31
22 Comments

First Sale 🎉🎉 Feels incredible

So, Today I made my first sale! I sold a Job Post for $79(devremote.io)! It feels insane, all about the little victories!

Its such a cool feeling to know that the code / product you have created has produced value for someone.

Unsure at the moment how I got the sale, I think it was from social media. Feels fitting that I get this right after talking about failure in my latest vlog.

Any who, hope you are well and stay safe. I look forward to hearing about everyone's first sales as well, I find it really motivating to see others achieving their goals 😃.

One thing that I found - Trial and error really does pay off, do not be put off because one thing didn't work.

posted to Icon for group Growth
Growth
on July 30, 2020
  1. 2

    Congrats, that's awesome!

    1. 1

      Thanks Tobe! Really appreciate it!

  2. 1

    CONGRATS! 🙌

  3. 1

    Congrats!!! Gong gong gong !

  4. 1

    awesome! how long from launch to sale? and how did the customer come to you?

    Cheers!

    1. 3

      thanks man :) , it took about 6 weeks from launch to sale and from a social media channel, I think it was twitter, hope that helps :)

  5. 1

    what a nice feeling - congrats on the milestone!

    1. 1

      Thank you!! :) Appreciate it!

  6. 1

    Congratulations!!!!!

  7. 1

    Great! That first customer feeling 🤩.
    The joy of receiving an email from Stripe that someone has signed up for the paid plan! Total bliss!

    1. 1

      It feels awesome haha, quickly faded though, have to figure out how I am going to get the second, third ect haha. But like you mention, was extremely blissful!

  8. 1

    Congrats, mate! How long did that take (since launching)?

    I've silently released 99remotejobs.com about a month ago, and hasn't been a single sale yet. There are about 30 visits a day (referred through some of my other products).

    1. 3

      It took about 6 - 8 weeks, I launched it back in June and similarly to you got similar numbers for a while. Recently though traffic has started to increase, getting around 100 - 200 Visits per day, a few extra email sign ups per day as well.

      A lot of traffic does come from social media though.

    2. 1

      p.s. I've posted it on SaaSHub, too https://www.saashub.com/devremote-io-alternatives. You can verify it there to boost its position on the homepage today.

      1. 1

        Thanks man, appreciate that :)

  9. 1

    Congratulations George.

    Uclusion has a tool particularly suited to remote developers. Is there a way to advertise on your site or in your newsletter?

    1. 1

      Hey disrael, there is indeed, do you have twitter? if you reach out to me at https://twitter.com/DegreelessDev via DM we can have a chat and figure something out :)

      1. 1

        Thanks George I have sent a message on Twitter to you.

  10. 4

    This comment was deleted 6 years ago.

    1. 2

      Hey, thanks for the feedback my friend! of course I can add that! :) I hated it as well, exactly why I built this :)

  11. 1

    This comment was deleted 3 years ago.

    1. 1

      Thank you :) - In terms of price, I experimented, Just thought I'd see if someone was willing to pay for it. I think that is one of the key ideas with pricing.

      I mean as software products we are lucky because our costs are often quite low, leaving a lot of room for experimentation. So in short, there was not strategy, I just thought it was a reasonable price. I also have a more premium price at $99, that has some extra benefits.

Trending on Indie Hackers
I built an AI that turns an idea into a live business in under 10 minutes. Here’s what 1,000 launches taught me User Avatar 83 comments Building Noodle, a keyboard-first REST client for the terminal User Avatar 31 comments "Looks Good to Me" Is Quietly Killing Your Feedback Loop User Avatar 30 comments I built a competitor monitor for indie founders User Avatar 15 comments I didn't want to build another AI chatbot User Avatar 15 comments Is AI Really Taking Tech Jobs? What The 2026 Data Means If You're Building Instead Of Job-Hunting User Avatar 10 comments