Got my first sales after years of lurking

Hey there 👋

It feels like I’ve been lurking on Indie Hackers since forever. Now though, I’m finally starting out on a bit of an indie hacker journey of my own 😄

Over the last couple of months I’ve been working on DB Pilot, a new database GUI with ChatGPT integration. I announced the product on HN two weeks ago. That brought in the first ever sales for something I’ve built myself 🎉

So far I’ve sold 6 licenses, for a total of $354. Obviously a small amount, but I’m actually quite happy with it.

Considering that this is my first ever product, and that I don’t have any audience (41 followers on Twitter lol), things actually went better than expected. I was a little afraid that it would take forever to land even a single sale without an audience. So seeing those couple of sales come in felt amazing!

On a more personal note, looking back, the last couple of months have been quite demanding. I’ve worked on DB Pilot on the side next to my full-time job. That meant working nights and weekends, rarely taking even a single day off. That had its effect and recently I started to feel somewhat overworked.

So I’m super excited that starting tomorrow, I’ll be working only part-time at my day job. This means more time to focus on indie hacking, and also some more free time to enjoy life and go surf 😄