After quitting my job, and 3 failed products, I finally got my first customers

Let's go back to November of 2019. I decided I liked the idea of not having to work for someone. This small idea became a dream which led me into doing more research about working for yourself. Around that time, I discovered a few subreddits like "Entrepreneur", and "Startups".

After reading dozens of great posts sharing how people created their own successful businesses and earn insane amounts, it motivated me into doing even more research about the topic. A fellow reddit user shared a link to Indiehackers and since then I fell in love with the community. Since 2019 I have been reading both positive and negative posts about people's indiehacking journeys. This motivated me to start my own product and hopefully succeed.

So, I decided to do something super dumb. I moved out and decided to live on my own since November 2019 to force myself to take this journey as serious as possible. I'm hoping this project will allow me to not have to live off my savings anymore lol.

The first product was EatRadar: Visit Here.
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I remember being so passionate about this project and telling my peers, family and friend groups. Everyone thought it was a great idea as I did. Maybe it still is. What I found out is that people are not willing to pay for what I am offering on it. Although, people are willing to use it for free. This means there may be a possibility of it turning into something if I made everything free and just relied on ads. This is a possibility but I do not have time to investigate. I earned $0 from it and therefore, it was a fail.

The second product was DesignAcademe: Visit Here.
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The only reason I made design academe was because I made a reddit post a year prior asking users if they would use a website that offered tutorials for things related to design. The response was amazing but one thing I failed to mention was that it would cost money. Even though I provided one-time payment options alongside recurring, I could not secure any pre-sales and thus gave up the whole project. This may sound dumb but I feel like if no-one is willing to pre-order something they can try, they must not really be interested in the product enough. Therefore, it was not worth my time to continue developing it.

The third product was DrawAcademe: Visit Here.
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This was the most recent project that I finished in January of this year. So around 5 months ago. January 24th, 2021. I made this project in one week, launched it to reddit and the response was amazing. Depending on the project, as I said I measure whether it's worth continuing based on whether or not I am able to acquire presales. I recevied over 2000 unique views and couldn't secure any payments for the pro packs which were priced at $2.. Just lol. The idea though may still be worth investigating. Still, I earned $0 so its a fail in my books.

The final product is Customsitenow: Visit Here.
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The product that has finally earned me money was the product I lost over 2000 hours of my life developing across 5 months (and still counting).

I launched the product 4 days ago and already I have 4 customers. I have two email lists. One has 200 emails and the other has 600. The 4 customers were from the 200 email list. I have yet to notify the larger email list about the launch. The reason being is because I am working closely with existing users and fixing as many bugs reported, making quality of life changes, and just overall making sure the website app works as I intend it to. As of right now, there are bugs here and there. I will also launch on Product hunt, etc around the same time.

Each user has subscribed for the $10/mo recurring plan. So the current MRR assuming no one cancels is $40/mo. It's a start but it's much better and motivating than $0 for the past 2 years.

Each product has taken months for me to finish and i'm hoping customsitenow rewards me for not giving up.