Took more than two years to reach $500 MRR. Took less than two weeks from there to get to $1k MRR.
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This is what "overnight success" generally means. The first few dollars take forever but once you learn the system/process and have a sales/marketing engine built in, things start progressing faster and better.
The thing about these "overnight successes" is that, most of the time, they didn't do anything different or special or game-changing.
They just do what they've been doing, consistently.
So logically, the growth curve should be a lot closer to linear, not hockey-stick.
What explains the sudden inflection point?
External event sounds like the most rational/logical explanation.
Thoughts?
I would also love to know the sudden inflection point. Was there any changes to the product, marketing, or mindset that you made? or was it an external event?
That 'product' may well be illegal?
They say you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. For bootstrappers, I'd say the reality is closer to:
• experiment on MVP
• experiment on landing pages
• experiment on anything that converts to results
Not 10,000 mundane hours. More work != success.
If EITHER consistency or quality is < 1.0, you end up with sub-par results.
Congrats! Two years probably is the learning curve to get the right elements together that trigger product market fit... and sometimes market just needs more time, especially your idea is early.
A not uncommon story, a snowball effect. This one is from @alexwest :)