August has been a tough month.
I spent days battling a barrage of bad bots that are clever enough to pass Google reCaptcha and verify their email (more on this later).
A new feature I launched early in the month didn't receive as much traction as I hoped.
A bunch of minor issues have prevented me getting on with developing the next new feature.
And my kids' school has been flooded so we're all off school... again :(
However, Downtime Monkey just crossed 50 Pro customers. This almost makes it worth it. Make it 100 and I'd say it is :)
Here are the Stats:
Verified Users: 1496 (possibly inaccurate due to bots)
Active Users: 875
Paying Pro Users: 51
Since our plans are really low price (heavily discounted at the moment) this gives MRR of about $150 or so with some extra from one-off payments.
I'll not give up the day job just yet but little steps.