Milestones and learnings of the week: Mark Stenberg hits 1,200 subscribers, Dominic Monn grows 30% in a month...

Happy Friday, folks! Here's your weekly recap — what indie hackers have been up to and the lessons they learned. 👇

😰 Struggle bus:

@pplante's bookkeeper forgot about a credit card, and it turns out they ended the year with a bigger loss than they thought.
@wadahesam’s installs are decreasing due to some intense marketing by their competitor. The good news is that their revenue is still going up.
@ngajhede's company name is getting buried by Google, so they may need to rebrand.
@zackdotcomputer gets beat to market. But he's not gonna go gently into that good night.

🎉 Nailing it:

An idea comes to @alex_b_h in a dream. After over 12 hours of straight coding, it's live.
@johncb hits 300+ newsletter subscribers by adding an email opt-in opportunity in their mobile app.
@bober gets their first customer (who isn’t a friend), putting them at a solid $27/mo.
@dqmonn grows 30% in one month through network effects, SEO, an email list, and something resembling product-market fit.
@markstenberg3 hits 1,200 subscribers by posting original content consistently. Interviewing others in his field helped too.
@kacper is live on Product Hunt.
@chrnkvp gets the first customer for their first product, thanks to some retweets from friends.

✅ Lessons learned:

So what'd you get up to this week?

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