Even though pinger is still in beta, I got first paying customer!
At first this guy provided me very detailed feedback, even including technical stuff. Then, after maybe a week he bought a subscription. And it was kind of surprise because when providing a feedback he told me that it was kind of expensive.
I asked him why did he buy subscription then and he told me in order to support me.
Moreover he's moving from statuscake to my service ๐ฑ
After then I rushed into coding and fixing stuff, it really motivates me ! :)
Nice milestone Victor! ๐ Cool that the customer was willing to give honest feedback aswel. Thatโs true value for growth! ๐
Thank you!
Congrats on the milestone! If you don't mind me asking - I have a couple of ideas that always fail at the step "is there already someone doing this & doing this better than I could by myself?". Pinger is in a really tough company, and while you can claim you have better UX or better features at a price point, how do you find the motivation to continue developing this next to the likes of StatusCake which looks nice, has a generous FREE tier & has a whole company working on the literally the same tool? I don't mean this post as a critique, I'm honestly jealous that people like you start working on stuff like this and continue despite the market competition. Good look in the future development of the product!
Thanks for your comment!
Yeah, you know, for some reason this is the first time in my life when I don't lose motivation. Imagine that I've been building Pinger for like 800 hours (~9 months).
I'm motivated because:
After all, this is interesting, I believe that if I build something good, sooner or later people start to use it.
Awesome work Victor.
I am still trying to find an idea to work on. Your story and more stories like this has inspired me to dig deeper.
I have a client who is constantly asking me to keep an eye on his sites to see if they go offline, so I might point this app to him.
Cheers
Oh thank you, your kind words keep my motivation. Right now working on this, even though it's 1 AM :)
Even though it's still in beta, I'd be glad to get any feedback or some feature requests!
Kudos to this customer and congrats to you!
Thatโs awesome, Victor!
Iโm curious to know more about your beta and feedback process as Iโm at the same stage :)
Are you onboarding users one at a time and then they gave you this feedback? How does it work?
Well, I got some of them in telegram, twitter, indiehackers. I just asked them to register and check it out.
I also posted in PH in discussions topic, and some of them just gave me valuable feedback.
So generally speaking I only asked people I know, others provided feedback without me asking them
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thats amazing! what was your payment model during beta?
It's just a regular subscription, I think I'll stick to the plans I chosen but later on I'll increase number of monitors, as soon as I finish some refactoring.
Since indeed it might be expensive, but the reason I allow such small number of monitors because I have some problems in backend :) As soon as I fix it I'll consider increasing limits, while keeping the same subscription model
Must be so satisfying and motivating at the same time.
I am almost getting anxious how will i get my first paying customer.
Congratulations man. Keep up the good work.
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Congratulations, that's an inspiring milestone. Keep it up.
Nice work. And what great validation to have your first customer give you feedback AND pay for your service. They are a keeper. You never forget your first customer. Treat them like Gold and they will be your evangelist too!
Congrats!
That's really inspiring Victor. Hell ya!!! I'm working on something with the dream of getting a customer in the next 2 months as I'm almost about to finish my alpha version mvp. Just like that person motivated you, I'm feeling the same way reading this.
Congrats! So happy for you! IMO Thereโs nothing more amazing as a creator than knowing someone is willing to do business with you.
Congratulations, Victor! ๐ Thatโs amazing to hear, and itโs wonderful that youโre actively talking to your users and learning from them. Theyโre a great source of external motivation.
Keep up the great work, and excited to hear how things go with Pinger!
Thank you Amy for your kind words :)
Woah, I've just checked your milestones in ProfitKit, this is how one should write them!
No problem, and thank you! Lately Iโve been thinking of our milestones as mini blog posts haha. Iโve been trying to explain the milestone, how it happened, the struggles we faced, and what we learned ๐
But for what itโs worth, I donโt think thereโs any set way to write a milestone!
Wow this is incredible. It is a very powerful motivation when people:
I started focusing exclusively on customer reach from this week. I spent last 40 ish days building groundwork. But I got lots of advice to more to validation, discovery, etc even though the product is a slightly hard sell (B2B). Great to see you getting customers, true inspiration.
Great news! Well done
Very nice. I tried Pinger and it is very smooth and elegant.
Congratulations.
Happy to see you here! :)
Your landing page is very nice, very useable easy to understand. What did you use to build it.
Where did you get your first paying customer from.
I made it on my own, from scratch.
I get the customer from product hunt's topic of weekly support =)
Great news! Iโm not surprised youโve got motivation boost ๐
Thank you!
That is great. Instant product validation right there!
May I ask, what is your USP as there are a load of services out there.
I'll make a page related to the USP, since it's a big topic, I'll share it with you as soon as I have it :)
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Amazing! Congratulation on the milestone.