How RecordJoy grew to $1000 in gross annual revenue

Hi OP here,

A few lessons learned after growing to $1000 in gross annual revenue that I wanted to share:

• Before building new features, try to see if you can first get customers to promise to pay you for building the new features. Then build out those features as fast and hacky as possible in order to validate they stay true to their word and pay. It is fine to keep part of the process manual or suboptimal and improve the system later.
• When you are first starting off and don’t have many differentiating factors in your product, it is better to directly go after a few high paying customers and build things that they want instead of trying to scale selling $5 monthly subscription plans through ads. The features your high paying customers suggest will help shape your product towards product market fit.