Our first year with ProfitKit, a customer management tool from a bootstrapped team of two

Hey IH,

It's a new year and another great opportunity for many of us to grow our businesses and improve our products.

We're the two co-founders of ProfitKit, a subscription calendar and customer management tool for Stripe-based businesses. Our mission is to help founders everywhere gain clarity on their subscription activity and automate away annoying but necessary tasks like recovering failed payments and sending trial expiration emails.

We both come from technical backgrounds and are taking a bootstrapped approach (no external investments) to building and marketing our product. We launched close to a year ago and though we had some tough times with balancing day jobs and an unexpected medical condition, we're happy that ProfitKit was able to survive 2019 and come out the other end with a handful of paying customers.

We've learned a lot from our first year and are excited to work on our growth in the coming months, having just finished a UI revamp that makes for a sleeker and more user-friendly interface. If anyone wants to know more about our experiences developing a product, marketing and acquiring new customers as a bootstrapped team of two, feel free to ask away!

We want to help both new and growing businesses kick off the new year with some sweet automations and an intuitive calendar for your Stripe subscriptions. To make it an easier choice, we've extended our trial period to a month (from 2 weeks) and are taking 50% off our regular pricing for the first 6 paid months for anyone who signs up in January.

We'll also be paying special attention to new users during this period and work towards implementing any feedback or feature requests as soon as possible. Last time we did this nearly all of our new users got their individual feedback addressed and converted into new features that in turn provided significant value for their businesses :)

For those of you in the process of learning how to set up online billing, we also have a development blog with some helpful articles for getting started with subscriptions on Stripe at our development blog (linked below)

Give us a look and if you have any unresolved issues or wants with Stripe billing, let us know and we'll see how we can help!

ProfitKit: https://www.profitkit.io/
Development blog: https://codenebula.io/