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.
Congrats Ryan!
Could you share the link once you have written a piece on what happened with the bots? I am curious to know as I am currently making a course on how to build a SaaS and I think whatever you have learned will be really useful for others to know as well.
Thanks @troelsfr - yes I'll post a link here when I have written up the bot battle. All posts like this I put on the blog so it might be useful for other info too - its a few years old now and I've included quite a lot of detail on what's been done.