First 7 customers and $100 MRR for Copylime.com
by @ThePeterMickIn the last week and a half, Copylime.com got it's first 7 paying customers bringing the MRR to over $100 🎉
Truly motivating to keep going.
I spent ~2 months building it, 2-3 hours most evenings, it was all worth it 🥰
I have received new requests for additional writing tools so will be implementing them to keep the customers happy and help them write great content.
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Huge congrats!
Was wondering what acquisition channels worked for y'all at first?
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Congrats on this milestone Peter. $100MRR in a couple months of side project is great ✨
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Thank you @dagorenouf 🙌
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Congrats on the paying customers :-)
Be aware of feature creep. Your primary objective needs to be bringing in as many new (& paying) customers as possible.
You need breakthrough growth otherwise you'll get stuck in this middle ground of making a few hundred MRR and blasting through your savings (or having to focus more time on other projects). This is what kills many startups.
Money first - product later.
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Thank you @TheBLUNTMethod! :-)
As a developer I've realised the importance of marketing... the more you do it your chances of getting customers increase...
Needless to say, the memes by @dagorenouf spoke to me 😂
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Saved by memes :-)
Unfortunately (and through no fault of their own) most haven't realized this yet. Even when they fail, they'll put the blame on their product and never realize that the product was never the problem but their growth strategy was.
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100% @TheBLUNTMethod!
One meme said:
OK product, great marketing = money
Excellent product, no marketing = no moneyDang I can't find that meme 😅
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:-)
To add to that:
Terrible product, selling a BLUNT belief = massive growth and happy customers.
Sounds like BS but it's exactly what HubSpot did between 2008 & 2011.
Obviously don't deliberately set out to build a bad product but it's really not necessary with the right strategy.
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So cool to read man!
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Well done!
How did you acquire these first 7 paying customers?
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Time to update your REVENUE tab 😉
👏
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Superb stuff Peter. Congratulations.
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Thanks a lot @anshulsojatia 🙌
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A great achievement!
What was the biggest challenge when setting up Copy Lime?
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Thanks @Jakepryszlak - CSS as I have most experience in backend work (Tailwind UI helped a lot, especially on the landing page) and lack of time to overengineer the code base (or maybe that was a good thing?)
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Thats amazing and inspiring, congrats!
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Congrats to the Marketing, Design, and Engineering team.
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Thank you @iamthomastran 🙌 I truly could not have done it without them 😅
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I spent ~2 months building it, 2-3 hours most evenings, it was all worth it
I'm wondering when, where and with what effort you marketed Copylime. Would be awesome to hear some details!
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When & where: whenever I built a feature or made progress with anything I'd just write about it on Twitter (and try to maintain the product pages right here on IndieHackers as well)
Effort: for me specifically it was (and still is!) a lot of effort as it'd usually be quite late into the night and instead of going to sleep I'd hang on writing up updates to either post or schedule for later etc.
Hope it helps @alexanderdavide 🙌
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You managed to create a nice product in a very short amount of time. Well done, these first $100 of MRR were well deserved!!!
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Thank you very much @NicolasTr 🙌
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Very cool product. powered by OpenAI?
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Thank you @stoicfungi 🙌
Yes 100% OpenAI 🔥
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I tried their models, and it felt like magic. Keep up the good work, cool product.
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Thanks @stoicfungi I'll do my best 🙌
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It's incredible you were able to get them in about a week
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Serves a purpose and irresistibly priced, I guess that contributed? 😅
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Definitely did. When I was building a blog, I considered to go with Jasper. But they were too expensive. I went with Rytr because of the affordable pricing. Keep going 🔥
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One of my goals is to make it accessible and help many create great content hence irresistibly priced.
Thanks, not planning on stopping 🔥
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Nice work!
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This is amazing! Best AI writer I've used yet.
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Awesome site! I just tried out the Cold Email generator and was blown away. So cool. Great job!
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“ 👶 Support an indie developer / a dad of 3 trying to support a growing family”. Ahah! I love that! Let me take a look, maybe I can make some good use of this tool to start writing on IH too!
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Thanks Adrien! Let me know how it goes 🙌
And yes, the twins nursery bills are one of the key drivers behind me doing doing all of this, childcare in Scotland is expensive 💰💰💰
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Heads up that headlime.com is also in a similar space as you, AI copyrighting using OpenAI's GPT3 like you. You both have a similar name and they could sue you, you likely want to change your name since it's so close and in the same field.
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Thanks Adrien! Let me know how it goes
https://awais21.blogspot.com/2022/02/universal-fit-for-everyone.html
