My first bootstrapped app, with metrics!
The Story
Hey Indie Hackers,
Just like many of you, I quit my job last June with the dream of bootstrapping a cash flow positive business.
After taking a few months off traveling the world and taking time to recover from burnout, I rediscovered my inner curiosity and started getting excited about what could be next.
I've started out building several apps with a few simple goals: To meet other entrepreneurs, learn about and utilize emerging tech, build a solid community of supportive friends that I can share my expertise with, have fun, and hopefully get to ramen profitability.
Right now my current personal burn isn't sustainable– I have about 12 more months of runway to explore building my ideas. I'm focused on building SaaS apps that generate enough revenue to live sustainably and work for myself. I know, the dream, right? I'm splitting my time between building my own ideas and freelance software development.
The app
I recently launched my first app, Alerty, and would love to hear your honest feedback on the concept. Specifically around pricing and the perceived pain point. Is the problem I'm solving painful enough for me to continue investing in the app? Is the messaging clear? What do you think?
I launched the app about 2 weeks ago. Since then, Alerty was featured in Macstories and I've been getting a bit of traffic from Hackernews and Product Hunt launches. I'm sure many of you have been here, where the initial launch traffic starts to fade. There's so many areas I could focus on- for those that have been here, what did you focus on next?
I appreciate you taking a look!
