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I'd literally rather just get two jobs at mid series B startups or one Faang job. I completely don't understand why grinding out 5yrs for $18k a month is even close to worth it.
At least he has control of his time.
How much for marketing spend, most profitable levers you used?
This is super cool, congrats! I run https://www.startups.fyi and feature profitable startups/side-projects along with revenue info (a lot of them are from solo-founders like yourself). Would love to feature you if you're up for it?
I wonder how different your financial & business situation would be if you lived in a developed country such as the US or the UK?
Maybe I'm a little thick today, but can someone explain what NoCodeApi does? I watched the video on the site and I still don't understand the value added here. Is it just proxying calls to various APIs?
How did you acquire you first 100 users and how much did your popular twitter play into that? How much for marketing spend, most profitable levers you used?
I can only imagine your lifestyle in India with $18,036 / month , that's probably the equivalent of making 60k a month in the US? Wish you the best, I'm inspired.
Do you think Mercedes makes a cheap version of an SLK for the "poor Indians"?
I make more than the OP and live in his/her part of the world. Luxury items are more expensive than they are in the US.
That bigger house you can afford? You're still paying US prices or higher for your furniture and appliances. Same goes for autos, edu, cars, wine, dining, etc.
Generally speaking, "poor countries" are only relatively cheaper in terms of labor and situationally, real estate. Your Merc will cost you, having it washed will be relatively cheap.
I noticed MRR is the key measure reported by startups. I've seen some startups in really saturated markets have very high MRR and it made me wonder if they're just spending $.99 of every $1 on ads so really they do not make any profit but high revenue. Can you comment on profit vs revenue?
If they spend $0.99 for $1 of MRR, that is amazing, because the first month's revenue covers the cost of acquisition and the rest of the stream is profit (minus other expenses of course.)
Some of it depends on churn and how much MRR you lose and how quickly.