I just quit my job to go all-in on ProjectionLab! 🥳

2.5 years ago, I never would have dreamed this was possible.

From my first internet dollar to $200k+ ARR, there has been no hockey stick growth chart, no AI hype involved, and no singular catalyst.

Just a quarter decade of hard work and persistence, bootstrapping as a solo dev on nights and weekends and gradually building up to this point.

This jump to full-time is earlier than my personal financial modeling in https://projectionlab.com showed a stellar chance of success for... so for the worrier in me, this is a chilling step out over the abyss 😳

But I have realized that even in the worst case, I would much rather fail pursuing a dream than let a promising business die on the vine and always wonder what might have been!

Looking back, it took me:

→ 14 months to reach 500 customers
→ 7 months to reach 1,000
→ 5 months to reach 1,500
→ 2 months to reach 2,000
→ 2 months to reach 2,500

Recently, my W2 was gracious enough to accommodate a part-time arrangement for a while. But it is abundantly clear that what PL really needs is my full and uninterrupted focus.

So with the past 2.5 years of risk mitigation, a year's expenses set aside, and current earnings level around 2.5x my personal annual spend... it is officially time to put the rest of my skin in the game!

I would never have gotten here without all the support and inspiration from my new friends in the financial independence community, the PL user base, and the IndieHackers scene 🥹

So thanks again to everyone, and here's to an exciting year ahead!