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$5000 MRR!

by Riley Tomasek

It's been a long journey (over 5 years), but it feels great to finally hit this milestone!

Here are a few things that helped us get here:

  1. Online communities: Indie Hackers, Product Hunt, Twitter.
  2. Partnering with @gergely, author of The Tech Resume Inside Out.
  3. Raising prices!
  4. Our LinkedIn resume builder. People love turning their profile into a resume in a couple of minutes: https://standardresume.co/linkedin-resume-builder
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 on January 1, 2021
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    Congrats on this great milestone! Good luck to reach the next one.
    What are ur next goals ? Maybe u got some to share with us?

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      Increasing MRR as usual, but more specifically growing traffic. We had less traffic in 2020 than we did in 2019, so we need to work on fixing that.

      I'm going to write a post about what worked/didn't in 2020 and what we have planned for 2021. Watch for it soon!

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        Yeah MRR is the usual :)
        Looking forward reading your post.

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        5 years ago
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          Here it is!
          https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-we-grew-mrr-266-with-7-less-traffic-2020-review-f77b007c29

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            Thanks for sharing, checking this out!

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    Congrats!

    User Avatar Lem
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    congrats!!

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    Congratulations! Keep going 👏 👏 👏

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    Hi this gives me hope that one day I will be somewhere there.

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    Congrats, Riley! Very cool. Keep the momentum going in 2021!

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    Congratulations! Proof that perseverance eventually pays off.
    I look forward to seeing your 10k milestone in 5 months :D

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    Hey Riley, Congratulations! That is really awesome!

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    Thank you all for the encouragement!

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