21
28 Comments

$7000+ revenue in first month of launch

I wanted to take a break from visalist in January to work on http://simpleops.io but because of the pandemic, i ended up working on coronavirus tracker for a while. I launched it in july and o boy, i never expected this! Got $7300 from pro customers for SaaS during first month 🤩

, Founder of Icon for Simple Ops
Simple Ops
on July 31, 2020
  1. 2

    Couldn't get access to simple ops today.

    Took some screenshots for your reference, cant upload them here, but attached them to sinosend transfer service (which we run btw)

    https://www.sinosend.com/d/X_lwO5e

    Hope it helps.

  2. 2

    Congrats @1hakr ! that's awesome!

    Is it all coming from LTDs or were there any recurring sales too?
    Have you estimated how much those LTDs will cost you in infra cost over the next months/years?

  3. 2

    Congratulations @1hakr more power to you.

  4. 2

    So cool, wish I thought of it. Btw, ur MicroStartups dashboard is showing "Access Denied" for local storage console errors.

    1. 1

      If you are viewing in incognito, you will see these errors. View it normally.

  5. 2

    Wow. Impressive news.
    How many paid customer is it from?

      1. 2

        Congrats!

        I assume many of the 30+ are life-time access to reach the revenue?

          1. 2

            That's $233 per customer. Not bad! Better than some people LTVs!

  6. 2

    This is one of the nicest homepages I have seen on Indiehackers in a while

      1. 2

        Can I do a breakdown of your page on my YouTube channel?

        1. 1

          sure, i would love to see that

          1. 1

            Uploading tomorrow! Stay tuned!

  7. 2

    What traffic channel have u used for this?

  8. 2

    Wow! that's a nice feat! Did you had any existing audience to launch to? or what was your customer acquisition channel?

    1. 3

      I posted it on Hacker News and it made it to the front page.

  9. 2

    This comment was deleted 5 years ago.

    1. 1

      Not really, Simple Ops is not an APM and it doesn't require any setup.

Trending on Indie Hackers
Your build-in-public audience is not your market. I learned the difference the slow way. User Avatar 199 comments I built a WhatsApp AI bot for doctors in Peru — launched 3 weeks ago, 0 paying customers, and stuck waiting for Meta to approve my app User Avatar 62 comments Built a "stocks as football cards" thing. 5 days in, my launch tweet got 7 views. What am I missing? User Avatar 33 comments From broke and burned out as a PM, to launching my SaaS and optimizing my health User Avatar 32 comments Why Claude Skills Are Becoming Important for Tech Careers User Avatar 24 comments I kept starting projects and dropping them. So I built a system that wouldn’t let me User Avatar 23 comments