$0 to $200 MRR in 6 months.
I started working on https://docswrite.com in June. I was sitting on $0 MRR for a long time. I was building features and sharing them on my Twitter.
I received likes, and retweets but not customers. My software is phenomenal and works perfectly.
But something was off from the marketing side. I was talking to the wrong people. I literally searched Google Docs WordPress on Twitter and started replying to them with my solution.
Few loved them and some called me a spammer.
Anyway from these spamming, some people started connecting their WordPress sites and publishing their Google Docs via docswrite.
That's the moment they understood how powerful this software is. At that moment, before subscribing they started to chat with me. I invited them to my slack and started talking to them regularly.
While I was talking to them, I particularly kept a note of their feature requests and built them and invited them on a call and showed all these.
At this moment, they felt really confident with Docswrite.com and become a happy customer and subscribed.
So no #1 tip from my side would be to talk to your prospective buyer and build features requested by them.
Yes, these are not scalable but it's easily doable for me until I reach 10k~20k MRR.
Hence I would do it.
That's amazing! Good luck and nice strategy to get your first paying customer!
Yeah, actually not the first paying customer.
Misread it. That's impressive
This is awesome. I love ideas that involve gluing awesome tools together. Congrats on the revenue growth!
Thank you. :)
"Receiving likes and retweets but not customers".
Yep, that's the problem with using your product to get your target audience's attention - it doesn't work very well.
You'll get likes and retweets from supportive indiehackers and friends but not from the people who might buy your product.
Wrote an article about this today about the best way to grab potential customer's attention - https://www.indiehackers.com/post/without-this-1-thing-your-startup-will-fail-guaranteed-heres-what-it-is-and-how-to-get-it-1ebe2eb199
The main problem to tackle is to reach out to potential customers and try contacting them. As a dev, it's a kinda odd thing to do but we should at least give it some try.
Absolutely, marketing is the key to success.
This is awesome. Good luck for your future growth.
Thank you.
Amazing, I'm struggling with my startup idea to to find members and they doe't even have to pay to join.
There is a problem with your site.
I am getting an error:
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api.docswrite.com/api/auth/me:1
This error is fine. It auto-checks if you can be auto-logged in or not. Will hide this error message.
I was getting an error on my screen after about 10 seconds on the page. Tried it with Chrome and Firefox, same result. I just thought you should know.
Glad its not a problem
Are you using any adblocker that's blocking Google's login scripts?
I cherished your web architecture and stream Sandeep. It looks perfect and you made sense of "How it works?" on numerous occasions prior to showing cost area.
Yeah but a ton of improvements need to be made on the website.
That's a great advice Sandeep. All the best for docs to write!!
Hey Karthik, Thanks. :)
My dream is to scale it to 100 paying customers. Now I have 4 paying customers.
That's a nice goal to have man,I'm sure that you will get there. All the best!!
You inspired me so much because I start to build my product on the same time like you. And gonna prepare to release in this month. Anw, congrats on the go.
All the best mate. I also need to work really hard now. Now I got more responsibilities.
Congrats on the go! Best wishes to push further for docswrite.
Thank you. 🙏
I loved your website design and flow Sandeep. It looks clean and you explained "How it works?" multiple times before showing price section.
Keep up!
I have a lot more to improve on the landing page.
Great advice, I'm also starting to build a smart scheduling app and I'll be going to potential customers to talk to them and understand their real problems and needs.
Yeah, invite them over to call and try to deliver as a freelancer. Once delivered, ask them to subscribe.
Good idea.
Nice work and smart way to communicate with your customers. Consider opening a Discord or similar type of server to engage with your customers and community.
We opened up a Discord server when we launched and it's allowed us to keep in touch with customers more directly than Twitter.
Yeah, I have a similar thing in Slack. Where I mostly talk to them.
Nice product, seems to have many use-cases and looks well built (at least the landing page from what I've seen).
Yeah, feel free to try if you publish content to WordPress.
Insightful one Sandeep! Thanks for sharing.
What are you building?
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