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Profitable, at last!

Q1 2023 has been the first profitable quarter for Boot.dev! That's after paying myself and my employee's salaries, which are of course our biggest expenses. A couple key metrics:

I launched Boot.dev (then called Qvault classroom) in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic as a side project
In January 2022 we were making $1,000/mo
In Summer 2022 we were making $6,000/mo and I raised $330,000 to go full time from an angel investor with the goal to simply become profitable quickly and never raise again
Q1 2023 we are now profitable!

AMA if you wanna.

Lane Wagner

, Founder of

Boot.dev

on April 6, 2023

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Congratulations! That's awesome.

What are the plans for the future now that it's profitable?

DancingAvacardo

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  In this year (2023) the goal is to continually be profitable while raising salaries for myself and my employee!
  
  Lane Wagner
  
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Congratulations on this massive milestone!

I have a few questions revolving around MVPs:
1. How long did it take for you to complete the first MVP?
2. How satisfied or unsatisfied were you with the first MVP?
3. What type of feedback did you receive on it? Were they obvious fixes or did the feedback end up changing things drastically?
Congratulations again and I look forward to hearing your response!
KevHnh

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  Very quick - about a month to build the platform and the first iteration of the first course. But it kinda sucked.... it's so much better now
  
  Unsatisfied, but tbh I didn't yet have the skills to make it much better. It wasn't a time problem, but an experience problem
  
  I can't remember specifics from back then, but yeah I've been talking to users 1 on 1 all along
  Lane Wagner
  
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Could you please tell a bit about how did you market your product and your current marketing strategies?

techPackets

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2 years ago
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