I couldn't be happier right now.
I've been working on namy.ai for a while, and yesterday I finally finished making & training an AI model that I was happy with, and deployed it. Then I made a small announcement on Twitter (~300 followers) about it.
Some people visited and entered prompts, loitered around, but I didn't see anyone actually buy a domain. "Oh well" I said, I still needed to improve my SEO anyways (barely have done anything on that front😅)
BUT TODAY I log into my dashboard, and I see:
balance: €0.99 EUR
😲
It finally happened!!! My FIRST internet money that I earned on my own!!!!
I know it's not a lot and that I have a long way to go (and making twitter posts is not sustainable. I need to improve SEO.), but damn does it feel good!
It's definitely validating that someone, somewhere paid money for something you built. Great feeling!
Anyways I just wanted to share this little victory with the community here. Wish you all the best!
Congratulations, Hugo! They say you never forget your first dollar (or 99 cents 😉).
That's a really cool tool you have there, now spread the word 📣
Cheers!
Hahaha thanks Daniel! That's exactly what I'm shifting my focus to now, spreading the word!
I hate marketing, but oh well. It's necessary.
Also, it's 0.99€. So 1.16$ 😉
💵 💵 💵 ⛵ 🏝
Wow, congrats! I remember my first. It was about $135 and I legit cried, not even joking.
To your coffers increasing and growing larger 🍻
Wooooooh 135!! That's awesome
To the coffers of all indiehackers increasing 🍻🍻🍻🍻
I can certainly drink to that. Cheers buddy.
Congrats Hugo, that's the important milestone!
Thanks Klim! It feels really great. I know it's barely anything (especially compared with some of the behemoths that pull in 10 or 20k MRR here), but it is really encouraging.
Congrats! Will be looking for your 10k post!
By December 31st 🤞
Congratulations! Here is to much more success.
Thanks Jeff! Let's hope :D
Congratulations, Hugo. I love the playful theme you implemented.
This is really a good tool and good business modal.
Wishing lots of success.
Thanks Bhavik! That's what I hope too. As long as people find it useful I'm happy.
Congrats on your first money on the net! From here on, it can only get better!
Let's hope!
Man, I can feel your happiness in this post.
People say that the first milestones are usually the more fulfilling - so go ahead and enjoy this moment! so happy for you!
Haha I'm absolutely happy! It's been super fun to build this, and getting my first $ has been an amazing feeling.
But even more than that, it's just so enjoyable to see people use and get value from something you've built. There's been like ~2000 users in the last 24 hours (due to this post and another reddit post i made), and that's just crazy.
Honestly I don't even mind if namy doesn't blow up of become the next big thing; as long as it can pay for server costs and help ppl I'm calling it a success.
So nice to see such a humble approach Hugo. It makes me believe that you will be successful simply because you are too focused on the solution - so the result will ultimately come as a consequence.
Great job!
Congratulations Hugo 🎈🎈🎈🎈
Thank youuu 🏠
Congrats, Hugo! The first customer is the most important one.
Backtrack their journey, see how they ended up buying, and do more of what you did that led to your first $$
All the best!
Thanks Bilals!
Yes, I definitely need to implement more analytics. I don't even know what domain they bought!!
Would be great if I could have a chat with them.
Congratulations Hugo!!!
thanks!!
That feeling is just so intoxicating and addictive. I'm not that far ahead of you, but I just want to say it keeps getting better!
haha I can imagine! passive income must be so great. You build something, and then over the months and years it starts paying off and trickling in money.
Plus, you're helping people & providing value!
Congratulations Hugo 🎊
thanks!
Nice! That's my first goal on my indie hacker journey.
Really cool idea though. I'll come back to purchase my domain when I have a crisp way to explain my product 😁
Hehehehe a customer caught >:)
Wish you the best of luck! I think it's a really dumb (1$ is nothing), but quite significant milestone. Hope you reach it soon!
There's honestly no better feeling in the world than generating your first dollar in revenue.
Such a huge milestone on any maker journey. Well done 🥳
generating your first million in revenue maybe 👀
ahahaha but thanks!!!!
Perfect Man, I wish you the best. The idea is good, I just tried it. I am wondering, how did you get your 300 twitter followers? Did you pay adds? or did you use another method?
And congrats for the money, you deserve a chocolate with churros.
Ahahahahahahahah that's the first good suggestion I've seen on how to spend my new fortune. Did you check out where I live? Chocolate with churros is one of the best things :P
As for twitter followers, I got the first ~100 from participating in "lets hack Twitter" IH posts, and the rest mostly organic from interacting with the people on Twitter
Congrats! Yes, that first sale is a great moment. I hope that the next sale may come soon, and the next, and the next...
Hahahhahah I hope that too :)
Thanks!
Nice ! Congrats bro
Thanks batx!
man, congrats! Very happy for you!
hehe me too
Thanks!!
Woo hoo! Man, I will never forget the first time I got paid 💵 from internet,
just felt so surreal.
Congrats and here's to more $$$ in future
Thanks man!!!!!!
Me neither. I don't know how to "eternalize" that first $. It's not physical, so I can't put it on the wall.
Hmmm.... maybe I could mint it as an NFT?
Ha ha! That sounds like a great project, NFTs for Indie hackers to capture their first dollar earned from a project!
Let me know if you want to build this together 😉
Hah would be cool. I'm sure people would be super interested in the NFT's of first $ from people like @levelsio or @yongfook
Awesome! You've found a process from start to finish that makes you money. Now you can focus on optimizing that process!
Right on! Just need to scale it up 10,000x now!
Let's goooo Hugo! Thanks for taking the time to write me today, on my thread. Happy to return the favour with an upvote here 🧡🧡🧡🧡
No favor to be returned; your Twitter is always fun and high value. Love following the journey (and such an unusual service too!)
But thanks!! <3
Hey man! Good job.
Reading this made me feel so excited for you! I can imagine how that feels and I can't wait to feel it myself in the near future :).
Just keep it up and thanks for inspiring me.
Cheers!
It's seriously awesome, I'm riding a bit of a high :P
Plus, writing this post on IH and also on Reddit has driven like A TON of traffic, which is mega exciting to see. And, super randomly, two people clicked on the buymeacoffee sticker and donate (yes, DONATED!) $10. Crazy!
I wish you the best of luck, I'm sure it'll come eventually <3
Crazy that people have donated! The IH community is amazing :O
I think it will be a much more popular concept with Web3.0
Blew my mind too. Never would've expected it ^^
YOU MADE IT.
😆 Just kidding.
But you gotta start somewhere. Congrats on the success! Hopefully this leads to numbers with more 0's and preferably more ,'s as well 👍
Yeah sorry, I'm off to the bahamas. I'm officially quitting Indiehackers.
Bye suckers 🤘
🏖️😎🍹🏝️🌊🌊⛵
🤣🤣🤣
Congrats Man.
Thanks Ulrich!
Congratulations! I also just made my first sale of $4.99 and won't forget it ever :D
oh dope! First sale brothers 🤝
How did you get yours?
heey congrats!
Congrats!
Thanks!! The community is so supportive here <3
Congrats!!
Thank youuuuuuu !
Wow awesome, Hugo. Congrats! 👏
Thanks Dennis! It's my little Apollo moment. Small step for Indiehacker-kind, big step for Hugo.
^^
😂 perfect metaphor
Congrats hugo! Good job! You're the best!
Thanks Victor <3
Can't be long till I have to say congrats to you too :P
Keep the good work Hugo ! Congrats Again :)
Thanks shriniket ^^
congrats
thanks!
Bruh 🤔
what 👀
Just funny I came from twitter then saw this post 😁