single email goes out. I want to…
My list is sixty small manufacturers, family owned, most with a website last touched around 2019. There is no team page, no about us with names, sometimes just an info@ address and a phone number. I cannot justify a…
Two hundred emails over three weeks, hand picked, personalised first line, sent from my own domain with a real signature. First hundred got eleven replies, four of which turned into calls. Then I got efficient and added…
First full month where the numbers are big enough to notice. Dashboard says one thousand four hundred and eighteen collected. Bank statement for the same calendar month adds up to one thousand two hundred and forty…
Every blog post says something different and half of them are selling a tool. Some say B2B cold email is fine under legitimate interest, some say you need consent, some say it depends on the country. I want to email…
First product that anyone has paid for, so I have no baseline for any of this. Month 4. 212 paying at $19. Last month 14 people cancelled out of 214 at the start, so 6.5%. The month before was 7.1%, and before that…
120 contacts, four touches over twelve days. Touch one: zero replies. Touch two on day three: one. Touch three on day seven: four. Touch four on day twelve: two, one of which told me never to contact them again. So five…
Hit a wall telling me I had reached the weekly invitation limit after roughly a hundred requests. Acceptance rate was about 22%, so that ceiling puts me at maybe 22 new connections a week, and only a fraction of those…
Sat down and added it up for the first time in a year. Hosting and database $74, object storage and bandwidth $31, error tracking $29, product analytics $0 for now but about to tip over the free tier, transactional…
Note taking tool for researchers, $9/mo flat, 640 monthly actives. Infra was $310/mo and comfortable. Then I shipped semantic search: chunk every note, embed with a hosted embedding model, store in Postgres with…
Went through the card statement properly for the first time. Under a product doing about $900 MRR: hosting and database $84, error tracking $29, transactional email $20, analytics $14, support widget $39, a CRM I have…
40 paying customers on a flat $29/mo, invoicing tool with document generation. Everyone tells me usage based is where the money is, and the cost side does vary a lot one customer generated 4,100 documents last month and…
Tried the connect then message thing for a month. Hit a wall at roughly 100 invitations in a rolling week, which appears to be the cap. Accept rate was 21%, so about 21 new connections a week, of which maybe 4 replied…
About $1,100/month across 48 subscriptions, roughly half of them European. Hosting and everything else is $46/month. When I finally read the fee breakdown properly there is a separate conversion line that was bigger…
Bootstrapped, $4.7k MRR, personal savings cover roughly 11 more months. Monthly only right now at $39. I keep going back and forth on offering annual at 20% off ($374/yr). Arguments I have made to myself in both…
41 customers. 27 pay 29 monthly, 14 pay 290 a year up front. So the annual customers are about 61% of what I collect and the shape of my dashboard depends entirely on when their renewal months land. Five of them renewed…
Been reconciling properly for the first time and the numbers do not match my mental model. I assumed I was paying somewhere around 3% plus a fixed fee. Averaged across last month my $19 subscriptions netted $17.42,…