Just reached $3K MRR
by Ali Salah🤗 all customers: ~6K
🔥 paid customers: ~160
👩💼 business: 2 in trial (not included)
🍏 oss & non profit: ~40
Here are my learnings:
- Adding business & enterprise plans is the most low-effort / high-reward thing you can do
Supporting SSO using https://workos.com took a couple of days to implement, and already got me 2 business customers in trial (= 30 pro customers) and many more to come 🔥
- Design is underrated in SAAS ✨
Many next-gen products choose Instatus just because it has a futuristic vibe and is better designed than competitors
It's also the reason why it's popular with younger people who have gaming servers & discord bots
- Reach out when you get customers you love 🤩
The main reason brands like Sketch and Restream use Instatus is that I reached out to them once they signed up, and told them I'm excited they're trying Instatus, and would do anything they want to make it really happen 🔥
These are my future plans:
A. Building Instatus Now (side project marketing)
A better downdetector to eventually get their traffic 🔥
B. Adding monthly content with
Started investing in monthly content (embarque.io by @JIC94)
His one guest post became a huge source of traffic for Instatus, so let's see what 10x of this brings 🔥
C. Moving into Monitoring
Monitoring is the most requested feature by customers
Everyone has a monitoring service, but all of them suck 😛
My goal is to build the most user-friendly + dev-friendly monitoring service out there 🚀
D. Hiring a small team
To increase the speed of building monitoring & incident management and make Instatus an all-in-one solution
I'm doing interviews like crazy to start a small team that increases shipping speed by 10x 😼
Instatus is going to the moooooon 🚀
