50 Pro Customers after a tough month!

August has been a tough month.

I spent days battling a barrage of bad bots that were hammering Downtime Monkey. They were clever enough to pass Google reCaptcha and verify their email (more on this later).

A new feature I launched early in the month didn't receive as much traction as I hoped.

A bunch of minor issues have prevented me getting on with developing the next new feature.

And my kids' school has been flooded so we're all off school... again :(

However, Downtime Monkey just crossed 50 Pro customers. This almost makes it worth it. Make it 100 and I'd say it is :)

Here are the Stats:

Verified Users: 1496 (possibly inaccurate due to bots)
Active Users: 875
Paying Pro Users: 51

Since our plans are really low price (heavily discounted at the moment) this gives MRR of about $150 or so with some extra from one-off payments.

I'll not give up the day job just yet but little steps.