We go learn CS in the university. During that time, we started to learn about YC, IndieHackers, Rob Walling's book, the family, and this whole startup

The journey to bootstrapping a $1 million ARR SaaS

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2022-01-20 15:00:04

We go learn CS in the university. During that time, we started to learn about YC, IndieHackers, Rob Walling's book, the family, and this whole startup/bootstrapping ecosystem.

We build ShopToList, a price monitoring extension. You save the products you want to buy and get notified as soon as the product.

But that is not enough. We can't find a way to monetize the product and haven't found a scalable way to acquire more users. We sell the product to a web agency and move on to other projects.

Soon after getting out of beta, we finally managed to get our first customer. We're ecstatic that real businesses give us real money for a product we make for the first time.

After months of endless marketing experimentation, feature development, and optimizations we have to face that people don't want to pay for our product.

We also notice that we are building into a niche that we don't know well (e-commerce), which shows a lot when talking to potential customers.