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@ConradL of Intellifox hit $10,000 MRR. Here's how he did it:
I'd heard that $10,000 per month was the number that I kinda needed to reach before focusing on a project full-time. I tried to get there for a while but it didn't work.
I had this feeling that if I just put myself in a position where failure wasn't an option, then I would succeed. So I went full-time with Intellifox anyway, pouring my last cents into the project. And that's when everything began to shift.
At that point, I could only dream about this kind of success. I couldn't fathom what it meant to have 100 customers. Like, how could 100 people benefit from what I do? $10,000 monthly recurring revenue felt impossible to reach.
Now that I have 300 customers I can't lie to myself. My work is good. People enjoy it. I'm helping them.
Life is too short to live with imposter syndrome. Still, it's easy to forget. That's why I created a Google Doc of the nice things people have said to me. I refer to it whenever I'm not feeling good and I try to take it in. It gives me the confidence to keep going, but I'll never completely believe it.
Now that I've hit this milestone, $10,000 is just a number. It doesn't translate to anything real in life. It doesn't make me any happier. I didn't even celebrate it. I'm still on the same journey. And I've still got this need in me to take it as far as possible.
To be honest, when I launched in May, my goal of $10,000 meant 9,300β¬. But now, that's only about 8,100β¬. Sorry America, right now your dollar-to-euro ratio sucks. But that's one way to achieve a goal, I guess β lower it.
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Thank you @IndieJames for this fun opportunity!
One thing I forgot to mention is that I reached this number staying only in my "small" French market. I'm now starting to consider expanding to broader horizons ;-)
We'll see what 2021 brings!
And also... I'm doing all of this from a van! I've been living for the last two years fulltime in a van and I'm loving it! https://whereby.com/blog/stories/the-man-who-launched-his-business-from-a-van
How did this not come up in our conversation π ?! That's awesome! Kudos π
My bad! I thought you knew π I talked about it here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/one-year-as-a-nomad-entrepreneur-d989e51bd2
Haha, well I guess we'll just have to circle back on that when you hit $20k MRR π
Congrats to your 10k MRR! What a great life story with your van.
Thanks!
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This is so inspiring, thanks!