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NAMAN RAJ

@thenamanraj

I know everyone on here posts about hitting $10k MRR overnight, but I just hit 9 total downloads on my new Mac app and I’m honestly hyped! 🎉 Question for the builders who have been doing this a while: is 9 downloads a good sign for a brand new launch, or am I moving too slow? Thoughts? 🤔 #buildinpublic

mjrode

@mjrode

Day 58 of building GainFrame to $3k MRR $2,507 MRR. I usually hit a milestone and immediately start thinking about the next one. Trying not to do that this time. $2,500 is a number I never dreamed of hitting when I started. Also at 4k rev for the month Going to enjoy it for a day.

Tushar Kapil

@TusharKapil003

MY SAAS HAS CROSSED $1,100 MRR ✨ Insane how just a few months ago, I thought it would take a long time to reach this number. But it just took ~2 months 🚢 x.com/TusharKapil003…

max parnian

@MaxParnian

DAY 24 BUILDING IN PUBLIC -0 users -638 followers on X -0 mrr It’s crazy how it’s almost been a month building in public.🙂 I promised I’d launch last week then Apple’s dev hurdles hit. Now I have most of it under control. Tomorrow: full run-through for final fixes. 🐛 Hopefully submitting by the end of the weekend, then we scale.🚀 If you want to know what I’m building? Day 23 has the answer. FOLLOW FOR THE JOURNEY AHEAD

Audiencon⚡️

@audiencon

The hardest SaaS milestone I've hit wasn't $1K MRR. It was the first paying customer. Before that, I had a project. After that, I had a business. That first Stripe notification hits different.

pc

@pcshipp

For the first time, I reached 2 trials 🎉. I'm finally not at zero trials anymore! - $15 MRR - $11 revenue - 907 active users My app is growing slower than a tortoise 🐢

Itteba Gilani

@iittebagilanii

i can’t wait to graduate my goal is to reach 10k mrr before graduation. currently at $40… but i still have 3 months my app is ready my marketing is flopping one video is all it takes let’s get it

How they grewMarketing is flopping; one video is all it takes.

Haris

@harisahmad59

I’m 24 and doing $1K MRR. - Still finishing my CS degree (2 months left) - Started building online in college around January 2023 (still building solo). - Built an audience of 200K+. - Built and launched my own SaaS products. - No smoking. - No drinking. - No music. - No crazy lifestyle, life’s good when it’s not materialistic. - Never taken a domestic flight 😂 - Never taken an international flight. I’ve spent years building from my room. Now I wanna travel 🥹

Miljan Sto

@Miljan_Sto

After two SaaS, I learned distribution was harder than building. Uplane got its first paying customer after a cold LinkedIn call and a one-week working demo. My next test: one real buyer deadline before more code. x.com/i/article/2104…

How they grewcold LinkedIn call; one-week working demo

Marco

@maxzrco

Heyyy I'm Marco 👋 28 yo german solo dev, shipping mobile apps 🇩🇪 I've built and launched 6 iOS apps. Mostly figuring out the hard parts myself: ads, attribution, paywalls, onboarding, distribution. Right now I'm scaling to $10k MRR. One app at €40k all time revenue - got there making just about every mistake possible. Follow along so you don't have to make them too. I mostly post about paid ads, paywalls, distribution and building apps in public. Real numbers, including the rough stretches. Like the last few weeks, where things really haven't been going well.

Coldmax

@coldmaax

10 Years in 10 lines 2017 Freelance → launched my first startup 2018 100k ARR 2019 200k ARR 2020 COVID → $100k ARR 2021 Back to $200k ARR 2022 War in Ukraine → $50k ARR 2023 150k ARR 2024 Google for Startups Ukraine - $100k grant 2025 400k ARR 2026 Starting from zero with new product

Gladwyn

@gladwyn1_1

Day 1 of building in public - 1,672 users - 3 followers - $50 mrr 3 months ago I launched my first Saas. And now I was like "I should document my journey 🙃" My goal is 10k mrr follow for the journey 😀

MD Waliullah

@engwaliullah

Just crossed 50 downloads my first android app. Next target 500 downloads. Goal: $10 MRR #solofounder #buildinpublic #indiehacker

Chafik Naceri

@chafsnaceri

I stopped chasing VC checks and started building for customers , and revenue s going crazy! 10k+ month profits incoming already LFG! #buildinpublic

ShabarishB

@Shabarish_B

Day 48/144 of building to $5k MRR MRR: $490 (+$84) Revenue (last 28 days): $814 (+$172) Active subscriptions: 64 (+10) Finally seeing some momentum again. I was stuck between $360–385 MRR for almost 20 days because of churn and not enough new users. It honestly killed my motivation, and I stopped posting updates here for a while. Things have finally started moving: • First TikTok crossed 100k views. • Trial starts have picked up. • Revenue crossed $800 over the last 28 days. • MRR is finally within touching distance of $500. Still a lot of work to do, but this is the first time in weeks that it feels like the graph is moving in the right direction. 96 days left. 🚀

How they grewTikTok

George

@kouk_george

I finally crossed $2k MRR! It took me 2+ years and ~1200 hours of work. My back hurts from too much sitting. Now a bit more and I’ll quit my job.

ShabarishB

@Shabarish_B

Day 49/144 of building to $5k MRR MRR: $514 (+$24) Revenue (last 28 days): $829 (+$15) Active subscriptions: 66 (+2) Finally crossed $500 MRR. The funny part? It took me 20 days to go from $380 → $400 MRR. Then it took just 5 days to go from $400 → $500 MRR. That first $400 felt impossible because churn kept canceling out new subscribers. Once trial starts started picking up, growth looked completely different. A good reminder that progress isn’t always linear. Hope it continues 95 days left.

Said

@Saltan_PK

Partexia hit $110 MRR today and it has been only a week since we launched on the App Store.

Coldmax

@coldmaax

When I launched my first plan, im get 29$ from 200k signups. Few weeks later im just put one feature to paid plan that takes 5min and get 20k Mrr in 2 weeks, so sometime it better to shift vision point what real value your product provide x.com/ahab_developer…

Blaida

@kedytcom

launched my app 28 days ago $805 revenue 35 active subs $274 MRR $195 away from my first $1k month if I don't hit it, I reset to $0 and start counting again next month will I make it? 👀

Yahia Abdelkarim

@YahiaAbdelkari

looking to sell my app $10K mrr, 250K downloads. it's a rlly simple app WITH SO SO MUCH room to grow this was my first so was vibing through marketing spend, app analytics onboarding etc. never used github once, no cpm tracking , nothing. litterally goldmine to make $$ with it. im just done wanna focus on other stuff and uni rn. dm me if interested:) @maubaron @jakecastilloooo @lottsnomad @ErnestoSOFTWARE @marclou @LinoLeighton gents can u plz help 🫡

How they grewMarketing spend

Rafa Chacon

@rafachaconn_

I'm 19 and just built my first app ever. One month after launch: $4.3K in revenue and $1.1K MRR. This is the first business where I've actually made real money. Now the goal is to scale it to $10K/ month. Building in public. Let's go 🚀

Nayan

@ndhabarde11

After selling my first app, it took me 8 long months to get here: $200+ MRR on mobile $100+ MRR on web That looked impossible with the first version of the product. Here's everything I did to make it work: - SEO for the website - Built a mobile version of the website that works just like the app - Did keyword research multiple times - Updated the app listing every month and tracked rankings on ASOMobile All of this is organic. I've spent maybe 15 days on ads in total, but that traffic never converts. It was only to boost downloads and get the 1K+ badge on Google Play. Now I'm running ads again to reach the 5K+ badge. Next up: Reddit and TikTok marketing. If you're wondering whether organic works, it does. It's just slow. Bonus: I also made $115 from a Arcstudio which is a macOS/iPad only app.

How they grewSEO, keyword research, app listing updates, organic traffic

Howard Roark

@chijuano

29. solo founder. building a mobile app from Colombia. numbers so far this month: - trial churn 50% to 30% - one paywall change, nothing else - still under [X] MRR what are you building right now?

Samar Kundal

@thesamarkundal

I made my startup's numbers public. Day 7/30 to $1k MRR MRR: $45 Paying: 4 Signups: 196

Caste

@castedev

You’re maturing as a solo founder when you stop creating more SaaS and focus on only one. I’m full of ideas and i built all of them, yet everything ends in failure. But with this one… something is different. I thought was dead, but rarely a notification popped: Stripe - new customer. 1, 2, 3… added general features (not for a niche) and creating more SEO pages then forgot about it again. 4, 5, 6, 7… What’s happening? More SEO pages, update the layout. 8, 9, 10…20 OK, this product is working. Full layout redesign, more mature, targeted at one niche only. 40 subscribers Now I’m working only on this SaaS, parking my ideas for the future. Once you go deep into a project, it’s hard to focus on different things. If you start from zero, anonymously, no audience, you have to LEARN to do all the work first. Scaling a product doesn’t mean doing one thing. It means: - marketing - customer care - updates - ideas - finding competitors’ flaws - getting ideas - and more All of this drains your time, and I don’t have time to build other things. but i have time to scale this one !

How they grewMore SEO pages; targeted at one niche only

reaget

@reagetacc

DAY 11 BUILDING IN PUBLIC: 4 followers $0 MRR Yesterday was a day off. Today, I’m back to building. Goal for today: prepare the MVP release, show it to you, and start collecting feedback. Let’s see where this goes. 🚀 Follow for the journey. #buildinpublic

How they grewbuild in public; collecting feedback

reaget

@reagetacc

DAY 13 BUILDING IN PUBLIC: 6 followers — +1! 🎉 $0 MRR My current workspace: Work laptop. Personal laptop. Monitor. And a tiny pink cup of tea. 😂 Okay, it’s actually a 1L mug. Still working on the project, but these last few improvements are taking forever. #buildinpublic

How they grewbuild in public

Georgios

@georgios_stav

Krasis, first week on the App Store: 12 downloads, 0 trials, 0 purchases. Also found the pricing experiment I built in August was still a draft at launch. Running now. Last day of Shipaton. Small numbers, posted anyway. #Shipaton #BuildInPublic

Joey Walker

@Joey_Walker82

algorithms will randomly decide you do not exist you spend 2 weeks shipping an update, post the demo, and get 12 impressions brutal feeling what I do now when a post completely flops: 1. close Twitter immediately 2. open a group chat with 3 founder friends 3. drop the unedited screen recording of what I built no algorithm, no engagement farming just other builders giving raw feedback last time I did this, someone pointed out my pricing page was broken on Safari fixed it in 5 minutes, got my first sale an hour later the feed is cold talk to real people instead

How they grewTwitter; group chat with founder friends

Abhinav C V

@abhinavcv007

I shipped my app WAY before perfection. It changed so much since I launched it in June August was when I made my first major change in it's design and overall functionality and now we have 8+ paying users and made $150 in sales

Somanshu Singh

@SomanshuSingh

Just listed a side project and within 48hrs got my first sale 🔥

Tharsan

@vtharsandev

I just made my first $ online with my first SaaS 🥹 7 days ago I launched Plume on @ProductHunt. Today: $17 MRR, 3 paying users. Tiny number, but strangers paid for something I built. That feels unreal. Next goal: $100 MRR 🎯 Roast my landing page 👇 (link in reply)

How they grewProduct Hunt launch

Dmitrii Volosatov

@volosatovde

My first online sale was only $59. But it proved something worth much more: A stranger found my product. Understood the value. Entered their card details. And paid for something I built. The first sale won’t change your life financially. It changes what you believe is possible. Then you do it again.

Shakhzod Karimov

@shakhzod1001

Day 66/160 - Missed days: [3] Stage 1: 100 connections✅ & $100 MRR Stage 2: 1k connections✅ & $1k MRR Stage 3: 3,354 -> 10k connections & $10k MRR Did I get better today? - yess: connect ed with 75 people. New project is ready to publish. Needs some updates. Passed 3.2k 🎉🎉.

ImNotAVirus

@ImNotAV1rus

Getting to 1,000 followers suddenly feels possible. Getting one person to pay for my apps still doesn't 😅 My last 3-month challenge ended at $0 MRR New one: 30 days to find my first paying customer and hit 1,000 followers. Maybe 1,200 if the account keeps growing like this 🚀 x.com/ImNotAV1rus/st…

GSR

@xgautamsingh

launched my app few weeks ago $6 revenue 7 active subs $3 MRR $94 away from my first $100 month if I don't hit it, I reset to $0 and start counting again next month will I make it? 👀

Tibo

@tibo_maker

the best decisions I've made for my products came from talking to other founders that's why I built the tmaker Founders Room it's 200+ bootstrapped founders who share what's actually working for them, intro each other to the right people, and tell you when you're about to make a mistake we've already had guest sessions with Marc Lou, Ilias Ism and Rob from SuperX, and each one shared the exact playbooks they used to grow next up is Nevo David from Postiz 👀 he grew it to $220k+ MRR in one of the most crowded spaces out there, and I can't wait to hear how he did it if you're already using one of my products, you get 50% off for 12 months and if you don't find it useful in 7 days, email me and I'll give you a full refund join here 👉 : tmaker.io/founders

pc

@pcshipp

My app makes $15 MRR, but my dream is to afford the $200 Claude Max plan.

Arpit

@Arpitsharma_0

My app makes $15 MRR, but my dream is to afford the $200 Claude Max plan.