🎂 Turning 37 today. Here’s how the journey is going.
Turning 37 today. 🎂
Birthdays are a good excuse to look back for a moment.
Just over 3 months ago, StatusPage.me got its first paying customer.
Here's what the journey looks like today:
Beyond revenue, here's how the product has grown:
This isn’t a viral success story.
No hockey stick.
Just a lot of small steps.
- New users joining.
- More status pages being created.
- Trials starting.
- A handful of customers deciding the product is worth paying for.
Not that long ago, both of these charts were flat.
Every bug report, feature request, support conversation, and late-night deployment helped move those lines a little further.
A special thank you to everyone in the Indie Hackers community. Many of the improvements I've shipped over the past few months started as conversations right here. Your feedback, ideas, and honest criticism have made StatusPage.me a better product. I genuinely appreciate it.
To celebrate my birthday, I'm also running a small 72-hour sale:
🎉 37% off monthly plans for the first 3 billing cycles (HSP37M)
🎉 37% off annual plans for the first year (HSP37A)
Thanks for being part of the journey.
Now it’s back to building. ❤️
Hi Nikola, Your StatusPage.me update explicitly rejects the viral-success story and shows the compounding effect of small steps after the first paying customer. I’m building Build Before 2030: a manually reviewed public record where makers claim a Founding 100 number, set one measurable 30-day milestone, and later add proof of what shipped. The first cohort is free. StatusPage.me feels like a strong fit. Interested? https://buildbefore2030.com
The interesting part is that you’ve moved past proving someone will pay — now it’s about finding what compounds.
What would convince you that the next growth lever is acquisition, rather than improving activation and retention from the users already discovering StatusPage.me?
Right now I’d say activation and acquisition aren’t competing priorities. Every improvement to activation makes acquisition more valuable because more of those new signups actually become successful users.
My current focus is making the onboarding experience as smooth as possible (had a few iterations already) while continuing to grow the top of the funnel. Once activation starts feeling predictable and improvements become incremental, that’s probably when acquisition becomes the bigger lever.
At this stage, I still think there’s plenty of room to improve both, actually 😬
Appreciate the context, Nikola.
Would be good to continue the conversation as you learn which improvements create the strongest compounding effect.
What's the best email to reach you on?
Thanks, I appreciate that.
I’m still figuring out which changes compound the most, so I’d be happy to compare notes.
Feel free to reach out at nikola@statuspage.me.
Thanks! I’ve just sent it over.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts whenever you have a chance.